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Shashi Tharoor Recommended Books
Shashi Tharoor has recommended 6 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual.
(Read more on Wikipedia)6 Books Recommended
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The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
"A profound vision of what has made India and Nehru." - Shashi Tharoor (Source)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Extraordinary, magical reinvention of the Latin-American experience." - Shashi Tharoor (Source)
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"As steamy, dense and sensual as the jungle that surrounds the surreal town of Macondo!" - Oprah Winfrey
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"If you’ve never written a book and you’re going to tell somebody you want to write a great book, [...] read this and know what a great book is." - Cal Fussman
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"Epic." - Christopher Hitchens
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- Fred Wilson
"Another amazing book that made me see things differently." - Fred Wilson
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"I think it’s glorious." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera
"A moving, evocative experience of East European history, informed by a rare insight into humanity." - Shashi Tharoor (Source)
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"A tremendous work." - Tim Ferriss
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Swimmer Among the Stars Stories
by Kanishk Tharoor
"A wonderful collection of stories that break conventions of time&space, evoking w/insight & compassion our old&new worlds." - Shashi Tharoor (Source)
"Remarkable book." - Shashi Tharoor (Source)
"One of the funniest of Wodehouse’s well-crafted masterpieces." - Shashi Tharoor (Source)
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