15 Top fiction books like Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale

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Milk Teeth

By: Amrita Mahale

3.78

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Childhood allies Ira Kamat and Kartik Kini meet on the terrace of their building in Matunga, Mumbai…

"Salt makes grey, salt makes red. Salt heals, slowly."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

"Salt makes grey, salt makes red. Salt heals, slowly."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

"Stories are the flesh and blood, the link between past and present."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

"Stories are the flesh and blood, the link between past and present."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

If you liked the fiction plot in Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The House That BJ Built (Those Pricey Thakur Girls, #2) by Anuja Chauhan

1. The House That BJ Built (Those Pricey Thakur Girls, #2)

By: Anuja Chauhan

3.62

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

I'll make my sisters squirm like well-salted earthworms. I won't sell. Even my jutti wont sell. And… read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. One Part Woman

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together."

-பெருமாள் முருகன், One Part Woman

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3. Em and The Big Hoom

By: Jerry Pinto

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

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4. The Zoya Factor

By: Anuja Chauhan

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition can be found . When the younger players in India's cricket team find out t… read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The 3 Mistakes of My Life

By: Chetan Bhagat

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accomodate his… read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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6. Battle For Bittora

By: Anuja Chauhan

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy … read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction

8. Mrs Funnybones

By: Twinkle Khanna

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Good morning, it's 6 a.m. and I am wide awake because the man of the house has decided that he need… read more

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9. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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10. Train to Pakistan

By: Khushwant Singh

3.85

Format: 128 pages,

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11. The Illicit Happiness of Other People

By: Manu Joseph

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being "the last of the real men." T… read more

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12. Those Pricey Thakur Girls

By: Anuja Chauhan

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In a sprawling bungalow on New Delhi's posh Hailey Road, Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife … read more

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13. Sakina’s Kiss

By: Vivek Shanbhag

3.81

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • drama
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14. 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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  • indian literature
  • adult
  • india
  • fiction
"-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

Cover of Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan

15. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

By: Perumal Murugan

4.11

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya

16. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

By: Shrayana Bhattacharya

4.29

Format: 384 pages, None

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • contemporary
"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

Cover of Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale

17. Milk Teeth

By: Amrita Mahale

3.78

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Childhood allies Ira Kamat and Kartik Kini meet on the terrace of their building in Matunga, Mumbai… read more

Similar categories in Amrita Mahale's Milk Teeth book and Amrita Mahale's Milk Teeth

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • drama
"Salt makes grey, salt makes red. Salt heals, slowly."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

"Stories are the flesh and blood, the link between past and present."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

"Learning its mythology was one of many paths to calling a city home."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

"It will be okay, you will be okay. They call this the spirit of Bombay."

-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

Cover of Bombay Balchao by Jane Borges

18. Bombay Balchao

By: Jane Borges

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, th… read more

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  • indian literature
  • drama
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors by Aravind Jayan

19. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

By: Aravind Jayan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories by Nisha Susan

20. The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories

By: Nisha Susan

3.49

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

A classical musician finds a prince in a chat room. Three dancers in Kochi mastermind their sex liv… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

13 must-read contemporary books like Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale

Transform Your Habits

The House That BJ Built (Those Pricey Thakur Girls, #2)

Anuja Chauhan

3.62

Transform Your Habits

One Part Woman

பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Em and The Big Hoom

Jerry Pinto

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Zoya Factor

Anuja Chauhan

3.94

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Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

Kavita Kané

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People

Anand Neelakantan

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3)

Amish Tripathi

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Sita: Warrior of Mithila (RamChandra, #2)

Amish Tripathi

3.54

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