1. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
3. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
4. Indian Summer: The Secret History Of The End Of An Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
6. Possession: A Romance  by A. S. Byat
7. The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman
8. The Great Mutiny: India 1857 by Christopher Hibbert
9. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
10. The Road to Oxiana  by Robert Byron
11. The Wild Places  by Robert Macfarlane
12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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About:​William Dalrymple (born 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a broadcaster and critic. His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński and the Wolfson Prizes. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival. Wikipedia
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