Mofussil Junction
By: Ian Jack
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this collection of essays, profiles and reportage, Ian Jack explores a wide and unlikely range o…
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1. The Forty Rules of Love
By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی
4.12
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more
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"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
2. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more
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3. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
4. The Raj at Table: A Culinary History of the British in India
By: None
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
While the British were in India they developed a curious cuisine all of their own. Anglo-Indian coo… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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7. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
8. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
10. 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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11. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
12. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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13. Everything the Light Touches
By: Janice Pariat
3.75
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious nov… read more
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14. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o… read more
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15. Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
By: Ira Mukhoty
4.27
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With him ride his wives, his… read more
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16. The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
By: Gautam Bhatia
4.56
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
We think of the Indian Constitution as a founding document, embodying a moment of profound transfor… read more
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17. How Prime Ministers Decide
By: Neerja Chowdhury
4.53
Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition
India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more
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18. The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang
By: Hui-li
3.21
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the first pilgrims to travel to India from China, Hiuen-Tsiang was a monk whose journeys bro… read more
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19. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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20. Mofussil Junction
By: Ian Jack
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this collection of essays, profiles and reportage, Ian Jack explores a wide and unlikely range o… read more
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21. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By: William Dalrymple
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more
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