S Prasannarajan
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World | PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age | A Dictator Calls | Victory City | The Year of the Locust
The majority of this year’s list of bests comprises quieter books, those which arrived with less fanfare and left a lasting impression
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | Amit Chaudhuri | David Davidar | Ira Mukhoti | Aatish Taseer | Arundhati Subramaniam | KR Meera | TCA Raghavan | Tridip Suhrud | Tishani Doshi | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Mini Kapoor
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Sunil Khilnani | William Dalrymple | Jeet Thayil | Shashi Tharoor | TCA Raghavan | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | Ira Mukhoty | Mahesh Rao | Dipankar Gupta | Srinath Raghavan | Tabish Khair | Tishani Doshi | Anita Nair
I Saw Him Die | A Will to Kill | Shed No Tears | V2 | Midnight Atlanta
Sixteen Stormy Days | France before 1789 | The Revolution that Failed | Trade Wars Are Class Wars | The World Imagined
The Hidden Hand | The Story of China | The Ratline |Agent Sonya | The Habsburgs | The Nine Lives of Pakistan
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Red Pill | Vesper Flights