18 must-read india books like The Anger of Saintly Men by Anubha Yadav

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The Anger of Saintly Men

By: Anubha Yadav

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Anger of Saintly Men is the story of three brothers, Sonu, Anu and Vicky, growing up in the 90s…

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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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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
"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

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2. After Dark

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more

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  • fiction
"With luck, it might even snow for us."

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Is it against the law for me to know it?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

3. Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

By: U.R. Ananthamurthy , A.K. Ramanujan

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has r… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
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4. A Case of Exploding Mangoes

By: Mohammed Hanif

4.06

Format: 360 pages,

Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. The Adivasi Will Not Dance

By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

4.08

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU PRIZE 2016 In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich… read more

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8. The Vegetarian

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.00

Format: 204 pages,

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more

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9. Independence

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

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10. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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11. China Room

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."

-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room

"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"

-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room

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12. 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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  • india
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13. A Burning

By: Megha Majumdar

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three … read more

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  • india
  • fiction
"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."

-Megha Majumdar, A Burning

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14. Kaikeyi

By: Vaishnavi Patel

4.19

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more

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  • fiction
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."

-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

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15. Homeland Elegies

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Eleg… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya

16. 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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  • feminism
  • india
  • indian literature
"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

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17. Age of Vice

By: Deepti Kapoor

3.61

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that … read more

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  • fiction
"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."

-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

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18. The Fast and the Dead (ACP Bhavani Singh, #2)

By: Anuja Chauhan

3.72

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

All of Habba Galli, Shivajinagar, is disturbed when eccentric Dondi Pais empties her double-barrell… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Love Marriage

By: Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
Cover of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

20. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • feminism
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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21. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

By: Huma Qureshi

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more

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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

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22. Tell Me How to Be

By: Neel Patel

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more

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  • fiction
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."

-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be

"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."

-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be

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23. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

By: Aravind Jayan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more

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  • india
  • fiction
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24. ആദം | Aadam

By: S. Hareesh

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

This ebook is from DC Books, the leading publisher of books in Malayalam. DC Books' catalog primari… read more

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  • fiction
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25. My Father's Garden

By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

3.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019 Spanning half a life, My Father’s Garden tell… read more

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26. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
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27. Run and Hide

By: Pankaj Mishra

3.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigiou… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
Cover of What We Carry: A Memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang

28. What We Carry: A Memoir

By: Maya Shanbhag Lang

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice … read more

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  • feminism
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29. One Small Voice

By: Santanu Bhattacharya

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terr… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
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30. The Anger of Saintly Men

By: Anubha Yadav

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Anger of Saintly Men is the story of three brothers, Sonu, Anu and Vicky, growing up in the 90s… read more

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31. Stars from the Borderless Sea

By: Shalini Mullick

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

What is true love? Who are soulmates? Can love be defined by the constructs of society and conventi… read more

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23 Top fiction books like The Anger of Saintly Men by Anubha Yadav

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Blue

Jerry Pinto , Sachin Kundalkar

3.96

Transform Your Habits

After Dark

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

U.R. Ananthamurthy , A.K. Ramanujan

4.10

Transform Your Habits

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

4.06

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21 Top fiction books like Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Transform Your Habits

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Independence

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Everlasting Things

Aanchal Malhotra

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)

Alka Joshi

4.16

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