11 must-read mythology books like The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna by Sudha Murty

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The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna

By: Sudha Murty

4.30

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Did you know there was a time when bears spoke, the moon laughed and babies were found inside fish?…

If you liked the mythology plot in The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna by Sudha Murty , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)

By: Jeff Kinney

4.17

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"hope your birthday is hot hot hot"

-Jeff Kinney, Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)

"hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!!"

-Jeff Kinney, Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)

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2. The Brilliant World of Tom Gates (Tom Gates, #1)

By: Liz Pichon

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Tom Gates is the master of excuses for late dog attacks; spilt water; and, lightning. Tom's exercis… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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3. Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #8)

By: Jeff Kinney

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Greg Heffley and his family and friends are back in Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8, the latest install… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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4. The Gita For Children

By: Roopa Pai , Sayan Mukherjee

4.50

Format: 532 pages,

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  • indian literature
  • mythology
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5. Getting Granny's Glasses

By: Ruskin Bond

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Mani's Granny is seventy and can barely see through her old, scratched glasses. With only a hundred… read more

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  • short stories
  • childrens
  • fiction
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6. The Room on the Roof

By: Ruskin Bond

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The Room on the Roof is Ruskin Bond's masterpiece of adolescence and coming of age. Written when th… read more

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  • indian literature
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)

By: Amish Tripathi

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of t… read more

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  • indian literature
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Girl Who Knew Too Much: What if the Loved One You Lost Were to Come Back?

By: Vikrant Khanna

3.97

Format: 250 pages,

Can true love bring someone back from the dead? Akshara is left devastated by her mother's death an… read more

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  • indian literature
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Phantom Of The Subway (Geronimo Stilton, #13)

By: Geronimo Stilton , None , None , None

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Quins misteris amaga el gat gegant que es passeja per les fosques galeries subterranies, espantant … read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction

10. The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #7)

By: Jeff Kinney

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love is in the air - but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's mi… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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11. Pashu

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • childrens
  • mythology
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12. Swami and Friends

By: R.K. Narayan , Madhukar Dharmapurikar

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and… read more

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  • indian literature
  • short stories
  • childrens
  • fiction
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13. The Blue Umbrella

By: Ruskin Bond

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'… read more

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  • indian literature
  • short stories
  • childrens
  • fiction
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14. Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2)

By: Jeff Kinney

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 NEW YORK TIMESbestselling book! Secrets have a way of getti… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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15. 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
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Chihiro Iwasaki, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Dorothy Britton

16. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

By: Chihiro Iwasaki , Tetsuko Kuroyanagi , Dorothy Britton

4.39

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World W… read more

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  • childrens
"سوساکو کوبایاشی: «همه شما یکی هستید، می‌دانید؟ هر کاری که بکنید در این دنیا همه با هم هستید!»"

-Chihiro Iwasaki, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

"[…] this headmaster asked parents to include in their children’s lunch boxes “something from the ocean and something from the hills."

-Chihiro Iwasaki, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

"Little did the children realize then that these walks - a time of freedom and play for them - were in reality precious lessons in science, history and biology."

-Chihiro Iwasaki, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

"مدیر مدرسه می‌گفت از داشتن چشم اما ندیدن زیبایی، داشتن گوش اما نشنیدن موسیقی، داشتن عقل اما آگاه نشدن از حقیقت، داشتن قلبی که هرگز نتپیده پس هرگز نسوخته، باید ترسید."

-Chihiro Iwasaki, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

17. The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #3)

By: Jeff Kinney

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that t… read more

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18. The Long Haul (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #9)

By: Jeff Kinney

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you're the Heffleys. The… read more

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19. Excellent Excuses [and Other Good Stuff] (Tom Gates, #2)

By: Liz Pichon

3.97

Format: 328 pages,

No school for two whole weeks leaves Tom with heaps of time for the important things in life. Yeah!… read more

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20. War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.65

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH. BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE? INDIA, 3400 BCE. Greed. Rage.… read more

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  • hinduism
  • indian literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish."

-Amish Tripathi, War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

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21. 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
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • 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

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22. The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

By: Amish Tripathi

4.10

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga wa… read more

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  • indian literature
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want"

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

"Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk."

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

"The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person."

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

"I don’t believe anything till I’ve seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn’t matter whether the theory is true or not."

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

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23. The Hidden Hindu

By: Akshat Gupta

3.92

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Prithvi, a cryptic 21-year-old who remembers incidents from before his birth, is in pursuit of a my… read more

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  • hinduism
  • indian literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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24. The Hidden Hindu 2

By: Akshat Gupta

4.14

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

The first battle is lost. The book of Mritsanjeevani is in the wrong hands but Nagendra's plans are… read more

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  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • hinduism
  • fiction
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25. The Hidden Hindu 3

By: Akshat Gupta

4.11

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Who is Nagendra or Om? Parimal and LSD struggle to trust each other while Nagendra is resurrected … read more

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  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • hinduism
  • fiction
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26. The Girl in Room 105

By: Chetan Bhagat

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hi, I’m Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful … read more

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  • indian literature
  • fiction
"When the heart breaks, the part of the brain that stores data on past dates works perfectly."

-Chetan Bhagat, The Girl in Room 105

"Crying dads and slapping moms are a routine part of how Indian kids are hammered into shape and manipulated to give up on things they really want"

-Chetan Bhagat, The Girl in Room 105

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27. One Arranged Murder

By: Chetan Bhagat

3.65

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Keshav has set up an investigation agency with his best friend, Saurabh. Can the two amateur detect… read more

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  • indian literature
  • fiction
"Blood is thicker than water. Or lassi. Or whatever."

-Chetan Bhagat, One Arranged Murder

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28. That Night

By: Nidhi Upadhyay

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN INNOCENT PRANK GOES HORRIBLY WRONG? Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine we… read more

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  • indian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel by Ashish Bagrecha

29. Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

By: Ashish Bagrecha

3.85

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

I don’t know much about you, but I do know how you feel. You are feeling lost, lonely and misunders… read more

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"Forgiveness is not forgetting what they have done to you. Forgiveness is acknowledgement. Acknowledgement that they hurt you, whether intentionally or by design, and that you had no control over thei…"

-Ashish Bagrecha, Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

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30. The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna

By: Sudha Murty

4.30

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Did you know there was a time when bears spoke, the moon laughed and babies were found inside fish?… read more

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  • childrens
  • anthologies
  • indian literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • hinduism
  • mythology
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31. 400 Days

By: Chetan Bhagat

3.84

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

12-year-old Siya has been missing nine months. It’s a cold case, but Keshav wants to help her mothe… read more

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  • fiction

24 must-read fiction books like The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales about Rama and Krishna by Sudha Murty

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Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)

Jeff Kinney

4.17

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Liz Pichon

4.20

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Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #8)

Jeff Kinney

4.27

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Getting Granny's Glasses

Ruskin Bond

4.12

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The Rozabal Line

Ashwin Sanghi , Shawn Haigins

3.36

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

Amish Tripathi

3.84

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Sita: Warrior of Mithila (RamChandra, #2)

Amish Tripathi

3.54

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Ashwin Sanghi

3.66

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