Top 10 Books Of The Month | August [Editor’s Choice]

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Wandering the aisles of a library or scrolling through an online bookstore can be an overwhelming task, If you’re having trouble looking for a place to start, why not turn to new books by new authors?

There are certain books that have the capacity to captivate millions of readers due to their beautiful world-building, unforgettable characters, and universal themes.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Here are 10 books that you can definitely add to your reading list this month. 🙂

1. How Leaders Decide by Harjeet Khanduja

Organizations provide mind-boggling compensations to their leaders as compared to an average employee. Is it because they work more?

Just like the saying ‘we are the decisions we make’, the very existence of an organization depends on the decisions its leaders make! Decision-making is not just a process. It is an interplay among competitive strategies, processes, design, values, and culture. Narrating the experiences of industry decision-makers, the book demonstrates that organizational decision-making is about making tough choices—navigating through a minefield of biases and execution issues. It walks the readers Read More..

2. The Leadership Handbook by Bomi Doctor

There are several types of leaders, however essentially two variants, one who holds the designation of a leader and the other whose job demands leadership quality. You do not need to have a title to be a leader. A good leader is one who develops leaders under him. While a lot has been written on leadership few, if any, by an Indian who has worn out the soles of his shoes in the Indian corporate world?from field to desk to leadership.

This book defines authentic leadership in the context of today’s world. What makes this book a great handbook for a new manager or a seasoned one is its Power of Simplicity which rests on actual experiences drawn from the author’s own work life. Read More..

3. High on the Hills by Goutam Dutta

All roads do not lead to Rome! Some branch out, meander, ascend and wait to be explored by a traveler. A group of middle-aged friends, tired of the mundane, come together to explore the roads high in the hills of North Bengal on motorcycles. In their endeavor, they are spurred on by Balaji Devanathan, the Co-Founder of Red Panda adventures.

While riding through the hills is a challenge in itself, a bigger challenge lay in first convincing themselves that they could ride a motorcycle once again after twenty years. High on the Hills is as much about their journey to achieve self-confidence as about the breath-taking locales they discover, tucked away in Read More..

4. Billion Suns Rising by Aarathi Bellary

A trespasser enters her life slowly and sneakily, pushing her into a dark tunnel of emotions. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? She navigates through the tunnel and finds beauty, joy and hope in the tiniest of ordinary things. Embracing grief, finding inspiration from the Divine Universe and weaving words into poetry, she takes you through her journey. You can’t help but identify that it’s your journey too and together see a billion suns rising and witness glorious dawn. It is mystically sensual.

Billion suns rising is a poetry book & the author of this book is a physician with a strong passion for medicine and for healing people. She writes medical stories on her blog. Being Read More..

5. Bebakhshid by Dr. Shadab Ahmed

From the Love, Prayers, Devotion, Joy and Enigma to the
Laments, Qalandariyat, Sin, Exile and Debauchery of the Persian Qalandars and Mystics.

Selected translated English verses, quatrains, rubai, ghazals, masnawis and qasidehs of Saadi Shirazi, San’ai, Rudaki, Farrukhi Sistani, Mahsati, Baba Taher, Omar Khayyam, Amir Khusrau, Hafez, Jalal ud-din Md Rumi, Attar of Nishapur, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Nezami Ganjavi, Abd’l Rahman Jami, Nasir Khusraw, Saib of Tabriz and several Persian masters and Qalandars – spanning eras, courts, dilapidated wine houses, prisons and millennials compiled into a single Richly-Illustrated Book, from a variety of sources.

6. Corporate Eagle by Madhukant Acharya

Mohan Dutt never shied away from competition and climbed the corporate ladder from a Management Trainee to the Chairman’s position in a short span of 2 decades and built up a conglomerate with a scorching pace of growth unknown to the industry at the time.

He always believed that performance took precedence over adverse circumstances, principles mattered more than personalities and corruption was a choice and not a compulsion for succeeding in business. He understood perfectly well that he could achieve his goals only if he delegated well. Cindy Brown, his close confidante, collaborated in all his global plans Read More..

7. What Song Unsung O My Daughter by Kr. Fateh Singh Jasol

“A japa mala of an ordinary life, 108 beads woven around a thread of thoughtful awareness of the creator and all creatures great and small”

This is the third, enlarged, edition of a collection of poems celebrating epiphanic moments that illumined the author’s life. Readers have greatly liked the previous editions for their simple, straightforward, giving impulse to share the ordinary day-to-day things that made up the kaleidoscope of an obviously much-cherished life journey, for its sensitive sublimation of an individual experience to more universally shared humanity. The collection stands out for its portrayal of nature and Read More..

8. Ancient Wisdom for New Age Entrepreneurs by Tanmay Kuchhal

Ancient Wisdom for New Age Entrepreneurs is an interactive workbook that aims to inspire young entrepreneurs and aid them in their endeavor to embark on their own start-up. The book relevantly extracts entrepreneurial lessons from the life and experiences of pioneers from history, like Ismat Chughtai, Akbar, Dhirubhai Ambani, and many more. Each chapter demonstrates one important virtue essential to business and is followed by exercises that help engage the reader’s mind.

The author of this book is a student at the Doon School, Dehradun. He’s passionate about Economics and History and hopes to shape the world of business through both lenses.

9. The Power Of Infinity by Anupkumar Shetty

This semi-autobiography has been used to explain the science and logistics of living a cancer-free life. A sincere attempt has been made to bridge secular and spiritual life, the science of cancer, and the science of wellness.

This book conveys different ways to beat cancer and prevent cancer by systematically attacking the cancer cells with an anti-cancer lifestyle. The book has five sections. The first and the fifth sections summarize the book for a busy reader. The second section is on fighting cancer as the last game of your life by comparing this battle to world cup finals of any sport you like by diligent, unfailing team building and intelligent, blissful Read More..

10. Mindful Wealth by Mustafa Mun

Mindful Wealth aims for a shift in our thinking. It talks about the subject of how we should perceive money, how we need to talk about it to attract more of it in our lives, and how to live with gratitude so we are blessed with more than what we already have.

The author of this book is a clinical psychologist from Mumbai, who is passionate about writing and understanding human behavior.

He has a natural inclination for writing and has developed it as a hobby along with managing his family business of manufacturing perfumes and cosmetics and clinical research. Read More..

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