Chup: Breaking the Silence About India's Women
By: Deepa Narayan
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Fine Balance
By: Rohinton Mistry
4.37
Format: 603 pages, Paperback
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more
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- indian literature
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"Time had changed the magical to mundane"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"Marriage is like death, only happens once."-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
2. The Lowland
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.87
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a … read more
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"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
3. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
By: Robin S. Sharma
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step … read more
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- nonfiction
4. Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets
By: Shilpa Ranade , Shilpa Phadke , Sameera Khan
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
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- feminism
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5. Lady, You're Not a Man! : The Adventures of a Woman at Work
By: Apurva Purohit
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Todays woman wants to make a success of both family and career and is unwilling to compromise on ei… read more
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6. The Liberation of Sita
By: Volga
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, a triumphant king who will a… read more
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7. Moonlight Shadow
By: Giorgio Amitrano , Banana Yoshimoto
3.98
Format: 350 pages, ebook
C'e un giorno, un giorno soltanto, in cui in condizioni particolari e possibile rivedere i propri c… read more
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8. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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9. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
By: Chetan Bhagat
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In In… read more
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10. Seeing Like a Feminist
By: None
3.50
Format: 24 pages, ebook
THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS For Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final trium… read more
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11. Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
By: Sadhguru
3.86
Format: 256 pages,
The latest book, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, is published by Spiegel & Grau/Random Ho… read more
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12. One Indian Girl
By: Chetan Bhagat
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Hi, I'm Radhika Mehta and I'm getting married this week. I work at Goldman Sachs, an investment ban… read more
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13. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
By: Salman Rushdie , None
4.30
Format: 189 pages,
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushd… read more
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14. Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
By: Anonymous , A.C. Prabhupāda
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A translation of the short Sanskrit text with EXTENSIVE commentary from a Hare Krishna standpoint. read more
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16. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
17. Independence
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more
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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
18. Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
By: Haemin Sunim
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with al… read more
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- nonfiction
"You were rushing to lick honey off a razor’s edge."-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
"Ware vrijheid is vrij zijn van de angst om niet perfect te zijn"-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
"Our True self can never be lost, even for a single moment. Just like the present can never be lost- it is always here and now, wether or not we pay attention to it"-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
"Because I have experienced pain, I am able to embrace the pain of others. Because I have made mistakes, I am able to forgive others their mistakes. May my suffering become the seed of compassion"-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
19. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3.95
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more
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20. The Forest of Enchantments
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more
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- india
- indian literature
"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
21. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
22. The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.78
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary Afr… read more
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23. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
By: Huma Qureshi
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more
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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
24. Chup: Breaking the Silence About India's Women
By: Deepa Narayan
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Do you pride yourself on being a strong woman? Do you aspire to be one or support one? Do you consi… read more
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- indian literature
- india
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
25. Let's Talk Money
By: Monika Halan
4.44
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
We work hard to earn our money. But regardless of how much we earn, the money worry never goes away… read more
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26. Latitudes of Longing
By: Shubhangi Swarup
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more
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"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing
27. Zikora
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.27
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more
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"You can’t nice your way to being loved."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
28. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
By: Peggy Mohan
4.19
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if … read more
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"In a grandiose sweep that demolished history itself, Sanskrit was put forward as the ancestor of not just this brand new ‘Shuddh’ Hindi, but the ‘Mother of all languages’. We still find otherwise tho…"-Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
29. An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sudha Kulkarni was forging a career as TELCO’s first woman engineer when she met the serious, ideal… read more
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30. Aranyaka
By: Amruta Patil
4.03
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In the wilderness of humanity, In the forests of the mind, Who eats whom? Who sees whom? Aran… read more
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31. Mothering A Muslim
By: Nazia Erum
3.78
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be a middle-class Muslim kid in India today? Talking to over a hundred childre… read more
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