Hijabistan
By: Sabyn Javeri
3.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A young kleptomaniac infuses thrill into her suffocating life by using her abaya to steal lipsticks…
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1. South of the Border, West of the Sun
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.86
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition here. Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?"-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
2. Thinner Than Skin
By: Uzma Aslam Khan
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the wilds of Northern Pakistan, where glaciers are born of mating ice, two young lovers shatter … read more
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- pakistan
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Lover's Dictionary
By: David Levithan
3.50
Format: 290 pages,
basis, n. There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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- fiction
5. پیر کامل (Peer-e-Kamil, #1)
By: Umera Ahmed
3.97
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Peer-e-Kamil(English: The Perfect Mentor) is a story focusing on a deviational sect which violates … read more
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- pakistan
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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- fiction
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
7. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
8. Home Fire
By: Kamila Shamsie
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more
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9. Shalimar the Clown
By: Salman Rushdie
4.30
Format: 189 pages,
This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America's counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the … read more
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11. House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)
By: Erin A. Craig
4.14
Format: 544 pages, Library Binding
A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling aut… read more
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- fiction
"Besides, what else am I meant to be doing? I didn't laze around in life and I certainly wasn't going to start in death."-Erin A. Craig, House of Roots and Ruin (Sisters of the Salt, #2)
12. The Red Palace
By: June Hur
4.13
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city… read more
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- fiction
"We are women,"-June Hur, The Red Palace
"There is only you."-June Hur, The Red Palace
"I say with utmost respect,"-June Hur, The Red Palace
"Do you not know me, nauri? I am Baek-hyeon."-June Hur, The Red Palace
13. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- fiction
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
14. The Stationery Shop
By: Marjan Kamali
4.22
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"He would get out of the car to make sure her knitted scarf protected her nose and mouth against the wind. And they would climb the steps of the gray building labeled “Duxton Senior Center."-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can't see it. But it's there. And the young, who love so passionately, have…"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in …"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
15. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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- adult fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
By: Elif Shafak
4.09
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Grief is a swallow,"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"كانت ليلى هي الوحيدة التي اعتقدت أنه قادر على تحقيق الأشياء العظيمة"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
17. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
By: Bolu Babalola
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
18. Black Water Sister
By: Zen Cho
3.86
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Ma… read more
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- contemporary
"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister
"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister
19. Sea Prayer
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.10
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
20. Conjure Women
By: Afia Atakora
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
21. People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. Best of Friends
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends
23. Are You Enjoying?
By: Mira Sethi
3.23
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original sto… read more
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- short stories
- pakistan
- fiction
- contemporary
24. The Three of Us
By: Ore Agbaje-Williams
2.96
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Evil Eye
By: Madhuri Shekar
4.01
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in… read more
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- fiction
26. Frying Plantain
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
27. Jinnistan: Scary stories to tell over chai
By: Ayesha Muzaffar
3.81
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
If there's something Pakistanis love more than December shaadis and desi food, it’s jinn stories. J… read more
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28. Hijabistan
By: Sabyn Javeri
3.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A young kleptomaniac infuses thrill into her suffocating life by using her abaya to steal lipsticks… read more
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- feminism
- pakistan
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
29. Love Knot
By: Hina Shamsi
3.69
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Like most young girls, Aaira grew up with dreams of a happily ever after with her one and only! … read more
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30. The Year of Sound and Heat
By: Zain Saeed
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
It is 2007, and Karachi is thrumming with possibility for childhood friends Jogi and Billoo. They s… read more
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31. To Lahore With Love
By: Hina Belitz
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A novel to warm the heart, tickle the tastebuds and take you on the journey of a lifetime for fans … read more
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- contemporary
