13 Best india books like Hurda by Atharva Pandit

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Hurda

By: Atharva Pandit

3.66

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Valentine's Day 2013 Murwani, a village in Maharashtra Three sisters-Anisha, Sanchita and Priya…

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1. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser

4.12

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more

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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

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2. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

3. 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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4. Curfewed Night

By: Basharat Peer

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. read more

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5. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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6. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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8. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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9. 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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10. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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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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  • fiction
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12. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

By: Perumal Murugan

4.11

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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14. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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15. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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16. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

By: Elif Shafak

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We fee… read more

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"Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti život."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

"Do not be afraid of complexity. Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

"Uskraćivanjem spremnosti da saslušamo druge osiguravamo da se i oni osjećaju kao da ih nitko ne čuje. I krug se nastavlja, i sa svakim okretajem sve se više pogoršava."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

"Onog trenutka kad prestanemo slušati mišljenja koja se razlikuju od naših, prestajemo i učiti. Jer istina je da od jednakog i jednoličnog ne učimo baš mnogo. Obično učimo iz razlika."

-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

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17. Acts of God

By: Kanan Gill

3.92

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • fiction
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19. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

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"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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20. 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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21. Manjhi's Mayhem

By: Tanuj Solanki

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023 Introducing Sewaram Manjhi in this explosive no… read more

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  • india
  • fiction
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22. 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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23. सखाराम बाईंडर [Sakharam Binder]

By: Vijay Tendulkar

3.88

Format: None pages, None

विजय तेंडुलकरांचे 'सखाराम बाईंडर' रंगमंचावर आले १९७२मध्ये आणि त्याच वर्षात समीक्षक, कथित अश्लीलमार्तंड या… read more

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24. Chronicle of an Hour and a Half

By: Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

4.30

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

A COMPELLINGLY IMAGINED, TIGHT-PACED STORY OF SPIRALLING RUMOURS AND MASS HYSTERIA. In the foot… read more

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25. Quarterlife

By: Devika Rege

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

India’s literary novel of the year—an enthralling, award-winning debut from a “blazingly original v… read more

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"Now he gets the value of the everyday stuff in the Peshwa museums. What is the culture of a place or people other than this - how we lived and how we died? What is an identity butt an accretion of al…"

-Devika Rege, Quarterlife

"Chitra Kaki's gestures are a result of ritual, house pride and belonging, all of which precede love, and this thought makes his joy in the modak more acute. ...Their generation has seen more change t…"

-Devika Rege, Quarterlife

"At her final dinner in Imperial Heights, she notices afresh all that a week has made familiar: the silk runner, the brass casseroles, and the many little bowls on her plate that Sita, already turning…"

-Devika Rege, Quarterlife

"Dusk. They park at the edge of a wide, sandy bank. Omkar hums Shanth wahate Krishna-mai. He says the lyrics mean that a truly great person is as quiet as the river Krishna. It's the same river at Men…"

-Devika Rege, Quarterlife

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26. Maria, Just Maria

By: Sandhya Mary

4.02

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

'A rare novel.' - S. HAREESH 'A must-read!' - DAISY ROCKWELL Following the death of her grand… read more

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27. Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

3.29

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more

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28. Like Being Alive Twice

By: Dharini Bhaskar

3.70

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Is there a moment, so pliant, that we can nudge it towards any future we desire?Sometimes I believe… read more

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29. Hurda

By: Atharva Pandit

3.66

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Valentine's Day 2013 Murwani, a village in Maharashtra Three sisters-Anisha, Sanchita and Priya… read more

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  • fiction
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30. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

By: William Dalrymple

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more

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  • india
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31. Of Mothers and Other Perishables

By: Radhika Oberoi

4.15

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Of Mothers and Other Perishables is an exquisite articulation of grief. It is also the sharp-eyed t… read more

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22 Best fiction books like Hurda by Atharva Pandit

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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Butter

Asako Yuzuki

3.60

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Mongrel

Hanako Footman

4.38

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