The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle
By: Meena Kandasamy
4.29
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In 2009, the genocidal war of the Sri Lankan state against Tamils ends. In 2012, Meena Kandasamy, w…
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. One Part Woman
By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages… read more
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"There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together."-பெருமாள் முருகன், One Part Woman
3. ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham
By: Benyamin
4.31
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള് ഗള്ഫില് ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള് ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില് എത്ര പേര് മരുഭൂ… read more
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"നിങ്ങൾ സത്യമായും നിർഭാഗ്യത്തിന്റെ നാടുവിലാണെങ്കിൽ, പിന്നെ നിങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യുന്നതെല്ലാം ഒന്നാംതരം മണ്ടത്തരങ്ങളായിരിക്കും"-Benyamin, ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham
4. 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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"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
5. Kane and Abel (Kane and Abel, #1)
By: Jeffrey Archer
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brou… read more
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6. Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets
By: Shilpa Ranade , Shilpa Phadke , Sameera Khan
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
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7. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: None
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more
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8. 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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9. The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
By: Sujata Massey
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her f… read more
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10. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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- indian literature
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
11. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more
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12. Gujarat Files
By: Rana Ayyub
3.68
Format: None pages,
Gujarat Files is the account of an eight-month long undercover investigation by journalist Rana Ayy… read more
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13. Walking With The Comrades
By: Arundhati Roy
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of "The God of Small Things" comes a searing frontline expose of brut… read more
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14. Those Pricey Thakur Girls
By: Anuja Chauhan
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In a sprawling bungalow on New Delhi's posh Hailey Road, Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife … read more
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15. When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
3.29
Format: None pages,
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more
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17. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
18. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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19. Moi les hommes, je les déteste
By: Pauline Harmange
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more
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"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
20. 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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21. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
22. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
By: Ram V.
4.30
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more
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"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
23. 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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24. Zen: The Art of Simple Living
By: Shunmyō Masuno
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . . In clear, practical and easy to f… read more
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25. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
By: Baek Se-hee
3.28
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more
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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
26. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
27. The Last Queen
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more
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"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
28. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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29. 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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30. Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
By: Suchitra Vijayan
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven year, 9,000 mile journey acro… read more
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31. The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle
By: Meena Kandasamy
4.29
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In 2009, the genocidal war of the Sri Lankan state against Tamils ends. In 2012, Meena Kandasamy, w… read more
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- indian literature
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- india
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