The Dream Builders
By: Oindrila Mukherjee
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Good Morning America and PureWow Best Book of January A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year A…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I would have done anything to have your life. That was why I was able to let you go even though it felt like one of my limbs was being torn from me when you left. So that you might experience all the things I could not."-Oindrila Mukherjee, The Dream Builders
"I would have done anything to have your life. That was why I was able to let you go even though it felt like one of my limbs was being torn from me when you left. So that you might experience all the things I could not."-Oindrila Mukherjee, The Dream Builders
"I would have done anything to have your life. That was why I was able to let you go even though it felt like one of my limbs was being torn from me when you left. So that you might experience all the things I could not."-Oindrila Mukherjee, The Dream Builders
"I would have done anything to have your life. That was why I was able to let you go even though it felt like one of my limbs was being torn from me when you left. So that you might experience all the things I could not."-Oindrila Mukherjee, The Dream Builders
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1. 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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- literary fiction
- asia
- india
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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
2. The Museum of Failures
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.13
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more
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- cultural
- literary fiction
- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
3. The Book of Everlasting Things
By: Aanchal Malhotra
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more
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- adult fiction
- cultural
- asia
- india
- fiction
- audiobook
4. Our Best Intentions
By: Vibhuti Jain
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigat… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
5. 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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- asia
- india
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
6. Paper Names
By: Susie Luo
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Repetition. That was my father’s philosophy on learning. It applied not only to the piano, but my studies too. Before every test, he made me write out every single word from the textbook chapter, twi…"-Susie Luo, Paper Names
7. Age of Vice
By: Deepti Kapoor
3.61
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that … read more
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- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice
8. The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
9. Late Bloomers
By: Deepa Varadarajan
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
10. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
11. The Sea Elephants
By: Shastri Akella
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a you… read more
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- asia
- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
"He sat down on the porch, chuckling, and I wanted to be that sound in his throat, to be that decibel that corresponded so precisely to his pleasure."-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
"Once upon a time, the gods took away the first ancestor of the sea elephants, coveting him for his exceptional beauty— tusks blue, body ivory. The trauma of that original separation haunts every sea …"-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
"Time...is a rocking horse. When Krishna was a child, he pulled its ear, released it, and walked away, laughing. It creaked, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Noisy nonstop. We worship K…"-Shastri Akella, The Sea Elephants
12. King of the Armadillos
By: Wendy Chin-Tanner
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s Ne… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
13. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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- cultural
- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
14. Decent People
By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. The Parted Earth
By: Anjali Enjeti
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In August 1947, 16-year-old Deepa’s life in New Delhi begins to unravel in the days leading up to t… read more
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- cultural
- literary fiction
- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
16. The Kudzu Queen
By: Mimi Herman
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Funny, sad, and tender… Mimi Herman has written a novel that possesses a true and hard won underst… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
18. Ghost Season
By: Fatin Abbas
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
19. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
20. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- asia
- audiobook
21. The Dream Builders
By: Oindrila Mukherjee
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Good Morning America and PureWow Best Book of January A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year A… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- cultural
- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- audiobook
"I would have done anything to have your life. That was why I was able to let you go even though it felt like one of my limbs was being torn from me when you left. So that you might experience all the…"-Oindrila Mukherjee, The Dream Builders
