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 : a novel
Basu, Diksha
Paper Book
"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  ...
The house of blue mangoes
Davidar, David
Paper Book
In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, renowned for its groves of a rare variety of blue mango, Solomon Dural is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or headman, of Chevathar, he seeks to preserve the village...
Clear light of day
Desai, Anita
Paper Book
Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who...
The impressionist
Kunzru, Hari, 1969-
Paper Book
A fine balance
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Paper Book
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency,...
Malgudi days
Narayan, R. K.
Paper Book
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayanas centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India athe writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.a Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds...
The painter of signs
Narayan, R. K.
Paper Book
For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides himself on his creative work. But all that changes when he meets Daisy, a thrillingly independent young woman who wishes to bring birth control to the area....
Swami and friends ; The bachelor of arts ; The dark room ; The English teacher
Narayan, R. K., 1906-2001.
Paper Book
R. K. Narayan (1906--2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of...
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 suitable boy a novel
Seth, Vikram, 1952-
Paper Book
"Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World A sweeping panoramic portrait...
Q & A a novel
Swarup, Vikas.
Paper Book
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or...
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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