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Every book named in the show notes of The Seen and the Unseen, across 453 episodes. 2,035 books, 469 of them raised in more than one episode. No author or publication year yet: see how this is built.

Raised more than once

469 books, ordered by how many episodes reached for them.

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In Service of the RepublicVijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah
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Gita Press and the Making of Hindu IndiaAkshaya Mukul
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its LanguagesPeggy Mohan
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Early IndiansTony Joseph
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Wanting
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Private Truths, Public LiesTimur Kuran
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Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing Their WorldSnigdha Poonam
12 ]
Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians BackSubhashish Bhadra
12 ]
India After GandhiRamachandra Guha
12 ]
The Lost DecadePuja Mehra
12 ]
The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro
11 ]
A People’s ConstitutionRohit De
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How the BJP WinsPrashant Jha
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India MovingChinmay Tumbe
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SuperforecastingPhilip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
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The Three Languages of PoliticsArnold Kling
10 ]
Everybody LiesMelanie A. Smith
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Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in MedicineKavitha Rao
10 ]
Sixteen Stormy DaysTripurdaman Singh
10 ]
The Blank SlateSteven Pinker
10 ]
YugantaKarve, Irawati Karmarkar
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On InequalityHarry G. Frankfurt
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Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott
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The Case Against SugarGary Taubes
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The Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam Smith
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Who We Are and How We Got HereDavid Reich
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Whole Numbers and Half TruthsRukmini S
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Desperately Seeking Shah RukhSHRAYANA BHATTACHARYA
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Emergency ChroniclesGyan Prakash
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Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu IdentityManu S Pillai
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Government’s End: Why Washington Stopped WorkingJonathan Rauch
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Hind SwarajMohandas Gandhi Karamchand
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Nehru: The Debates that Defined IndiaTripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain
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Parkinson’s LawCyril Northcote Parkinson
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State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st CenturyFrancis Fukuyama
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The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy dietNina Teicholz
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The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs
8 ]
The Origins of Political OrderFrancis Fukuyama
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Behave
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India’s Founding MomentMadhav Khosla
7 ]
Jugalbandi: The BJP Before ModiVinay Sitapati
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On BullshitHarry G. Frankfurt
7 ]
Political Order and Political DecayFrancis Fukuyama
7 ]
Public Opinion
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Remnants of a SeparationAanchal Malhotra
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The Big QuestionsSteven E. Landsburg
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The Emergency: A Personal HistoryCoomi Kapoor
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The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral ProgressPeter Singer
7 ]
The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati SenHaimabati Sen
7 ]
The Nurture AssumptionJudith Rich Harris
6 ]
Aadha Gaon
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Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
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Deep WorkCal Newport
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From Strength to StrengthArthur C. Brooks
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India: A Million Mutinies NowV.S. Naipaul
6 ]
The Broken Script
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The End of History and the Last ManFrancis Fukuyama
6 ]
The Generation of Rage in KashmirDavid Devadas
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The House of the DeadFyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Road to SerfdomFriedrich August Hayek
6 ]
The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith
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Unboxing BengaluruMalini Goyal and Prashanth Prakash
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1971: A Global History of the Creation of BangladeshSrinath Raghavan
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A Rude LifeVir Sanghvi
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Atomic HabitsJames Clear
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Beautiful Thing
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Beyond A BoundaryC. L. R. James
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Capitalism and FreedomMilton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
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Counterinsurgency WarfareDavid Galula
5 ]
Em and the Big HoomJerry Pinto
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Free to ChooseMilton Friedman
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Gandhi Before IndiaRamachandra Guha
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HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar
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Ideology and IdentityPradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma
5 ]
Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson
5 ]
Kashi Ka AssiKāśīnātha Siṃha
5 ]
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don’t Have ToDavid A. Sinclair and Matthew D. LaPlante
5 ]
Madame BovaryGaston Baty and Gustave Flaubert
5 ]
Malevolent RepublicKS Komireddi
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MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
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Midnight’s ChildrenSalman Rushdie
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One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAlexander Solzhenitsyn
5 ]
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
5 ]
Power and Prosperity
5 ]
Testaments BetrayedMilan Kundera
5 ]
The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker
5 ]
The Clash of Economic IdeasLawrence Henry White
5 ]
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular MindGustave Le Bon
5 ]
The Fatal ConceitWilliam Warren Bartley
5 ]
The Obesity CodeDr. Jason Fung
5 ]
The Odd Woman and the CityVivian Gornick
5 ]
The Seven Basic PlotsChristopher Booker
5 ]
The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State
5 ]
What is Populism?Jan-Werner Müller
4 ]
A House Divided: Origin and Development of Hindi/UrduRai, Amrit.
