19 best-selling fiction books like One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya

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One Small Voice

By: Santanu Bhattacharya

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terr…

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1. Narcopolis

By: Jeet Thayil

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful you… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

2. Pyre

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

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3. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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4. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • novels
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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6. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
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7. A Spell of Good Things

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

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8. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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9. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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10. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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11. Disobedient

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I'll show you what a woman can do . . . Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumpt… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

Cover of Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by A.P. Firdaus

13. Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By: A.P. Firdaus

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic… read more

Similar categories in A.P. Firdaus's Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick book and Santanu Bhattacharya's One Small Voice

  • india
  • fiction
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14. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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15. A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

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16. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • novels
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17. Chronicle of an Hour and a Half

By: Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

4.30

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

A COMPELLINGLY IMAGINED, TIGHT-PACED STORY OF SPIRALLING RUMOURS AND MASS HYSTERIA. In the foot… read more

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  • india
Cover of One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya

18. One Small Voice

By: Santanu Bhattacharya

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
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19. Women Dreaming

By: Salma

3.55

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

What a life! She didn’t like being here, and she didn’t like going there. Mehar dreams of freedo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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21. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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4.10

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Michael Magee

4.06

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4.13

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3.79

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4.06

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4.53

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