Starting from August 2014, I have decided to keep a record of the books that I have read or am currently reading. This list is just for my own personal recollection, but once in a while if I find the book very appealing I may post a review somewhere.
The list of all books that I read between August 2014 - July 2024 (a decade) is given below. For the rest of the books please refer to this page. The books which are marked with a ** are the ones that I am either currently reading or have not read completely but plan to do so in the future.
All the books that I read are rated on Goodreads.
Non-Fiction
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, Pan Macmillan, 2011. (review)
- Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution, John Gribbin, Transworld, 2013.
- A masterful spirit: Homi J. Bhaba (1909 – 1966), Indira Chowdhury and Ananya Dasgupta, Penguin India, 2010.
- Littlewood’s Miscellany, John E. Littlewood and Bela Bollobas, Cambridge University Press, 1986. (review)
- Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate – Covered Pi, and other cool bits of Computing, Tim Chartier, Princeton University Press, 2014. (review)
- Letters to a Young Scientist, Edward O. Wilson, W. W. Norton and Company, 2013.
- Feynman’s Rainbow: A search for Beauty in Physics and Life, Leonard Mlodinow, Warner Books, 2003.
- Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition, Sara Turing, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- what if?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe, John Murray (Publishers), 2014. (mini review)
- ** “Most of the Good Stuff”: Memories of Richard Feynman, Laurie M. Brown (ed.) and John S. Rigden (ed.), American Institute of Physics, 1993.
- The Art of Richard P. Feynman: Images of a Curious Character, Michelle Feynman (ed.), Routledge, 1995.
- ** John von Neumann: Selected Letters, Miklos Redei (ed.), American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society, 2005.
- The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician, Andre Weil, Brikhauser, 1992. (mini review)
- Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman’s Last Journey, Ralph Leighton, W. W. Norton and Company, 1991.
- Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians, Maurice Mashaal, American Mathematical Society, 2006. (review)
- The Polya Picture Album: Encounters of a Mathematician, George Polya (Ed. G. L. Alexanderson), Brikhauser Boston, 1987.
- Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, Cedric Villani, The Bodley Head, London, 2015. (review)
- Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical, Steven G. Krantz, Mathematical Association of America, 2005. (short review)
- Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein, Mario Livio, Simon and Schuster, 2013. (review)
- Mrs. Funnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot Like Me, Twinkle Khanna, Penguin India, 2015. (review)
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner, Penguin Press, 2012. (review)
- My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count, Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel, Springer Switzerland, 2016. (review)
- A Mathematician’s Lament, Paul Lockhart, Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
- In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2016.
- Black Holes: The Reith Lectures, Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, 2016.
- Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, 2006.
- The Difference: when good enough isn’t enough, Subir Chowdhury, Portfolio (Penguin), 2017.
- The Clothing of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri, Penguin, 2017.
- The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs and the Search for the Ultimate Equation, Hannah Fry, Ted Books, 2015.
- Landour Days, Ruskin Bond, Penguin Books, 2016.
- The Last Lecture: lessons in living, Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow, Two Roads, 2012.
- Roads to Mussoorie, Ruskin Bond, Rupa Publications India, 2013.
- Party time in Mussoorie, Ruskin Bond, Rupa Publications India, 2016.
- Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, Juggernaut Books, 2016.
- City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, William Dalrymple, Flamingo, 1994.
- The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh, Allen Lane (Penguin), 2016.
- Useless Facts Vienna, StadtBekannt Wien, Holzbaum Verlag, 2014.
- Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes, Walter Gratzer, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery, Graeme Donald, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2017.
- Secret Vienna Stories: Legends, facts and locations for the true explorer, Fabio M. Aromatici, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
- Journey Down the Years, Ruskin Bond, Rupa Publications India, 2017.
- The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous, Khuswant Singh with Humar Quarishi, Rupa Publications India, 2013.
- Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Eisntein and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Steven L. Batterson, A. K. Peters, Ltd., 2006.
- Is That Even A Country, Sir!: Journeys in Northeast India by Train, Bus and Tractor, Anil Yadav (Translated by Anurag Basnet), Speaking Tiger, 2017.
- Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister, Sagarika Ghose, Juggernaut Books, 2017.
- Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth, Audrey Truschke, Penguin Viking, 2017.
- Vikram Sarabhai: A Life, Amrita Shah, Penguin India, 2016.
- Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science, Karl Sigmund, Basic Books, 2017.
- Perpetual City: A Short Biography of Delhi, Malvika Singh, Aleph, 2013.
- Death in the Bunker, Ian Kershaw, Penguin Books, 2000.
- Scenes from a Writer’s Life, Ruskin Bond, Penguin India, 1997.
- Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Mathematicians of the World, Unite!: The International Congress of Mathematicians – A Human Endeavor, Guillermo P. Curbera, A. K. Peters, Ltd., 2009.
- Variety of Men, C. P. Snow, Penguin Books, 1969.
- The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, 2017.
- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, Abraham Flexner (with a companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf), Princeton University Press, 2017.
- Wise and Otherwise: A Salute to Life, Sudha Murty, Penguin Books, 2006.
- Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos, Jeremy Bernstein, Basic Books, 1993.
- ** The Quotable Feynman, Michelle Feynman (ed.), Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Growing the Tree of Science: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Indira Chowdhury, Oxford University Press, 2016.
- The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, James D. Watson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.
