The Black Hill
By: Mamang Dai
3.90
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the action takes place in the Northeast—the region that spreads …
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1. The Translation of Dr Apelles: A Love Story
By: David Treuer
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
He realizes he has discovered a document that could change his life forever. Dr Apelles, Native … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
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
- india
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- historical fiction
"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
3. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.28
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-ki… read more
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- historical
- india
4. 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
- india
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"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
5. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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- literary fiction
- india
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- historical fiction
6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. The Edible Woman
By: Margaret Atwood
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiance… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
8. Indian Horse
By: Richard Wagamese
4.42
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
9. Cracking India
By: Bapsi Sidhwa
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child… read more
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- historical
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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- fiction
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
11. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
12. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
13. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more
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14. The Recognition of Śakuntalā
By: Kālidāsa , W.J. Johnson
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work… read more
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15. Shark Dialogues
By: Kiana Davenport
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Spellbinding in its imagery and ancient myths, Shark Dialogues is the stunningly sensual and vision… read more
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16. Potiki
By: Patricia Grace
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more
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17. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
By: Thomas King
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist … read more
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18. The Island of Missing Trees
By: Elif Shafak
4.15
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the B… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, And to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories ..."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
19. You Have Arrived at Your Destination
By: Amor Towles
3.49
Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition
Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of th… read more
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- fiction
20. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
4.04
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when th… read more
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- fiction
"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"What were you before you met me?" "I think I was drowning" "And what are you now?" "Water"-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
21. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
22. 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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- india
"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
23. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
24. The Best Girls
By: Min Jin Lee
3.95
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
25. Becoming Me
By: Rejina Marandi
3.32
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A novel about Liya, a young Santal, Is a Regular girl from an Adivasi village in Assam, with regula… read more
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26. The Black Hill
By: Mamang Dai
3.90
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the action takes place in the Northeast—the region that spreads … read more
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27. Name Place Animal Thing
By: Daribha Lyndem
3.96
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Set in politically charged Shillong, this interconnected collection of stories speaks of the coming… read more
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- india
- fiction
28. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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- fiction
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
29. Don't Run, My Love
By: Easterine Kire
3.68
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
Atuonuo lives with her widowed mother Visuenuo in Kija, an ancient village of the Angamis. Their li… read more
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- fiction
30. Zorami
By: Malsawmi Jacob
3.80
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Jacob's debut novel that discusses a rich Mizo lore, where the story is set in the insurgency years… read more
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31. The Real Mr. Barkotoki
By: Shisir Basumatari
3.27
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A young man is troubled by recurring dreams of visiting a mysterious Munin Barkotoki, ‘a God-fearin… read more
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