6 Top science fiction books like When The Moon Shines By Day by Nayantara Sahgal

Cover of When The Moon Shines By Day by Nayantara Sahgal

When The Moon Shines By Day

By: Nayantara Sahgal

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

India has changed. Rehana finds her father’s books on medieval history have been ‘disappeared’ from…

If you liked the science fiction plot in When The Moon Shines By Day by Nayantara Sahgal , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

1. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Leila: A Novel by Prayaag Akbar

3. Leila: A Novel

By: Prayaag Akbar

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

In a digitized city, sometime in the near future, as an obsession with purity escalates, walls come… read more

Similar categories in Prayaag Akbar's Leila: A Novel book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • indian literature
  • dystopia
  • india
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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4. Mahasweta Devi Best Stories

By: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Mahasweta Devi

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

*Translated and introduced by Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak* As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak points out … read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
Cover of Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

5. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

6. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • fiction
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7. Harvest

By: Manjula Padmanabhan

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • indian literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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8. Malice

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night … read more

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  • fiction

9. Binti (Binti, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more

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10. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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11. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • politics
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

12. Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more

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13. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • fiction
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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14. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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  • fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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15. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

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16. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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17. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • adult
  • fiction
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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18. Permanent Record

By: Edward Snowden

4.30

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill… read more

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  • politics
"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

Cover of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

19. 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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  • politics
"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

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20. H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars

By: Kunal Purohit

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

" Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the g… read more

Similar categories in Kunal Purohit's H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • politics
  • india
Cover of When The Moon Shines By Day by Nayantara Sahgal

21. When The Moon Shines By Day

By: Nayantara Sahgal

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

India has changed. Rehana finds her father’s books on medieval history have been ‘disappeared’ from… read more

Similar categories in Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day book and Nayantara Sahgal's When The Moon Shines By Day

  • politics
  • indian literature
  • dystopia
  • india
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult

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3.59

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Travis Baldree

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