- What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery, Francis Crick, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
- Academia Obscura: The hidden silly side of higher education, Glen Wright, Unbound, 2017.
- No Full Stops in India, Mark Tully, Penguin Books, 1992.
- Vienna Mixed Set, T. H. Enge, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
- What Little I Remember, Otto Frisch, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India’s Northeast, Sanjoy Hazarika, Penguin Books, 1995.
- Strangers No More: New Narratives from India’s Northeast, Sanjoy Hazarika, Aleph Book Company, 2018.
- Blood On My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2015.
- ** The G. H. Hardy Reader, Donald J. Albers (ed.), Gerald L. Alexanderson (ed.) and William Dunham (ed.), Mathematical Association of America – Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ** The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks, Picador, 2011.
- ** India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond, Shashi Tharoor, Penguin Books, 2007.
- Great Feuds in Mathematics: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever, Hal Hellman, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.
- ** Indiscrete Thoughts, Gian-Carlo Rota (Edited by Fabrizio Palombi), Birkhauser Boston, 1997.
- The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh, Sanjaya Baru, Penguin Books, 2017.
- The Merely Personal: Observations on Science and Scientists, Jeremy Bernstein, Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
- The Life It Brings: One Physicist’s Beginnings, Jeremy Bernstein, Penguin Books, 1988.
- Who Got Einstein’s Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study, Ed Regis, Simon and Schuster, 1988.
- Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age, Jeremy Bernstein, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984.
- Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science, Royston M. Roberts, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989.
- Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever, Hal Hellman, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
- Bookless in Baghdad and Other Writings about Reading, Shashi Tharoor, Penguin Viking, India, 2005.
- Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations, Arundhati Roy and John Cusack, Juggernaut Books, 2016.
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli (Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre), Penguin Random House UK, 2016.
- Khushwantnama: The Lessons of My Life, Khushwant Singh, Penguin Books, 2014.
- Non Stop India, Mark Tully, Penguin Books, 2013.
- A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2018.
- Adventures of a Mathematician, S. M. Ulam, University of California Press, 1991.
- Countdown, Amitav Ghosh, Penguin Books, 2010.
- Florence: A Delicate Case, David Leavitt, Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal, Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro (Translated by Kathryn Spink), Scribner, 2002.
- The Last Mughal: The fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857, William Dalrymple, Penguin Books, 2007.
- Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma, Jeremy Bernstein, Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
- Quantum Profiles, Jeremy Bernstein, Princeton University Press, 1991.
- ** India’s Unending Journey: Finding Balance in a Time of Change, Mark Tully, Rider, 2007.
- Essentials of Mathematical Thinking, Steven G. Krantz, CRC Press, 2018. (review)
- The Cost of Living, Arundhati Roy, Modern Library, 1999.
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Arundhati Roy, Penguin Books, 2014.
- King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry, Siobhan Roberts, Walker, 2006.
- Assam: The Accord, The Discord, Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, Ebury Press, 2019.
- We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate, 2014.
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 4th Estate, 2017.
- S. Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind the Legend, Kameshwar C. Wali (ed.), Imperial College Press, 1997.
- Liber Amicorum Richard “Dick” Allen Askey (2nd ed.), Howard S. Cohl and Mourad E. H. Ismail (ed.), eBook, 2019.
- The Bookseller of Kabul, Åsne Seierstad (Translated by Ingrid Christophersen), Virago, 2004.
- Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev, Priyanka Pathak-Narain, Juggernaut Books, 2017.
- We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer, Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
- No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg, Penguin Books, 2019.
- The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age, David N. Schwartz, Basic Books, 2017.
- Einstein’s Luck: The Truth Behind Some of the Greatest Scientific Discoveries, John Waller, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- C.V. Raman: A Biography, Uma Parameswaran, Penguin Books, 2011.
- The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, David Wallace-Wells, Penguin Books, 2019.
- The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe, Thomas Levenson, Head of Zeus, 2015.
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Penguin Books, 2015.
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors, Matt Parker, Penguin Books, 2019.
- Things I don’t Want to Know: A response to George Orwell’s 1946 essay ‘Why I Write’, Deborah Levy, Penguin Books, 2018.
- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Translated by Samuel Moore), Penguin Little Black Classics, 2015.
- How to Bullsh_t Your Way to Number 1: An Unorthodox Guide to 21st Century Success from the World’s #1 Fake Restaurateur and Paris Fashion Week’s #1 Fake Designer, Oobah Butler, Oobah Butler, 2019.
- ** The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Volume 3: The Magic of Mathematics, Jennifer Beineke and Jason Rosenhouse (eds.), Princeton University Press, 2019. (review)
- Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction., Arundhati Roy, Penguin Books, 2020.
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World, Steve Brusatte, Picador, 2019.
- From Raj to Rajiv: 40 Years of Indian Independence, Mark Tully and Zareer Masani, Universal Book Stall, 1988.
- Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, Alberto Manguel, Yale University Press, 2018.
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
- The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown, Karen Olsson, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox, Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.
- The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Owen Gingerich, William Heinemann, 2004.
- Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter About Almost Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Penguin Books, 2014.
- Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels, Stephen B. Heard, Yale University Press, 2020.
- The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London, Lisa Jardine, Perennial, 2005.
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Penguin Books, 2010.
- When to Rob a Bank: …And 131 More Warped Suggestions and well-intended Rants, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, HarperLuxe, 2015.
- Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today’s India, Manimugdha S. Sharma, Bloomsbury India, 2019.
- The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Deborah Levy, Penguin Books, 2018.
- Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience, Shaun Usher (Compiler), Unbound & Canongate Books, 2016.
- More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience, Shaun Usher (Compiler), Unbound & Canongate Books, 2015.
- When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, Michael J. Benton, Thames & Hudson, 2003.
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Public Affairs, 2011.
- India Misinformed: The True Story, Pratik Sinha, Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth, HarperCollins India, 2019.
- Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, Siobhan Roberts, Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Galileo: And the Science Deniers, Mario Livio, Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything, Rob Eastaway, HarperCollins, 2019.
- The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, David Edmonds, Princeton University Press, 2020.
- The Economics of Small Things, Sudipta Sarangi, Penguin Books, 2020.
- The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Science, and the Global Quest for Fossils, Paige Williams, Hachette Books, 2019.
- Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
- Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, Penguin Books, 2006.
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, Bill Gates, Allen Lane, 2021.
- Euler: The Master of Us All, William Dunham, The Mathematical Association of America, 1999.
- The Library Book, Susan Orlean, Simon and Schuster, 2018.
- The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998.
- The Scientist as Rebel, Freeman Dyson, New York Review Books, 2006.
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Dava Sobel, Harper Perennial, 2007.
- Fascism and Democracy, George Orwell, Penguin Books, 2020.
- How to Spot a Fascist, Umberto Eco (Translated by Richard Dixon and Alastair McEwen), Harvill Secker, 2020.
- Politics and the English Language, George Orwell, Penguin Books, 2013.
- Notes on Nationalism, George Orwell, Penguin Books, 2018.
- Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
- A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are, Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe (Translated by Caroline Waight), WH Allen, 2021.
- The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins, Tom Higham, Viking, 2021.
- The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story, Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse, Thames and Hudson, 2018.
- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
- Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books, Paul Collins, Bloomsbury, 2003.
- Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, Sathnam Sanghera, Viking, 2021.
- The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, Allison Hoover Bartlett, Riverhead Books, 2009.
- Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library, Travis McDade, Diversion Books, 2015.
- A Library Miscellany, Claire Cock-Starkey, Bodleian Library, 2018.
- Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story, Lee Berger and John Hawks, National Geographic, 2017.
- A Museum Miscellany, Claire Cock-Starkey, Bodleian Library, 2019.
- The Book Lovers’ Miscellany, Claire Cock-Starkey, Bodleian Library, 2017.
- Books v. Cigarettes, George Orwell, Penguin Books, 2008.
- Night, Elie Wiesel (Translated by Marion Wiesel), Penguin Books, 2008.
- A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford, Richard Reeves, Atlas Books, 2008.
- Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe, George Johnson, Atlas Books, 2005.
- The Doctors’ Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis, Sherwin B. Nuland, Atlas Books, 2003.
- Decline of the English Murder, George Orwell, Penguin Books, 2009.
- Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie, Barbara Goldsmith, Atlas Books, 2005.
- Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind, Kermit Pattison, William Morrow, 2020.
- Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, Thomas Dunne Books, 2001.
- Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World, Tom Zoellner, 2010.
- The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, Anders Rydell (Translated by Henning Koch), Viking, 2017.
- The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird, Joshua Hammer, Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis, Simon Goodman, Scribner, 2015.
- The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444, Luca Crippa and Mauricio Onnis (Translated by Jennifer Higgins), Doubleday, 2021.
- First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human, Jeremy DeSilva, William Collins, 2021.
- Masters of the Planet: The Search for our Human Origins, Ian Tattersall, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, Ann Gibbons, Doubleday, 2006.
- Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Humans, Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun and Florian Breier (Translated by Jane Billinghurst), Greystone Books, 2020.
- The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars and the Search for Truth, Meriel Schindler, Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.
- The Twins of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a Young Girl Surviving Mengele’s Hell, Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri, Monoray, 2020.
- Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death”, David G. Marwell, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
- Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, Philip Ball, Vintage Books, 2014.
- Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, Jan Morris, Faber and Faber Ltd, 2002.
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Neil Shubin, Allen Lane, 2008.
- The Handshake: A Gripping History, Ella Al-Shamahi, Profile Books, 2021.
- Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914, Frederic Morton, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989.
- Gratitude, Oliver Sacks, Picador, 2015.
- Intimations: Six Essays, Zadie Smith, Penguin Books, 2020.
- Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020.
- Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, Svante Pääbo, Basic Books, 2014.
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Richard Wrangham, Basic Books, 2009.
- The Nazis: A Warning From History, Laurence Rees, BBC Books, 2021.
- Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, Joachim Fest (Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo), Macmillan, 2004.
- I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family’s Story of Exile and Return, Anna Goldenberg (Translated by Alta L. Price), New Vessel Press, 2020.
- The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation, Michael Brooks, Scribe, 2021.
- Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience, Georges Charpak and Henri Broch (Translated by Bart K. Holland), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
- Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science, Stuart Ritchie, Vintage, 2021.
- Languages Are Good For Us, Sophie Hardach, Head of Zeus Ltd, 2021.
- Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World, Elinor Cleghorn, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife, Penguin Books, 2000.
- How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises, Paolo Giordano (Translated by Alex Valente), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
- To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism, Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, Oxford University Press, 2021.
