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.
Below I list all the non-fiction books I have read since August 2024 (in reverse chronological order). For all 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.
- ** Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern, Oak Knoll Press, 1996.
- Anita gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? What Should We Do About Them?, Arun Shourie, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2018.
- Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places, Rebecca Rego Barry, Voyageur Press, 2018.
- Lucy’s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins, Donald C. Johanson and Kate Wong, Three Rivers Press, 2010.
- The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy, Rahul Bhatia, Context, 2024.
- Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89, Richard Bassett, Penguin Books, 2020.
- India After 1947: Reflections and Recollections, Rajmohan Gandhi, Aleph Book Company, 2022.
- Why don’t you write something I might read?: Reading, Writing & Arrhythmia, Suresh Menon, Context, 2021.
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, Michael Finkel, Simon & Schuster, 2023.
- Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo, Penguin Books, 2010.
- The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece, Jonathan Harr, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006.
- ** Backstage: The Story behind India’s High Growth Years, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Rupa Publications, 2023.
- ** Price of the Modi Years, Aakar Patel, Vintage, 2023.
- ** Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Amit Chaudhuri, Penguin Books, 2013.
- ** The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, Sonia Shah, Sarah Crichton Books, 2010.
- A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world, Jane Cholmeley, Mudlark, 2024.
- ** Never Tell Them We Are the Same People: Notes on Pakistan, Kesava Menon, Speaking Tiger Books, 2023.
- Goodnight and God Bless: On life, literature, and a few other things, with footnotes, quotes, and other such literary diversions, Anita Nair, Penguin Books, 2015.
- ** The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC, William H. Foege, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.