25 best-selling fiction books like I Named My Sister Silence by Manoj Rupda

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I Named My Sister Silence

By: Manoj Rupda

4.29

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

About the Book AN UNUSUALLY QUIET BUT SEARING NOVEL ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF PEOPLES AND LANDS A li…

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1. The Year of the Runaways

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.87

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota—a … read more

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"Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites."

-Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways

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2. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

3. Sauptik: Blood and Flowers

By: Amruta Patil

4.21

Format: 288 pages,

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4. 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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5. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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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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7. 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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8. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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9. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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10. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.65

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more

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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

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11. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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12. 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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  • india
  • fiction
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13. 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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14. The House on Via Gemito

By: Domenico Starnone

3.65

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

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16. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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17. The East Indian

By: Brinda Charry

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian s… read more

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  • fiction
"The dead, simply by passing into death, somehow become innocent of all charges; it is we, the living, who bear the burden of guilt. [Tony]"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

"I wondered: dies any man ever fully know any woman? He thinks he does--she is the girl living down the lane, the girl fetching water from the communal well, the girl who speaks in accents familiar, a…"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

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18. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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19. 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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  • fiction
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20. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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21. Fire Bird

By: Perumal Murugan

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fire Bird is a masterfully crafted tale of one man's search for the elusive concept of permanence. … read more

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  • fiction
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22. 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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  • fiction
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23. Welcome to Paradise

By: Twinkle Khanna

3.59

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

Rich narratives that explore the depth of loneliness, heartbreak and deception. Huma’s divided fami… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Good Girls

By: Leesa Gazi

3.72

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

In this richly unnerving tale about family secrets and expectations, two sisters are at lifelong od… read more

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Cover of City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan

25. City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh

By: Zeyad Masroor Khan

4.19

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of clicking a switch ne… read more

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26. 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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27. 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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  • fiction
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28. 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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  • fiction
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29. Do Not Ask the River Her Name

By: Sheela Tomy

3.77

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

'Searing ... This is a must-read' - M. MUKUNDAN When an accident leaves her husband bedridden, R… read more

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30. Mansur: A Novel

By: Vikramajit Ram

3.68

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Vivid and elegant’ RANA SAFVI‘Entrancing … soulful and evocative’ ANIRUDH KANISETTISaturday, the 2… read more

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31. I Named My Sister Silence

By: Manoj Rupda

4.29

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

About the Book AN UNUSUALLY QUIET BUT SEARING NOVEL ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF PEOPLES AND LANDS A li… read more

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12 must-read india books like I Named My Sister Silence by Manoj Rupda

Transform Your Habits

The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

3.87

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Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Sakina’s Kiss

Vivek Shanbhag

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The East Indian

Brinda Charry

3.83

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Crooked Seeds

Karen Jennings

3.53

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Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

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The Gentleman From Peru

André Aciman

3.56

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

3.73

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