5 Best india books like Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed

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Tell Her Everything

By: Mirza Waheed

3.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed and award-winning novel, Tell Her Everything, is a heartbreaking, brilliant, and emot…

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Cover of Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto

1. Em and The Big Hoom

By: Jerry Pinto

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

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2. Nine Lives

By: William Dalrymple

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how tradit… read more

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3. Family Life

By: None

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

In Family Life, Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We … read more

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4. The Bastard of Istanbul

By: Elif Shafak

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more

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5. Island of a Thousand Mirrors

By: Nayomi Munaweera

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil … read more

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6. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

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  • fiction
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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8. Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Format: 739 pages, Paperback

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Anything worth doing transcends borders."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

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9. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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10. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. 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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  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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12. Daughters of Smoke and Fire

By: Ava Homa

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Kurdistan won’t be free until women are"

-Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

"It's dark comedy, the way tiny tyrants demand democracy."

-Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

"Some of the customers would ask me, “Why are Kurds so hated in Turkey and Iraq?"

-Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

"If I could pack my unhappiness into snowballs, I would throw them at these people."

-Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

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13. An Island

By: Karen Jennings

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Free Food for Millionaires

By: Min Jin Lee

3.85

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"This was her first time in such a place, and she decided she never wanted to stay anywhere else. Yet in her head, Casey envisioned a meter, like a taxi meter—clicking, clicking, clicking speedily ahe…"

-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

"Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying …"

-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

"Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person... Each ski…"

-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

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15. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

Cover of I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

16. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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17. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

18. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

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19. Late Bloomers

By: Deepa Varadarajan

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed

21. Tell Her Everything

By: Mirza Waheed

3.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed and award-winning novel, Tell Her Everything, is a heartbreaking, brilliant, and emot… read more

Similar categories in Mirza Waheed's Tell Her Everything book and Mirza Waheed's Tell Her Everything

  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

15 Top fiction books like Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed

Transform Your Habits

Em and The Big Hoom

Jerry Pinto

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Shutter

Ramona Emerson

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

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21 must-read fiction books like Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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