Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
By: Priya Atwal
3.91
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the once formidable Mughal emperors was fading. Buil…
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1. رباعيات خيام
By: محمدعلی فروغی , Omar Khayyám , None
4.17
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His … read more
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"فعاشر الناس على ريبة .. منهم ولا تكثر منَ الأصدقاء"-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"Ah, my Belovéd, fill the cup that clears To-day of past Regret and future Fears."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."-محمدعلی فروغی, رباعيات خيام
2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
3. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
4. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
5. India: A History
By: John Keay
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South… read more
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6. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
By: William Dalrymple
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more
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7. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
By: Salman Rushdie
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginati… read more
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8. Sun and Steel
By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more
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9. From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
By: Pankaj Mishra
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by A… read more
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10. The War of the Worlds
By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more
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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
11. An Equal Music
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boyreturns with a powerful and deeply romanti… read more
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12. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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13. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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14. 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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15. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
16. 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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17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
18. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
19. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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20. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
21. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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22. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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23. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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24. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
25. The Vision (The Vision, #1-2)
By: Tom King
4.50
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
Written by best-selling Author Tom King! One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, … read more
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26. The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
By: Evan Winter
4.31
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society… read more
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"to achieve greater results we must outlay greater effort."-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
"The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve."-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
"Your Journey ends here, on this battleground. Tomorrow is nothing more than a formality"-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
"Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal."-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
27. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
By: Richard M. Eaton
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self… read more
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"[D]uring the years 1219-21 Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire in eastern Asia, burst into western Asia. Offended by the insolent behaviour of the same ruler of Khwarazm who a few years ea…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"In addition, Sultan Iltumish, for all his rhetoric of being India's sole legitimate Muslim ruler, continued to issue coins with the old bull-and-horseman motif and a Sanskritized form of his name and…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"[T]he demonization of Mahmud [of Ghazni] and the portrayal of his raid on Somnath as an assault on Indian religion by Muslim invaders dates only from the early 1840s. In 1842 the British East Indian …"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"['A]lamgir [Aurangzeb] came to formulate a very different model of sovereignty for himself and for the empire he ruled. In this new dispensation, the kingdom would be governed not by a charismatic, s…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
28. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
By: Anita Anand
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his… read more
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29. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
By: Faisal Devji
3.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India’s Muslims was proposed, is both the… read more
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"Some speculate that Muslim nationalism was intended by its leaders and in particular the country’s founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, as a movement whose goals were open-ended enough to allow for …"-Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
30. Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
By: Priya Atwal
3.91
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the once formidable Mughal emperors was fading. Buil… read more
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31. 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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