Arjun Srivastava's Library

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'.Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.The full inside story of the breathtaking r...

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
Roberto Bolaño and Ignacio Echevarria and Natasha Wimmer
The essays of Roberto Bolano in English at last. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tols...

How to Win an Indian Election: What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
Shivam Shankar Singh
What role do political consultants play in election campaigns? How are political parties using technological tools such as data analytics, surveys and alternative media to construct effective, micro-targeted campaigns? How does the use of money impa...

Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prolo...

Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
"What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itself retains the power to move and enlighten."—Denn...