Read the World: India

Books by authors from India or set in/about India.

Updated February 19, 2024
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A walk across the sun
Addison, Corban, 1979-
Paper Book
Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade.   When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai...
The windfall [electronic resource] A Novel
Basu, Diksha.
Ebook
"Charming . . . What Kevin Kwan did for rich-people problems, Diksha Basu does for trying-to-be-rich-people problems."--People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE * A PEOPLE PICK * A TIME PICK  ...
Midnight's children a novel
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist--one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS * SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
The Moor's last sigh
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the...
A dead hand a crime in Calcutta
Theroux, Paul.
Paper Book
Jerry Delfont leads an aimless life in Calcutta, struggling in vain against his writer's block, or 'dead hand,' and flitting around the edges of a half-hearted romance. Then he receives a mysterious letter asking for his help. The story it tells is disturbing: A dead boy found on the...

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