Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories
By: Muhammad Umar Memon
4.20
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Mantho were Urdu's most courageous and controversial writers in the …
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1. Kanthapura
By: Raja Rao
3.39
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typi… read more
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"Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"There is but one force in life and that is Truth, and there is but one love in life and that is love of mankind, and there is but one God in life and that is the God of all"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"O fire, O soul Give us the spark of God-eternal, That friend to friend and friend to foe, One shall we stand before HIM. And the flame of Jatin, And the fire of Bhagath, And the love of the Mahatma i…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
2. 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
3. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
4. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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5. Ladies Coupé
By: Anita Nair
4.62
Format: None pages,
Published in over seventeen countries around the world, Ladies Coup is 'one of the most important f… read more
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6. The English Teacher
By: R.K. Narayan
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work… read more
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8. Andha Yug
By: धर्मवीर भारती , Alok Bhalla
4.33
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
Andha Yug is one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediately after the parti… read more
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9. 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. 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
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-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
12. 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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13. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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14. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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15. The Shooting Star (Tintin, #10)
By: Hergé
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
A huge fireball comes hurtling towards Earth from space! Tintin sets sail with Captain Haddock to f… read more
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16. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more
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17. Arranged Marriage: Stories
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, … read more
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18. Bombay Stories
By: Saadat Hasan Manto , Matt Reeck , Aftab Ahmad
4.04
Format: 538 pages,
Bombay in the 1930s and 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the Subcontinent. B… read more
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19. Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories
By: Khushwant Singh , Amrita Pritam
4.50
Format: None pages,
Brought together in this volume are two of the most moving novels by one of India s greatest women … read more
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20. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
21. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
22. 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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23. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
24. Birthday Girl
By: Haruki Murakami
3.57
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if t… read more
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"She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put …"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really…"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
25. 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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26. Almond
By: Sohn Won-Pyung
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. … read more
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"We have to be tougher in this tough world."-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond
"Can the word "love" be thrown around so casually like that?"-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond
"I drifted off to sleep only at daybreak when the sky turned sapphire."-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond
"You're basically a blank canvas. Better to fill it up with good things rather than bad things."-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond
27. Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
By: Satyarth Nayak
4.44
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
Do you know the story where Brahma and Vishnu race against each other or where Shiva battles Krishn… read more
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"In every tale lies a profound teaching, reminding us of the timeless wisdom embedded within our cultural heritage."-Satyarth Nayak, Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
"Vijaya is victory over others. Jaya is victory over one's own self. One's own mind and heart, thoughts and actions. Vijaya is external but Jaya is internal and that's always the hardest."-Satyarth Nayak, Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
"I fear,' replied the mother of mankind. 'I fear now to beget the female race. If a father can endanger his own daughter, who shall keep them safe? Who shall heal them if everybody wounds them? ' He r…"-Satyarth Nayak, Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
28. Nala’s Damayanti
By: Anand Neelakantan
4.08
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
Brahma, the creator, wants to press the reset button and finish off the world. He is fed up with hu… read more
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29. Dopehri
By: Pankaj Kapur
3.98
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
Amma Bi is an elderly widow who lives alone in her deserted Lucknow haveli. Every afternoon, at pre… read more
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30. Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories
By: Muhammad Umar Memon
4.20
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Mantho were Urdu's most courageous and controversial writers in the … read more
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31. Tara: The Sati Series V | Mythological heroines from the Ramayan and Mahabharat reimagined through a feminist lens in this bestselling series
By: Koral Dasgupta
4.41
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
'Embedded within the epic saga of the Ramayan, Tara’s nuanced narrative is bathed in grace and empa… read more
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