- How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Penguin Books, 2019.
- Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts, P. Sainath, Penguin Books, 2017.
- Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India, Suchitra Vijayan, Melville House, 2021.
- Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy, Christophe Jaffrelot (Translated by Cynthia Schoch), Princeton University Press, 2021.
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder, The Bodley Head, 2017.
- I Am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP’s Digital Army, Swati Chaturvedi, Juggernaut Books, 2019.
- The Great Unravelling: India after 2014, Sanjay Jha, Context, 2020.
- Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS, Helga Schneider (Translated by Shaun Whiteside), Vintage, 2005.
- Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here, Aakar Patel, Westland, 2020.
- Price of the Modi Years, Aakar Patel, Westland Non-Fiction, 2021.
- Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession, Gavin Francis, Canongate, 2020.
- Eichmann and the Holocaust, Hannah Arendt, Penguin Books, 2005.
- Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva, Ashish Khetan, Context, 2021.
- Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, K. S. Komireddi, C. Hurst & Company, 2019.
- It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics, Mickaël Launay (Translated by Stephen S. Wilson), William Collins, 2018.
- Spike - The Virus vs The People: The Inside Story, Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja, Profile Books, 2021.
- Republic of Hindutva: How the Sangh Is Reshaping Indian Democracy, Badri Narayan, Viking, 2021.
- Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, Rana Ayyub, 2016.
- The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State, Josy Joseph, Context, 2021.
- Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus, Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green, Hodder & Stroughton, 2021.
- Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, Rukmini S., Context, 2021.
- The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation, Ravish Kumar (Translated by Chitra Padmanabhan, Anurag Basnet and Ravi Singh), Speaking Tiger, 2019.
- Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars, Ziauddin Sardar, Icon Books, 2000.
- Covid by Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data, David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters, Pelican Books, 2021.
- Eureka! The Birth of Science, Andrew Gregory, Icon Books, 2017.
- Exposed! Ouija, Firewalking, and Other Gibberish, Henri Boch (Translated by Bart K. Holland), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope, M. Rajshekhar, Context, 2021.
- Hitler and India: The untold story of his hatred for the country and its people, Vaibhav Purandare, Westland Non-Fiction, 2021.
- A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India, Josy Joseph, HarperCollins, 2016.
- Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr., Penguin Classics, 2018.
- The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Speaking Tiger Books, 2021.
- Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, Timothy Gowers, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Auschwitz: A History, Sybille Steinbacher (Translated by Shaun Whiteside), Penguin Books, 2005.
- Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save Humanity, Debora MacKenzie, The Bridge Street Press, 2021.
- The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind’s Gravest Dangers, Ali S. Khan and William Patrick, PublicAffairs, 2020.
- The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease, Charles Kenny, Scribner, 2021.
- The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop, Adam Kucharski, Wellcome Collection, 2021.
- The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Astonishing Story That Reveals How Each of Us Can Trace Our Genetic Ancestors, Bryan Sykes, Corgi Books, 2002.
- The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, Nathan Wolfe, Allen Lane, 2011.
- Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic, Matt McCarthy, Scribe Publications, 2019.
- Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases, Paul A. Offit, Smithsonian Books, 2007.
- Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co., Jeremy Mercer, Picador, 2006.
- The Diary of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell, Profile Books, 2018.
- Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, Shaun Bythell, Profile Books, 2020.
- Confessions of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell, Profile Books, 2019.
- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Jen Campbell (Illustrated by Greg McLeod and Myles McLeod), Constable, 2012.
- The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read, André Schiffrin, Verso, 2001.
- More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Jen Campbell (Illustrated by Brothers McLeod), Constable, 2013.
- Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India, Jayeeta Sharma, Duke University Press, 2011.
- Shelf Respect: A Book Lover’s Defence, Annie Austen, Sphere, 2019.
- The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, Mark Forsyth, Icon Books, 2014.
- A Life with Books, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, 2012.
- Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World, Ben Orlin, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2019.
- Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, Vidya Krishnan, PublicAffairs, 2022.
- Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French, John von Sothen, Profile Books, 2020.
- I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, Anne Bogel, Baker Books, 2018.
- The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World, Riley Black, The History Press, 2022.
- Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas that Shape our Reality, Ben Orlin, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018.
- The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Edmund de Waal, Chatto & Windus, 2010.
- Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books, Michael Dirda, Pegasus Books, 2016.
- The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19, Mark Honigsbaum, WH Allen, 2020.
- Is It Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic, Ivan Krastev, Penguin Books, 2022.
- Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller, Nadia Wassef, Corsair, 2021.
- Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, V. S. Naipaul, New York Review Books, 2000.
- Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution, Elsa Panciroli, Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021.
- Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One, Devi Sridhar, Viking, 2022.
- The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis, Allen Lane, 2021.
- The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, Michael Lewis, Allen Lane, 2018.
- The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words, Tom Mole, Elliott & Thompson, 2020.
- Boomerang: The Biggest Bust, Michael Lewis, Penguin Books, 2012.
- The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us, Sanne Blauw (Translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen), Sceptre, 2020.
- The Book Collectors of Daraya: A band of Syrian rebels, their underground library, and the stories that carried them through a war, Delphine Minoui (Translated by Lara Vergnaud), Picador, 2021.
- The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How they shaped India and the World, Chinmay Tumbe, HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
- Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, Richard Rhodes, Touchstone Books, 1998.
- Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point, Gyan Prakash, Princeton University Press, 2019.
- Durbar, Tavleen Singh, Hachette India, 2013.
- India’s Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance, Arvind Narrain, Context, 2021.
- India’s Broken Tryst, Tavleen Singh, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017.
- Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India, Shakti Sinha, Vintage, 2020.
- Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation’s Conscience Keeper, Vinod Rai, Rupa Publications, 2014.
- Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction, Robin Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2016.
- The Big Reverse: How Demonetization Knocked India Out, Meera Sanyal, Harper Business, 2018.
- The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug, Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson (with Teresa Barker), Hachette Books, 2019.
- The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade, Gary Goodman, University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
- Thieves of Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It, Travis McDade, Oxford University Press, 2013.
- The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Jonathan Freedland, John Murray, 2022.
- Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell, Profile Books, 2022.
- The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History, Lewis Buzbee, Graywolf Press, 2006.
- The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture, Tilman Allert (Translated by Jefferson Chase), Picador, 2009.
- A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia, Mike Morwood and Penny van Oosterzee, Smithsonian Books, 2007.
- What’s the Best You Can Do?: First-Hand Recollections of a Second-Hand Bookseller, Derek Rowlinson (Illustrated by Graham Kennedy), Books Ulster, 2020.
- The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, Mark Roseman, Allen Lane, 2002.
- ** The Gifts of Reading: Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books, Robert Macfarlane (Inspired) and Jennie Orchard (Ed.), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
- ** Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home, Susan Hill, Profile Books, 2010.
- A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Owl Books, 1999.
- Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Fine Books Press, 2007.
- Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived, Chip Walter, Walker & Company, 2013.
- Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer, Times Books, 2012.
- Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller, Oliver Darkshire, Bantam, 2022.
- Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Maryn McKenna, Free Press, 2004.
- Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch (with Leslie Alan Horvitz), Barnes & Noble Books, 1999.
- Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-first Century, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Owl Books, 2003.
- The Two Cultures, C. P. Snow (with Introduction by Stefan Collini), Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age, James Crabtree, One World, 2019.
- ** At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries, Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm and Christopher Simon Sykes, Carol Southern Books, 1995.
- On Leaders and Icons: From Jinnah to Modi, Kuldip Nayar, Speaking Tiger, 2018.
- In Praise of Good Bookstores, Jeff Deutsch, Princeton University Press, 2022.
- ** In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing, Elena Ferrante (Translated by Ann Goldstein), Europa Editions, 2022.
- Bottle of Lies : Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma, Katherine Eban, Juggernaut Books, 2022.
- Not Just a Civil Servant, Anil Swarup, Unicorn Books, 2019.
- Little Species, Big Mystery: The story of Homo floresiensis, Debbie Argue, Melbourne University Press, 2022.
- RSS: The Long and the Short of It, Devanura Mahadeva (Translated by S. R. Ramakrishna), Eka, 2022.
- The Sea Close By, Albert Camus, Penguin Classics, 2013.
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Books, 2021.
- How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff, Pelican Books, 1975.
- Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World, C. J. Peters and Mark Olshaker, Anchor Books, 1998.
- Messiah Modi? A Tale of Great Expectations, Tavleen Singh, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2020.
- No Nation for Women: Reportage on Rape from India, the World’s Largest Democracy, Priyanka Dubey, Simon & Schuster India, 2018.
- Bhupen Hazarika: As I Knew Him, Kalpana Lajmi with Sunanda Shyamal Mitra, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2018.
- Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past, K. Natwar Singh, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2013.
- The Fiction of Fact-finding: Modi & Godhra, Manoj Mitta, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2014.
- Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi, Swapna Liddle, Speaking Tiger, 2017.
- Connaught Place and the Making of New Delhi, Swapna Liddle, Speaking Tiger, 2018.
- Jawaharlal Nehru: Civilizing a Savage World, Nayantara Sahgal, Penguin Books, 2016.
- The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India, S. Y. Quraishi, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2021.
- Yours Sincerely, K. Natwar Singh, Rupa & Co., 2010.
- She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
- Fear: Trump in the White House, Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, 2019.
- Missing in Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy, Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley, Penguin Books, 2023.
- Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste, Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017.
- The Emergency: A Personal History, Coomi Kapoor, Penguin Books, 2016.
- Rage, Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- Patriots and Partisans, Ramachandra Guha, Allen Lane, 2012.
- The Book Beautiful: A Memoir of Collecting Rare and Fine Books, Pradeep Sebastian, Hachette India, 2023.
- Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, Tony Joseph, Juggernaut Books, 2021.
- Off the Shelf: On Books, Book People and Places, Sridhar Balan, Speaking Tiger, 2019.
- Why Men Rape: An Indian Undercover Investigation, Tara Kaushal, HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
- The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, Sonia Faleiro, Hamish Hamilton, 2021.
- The Gated Republic: India’s Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions, Shankkar Aiyar, HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
- The Idol Thief: The True Story of the Looting of India’s Temples, S. Vijay Kumar, Juggernaut Books, 2022.
- The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta, Kushanava Choudhury, Bloomsbury, 2019.
- Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India, Pankaj Mishra, Penguin Books, 2013.
- The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis, Kafeel Khan, Pan, 2021.
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport, Piatkus, 2016.