4 ]
A Poetry HandbookMary Oliver
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A Sixth Of HumanityStarr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies Devesh Kapur and Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian
4 ]
Accelerating India’s DevelopmentKarthik Muralidharan
4 ]
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las VegasNatasha Dow Schüll
4 ]
An AutobiographyKamala Das
4 ]
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
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Annihilation of CasteAmbedkar B. R.
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Backstage: The Story behind India’s High Growth YearsMontek Singh Ahluwalia
4 ]
Black BeautyAnna Sewell
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Colours of the Cage: A Prison MemoirArun Ferreira
4 ]
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
4 ]
Daily Rituals: Women at WorkMason Currey
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Exit, Voice, and LoyaltyAlbert Otto Hirschman
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FactfulnessHans Rosling and Ola Rosling
4 ]
Harry Potter
4 ]
Hindi NationalismAlok Rai.
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Human
4 ]
I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal DĕdLal Dĕd
4 ]
India UnboundGurcharan Das
4 ]
JejuriShubhangi Raykar
4 ]
Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar : A citizen-first approachRohini Nilekani
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Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of HindutvaVaibhav Purandare
4 ]
The Argumentative IndianAmartya Sen
4 ]
The Burden of DemocracyPratap Bhanu Mehta
4 ]
The City and the City
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The Essential Kabir
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The Gate of AngelsPenelope Fitzgerald
4 ]
The Good GirlsSonia Faleiro
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The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
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The Great GatsbyHarold Bloom
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The Gulag ArchipelagoAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4 ]
The Hedgehog And The FoxIsaiah Berlin
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The Innovator’s DilemmaClayton Christensen
4 ]
The Notebook TrilogyÁgota Kristóf
4 ]
The OdysseyΌμηρος
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The Pathan UnarmedMukulika Banerjee
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The Tyranny of ExpertsWilliam Easterly
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The Will to ChangeEva-Maria Maggi
4 ]
Think AgainSydney Finkelstein and Jo Whitehead
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Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
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VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern IndiaNarayani Basu
4 ]
War and Peace in Modern IndiaSRINATH RAGHAVAN
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Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory Over ChinaPROBAL. DASGUPTA
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Why We SleepMatthew Walker
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Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of AgyeyaAkshaya Mukul
4 ]
Yes MinisterJonathan Lynn
4 ]
Yes Prime MinisterAntony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
3 ]
A Suitable BoyVikram Seth
3 ]
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical StudyThomas Sowell
3 ]
Anarchy, State and UtopiaRobert Nozick
3 ]
Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand
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Ayodhya: The Dark NightDhirendra K Jha and Krishna Jha
3 ]
Between the Buyer and the Seller
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Collected PoemsA. K. Ramanujan
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Crowds and PowerElias Canetti
3 ]
Daughters of the SunIra Mukhoty
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Deep MedicineEric J. Topol
3 ]
Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit EntrepreneursDevesh Kapur and D Shyam Babu
3 ]
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel
3 ]
Disgrace
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Down to EarthNational Research Council and Division on Earth and Life Studies
3 ]
Economic Facts and FallaciesThomas Sowell
3 ]
Economics in One LessonHenry Hazlitt
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur JehanRuby Lal
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Fortress and Frontier in American Health CareRobert F. Graboyes
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the WorldRamachandra Guha
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Ghachar GhocharVivek Shanbhag
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Guns, Germs and SteelJared Diamond
3 ]
Humankind: A Hopeful HistoryRutger Bregman
3 ]
Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino
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Invisible WomenAngela Devlin
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Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
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Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez
3 ]
Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink
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Marxvaad Aur Ram Rajya
