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A Fortune-Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani

Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani -- a vastly experienced …

Consciousness by Susan J. Blackmore

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban …

The White Album by Joan Didion

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Narcopolis is the debut novel of Indian author Jeet Thayil, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. It …

Better to Have Gone by Akash Kapur

It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is …

India Becoming by Akash Kapur

"A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives. The son of …

Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign by Pico Iyer

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a …

The Overstory by Richard L. Powers

The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' …

Low Life by Luc Sante

Manhattan transfer by John Dos Passos

Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban …

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster, Gerd Ulmer, Friderike Ulmer

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster