India’s chief economic advisor Dr Arvind Subramanian's top 10 books

Dr Arvind Subramanian, who recently delivered the third annual Literature Live! Independence Lecture in Mumbai, on his favourite non-academic reading.



1. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, 1904.



2. Giusepe de Lampedusa, The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, 1958.



3. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, 1997.



4. Philip Gourevitch, “Alms Dealers: Can you provide humanitarian aid without facilitating conflicts?” The New Yorker, 2010



5. Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It, 1948.



6. Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat, 1983.



7. Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future, 2010.



8. VS Naipaul, The Writer and The World: Essays, 2003

9. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the twenty first century, 2014

10. Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation, 2006.