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from VenusJohn Gray
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Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public PolicyPranay Kotasthane and Raghu S Jaitley
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Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to our TimesRajmohan Gandhi
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Murder in MahimJerry Pinto
3 ]
My Friend SanchoAmit Varma
3 ]
Narrative EconomicsRobert J. Shiller
3 ]
On TyrannyTimothy Snyder
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Our Hindu RashtraAakar Patel
3 ]
Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
3 ]
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
3 ]
Reasons and PersonsDerek Parfit
3 ]
Rebel SultansManu S. Pillai
3 ]
Savarkar and the Making of HindutvaJanaki Bakhle
3 ]
Saving Capitalism From The CapitalistsRaghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales
3 ]
Songs of KabirKabir
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Tales from the KathasaritsagaraSomadeva
3 ]
Team of RivalsDoris Kearns Goodwin
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The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt
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The Artist’s WayJulia Cameron
3 ]
The Beautiful Tree
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The Birth of the Modern WorldChristopher Alan Bayly
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The Calculus of ConsentGordon Tullock and James M. Buchanan
3 ]
The Connell Guide to How to Write Well
3 ]
The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru
3 ]
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great DepressionAmity Shlaes
3 ]
The Golden Age of MurderMartin Edwards
3 ]
The HindusWendy Doniger
3 ]
The Idea of IndiaSunil Khilnani
3 ]
The Insurgents
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The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for FreedomDavid Boaz
3 ]
The Life and Times of George FernandesRahul Ramagundam
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The Looming TowerLawrence Wright
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The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien
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The Mahatma and the PoetSabyasachi Bhattacharya
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The Moral AnimalRobert Wright
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The Mystery of CapitalHernando De Soto
3 ]
The Road to FreedomBrooks, Arthur C.
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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They StopAdam Kucharski
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The Second SexSimone de Beauvior
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The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins
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The Shadow LinesAmitav Ghosh and Amitav
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The Skeptical EnvironmentalistBjørn Lomborg
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The Strategy Trap: India and Pakistan Under the Nuclear ShadowPrakash Menon
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The Truth About Us
3 ]
The Ultimate ResourceJulian Lincoln Simon
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The Unbearable Lightness of BeingArdian Vehbiu
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The War Against ClicheMartin Amis
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The White Man’s Burden
3 ]
The World of Premchand: Selected Short StoriesPremacanda
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To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
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V for VendettaAlan Moore and David Lloyd
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War and Peacegraf Leo Tolstoy
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Ways of SeeingJohn Berger
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We, The Citizens: Strengthening the Indian RepublicKhyati Pathak and Anupam Manur
3 ]
Wealth and PowerOrville Schell and John Delury
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Wolf HallHilary Mantel
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100 Years of Solitude
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84, Charing Cross RoadHelene Hanff
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A Chess StoryStefan Zweig
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A Dominant CharacterSAMANTH. SUBRAMANIAN
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A Fine BalanceRohinton Mistry
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A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles
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A History of European MoralsWilliam Edward Hartpole Lecky
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A House For Mr BiswasVidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of KM PanikkarNarayani Basu
2 ]
A Matter of RatsAmitava Kumar
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A Million Mutinies Now
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A Passage to IndiaEdward Morgan Forster
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A Shot At History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic GoldRohit Brijnath
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A Southern MusicT. M. Krishna
