Amma
By: Perumal Murugan
4.24
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Perumal Murugan’s tender yet truthful essays capture the life of a strong, independent and extraord…
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1. Of Love and Other Demons
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more
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"<>, dijo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Do not allow me to forget you"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
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2. ಆವರಣ [Aavarana]
By: S.L. Bhyrappa
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Aavarana (Kannada: aavrnn) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. A… read more
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3. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
By: Giulia Enders , Jill Enders
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A cheeky up-close and personal guide to the secrets and science of our digestive system. For too lo… read more
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- nonfiction
4. 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
By: Sanjaya Baru
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
P. V. Narasimha Rao (or PV as he was popularly known) has been widely praised for enabling the econ… read more
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5. The Company of Women
By: Khushwant Singh
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Recently Separated From His Nagging, Ill-Tempered Wife Of Thirteen Years, Millionaire Businessman M… read more
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- india
6. 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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7. The Glass Palace
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more
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8. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more
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10. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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11. 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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12. The Illicit Happiness of Other People
By: Manu Joseph
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being "the last of the real men." T… read more
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13. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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14. 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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15. Lajja: Shame
By: Taslima Nasrin , None
3.00
Format: None pages,
The Duttas - Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya - have lived in Bangla… read more
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16. The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE SAHITYA AKADEMI YUVA PURASKAR 2015 IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOINT WINNER OF MUSE INDIA… read more
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17. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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18. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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19. The Gentleman From Peru
By: André Aciman
3.56
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more
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20. 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
21. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
22. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
23. Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2)
By: Harini Nagendra
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murt… read more
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24. 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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"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
25. The Living Mountain
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.86
Format: 35 pages, Hardcover
In my dream I was a young girl, growing up in a valley that was home to a cluster of warring villag… read more
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26. Black River
By: Nilanjana Roy
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the village of Teetarpur, a few hours from the capital city of Delhi, Chand’s peaceful life is s… read more
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27. H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
By: Kunal Purohit
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
" Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the g… read more
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28. Best of Faiz
By: Kuldip Salil
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
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29. A History of British India
By: Hayden J. Bellenoit
3.98
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 11 mins No era is more pertinent to understanding how present-day India, Pakistan, and … read more
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30. Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey
By: K. Hariharan
3.62
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
In many ways, Kamal Haasan is unique. One of the greatest actors India has ever produced, he has us… read more
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31. Amma
By: Perumal Murugan
4.24
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Perumal Murugan’s tender yet truthful essays capture the life of a strong, independent and extraord… read more
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