Diwali in Muzaffarnagar
By: Tanuj Solanki
4.14
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2019 Muzaffarnagar, the infamous north Indian town t…
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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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"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
2. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
3. 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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"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
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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"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. In Custody
By: Anita Desai
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custodyis woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small t… read more
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6. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher
4.16
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more
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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
7. ഗോവർധന്റെ യാത്രകൾ | Govardhante Yathrakal
By: Anand
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. 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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9. Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
By: Rahul Pandita
3.43
Format: 375 pages,
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along… read more
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10. 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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11. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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12. 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
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"[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
13. Murder in Mahim
By: Jerry Pinto
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young man is found dead in the toilet of Matunga Road station, his stomach ripped open. Retired j… read more
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14. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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15. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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16. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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17. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
18. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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19. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
20. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
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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"-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
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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"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. 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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"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice
24. History's Angel
By: Anjum Hasan
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The story of a middle-aged man in contemporary India discovering that neither his life nor his coun… read more
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25. 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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26. The Education of Yuri
By: Jerry Pinto
4.13
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more
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27. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
By: Aravind Jayan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more
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28. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
By: Jayant Kaikini
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here… read more
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29. Jasmine Days
By: Benyamin
3.95
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
WINNER of the JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2018 Sameera Parvin moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern ci… read more
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"Honest is my policy. That's in fact my problem."-Benyamin, Jasmine Days
"Some silences are more meaningful than thousands of long sentences."-Benyamin, Jasmine Days
"The best way to express gratitude is to recognize the sorrows of other people."-Benyamin, Jasmine Days
"It's best to be alone when you are sad. I wanted to be myself and feel my strength slowly seeping back into me."-Benyamin, Jasmine Days
30. Diwali in Muzaffarnagar
By: Tanuj Solanki
4.14
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2019 Muzaffarnagar, the infamous north Indian town t… read more
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31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
