In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant…
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1. The Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy
By: Margaret Cavendish
3.56
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), began her literary career in 1653, with… read more
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2. The Prisoner
By: Omar Shahid Hamid
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An international literary sensation, this chilling thriller “exposes. . . a world so dark that read… read more
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"Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top Gun movie. Since then, an entire generation of faujis had grown up thinking they could be like him j…"-Omar Shahid Hamid, The Prisoner
3. The World and Other Places: Stories
By: Jeanette Winterson
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Her first short story collection exhibits the multitude of talents that have made English novelist … read more
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- literary fiction
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4. Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
By: Bryan Talbot , Mary M. Talbot
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
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5. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
By: Mohsin Hamid
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined ta… read more
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6. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
- 21st century
7. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bha… read more
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- asia
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8. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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- asia
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9. Cracking India
By: Bapsi Sidhwa
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child… read more
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- asia
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10. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
By: Salman Rushdie
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginati… read more
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11. Another Gulmohar Tree
By: Aamer Hussein
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia … read more
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12. Moth Smoke
By: Mohsin Hamid
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the len… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Welcome to Lagos
By: Chibundu Onuzo
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Deep in the Niger Delta, officer Chike Ameobi deserts the army and sets out on the road to Lagos. H… read more
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15. Blasphemy
By: Tehmina Durrani
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Tehmina Durrani made her sensational literary debut in 1991 with her controversial autobiography My… read more
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16. My Feudal Lord
By: Tehmina Durrani , William Hoffer , None
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged… read more
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17. Twilight in Delhi
By: Ahmed Ali
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Set in nineteenth-century India between two revolutionary moments of change, Twilight in Delhibring… read more
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18. The Dew Breaker
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--… read more
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19. Kartography
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents… read more
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20. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
21. Mother of Strangers
By: Suad Amiry
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more
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22. 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
23. Out of Darkness, Shining Light
By: Petina Gappah
3.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
“This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, David Living… read more
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24. Latitudes of Longing
By: Shubhangi Swarup
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more
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"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing
25. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
26. A House Is a Body
By: Shruti Swamy
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
INTRODUCING A DAZZLING NEW LITERARY VOICE In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collectio… read more
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"The house is a body, a body houses souls."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting …"-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
27. Red Birds
By: Mohammed Hanif
3.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An American pilot crash lands in the desert, unprepared for any situation that can’t be resolved wi… read more
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"What are people if not the sum total of their memories?"-Mohammed Hanif, Red Birds
28. Palestine +100
By: Basma Ghalayini
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like i… read more
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29. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
30. Palmares
By: Gayl Jones
2.92
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great lit… read more
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31. Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time re… read more
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