6 must-read fiction books like The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen

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The Rape of Sita

By: Lindsey Collen

3.75

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Banned within hours of publication in her native Mauritius for enraging fundamentalists, Lindsey Co…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Eve out of Her Ruins by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Jeffrey Zuckerman, Ananda Devi

1. Eve out of Her Ruins

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Jeffrey Zuckerman , Ananda Devi

4.00

Format: 10 pages,

"Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice."--Le Figaro With brutal … read more

Similar categories in J.M.G. Le Clézio's Eve out of Her Ruins book and Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita

  • africa
  • mauritius
  • fiction
  • novels

2. The Power

By: Naomi Alderman

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

In The Powerthe world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the fam… read more

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3. Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-A… read more

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4. Paradise

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more

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5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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  • fiction
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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7. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • fiction
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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8. Three Daughters of Eve

By: Elif Shafak

3.82

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside man… read more

Similar categories in Elif Shafak's Three Daughters of Eve book and Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita

  • feminism
  • novels
  • fiction
"How women could be expected to keep their heads down and simultaneously have their eyes open in all directions was beyond Peri."

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

"«Dov’è che ti senti a casa?» domandò Peri. «A casa?» Shirin fece una smorfia sprezzante. «Ti svelo una regola universale: casa è dove sta tua nonna.»"

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

"I think God comes in many pieces and colors. I can build a peaceful God, all-loving. Or I can build an angry God, punishing. Or maybe I'll build nothing. God is a Lego set."

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

"Believers favour answers over questions, clarity over uncertainty. Athiests, more or less the same. Funny, when it comes to God, Whom we know next to nothing about, very few of us actually say, 'I do…"

-Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

Cover of The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen

9. The Rape of Sita

By: Lindsey Collen

3.75

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Banned within hours of publication in her native Mauritius for enraging fundamentalists, Lindsey Co… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita book and Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita

  • africa
  • feminism
  • mauritius
  • fiction
  • womens
  • novels

21 Best fiction books like Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

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Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Mona Awad

3.56

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