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
Basu, Diksha
Paper Book
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week A People Pick Entertainment Weeklys Must-List A TIME Magazine Pick Rolling Stones Culture Index Pick One of Esquires Best Best Books of the Year A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu's debut novel tells the story of a...
A fine balance
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Paper Book
The eagerly awaited novel from the author of the award-winning Such a Long Journey is set in India in the mid-1970s. A State of Internal Emergency has been declared, and in the days of bleakness and hope that follow, four disparate people find their lives becoming unexpectedly and inextricably...
Midnight's children
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
"BEST OF THE BOOKER" AWARD WINNER * This towering classic of international literature is at once a riveting family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people. "One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation." -...
Slumdog millionaire
Swarup, Vikas.
CD
Former tiffin boy Ram Mohammad Thomas has correctly answered twelve questions on a television quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating--for how else could a poor, uneducated orphan know so much: the name of the smallest planet, global...
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...
The world we found a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven, returns with a breathtaking new novel--a skillfully wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women and the indelible friendship they share. Fans of Jennifer Haigh's Faith, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies,...

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