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This question is mainly for folks working at T1s as from what I've read on LI, these are the people with most working hours of any lawyers.
[And if you do read non-law books, no matter where you work, please share any recent books you've read you would recommend, both fiction and non-fiction]
TL;DR - There are better books out there. The hype around Shantaram is about the quotable quotes that people like to pretend are more philosophical than they actually are.
at some places pure imagination of an author. In fact ,it tell us about the different shades of human being from the perspective of the life of rules breaker. The beauty of the book is ,in spite of such a life ,he showed some literally class and narrated it beautifully. In fact ,this book is more popular with the outsiders ,who want to peep into the dark world of Mumbai at that time .
If you like modern history Gandhi Before India and India after Gandhi are another two gem by Guha. If you read these immediately after reading Freedom at Midnight, you can compare and contrast how racist white authors are no matter how critically acclaimed they may be.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/People/Faculty-and-teachers/Roy/Professor-Tirthankar-Roy
Dr Chinmay Tumbe is one of the few shining lights of Indian academia, young chap too. His latest, The Age of Pandemics is a must read. Read it side by side with his brilliant paper entitled Quote: which can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/chinmaytumbe/home/research
Dr Timothy Dyson of the LSE released his brilliant yet most readable, Quote: OUP 2019.
Vivek Kaul has a great series of books on the NPAs and the India's government post 1947. Very good books from what I hear though I haven't read them yet.
If it's European history that you prefer, then a good read is Dr Peter Wilson's Quote: Or Sir Richard J Evan's book on Prussia The Iron Kingdom.