Maximum City

Maximum City

By
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta
2004 • 595 pages

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87 books

The Best Travel Books of All Time by Condé Nast

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Along the Ganges
Among the Cities
Arabian Sands
An Area of Darkness
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286 books

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Broken Bangles
Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon, a Journey Into Bhutan
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554 books

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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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12 books

Indian

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A Fine Balance
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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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132 books

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441 books

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The America's Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Become a Great Cook
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
The Intelligent Investor
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Hacking The Art Of Exploitation
Autobiography of a yogi
The Annotated Turing

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332 books

Travel

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Geisha, a Life
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Nonfiction

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98 books

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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

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17 books

Favourites

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Seeing Like a State
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Sacred Games
Sea of Poppies
Lush Life
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
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Travel

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City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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2,154 books

Non Fiction

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Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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346 books

India

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Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Losing Gemma
Sea of Poppies
The Vine Of Desire
Travels Through Sacred India

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347 books

History

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The Life and Times of William I
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The Broken Road
Between the Woods and the Water

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16 books

India

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A History of India, Vol. 1
Plain Tales from the Raj
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
The Age of Kali
Family Matters
A Fine Balance

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34 books

India

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A Passage to India
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Iconic 70 Indian Books

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The Valmiki Ramayana: Set of 3 Volumes
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