Being Reshma: The Extraordinary Story of an Acid-Attack Survivor who Took the World by Storm
By: Reshma Qureshi
4.56
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
On 19 May 2014, as seventeen-year-old Reshma Qureshi left home for the examination centre, wearing …
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1. The Namesake
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more
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3. 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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4. And the Mountains Echoed
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.07
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Par… read more
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"Who rebels with mathematics?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
5. The Forty Rules of Love
By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی
4.12
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more
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"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
6. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
7. അല്-അറേബ്യന് നോവല് ഫാക്ടറി | Al-Arabian Novel Factory
By: Benyamin
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A twin novel surprise from Benyamin! 'Al Arabian Novel Factory' and 'Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal'… read more
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8. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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10. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
By: Adam Kay
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more
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"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
11. Think Like a Monk
By: Jay Shetty
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wis… read more
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- memoir
"When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time."-Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk
12. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
By: Nadia Murad
4.47
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more
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"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
13. Yolk
By: Mary H.K. Choi
3.96
Format: 400 pages, None
From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two e… read more
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"Marriages are the original tiny cult."-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk
"It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family."-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk
"People aren't abandoning you just because they go."-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk
"It's easier to watch myself be sad than actually FEEL SAD."-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk
14. 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
15. The Deadly Dozen: India's Most Notorious Serial Killers
By: Anirban Bhattacharya
3.98
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A schoolteacher who killed multiple paramours with cyanide; a mother who trained her daughters to k… read more
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16. Aa Maratheyum Marannu Marannu Njan: And Slowly Forgetting That Tree …
By: K.R. Meera
3.76
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The powerful memory of a former love rules Radhika's inner world as she builds a small-time practic… read more
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17. Being Reshma: The Extraordinary Story of an Acid-Attack Survivor who Took the World by Storm
By: Reshma Qureshi
4.56
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
On 19 May 2014, as seventeen-year-old Reshma Qureshi left home for the examination centre, wearing … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
