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…
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1. Cobalt Blue
By: Jerry Pinto , Sachin Kundalkar
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sachin Kundalkar started on his first novel at 20 and finished it when he was 22. The novel was Cob… read more
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- lgbt
- indian literature
- india
- fiction
- queer
"Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks."-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue
"I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things."-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue
"I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies."-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue
"I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies."-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue
2. 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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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
"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
3. Ms Ice Sandwich
By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai
3.78
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
4. Narcopolis
By: Jeet Thayil
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful you… read more
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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
5. Anandamath
By: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay , Basanta Koomar Roy
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- indian literature
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6. Palestine
By: None , Joe Sacco
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more
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7. Funny Boy
By: Shyam Selvadurai
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny b… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
8. Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
By: U.R. Ananthamurthy , A.K. Ramanujan
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has r… read more
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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
9. 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
10. The Arrival
By: Shaun Tan
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more
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11. 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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12. The Adivasi Will Not Dance
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
4.08
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU PRIZE 2016 In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich… read more
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13. Pigs Have Wings (Blandings Castle, #8)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Lord Emsworth's quick-witted brother must stop the portly Sir Gregory Parsloe's plan to slim down E… read more
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14. 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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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
15. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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- indian literature
- india
16. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
- lgbt
"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
17. 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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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
18. 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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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
19. The Daughters of Madurai
By: Rajasree Variyar
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the s… read more
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20. 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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- feminism
- womens
- india
- indian literature
"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
21. Why I am a Hindu
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one … read more
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"Who knows whence this creation had its origin? He, whether He fashioned it or whether He did not, He, who surveys it all from the highest heaven, He knows—or maybe even He does not know. — Rig Veda, …"-Shashi Tharoor, Why I am a Hindu
22. 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
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- lgbt
"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
23. 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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- short stories
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24. The Education of Yuri
By: Jerry Pinto
4.13
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more
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25. 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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26. Qabar
By: K.R. Meera
3.95
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
As the foundations are laid for a temple to rise on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, voices ris… read more
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27. Good Girls
By: Leesa Gazi
3.72
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
In this richly unnerving tale about family secrets and expectations, two sisters are at lifelong od… read more
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28. 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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- anthologies
- indian literature
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- india
- fiction
- womens
- queer
29. 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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30. Bhaunri
By: Anukrti Upadhyay
4.03
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Can too much love be a dangerous thing? Bhaunri is married, as is the custom in her tribe of nomadi… read more
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31. Murder at the Mushaira
By: Raza Mir
4.22
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
3 May 1857. India stands on the brink of war. Everywhere in its cities, towns, and villages, rebels… read more
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