Chennai: A Biography
By: V. Sriram
4.25
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Chennai that was Madras is India’s southern metropolis and is considered by many to be synonymous w…
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1. The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
By: Manu S. Pillai
4.28
Format: 1137 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1498, when Vasco da Gama set foot in Kerala looking for Christians and spices, he unleashed a wa… read more
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- india
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2. Malgudi Days
By: R.K. Narayan , Jhumpa Lahiri
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introduc… read more
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3. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
4. The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
By: Sujata Massey
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her f… read more
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5. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.87
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more
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6. 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
7. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
8. Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
By: Anirudh Kanisetti
4.23
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a… read more
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- nonfiction
- india
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9. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nonfiction
10. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
11. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
12. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
By: Ali Abdaal
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more
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13. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more
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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
14. My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
By: Indra Nooyi
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of Peps… read more
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15. Don't Believe Everything You Think
By: Joseph Nguyen
3.76
Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt & self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or … read more
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16. Let's Talk Money
By: Monika Halan
4.44
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
We work hard to earn our money. But regardless of how much we earn, the money worry never goes away… read more
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17. The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation
By: Girish Kuber
4.37
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
The Tatas is the story of one of India's leading business families. It starts in the nineteenth cen… read more
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18. Ambedkar: A Life
By: Shashi Tharoor
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, MA, MSc, PhD, DSc, DLitt, Bar-at-Law, is today among the most rev… read more
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19. Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking
By: Krish Ashok
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas,… read more
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20. Let Me Say it Now
By: Rakesh Maria
4.36
Format: 623 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Son, I think you have made a mistake. You have written IPS five times.’ ‘No, sir, it’s not a mist… read more
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"The more sugar you put in your tea, the sweeter it will be; the more mehnat (effort), the better the results."-Rakesh Maria, Let Me Say it Now
"There's an unwritten rule in the police: no whining about your personal problems. It is seen as a sign of weakness if you do. We all follow it strictly and pretend such problems don't exist."-Rakesh Maria, Let Me Say it Now
"I had even more to learn from my juniors. The way they placed their trust, faith, and life at my disposal, put in without fuss the man-hours I demanded of them - it is from them that I learned how to…"-Rakesh Maria, Let Me Say it Now
21. Chennai: A Biography
By: V. Sriram
4.25
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Chennai that was Madras is India’s southern metropolis and is considered by many to be synonymous w… read more
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