#compiling this made me realise how little non fic i read 😭

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Your non fiction book posts are always so sexy!! Do you have any recommendations for some preferably by South Asian writers?

Omg thank you! Honestly I rarely ever read nonfiction much less by south asian writers but here's some I've read or have in my tbr + other nonfiction I've loved:

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction, Arundhati Roy

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, Sunil Khilnani

In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh

City of Djinns: A Year In Delhi*, William Dalrymple

The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Minae Mizumura tr. Julia Winters Carpenter & Mari Yoshihara

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

Still Life with Oysters and Lemons: On Objects and Intimacy*, Mark Doty

Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins

A Field Guide to Getting Lost*, Rebecca Solnit

Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art, Kiki Karoglou

Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces, Wislawa Szymborska tr. Clare Cavanagh

In Praise of Shadows, Junichir Tanizaki tr. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker

The Lonely City, Olivia Laing