18 must-read fiction books like Malgudi Schooldays by R.K. Narayan

Cover of Malgudi Schooldays by R.K. Narayan

Malgudi Schooldays

By: R.K. Narayan

4.21

Format: None pages, None

None

If you liked the fiction plot in Malgudi Schooldays by R.K. Narayan , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

1. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

By: Art Spiegelman

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more

Similar categories in Art Spiegelman's Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Cover of The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon, Vytautas Liūtas

2. The Doomsday Conspiracy

By: Sidney Sheldon , Vytautas Liūtas

3.66

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

OPERATION DOOMSDAY ... ACTIVE ...  Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatch… read more

Similar categories in Sidney Sheldon's The Doomsday Conspiracy book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
"I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept."

-Sidney Sheldon, The Doomsday Conspiracy

Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

3. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

Similar categories in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of Tales of Fosterganj by Ruskin Bond

4. Tales of Fosterganj

By: Ruskin Bond

4.31

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

New novel by one of Indias most beloved storytellers. Set in a fictional suburb on the outskirts o… read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's Tales of Fosterganj book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
Cover of And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer

5. And Thereby Hangs a Tale

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.73

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins … read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Archer's And Thereby Hangs a Tale book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
Cover of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) by Agatha Christie

6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's greatest, and also most controversial mysteries, 'The Mur… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
"In fact-Dr. Sheppard!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

"What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

"Beware of the blind—the blind—the little street that has no end to it."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

"The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Cover of How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories by Sudha Murty

7. How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories

By: Sudha Murty

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Sudha Murty's How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams  Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma

8. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

By: Robin S. Sharma

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step … read more

Similar categories in Robin S. Sharma's The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of Roads To Mussoorie by Ruskin Bond

9. Roads To Mussoorie

By: Ruskin Bond

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

Roads to Mussoorie is a memorable evocation of a writer's surroundings and the role they have playe… read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's Roads To Mussoorie book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat

10. The 3 Mistakes of My Life

By: Chetan Bhagat

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accomodate his… read more

Similar categories in Chetan Bhagat's The 3 Mistakes of My Life book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
Cover of The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond

11. The Room on the Roof

By: Ruskin Bond

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The Room on the Roof is Ruskin Bond's masterpiece of adolescence and coming of age. Written when th… read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's The Room on the Roof book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi

12. Chanakya's Chant

By: Ashwin Sanghi

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his bel… read more

Similar categories in Ashwin Sanghi's Chanakya's Chant book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
Cover of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

13. The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more

Similar categories in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
"This is pity,"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Cover of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

14. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made … read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill

15. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Cover of At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11) by Agatha Christie

16. At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up … read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11) book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling, Hermione Granger

17. The Tales of Beedle the Bard

By: J.K. Rowling , Hermione Granger

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the b… read more

Similar categories in J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
Cover of A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

18. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a finan… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat

19. Five Point Someone

By: Chetan Bhagat

3.29

Format: 80 pages,

Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable to cope. The book starts wi… read more

Similar categories in Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction

20. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

By: Chetan Bhagat

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In In… read more

Similar categories in Chetan Bhagat's 2 States: The Story of My Marriage book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of Gulliver’s Travels by Louis Rhead, Jonathan Swift, William Dean Howells, Robert DeMaria Jr.

21. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

Similar categories in Louis Rhead's Gulliver’s Travels book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

22. Death Under the Deodars

By: Ruskin Bond

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's Death Under the Deodars book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, None

23. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

24. Brida

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been inte… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Jull Costa's Brida book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

25. A Flight Of Pigeons

By: Ruskin Bond

3.42

Format: 8 pages,

A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond The Novel starts with the death of the father of Ruth Labadoor i… read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's A Flight Of Pigeons book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

26. Rusty, the Boy from the Hills

By: Ruskin Bond

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Unknown Binding

For several decades now, Ruskin's novel about Rusty an anglo-indian boy growing up in pre-independe… read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's Rusty, the Boy from the Hills book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

27. The Devotion of Suspect X

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husb… read more

Similar categories in Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

28. The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By: Mahatma Gandhi

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more

Similar categories in Mahatma Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments With Truth book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

Cover of The Magic Of The Lost Story by Sudha Murty

29. The Magic Of The Lost Story

By: Sudha Murty

4.34

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

After staying in the lockdown for over a year, Nooni is now visiting her Ajja-Ajji in Somanahalli. … read more

Similar categories in Sudha Murty's The Magic Of The Lost Story book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • fiction
Cover of Malgudi Schooldays by R.K. Narayan

30. Malgudi Schooldays

By: R.K. Narayan

4.21

Format: None pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure (Illustrated, boyhood memoir series from Ruskin Bond) by Ruskin Bond

31. Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure (Illustrated, boyhood memoir series from Ruskin Bond)

By: Ruskin Bond

4.39

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

'I followed my heart instead of my head. It is something I have done all my life.' Shortly before … read more

Similar categories in Ruskin Bond's Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure (Illustrated, boyhood memoir series from Ruskin Bond) book and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Schooldays

10 Best classics books like Malgudi Schooldays by R.K. Narayan

Transform Your Habits

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Agatha Christie

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Room on the Roof

Ruskin Bond

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

View all the books

6 Best fiction books like At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11) by Agatha Christie

Transform Your Habits

At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)

Agatha Christie

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Spider's Web

Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

Susan Rowland

4.33

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.