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A Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls
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A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft
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After VirtueAlasdair MacIntyre
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Against the GrainNorman Baker
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Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan CivilizationDevdutt Pattanaik
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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make SenseRory Sutherland
2 ]
All About H HatterrG V Desani
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Almost Invisible
2 ]
Amader ShantiniketanShivani
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Amusing Ourselves to DeathNeil Postman
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An Area of DarknessV.S. Naipaul
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An Equal MusicVikram Seth
2 ]
An Immense WorldEd Yong
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Arguments for LibertyAaron Ross Powell and Grant Babcock
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Army and Nation: The Military and Indian DemocracySteven I. Wilkinson
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Ascetic GamesDhirendra K. Jha
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Assembling India’s ConstitutionRohit De and Ornit Shani
2 ]
Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century IndiaJahnavi Phalkey
2 ]
Ayodhya - The Dark NightJha, Krishna (Journalist)
2 ]
Bad BloodLinda Fairstein
2 ]
Bad ScienceBen Goldacre
2 ]
Being MortalAtul Gawande
2 ]
Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in IndiaGhazala Wahab
2 ]
Bottle of Lies : Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian PharmaKatherine Eban
2 ]
Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic FutureRaghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba
2 ]
Breaking Through: A MemoirKatalin Karikó
2 ]
Brighton RockGraham Greene
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Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel
2 ]
Brotherless NightV. V. Ganeshananthan
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Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, ActionMatt Andrews and Lant Pritchett
2 ]
Camouflaged: Forgotten Stories from BattlefieldsProbal Dasgupta
2 ]
Catch 22Joseph Heller
2 ]
Citizenship and its Discontents
2 ]
Collected StoriesOlaf Stapledon
2 ]
CosmicomicsItalo Calvino
2 ]
Curfewed NightBasharat Peer
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Days & Night In The Forest
2 ]
Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller
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Democracy in AmericaAlexis Tocqueville
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Despite the State
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Distance From DelhiSarah Farooqui
2 ]
Dragon On Our DoorstepPravin Sawhney and Ghazala Wahab
2 ]
DublinersJames Joyce
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English, August: An Indian StoryUpamanyu Chatterjee
2 ]
EssaysGeorge Orwell and John Carey
2 ]
Essentials Of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar
2 ]
Exhalation
2 ]
Far From the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy
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Fearless FreedomKavita Krishnan
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Fierce AttachmentsVivian Gornick
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Folktales from IndiaA.K. Ramanujan
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For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
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Free WillRobert Kane
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Freedom at MidnightDominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
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Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of IndiaDhirendra Jha
2 ]
General Brasstacks: The Sundarji StoryProbal DasGupta
2 ]
GoraRabindranath Tagore
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Governing the CommonsElinor Ostrom
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Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
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Gulliver’s TravelsJonathan Swift
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated OrganGIULIA ENDERS
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H is for HawkHelen Macdonald
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Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
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Heart LampBanu Mushtaq
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Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and HistoryIra Mukhoty
2 ]
Hindutva and Violence: VD Savarkar and the Politics of HistoryVinayak Chaturvedi
2 ]
History of Western PhilosophyBertrand Russell
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Home Fire
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How Music WorksDavid Byrne
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How to Read and WhyHarold Bloom
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IbnebatutiDivya Prakash Dubey
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Identity
2 ]
