So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
By: Vivek Tejuja
3.39
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The year was 1991. Vivek was eight. He realized he was gay. Only he didn't: he just figured that he…
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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. Dr. Faustus
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.80
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more
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"Hell is just a frame of mind."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Be silent then, for danger is in words."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
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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- indian literature
- india
"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. Istanbul: Memories and the City
By: Orhan Pamuk
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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5. 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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6. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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- india
"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
9. 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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10. Dollar Bahu
By: Sudha Murty
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another and how it can almost tear a famil… read more
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11. Mahashweta
By: Sudha Murty
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Anupama looked into the mirror and shivered with shock. A small white patch had now appeared on her… read more
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12. Kari
By: Amruta Patil
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
They were inseparable - until the day they jumped. Ruth, saved by safety nets, leaves the city. Kar… read more
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13. Mightier Than the Sword (The Clifton Chronicles, #5)
By: Jeffrey Archer
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find … read more
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15. The Underground Girls of Kabul
By: Jenny Nordberg
3.95
Format: None pages,
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what… read more
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16. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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17. 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
18. Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
By: Thibaut Meurisse
4.01
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
Reclaim your focus in 48 hours or less. Do you keep procrastinating? Do you feel restless and un… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By: Da’Shaun Harrison
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more
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- queer
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"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
20. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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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. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
23. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
By: Baek Se-hee
3.28
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more
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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
24. The Henna Wars
By: Adiba Jaigirdar
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls … read more
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""-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"Nishat can be anything she wants to be, exept herself."-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"It’s not something that happens, Ammu. It’s something I am."-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?"-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
25. The Girl in Room 105
By: Chetan Bhagat
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Hi, I’m Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful … read more
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"When the heart breaks, the part of the brain that stores data on past dates works perfectly."-Chetan Bhagat, The Girl in Room 105
"Crying dads and slapping moms are a routine part of how Indian kids are hammered into shape and manipulated to give up on things they really want"-Chetan Bhagat, The Girl in Room 105
26. 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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- india
- indian literature
- nonfiction
"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
27. The Day I Became a Runner: A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport
By: Sohini Chattopadhyay
4.45
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
The Day I Became a Runner starts from a striking premise-that, since running is a solitary activity… read more
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28. The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
By: Arundhati Roy
4.33
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine… read more
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- nonfiction
"Gandhi actually said everything and it's opposite. To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree."-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
"The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power. The battle of the poor and the powerless …"-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
"In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most dalits lived and worked, in order to slide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistr…"-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
29. How to live your life
By: Ruskin Bond
4.32
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
It's a letter with advice ... it's Ruskin Bond's definition of Life! Be whatever you want to be... … read more
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30. Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
By: Rajiv Mohabir
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing Finalist for the 2022 PEN Open… read more
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"I'd never thought of writing as a gift, but a skill and a bravery that you have after refusing to burn up in flame. It was an act against death."-Rajiv Mohabir, Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
31. So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
By: Vivek Tejuja
3.39
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The year was 1991. Vivek was eight. He realized he was gay. Only he didn't: he just figured that he… read more
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