6 best-selling asia books like The East Indian by Brinda Charry

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The East Indian

By: Brinda Charry

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian s…

"The dead, simply by passing into death, somehow become innocent of all charges; it is we, the living, who bear the burden of guilt. [Tony]"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

"I wondered: dies any man ever fully know any woman? He thinks he does--she is the girl living down the lane, the girl fetching water from the communal well, the girl who speaks in accents familiar, and suddenly one day, he finds out that she has been a stranger all along, a dreamer of dreams he never suspected, a poet of verses better than his, or a more effective physician, or a saint, ultimately unavailable to him or any man. [Tony]"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

If you liked the asia plot in The East Indian by Brinda Charry , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

1. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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4. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's The Trackers book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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5. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

Similar categories in Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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7. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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11. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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13. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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14. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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15. The Lost Wife

By: Susanna Moore

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Moore's The Lost Wife book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

3.87

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The East Indian

By: Brinda Charry

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian s… read more

Similar categories in Brinda Charry's The East Indian book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • asia
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The dead, simply by passing into death, somehow become innocent of all charges; it is we, the living, who bear the burden of guilt. [Tony]"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

"I wondered: dies any man ever fully know any woman? He thinks he does--she is the girl living down the lane, the girl fetching water from the communal well, the girl who speaks in accents familiar, a…"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

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18. The Apology

By: Jimin Han

3.47

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more

Similar categories in Jimin Han's The Apology book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

Cover of Loot by Tania James

20. Loot

By: Tania James

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more

Similar categories in Tania James's Loot book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."

-Tania James, Loot

Cover of Courting Dragons (King's Fool Mystery, #1) by Jeri Westerson

21. Courting Dragons (King's Fool Mystery, #1)

By: Jeri Westerson

3.69

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Introducing Will Somers, the king's jester but nobody's fool in this exuberant, intriguing and thor… read more

Similar categories in Jeri Westerson's Courting Dragons (King's Fool Mystery, #1) book and Brinda Charry's The East Indian

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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