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This section deals with the books related to the different topics like Religion, History, War, Science etc.

Table of contents

  1. Art
  2. History
  3. Travel
  4. Politics
  5. Biography
  6. Autobiography
  7. Religion
  8. Psychology

Art

  • The Forger’s Spell – Edward Dolnick
  • The Story of Art – E.H. Gombrich
  • PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives – Frank Warren
  • Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings – Rainer Metzger
  • The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait – Frida Kahlo
  • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain – Oliver Shacks

History

  • Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany – William L. Shirer
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
  • Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever – Bill O’Reilly
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War – Karen Abbott
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman
  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman – Robert K. Massie
  • The Guns of August – Barbara W. Tuchman
  • The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl – Timothy Egan
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West – Dee Brown
  • SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women – Kate Moore
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
  • The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection – Tamim Ansary
  • The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide – Gary J. Bass
  • The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44 – Rick Atkinson
  • The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 – Rick Atkinson
  • The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between – Michael Dobbs
  • Year Zero: A History of 1945 – Ian Buruma

Travel

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer
  • Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Politics

  • Fascism: A Warning – Madeleine K. Albright
  • Prisoners of Geography – Tim Marshall
  • The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
  • Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick
  • The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx

Biography

  • Alan Turing: The Enigma – Andrew Hodges
  • Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
  • Churchill: A Life – Martin Gilbert
  • Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
  • Mao: The Unknown Story – *Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
  • Radioactive – Lauren Redness
  • Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
  • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy – Charles R. Morris
  • War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey – Nigel Hamilton
  • Mozart: A Life – Peter Gay
  • Beyond the Last Blue Mountain – R. M. Lala
  • Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar – Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War – Robert Coram
  • Edison: A Biography – Matthew Josephson
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of The Genius Ramanujan – Robert Kanigel
  • Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan – Shrabani Basu
  • Gandhi Before India – Ramachandra Guha
  • Titan: The Life of John. D. Rockefeller Sr. – Ron Chernow

Autobiography

  • Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Waiting for a Visa – B. R. Ambedkar
  • Wings of Fire – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
  • Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi
  • The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • Autobiography of Mark Twain – Mark Twain
  • Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler
  • Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Religion

  • The Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis
  • The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
  • Through Gates of Splendor – Elisabeth Elliot
  • The Bhagavad Gita – Eknath Easwaran
  • The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion – Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask
  • No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam – Reza Aslan
  • The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
  • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason – Sam Harris
  • Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects – Bertrand Russell
  • A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Karen Armstrong
  • Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology – Leah Remini
  • Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris
  • Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer

Psychology

  • This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology – Christian Jarrett and Joannah Ginsburg
  • Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind – Nancy Kline
  • 50 Philosophy Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning – Tom Butler-Bowdon
  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Personality - WHAT MAKES YOU THE WAY YOU ARE – Daniel Nettle
  • Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • Incognito - The Secret Lives of the Brain – David Eagleman
  • Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
  • The Scattering – Kimberly McCreight
  • Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
  • Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – Richard H. Thaller & Cass S. Sunstein
  • Patient H.M – Luke Dittrich
  • Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
  • Sex at Dawn - The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality – Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha
  • The Courage To Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
  • The Gift Of Fear – Gavin De Becker
  • The Invisible Gorilla – Christopher Chabris
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat – Oliver Sacks
  • The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind – Barbra K. Lipska
  • The Paradox Of Choice - Why More Is Less – Barry Shwartz
  • The Science of Evil - On Empathy And The Origins of Cruelty – Simon Baron-Cohen
  • The Social Animal – David Brooks
  • The Tell - The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are – Matthew Hertentstein
  • The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Trouble With Testosterone - And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Being – Robert M. Sapolsky
  • The Upside of Stress - Why Stress Is Good For You, And To Get Good At It – Kelly McGonigal
  • The Language Instinct - How The Mind Creates Language – Steven Pinker
  • The Undoing Project - A Friendship that Changed Our Minds – Michael Lewis
  • Why People Die By Suicide – Thomas Joiner
  • Phantoms in the Brain – VS Ramachandran
  • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcer – Robert M. Sapolsky
  • You Are Not So Smart – David McRaney
  • You Are Now Less Dumb – David McRaney

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