11 best-selling india books like Paper Moon by Rehana Munir

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Paper Moon

By: Rehana Munir

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

BOOKS. BOMBAY. ROMANCE. When her estranged father passes away, Fiza, fresh out of college, discover…

If you liked the india plot in Paper Moon by Rehana Munir , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Cobalt Blue by Jerry Pinto, Sachin Kundalkar

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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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

"Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?"

-Jerry Pinto, Cobalt Blue

Cover of English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee, None

2. English, August: An Indian Story

By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None

3.78

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

Cover of City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple, Olivia Fraser

3. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser

4.12

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

Cover of Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto

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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  • 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

Cover of House of Cards by Sudha Murty

5. House of Cards

By: Sudha Murty

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Mridula is a young and enthusiastic woman who hails from a village in Karnataka. She meets Sanjay, … read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond

6. 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
  • india
  • fiction

7. In Other Words

By: Jhumpa Lahiri , Ann Goldstein

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut In Other Word… read more

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8. The Mistress of Spices

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spicesis the story of Tilo, a young woman born i… read more

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Cover of More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) by Satoshi Yagisawa

9. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Snug: A Collection of Comics about Dating Your Best Friend by Catana Chetwynd

10. Snug: A Collection of Comics about Dating Your Best Friend

By: Catana Chetwynd

4.38

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Why bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book o… read more

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  • romance
  • contemporary
Cover of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1) by Satoshi Yagisawa

11. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.65

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

Cover of A Bookshop In Algiers by Kaouther Adimi

12. A Bookshop In Algiers

By: Kaouther Adimi

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'If you're in a bookshop browsing, then A Bookshop In Algiers is for you, by definition. A beautifu… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Acts of God

By: Kanan Gill

3.92

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more

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  • indian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale

14. 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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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

15. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of सखाराम बाईंडर [Sakharam Binder] by Vijay Tendulkar

16. सखाराम बाईंडर [Sakharam Binder]

By: Vijay Tendulkar

3.88

Format: None pages, None

विजय तेंडुलकरांचे 'सखाराम बाईंडर' रंगमंचावर आले १९७२मध्ये आणि त्याच वर्षात समीक्षक, कथित अश्लीलमार्तंड या… read more

Similar categories in Vijay Tendulkar's सखाराम बाईंडर [Sakharam Binder] book and Rehana Munir's Paper Moon

  • india
Cover of Fool Me Twice by Nona Uppal

17. Fool Me Twice

By: Nona Uppal

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Since school, Sana has been the popular girl with excellent grades, beloved by both teachers and pa… read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • fiction
"I know people hate the romance genre in general, for its predictability, but that's precisely why I love it. Isn't there enough uncertainty in life to seek it in cinema too? For me, there's something…"

-Nona Uppal, Fool Me Twice

Cover of Paper Moon by Rehana Munir

18. Paper Moon

By: Rehana Munir

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

BOOKS. BOMBAY. ROMANCE. When her estranged father passes away, Fiza, fresh out of college, discover… read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Lallan Sweets by Srishti Chaudhary

19. Lallan Sweets

By: Srishti Chaudhary

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Family Drama(40 percent), Love Story( 30 percent), Heart Warming( 100 percent) It is 1995. Tara … read more

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  • romance
  • india
  • fiction
Cover of Once Upon A Curfew by Srishti Chaudhary

20. Once Upon A Curfew

By: Srishti Chaudhary

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It is 1974. Indu has inherited a flat from her grandmother and wants to turn it into a library for … read more

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  • romance
  • indian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Koi Good News? by Zarreen Khan

21. Koi Good News?

By: Zarreen Khan

3.99

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

The hilarious private journal of a highly public pregnancy. When Mona Mathur of Dehradun married… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary

16 Top fiction books like Paper Moon by Rehana Munir

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Blue

Jerry Pinto , Sachin Kundalkar

3.96

Transform Your Habits

English, August: An Indian Story

Upamanyu Chatterjee , None

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Em and The Big Hoom

Jerry Pinto

4.19

Transform Your Habits

House of Cards

Sudha Murty

3.87

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20 best-selling fiction books like More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) by Satoshi Yagisawa

Transform Your Habits

Sweet Bean Paste

Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Transform Your Habits

La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom

Kim Ho-yeon

4.04

Transform Your Habits

DallerGut Dream Department Store

Lee Mi-ye

3.79

Transform Your Habits

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

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