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Author: Moni Mohsin
Publisher: Random House Publications
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978818400053
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The Diary of a Social Butterfly is the story of Butterfly, a maudlin, affable and glitzy socialite who lives in Pakistan and is constantly in search of get-togethers worth applying her socialising skills to.

Author:Alex Grecian
Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reprint Edition
Year: 2013
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In his mystery novel The Yard, Grecian sets out to create a compelling successor to Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer of them all. Does he succeed?

Author: Rana Dasgupta
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2005
ISBN: 9780007263028
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Tokyo Cancelled, Rana Dasgupta’s debut book, is a collection of thirteen short stories that passengers stranded at an airport tell each other to pass the night.

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year: 2007
ISBN: 9780007272358
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Set in the country of Nigeria, Purple Hibiscus tells the story of fifteen year old girl Kambili caught in a world of absolute authority and tyranny where freedom of speech is punished and deplored.

Author: Rabisankar Bal
Publisher: Random House Publications
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9788184006155
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“If you get irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” – Rumi

Author: Mohsin Hamid
Publisher: Penguin Group
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780143423997
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Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London is a splendid collection of articles and essays by the best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid.

Author: Abhinav Pandey
Publisher: Grapevine India Publishers Ltd.
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789381841419
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9 Don’ts To Success is a book that highlights 9 traits that other self-help books insist that people avoid if they have to succeed. These negative traits are linked to snippets dealing with people’s experiences.

Author: Kimberly McCreight
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789382277132
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I picked this book after I saw that it made it to the ‘Goodreads Choice of Mystery and Thriller’. But come on people, you can’t be this misleading! Definitely not one of the classy, mystery thrillers of recent times, this book still manages to keep you occupied till the end.

Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9781846558245
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This book will leave a significant imprint on matters of religion, race and languages. The author’s assertion on spirituality is debatable, but worth reading.

Author: Ravi Subramanian
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780143421399
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Touted as the world’s first Bitcoin thriller, GIAG is a big letdown given the potentially promising platform it is set upon.