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2021 list

  1. My Gita(Ditched), Devdutt pattnaik
  2. Recursion, Blake Crouch
  3. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Calo Roveli
  4. Queeristan
  5. Brave new world, Aldous Huxley
  6. Satyajit Ray stories
  7. The Dalai Lama's Cat, David Michie
  8. The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom
  9. The Seven deaths of Evelyn HardCastle, Stuart Tarton
  10. The Magic Of Reality , Richard Dawkins
  11. The difficulty of Being Good, Gurcharan Das
  12. Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  13. My Life in Full, Indra Nooyi
  14. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
  15. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro 
  16. Dune(Ditched)

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