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…
Want to Read $ 11.99"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
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1. A Fine Balance
By: Rohinton Mistry
4.37
Format: 603 pages, Paperback
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more
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"Time had changed the magical to mundane"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"Marriage is like death, only happens once."-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
2. The Lowland
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.87
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a … read more
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"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
3. Norwegian Wood
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
4.01
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a be… read more
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"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,"-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
4. The Remains of the Day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
4.14
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more
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"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق میکرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آنوقت هیچکدام از این کثافتکاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمیآمد."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
5. Malgudi Days
By: R.K. Narayan , Jhumpa Lahiri
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introduc… read more
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6. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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7. The Namesake
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more
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8. Americanah
By: None , Jashar Awan
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, … read more
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9. Never Let Me Go
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance -… read more
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10. A Thousand Splendid Suns
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
At once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of fami… read more
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- novels
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11. The Shadow Lines
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one Eng… read more
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12. 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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- indian literature
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13. 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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14. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
15. 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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"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
16. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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17. 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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- literature
- asia
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- india
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- historical fiction
- novels
"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
18. A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both t… read more
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19. Hotel World
By: Ali Smith
4.50
Format: 176 pages,
Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious … read more
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20. Undertones of War
By: Edmund Blunden
3.90
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished … read more
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21. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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22. One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.12
Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more
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"Cease, cows, life is short."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"There is always something left to love."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Children inherit their parents' madness."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
23. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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24. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
25. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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26. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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27. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
28. 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
29. 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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"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
30. The Forest of Enchantments
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more
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- india
- fiction
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"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
31. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
4.04
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when th… read more
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"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"What were you before you met me?" "I think I was drowning" "And what are you now?" "Water"-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