If It’s Monday It Must Be MaduraiSrinath Perur
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In Praise of FloodsJames C. Scott
2 ]
In Search Of Lost TimeMarcel Proust
2 ]
India Grows At NightGurcharan Das
2 ]
India in the Persianate AgeRichard M. Eaton
2 ]
India Transformed: 25 Years of Economic ReformsRakesh Mohan
2 ]
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an EmpireVon Tunzelmann, Alex
2 ]
Individualism and Economic OrderFriedrich A. von Hayek
2 ]
Influence of Islam on Indian CultureTara Chand
2 ]
Integral HumanismJacques Maritain
2 ]
Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and WatchingAdam Alter
2 ]
IvanhoeWalter Scott and C. E. Brock
2 ]
Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of TravancoreManu S. Pillai
2 ]
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron: Seriously Funny Since 1983Jai Arjun Singh
2 ]
Jawaharlal Nehru : Rebel and StatesmanB. R. Nanda
2 ]
KanthapuraRaja Rao
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Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann
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Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. H. Lawrence
2 ]
Letters for a Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers 1947-1963Jawaharlal Nehru
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Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke
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Lords of the DeccanAnirudh Kanisetti
2 ]
Market WizardsJack D. Schwager and George F. Coyle
2 ]
Masala LabKrish Ashok
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Maximum CitySuketu Mehta
2 ]
Modern Principles of MicroeconomicsAlex Tabarrok Tyler Cowen
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Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in IndiaMukulika Banerjee
2 ]
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian NationalismDinyar Patel
2 ]
No One Writes to the ColonelGabriel Garcia Marquez
2 ]
NoiseDaniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony
2 ]
Of Gifted Voice: The Life and Art of MS SubbulakshmiKeshav Desiraju
2 ]
On HinduismWendy Doniger
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One Cut of the Dead
2 ]
One Foot on the GroundSHANTA. GOKHALE
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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of ImmigrationBryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith
2 ]
Order Without DesignAlain Bertaud
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Outliers: The Story of SuccessBookCaps Study Guides Staff
2 ]
Pakistan or the Partition of IndiaB. R. Ambedkar
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Paradise LostJohn Milton and Arthur Wilson Verity
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Parasite
2 ]
Patriots and PartisansRamachandra Guha
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Pictures on a PageHarold Evans
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PiercingRyū Murakami
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Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama from 1843 to the PresentShanta Gokhale
2 ]
Poems: 1962-2020Louise Glück
2 ]
Policy ParadoxDeborah Stone
2 ]
Policy Paradox - The Art of Political Decision MakingDeborah Stone
2 ]
Popcorn Essayists: What Movies do to WritersArjun Sigh Jai
2 ]
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony Judt
2 ]
Premchand’s Kazaki And Other Marvellous TalesMunshi Premchand
2 ]
Price of the Modi YearsAakar Patel
2 ]
Pundits from PakistanRahul Bhattacharya
2 ]
Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early AdulthoodSatya Doyle Byock
2 ]
Raag DarbariShrilal Shukla and Gillian Wright (Tr.)
2 ]
Raw Umber : A Memoir
2 ]
Reading Lolita in TehranAzar Nafisi
2 ]
Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New YorkerVed Mehta
2 ]
Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian EconomyMihir Sharma
2 ]
Roseanna
2 ]
SandmanNeil Gaiman and Sam Kieth
2 ]
SapiensYuval Noah Harari
2 ]
Sense and SensibilityJane Austen
2 ]
Seven Pillars of WisdomThomas Edward Lawrence
2 ]
ShameSalman Rushdie
2 ]
ShantaramGregory David Roberts
2 ]
Shoe DogPhil Knight
2 ]
Slow ProductivityCal Newport
2 ]
Smritichitre: The Memoirs of a Spirited WifeLakshmibai Tilak
2 ]
So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwell
2 ]
Some Prefer NettlesJun'ichirō Tanizaki
2 ]
South vs North: India’s Great DivideR.S. Nilakantan
2 ]
Speechless: What would you say if your life depended on it? A Pocket-Guide to Public SpeakingRoshan Abbas and Siddharth Banerjee
2 ]
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicDavid Quammen
2 ]
SPQR: A History of Ancient RomeMary Beard
2 ]
Strategy: A HistoryLawrence Freedman
2 ]
Strong MedicineRichard MacAndrew
2 ]
TawaifnamaSABA DEWAN
2 ]
Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi’s JourneySaran Sathya
2 ]
The Abyss and Other StoriesЛеонид Николаевич Андреев
2 ]
The Age of Pandemics
2 ]
The Age of UncertaintyJohn Kenneth Galbraith
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The AnarchyWilliam Dalrymple
2 ]
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and EmperorBabur and Wheeler M. Thackston
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The Blind WatchmakerRichard Dawkins
2 ]
The Botany of DesireMichael Pollan and Sébastien Marty
2 ]
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky
2 ]
The Chipko Movement: A People’s History
2 ]
The City & the CityChina Miéville
2 ]
