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Amartya Sen's Reading List

“If I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out ‘King Lear,’” says the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, whose forthcoming memoir is “Home in the World.” “Sympathy and solidarity are qualities that people do need.”

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By the Book: Amartya Sen (2022)

NYT By the Book column (2022-01-06).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Mricchakatika
Shudraka · Buy on Amazon
"The most interesting reading in the cluster is the third-century Indian writer Shudraka's revolutionary play Mricchakatika — a moving story of tyrannical rule, which is ultimately overthrown by a popular uprising."
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
Sylvana Tomaselli · Buy on Amazon
"Such a splendid achievement that it is not very difficult to call it great."
King Lear
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"If I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out King Lear. Sympathy and solidarity are qualities that people do need."
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde · Buy on Amazon
"Suraj Yengde's recent book on the devastating effects of the severe practice of caste distinctions in some parts of India has made us appreciate more fully how pernicious this type of inequality is."
Cover of Evicted
Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016 · Buy on Amazon
"On the terrible problem of homelessness, it would be absorbing to read Matthew Desmond's definitive book, Evicted."
A Local History of Global Capital
Tariq Omar Ali · Buy on Amazon
"A wonderfully interesting book — and a very easy read — written by a hugely talented young Bangladeshi writer. I recommend it strongly."
Cover of Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie · Buy on Amazon
"When one is a little bored, nothing may revive one as much as an Agatha Christie or two. If not Hercule Poirot's Christmas, perhaps Murder on the Orient Express."
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · Buy on Amazon
"When one is a little bored, nothing may revive one as much as an Agatha Christie or two. If not Hercule Poirot's Christmas, perhaps Murder on the Orient Express."

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