- Unseen: The Truth About India‘s Manual Scavengers, Bhasha Singh (Translated by Reenu Talwar), Penguin Books, 2014.
- Across the Chicken Neck: Travels in Northeast India, Nandita Haksar, Rupa Publications, 2016.
- The Indian President: An Insider’s Account of the Zail Singh Years, K. C. Singh, HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
- What are Universities For?, Colin Lucas, Permanent Black, 2017.
- Global Universities in an Age of Anxiety, Stephen J. Toope, Ashoka University, 2019.
- Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal, Ameer Shahul, Macmillan, 2023.
- Who Moved My Vote?: Digging Through Indian Electoral Data, Yugank Goyal and Arun Kumar Kaushik, Westland Non-Fiction, 2022.
- Instant History: A Memoir, Anil Maheshwari, Bloomsbury India, 2021.
- Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis, Hodder & Stoughton, 2016.
- Ahmedabad: From Royal City to Megacity, Achyut Yagnik and Suchitra Sheth, Penguin Books, 2016.
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis, Penguin Books, 2011.
- City Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay, Naresh Fernandes, Aleph Book Company, 2013.
- ** Calcuttascape: Musings of a Globetrotter, Sandeep Bhutoria, Macmillan, 2020.
- The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis, Parakala Prabhakar, Speaking Tiger Books, 2023.
- The Groaning Shelf and other instances of book love, Pradeep Sebastian, Hachette India, 2010.
- A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters, Henry Gee, Picador, 2022.
- Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, Alice Albinia, John Murray, 2018.
- The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, Rosemary Sullivan, William Collins, 2022.
- Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-1977, Abhishek Choudhary, Picador India, 2023.
- The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures, Charlie English, William Collins, 2018.
- Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home, Alexander Wolff, Grove Press UK, 2022.
- Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People, Rick Gekoski, Constable, 2023.
- What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait, Eden Collinsworth, Doubleday, 2022.
- Editor Missing: The Media in Today’s India, Ruben Banerjee, HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
- ** Ancient India: Culture of Contradictions, Upinder Singh, Aleph Book Company, 2021.
- The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, Neal Bascomb, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013.
- In Pursuit: The Men and Women Who Hunted the Nazis, Andrew Nagorski, Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, Anjan Sundaram, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
- Bookshelf, Lydia Pyne, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Nabokov’s Butterfly: And Other Stories Of Great Authors And Rare Books, Rick Gekoski, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996.
- When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 Carnage and its Aftermath, Manoj Mitta and H. S. Phoolka, Roli Books, 2022.
- The Last Liberal and Other Essays, Ramachandra Guha, Permanent Black, 2013.
- Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, Nicholas A. Basbanes, HarperCollins, 2005.
- Phantoms on the Bookshelves, Jacques Bonnet (Translated by Siân Reynolds), MacLehose Press, 2010.
- The Anatomy of Hate, Revati Laul, Context, 2018.
- Devil’s Advocate: The Untold Story, Karan Thapar, HarperCollins, 2018.
- The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India’s Most Glamorous Royal Family, John Zubrzycki, Juggernaut Books, 2023.
- H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, Kunal Purohit, HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2015.
- Dethroned: Patel, Menon and the Integration of Princely India, John Zubrzycki, Juggernaut Books, 2023.
- No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses, Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall, W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
- Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, David Quammen, The Bodley Head, 2022.
- Breaking Through: A Memoir, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Rupa Publications India, 2020.
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert, Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Bahrisons: Chronicle of a bookshop, Anuj Bahri and Aanchal Malhotra, Tara India Research Press, 2024.
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton University Press, 2021.
- The Learning Trap: How Byju’s Took Indian Edtech For A Ride, Pradip K. Saha, Juggernaut Books, 2023.
- 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff, André Deutsch Ltd, 1971.
- The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff, André Deutsch Ltd, 1974.
- Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods, Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma, Aleph Book Company, 2024.
- Shelf Aware: A Love Affair with Books, V. R. Ferose, Hachette India, 2023.
- The Saffron Storm: From Vajpayee to Modi, Saba Naqvi, Vintage, 2024.
- ** Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, Tiago Forte, Profile Books, 2022.
- ** Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute and an Idea Shaped India, Nikhil Menon, Viking, 2022.
- An Inky Parade: Tales for Bibliophiles, Pradeep Sebastian, Hachette India, 2024.
- The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir, Ramachandra Guha, Juggernaut Books, 2024.
- ** On the End of the World, Joseph Roth (Translated by Will Stone), Pushkin Press, 2019.
- Issac Newton: Brief Lives, Peter Ackroyd, Vintage, 2007.
- The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Anne-Marie O’Connor, Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras, Radhika Iyengar, Fourth Estate, 2023.
- Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, David Quammen, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
- The Chimp the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, David Quammen, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, David Quammen, Vintage, 2013.
- Just Transferred: The Untold Story of Ashok Khemka, Bhavdeep Kang and Namita Kala, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2020.
- Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World, Snigdha Poonam, Penguin Books, 2019.
- India Before Modi: How the BJP Came to Power, Vinay Sitapati, C. Hurst & Company, 2021.
- ** India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation, Oliver Balch, Faber and Faber, 2013.
- The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra, Samrat Choudhury, HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
- Bombay-London-New York: A Literary Journey, Amitava Kumar, Penguin Books India, 2002.
