9 must-read nonfiction books like A Short History of the Mughal Empire (I.B.Tauris Short Histories) by Michael H. Fisher

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A Short History of the Mughal Empire (I.B.Tauris Short Histories)

By: Michael H. Fisher

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmental…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Short History of the Mughal Empire (I.B.Tauris Short Histories) by Michael H. Fisher , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more

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3. American Indian Stories

By: Zitkála-Šá , Susan Rose Dominguez , Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

By: Mark Manson

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Models is the first book ever written on seduction as an emotional process rather than a logical on… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

By: Audrey Truschke

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
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6. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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7. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)

By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more

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8. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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9. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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  • india
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

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10. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

11. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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12. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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13. The Bridge on the Drina

By: Ivo Andrić , William H. McNeill , None

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth… read more

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14. The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

By: Morris Rossabi

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in… read more

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15. A Hero of Our Time

By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more

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16. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

By: Cal Newport

3.36

Format: 96 pages, ebook

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more

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17. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

18. The Brain: The Story of You

By: David Eagleman

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your r… read more

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19. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
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20. Ezbere Yaşayanlar: Vazgeçemediğimiz Alışkanlıklarımızın Kökenleri

By: Emrah Safa Gürkan

4.20

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

"Özgünlük" ve "yeni"nin sürekli övüldüğü bir çağda, detaylarda ne kadar ayrışsak da temelde birbiri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. A Short History of the Mughal Empire (I.B.Tauris Short Histories)

By: Michael H. Fisher

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmental… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history

8 Top history books like A Short History of the Mughal Empire (I.B.Tauris Short Histories) by Michael H. Fisher

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Mary Beard

3.59

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Zitkála-Šá , Susan Rose Dominguez , Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

3.64

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Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

Audrey Truschke

3.50

Transform Your Habits

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Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

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Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

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William H. Gass , William Gaddis

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Don DeLillo

4.81

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