8 must-read fiction books like Heart Breaks Free: The Wild One (Two Novellas) by Ismat Chughtai

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Heart Breaks Free: The Wild One (Two Novellas)

By: Ismat Chughtai

3.95

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

'Gloriously provocative...fearless in her writing and acute about female sexuality in a way we stil…

If you liked the fiction plot in Heart Breaks Free: The Wild One (Two Novellas) by Ismat Chughtai , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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2. What the Buddha Taught

By: Walpola Rahula , None

4.18

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more

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"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."

-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

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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

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4. 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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5. Eleven Minutes

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven Minutesis the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent br… read more

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6. मित्रो मरजानी / Mitro Marjani

By: कृष्णा सोबती

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

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7. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more

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8. 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

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9. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

By: Perumal Murugan

4.11

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more

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Cover of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt

10. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

By: Yashica Dutt

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more

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"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

Cover of Heart Breaks Free: The Wild One (Two Novellas) by Ismat Chughtai

11. Heart Breaks Free: The Wild One (Two Novellas)

By: Ismat Chughtai

3.95

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

'Gloriously provocative...fearless in her writing and acute about female sexuality in a way we stil… read more

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17 Top fiction books like The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Kavita Kané

3.88

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Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People

Anand Neelakantan

3.70

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The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3)

Amish Tripathi

3.84

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Sita: Warrior of Mithila (RamChandra, #2)

Amish Tripathi

3.54

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