- On Women: Selected Writings, Khushwant Singh and Humra Quraishi, Rupa Publications, 2014.
- The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman’s quest for the truth, Pauline Baer de Perignon (Translated by Natasha Lehrer), Head of Zeus Ltd, 2023.
- ** The Human Side of Science: Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and Other Personal Stories behind Science’s Big Ideas, Arthur W. Wiggins and Charles M. Wynn (Illustrations by Sidney Harris), Prometheus Books, 2016.
- River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra, Mark Shand, Abacus, 2014.
- ** Secular Common Sense, Mukul Kesavan, Penguin Books, 2001.
- ** India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, Gurcharan Das, Penguin Books, 2013.
- The End of India, Khushwant Singh, Penguin Books, 2003.
- Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Indian Republic’s Beginnings, Rajmohan Gandhi, Aleph Book Company, 2016.
- Rickshaw Ragtime: Calcutta Remembered, Jug Suraiya, Penguin Books, 1993.
- Degree Coffee by the Yard: A Short Biography of Madras, Nirmala Lakshman, Aleph Book Company, 2013.
- Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books, Brian Lake, HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
- Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Decline of India, Siddhartha Deb, Context, 2024.
- The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis, Atlantic Books, 2019.
- Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich, Mary M. Lane, PublicAffairs, 2019.
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo, Penguin Books, 2013.
Fiction
- Half Girlfriend, Chetan Bhagat, Rupa, 2014. (review)
- Dead Meat, Ankush Saikia, Penguin India, 2015. (review)
- Mightier Than The Sword, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2015. (review)
- All My Friends are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman, Telegram Books, 2006. (review)
- Scion of Ikshvaku, Amish Tripathi, Westland Books, 2015. (review)
- Cometh The Hour, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2016.
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story, Richard Bach, Element, 2003.
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott, Penguin Books, 1998.
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession, Apostolos Doxiadis, Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
- The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, Penguin Books, 2007.
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story, The Complete Edition, Richard Bach, Harper Thorsons, 2015.
- One Indian Girl, Chetan Bhagat, Rupa, 2016.
- This was a Man, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2016.
- Remember Death, Ankush Saikia, Penguin India, 2016. (review)
- The Vegetarian, Han Kang (Tranlated by Deborah Smith), Portobello Books, 2016.
- Strangers, Omair Tarique, Moments Publications, 2017.
- Falling in love again: Stories of Love and Romance, Ruskin Bond, Rupa, 2016.
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Om Books International, 2016.
- Revelations of an Imperfect Life, Sankhya Samhita, Readomania, 2017.
- The Pregnant King, Devdutt Pattanaik, Penguin Books India, 2008.
- Red River, Blue Hills, Ankush Saikia, Westland ltd., 2015.
- The Girl from Nongrim Hills, Ankush Saikia, Penguin India, 2013.
- The Outsider, Albert Camus (Translated by Sandra Smith), Penguin Classics, 2013.
- The Tobacconist, Robert Seethaler (Translated by Charlotte Collins), Picador, 2017.
- No Direction Rome, Kaushik Barua, Fourth Estate, 2015.
- The Spy, Paulo Coelho (Translated by Zoë Perry), Vintage, 2016.
- Tell Tale, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2017.
- Chess, Stefan Zweig (Translated by Anthea Bell), Penguin Classics, 2017.
- More Bodies Will Fall, Ankush Saikia, Penguin Books, 2018.
- Twilight in Delhi, Ahmed Ali, Rupa, 2017.
- ** A Horse Walks into a Bar, David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen), Jonathan Cape, 2016.
- The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway, Arrow Books, 2004.
- Heads You Win, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2018.
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, Penguin Books, 1993.
- His Father’s Disease: Stories, Aruni Kashyap, Context, 2019.
- Lot No. 249, Arthur Conan Doyle, Penguin Little Black Classics, 2016.
- How Much Land Does A Man Need?, Leo Tolstoy, Penguin Little Black Classics, 2015.
- A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin, Anchor Books, 2006.
- Origin, Dan Brown, Corgi Books, 2018.
- The Palace of Illusions, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Picador, 2009.
- The tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris, Zaffre, 2018.
- Nothing Ventured, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2019.
- Life Over Two Beers: And Other Stories, Sanjeev Sanyal, Penguin Random House, 2018.
- Next Door: Stories, Jahnavi Barua, Penguin Books India, 2008.
- The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, W. F. Howes Ltd., 2009.
- A Good Hanging and other stories, Ian Rankin, Orion Books Ltd., 1998.
- Fräulein Else: A Novel, Arthur Schnitzler (Translated by Robert A. Simon), Simon and Schuster, 1971.
- The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith, Sphere, 2014.
- The Fourth Estate, Jeffrey Archer, HarperCollins, 1996.
- As the Crow Flies, Jeffrey Archer, BCA, 1991.
- The Last Juror, John Grisham, Arrow Books, 2004.
- Chinatown Days, Rita Chowdhury, Macmillan, 2018.
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy, Hamish Hamilton, 2017.
- Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie, HarperCollins, 2017.
- Undertow, Jahnavi Barua, Penguin Books India, 2020.
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J. K. Rowling, Pottermore, 2016.
- Hidden in Plain Sight, Jeffrey Archer, Macmillan, 2020.
- A Matter of Honour, Jeffrey Archer, Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, 1986.
- A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Books, 2008.
- Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Jeffrey Archer, Coronet Books, 1985.
- Adua, Igiaba Scego (Translated by Jamie Richards), New Vessel Press, 2017.
- Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway, John Dunning, Scribner, 1992.
- The Bookman’s Wake: A Mystery with Cliff Janeway, John Dunning, Scribner, 1995.
- Bookscout, John Dunning, MysteriousPress.com & Open Road, 2013.
- Perelman’s Refusal: A Novel, Philippe Zaouati (Translated by Rachel Zerner), American Mathematical Society, 2021. (review)
- Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, Stefan Zweig (Translated by Anthea Bell), Pushkin Press, 2016.
- Maigret’s Holiday, Georges Simenon (Translated by Ros Schwartz), Penguin Books, 2016.
- The Children’s Block: Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor, Otto B. Kraus, Ebury Press, 2019.
- The Bookman’s Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel, John Dunning, Scribner, 2004.
- My Son the Fanatic, Hanif Kureishi, Faber and Faber Limited, 2019.
- Her Lockdown Story: Collection of Short Stories from Assam, Shreejata Gupta (Banamallika Choudhury Ed.), Women’s Leadership Training Centre & NEthing, 2021.
- The Sign of the Book: A Cliff Janeway Bookman Novel, John Dunning, Scribner, 2005.
- The Dancing Village, Easterine Kire (Ilustrated by Akuo Miachieo), Barkweaver, 2015.
- The Parrot and the Merchant, Ali Seidabadi (Translated by Azita Rassi), Puffin Books, 2019.
- The Time of the Peacock: A Short Novel, Siddharth Chowdhury, Aleph Book Company, 2021.
- The Book Hunters of Katpadi: A Bibliomystery, Pradeep Sebastian, Hachette India, 2017.
- After Messiah, Aakar Patel, Vintage, 2023.
- Paper Moon: A Novel, Rehana Munir, HarperCollins, 2019.
- Birthday Girl, Haruki Murakami (Translated by Jay Rubin), Harvill Secker, 2019.
- A Bookshop in Algiers, Kaouther Adimi (Translated by Chris Andrews), Serpent’s Tail, 2022.
- Ghachar Ghochar, Vivek Shanbhag (Translated by Srinath Perur), Harper Perennial, 2016.
- Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories, Jayant Kaikini (Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana), Eka, 2024.
- The Revenge of the Non-Vegetarian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Speaking Tiger, 2018.
- The Company of Women, Khushwant Singh, Penguin Books, 2000.
- English, August: An Indian Story, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rupa & Co., 1996.
Graphic Books
- Feynman, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, First Second, New York, 2011. (review)
- All my friends are still dead, Avery Monsen and Jory John, Chronicle Books, 2012.
- All my friends are dead, Avery Monsen and Jory John, Chronicle Books, 2010.
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou (Art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna), Bloomsbury, 2009.
- Peanuts: The misfortunes of Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz, Hodder and Stoughton, 1978.
- Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Hill and Wang, 2013.
- A boy named Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz, Brockhampton Press, 1970.
- The New Yorker 1950-1955 Album, Hamish Hamilton, 1955.
- Masters of Abstraction, Peter Badge, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, 2015.
- Tragidoodles, Ben Cameron, Unbound, 2016.
- The Very Best of The Common Man, R. K. Laxman, Penguin Books India, 2012.
- Telling It Like It Isn’t, Scott Adams, Boxtree, 1997.
- The Story of BREXIT, J. A. Hazeley and J. P. Morris, Penguin Books, 2018.
- Brexit: Join The F@@@ing Dots, Jamie Whyte, Pyramid, 2018.
- Famous Cities of the World: Florence, Lazzaro Donati, Spring Books, 1964.
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return, Marjane Satrapi (Translated by Anjali Singh), Vintage, 2008.
- Famous Cities of the World: Vienna, Alfred Cermak, Spring Books, 1966.
- Tamlin, Aven Wildsmith, Knight Errant Press, 2021.
- Sketches of Western Ukraine: August 2015, Simon Harchun, Clio Editions, 2015.
- The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman, Penguin Books, 2003.
- Erotic art of India, Philip Rawson, Universe Books, 1977.
- All Quiet in Vikaspuri, Sarnath Banerjee, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2015.
Poetry
- Away from Shore, Mary McCormack Deka, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
- Nonsense, Edward Lear, Penguin Little Black Classics, 2016.
- The World’s Best Limericks, Richard Floethe (Illustrator), The Peter Pauper Press, 1951.
- The Eve of St Agnes, John Keats, Penguin Books, 2015.
- The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, Rob Sears, Cannongate, 2017.
Mixed
- Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh, Khushwant Singh, Penguin Books, 1993.
- I love you madly, Helen Exley (ed.), Liz Smith and Caroline Gardner (Illustrators), Helen Exley Giftbooks, 2005.
- Insider Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North-East India, Preeti Gill and Samrat (eds.), Amaryllis, 2018.
- A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Homor, Lore and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books, Harold Rabinowitz and Bob Kaplan (eds.), Three Rivers Press, 1999.
- Race, Toni Morrison, Vintage, 2017.
- I’d Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers, Guinevere de la Mare, Chronicle Books, 2017.
- Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages, Michael Popek, Perigee, 2011.
- ** An Economist’s Miscellany: From the Groves of Academe to the Slopes of Raisina Hill, Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press, 2020.