The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
2 ]
The Country without a Post OfficeAgha Shahid Ali
2 ]
The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian BrahminManu Pillai
2 ]
The Covenant of WaterAbraham Verghese
2 ]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeMark Haddon
2 ]
The Dark Side of DemocracyMichael Mann
2 ]
The Diabetes CodeJason Fung
2 ]
The Dilemma of an Indian LiberalGurcharan Das
2 ]
The Elephant in the BrainKevin Simler and Robin Hanson
2 ]
The Elusive Quest for GrowthWilliam R. Easterly
2 ]
The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women’s Cricket in India
2 ]
The Flaming Feet and Other EssaysDoḍḍabaḷḷāpura Rāmayya Nāgarāj
2 ]
The Foundation Series
2 ]
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
2 ]
The Great Repression
2 ]
The Ground Beneath Her FeetSalman Rushdie
2 ]
The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community
2 ]
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
2 ]
The Hidden Life of Trees
2 ]
The History BoysAlan Bennett
2 ]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2 ]
The Hungry TideAmitav Ghosh
2 ]
The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky
2 ]
The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of A NationGranville Austin
2 ]
The Invention of ChinaBill Hayton
2 ]
The Lean StartupEric Ries
2 ]
The Lessons of HistoryWill Durant and Ariel Durant
2 ]
The MahabharataJean-Claude Carrière
2 ]
The Man Who Knew InfinityRobert Kanigel
2 ]
The Mirror and the Light
2 ]
The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better PeopleMichael Shermer
2 ]
The New Market WizardsJack D. Schwager
2 ]
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
2 ]
The omnibus volume of BR Nanda’s biographies
2 ]
The Paper MenagerieKen Liu
2 ]
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its TriumphAlbert O. Hirschman
2 ]
The Picador Book of CricketRamachandra Guha
2 ]
The Story of My Experiments With TruthMohandas Gandhi
2 ]
The StrangerHarlan Coben
2 ]
The Third PillarRaghuram G. Rajan
2 ]
The Thursday Murder ClubRichard Osman
2 ]
The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in IndiaDinesh Singh Thakur and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu
2 ]
The Wisden Book of Test Cricket (1877-1977)Bill Frindall
2 ]
The World of Hrishikesh MukherjeeJai Arjun Singh
2 ]
The World of YesterdayStefan Zweig
2 ]
The Worldly PhilosophersRobert L. Heilbroner
2 ]
These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian PoetryEunice de Souza
2 ]
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe
2 ]
This is Your Brain on MusicDaniel J. Levitin
2 ]
This Life At Play: MemoirsGirish Karnad
2 ]
Three Statesmen: Gokhale, Gandhi and NehruBal Ram Nanda
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Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in IndiaCraig Jeffrey
2 ]
Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein
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TrafficTom Vanderbilt
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Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
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Triumph of the CityEdward L. Glaeser
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Twitter and Tear GasZeynep Tufekci
2 ]
Ulysses
2 ]
Until AugustGabriel García Márquez
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Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977Abhishek Choudhary
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Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global AgeShruti Kapila
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WaldenHenry David Thoreau
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War Minus The ShootingMike Marqusee
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What the Economy Needs NowAbhijit Banerjee and Gita Gopinath
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When Crime PaysMilan Vaishnav
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When Genius FailedRoger Lowenstein
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Where India GoesDean Spears and Diane Coffey
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Why Loiter?Shilpa Phadke
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Why Read the Classics?Italo Calvino
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Zero to OnePeter A. Thiel and Blake Masters

Raised once

1,566 books, alphabetical. A single mention is a smaller claim than a book the show keeps returning to, so these are listed apart rather than ranked among them.

Reading guides

Written by hand rather than generated from show notes.

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Enchiridion Fifty three short sayings, compiled from the lectures of Epictetus. The whole school in one sitting.
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Meditations The private notebook of a Roman emperor, written in Greek in army camps, never meant to be read.
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Letters to Lucilius A hundred and twenty four letters from Seneca in retirement to a younger friend. The most readable book on the shelf.
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On the Shortness of Life A short essay to a busy man on why life is long enough if it is not wasted.
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Discourses Four surviving books of lecture notes from the classroom of Epictetus. Longer, rougher and funnier than the handbook.