LO Reads 2024: Honor by Thrity Umrigar

Honor by Thrity Umrigar is the 2024 LO Reads pick for Lake Oswego, Oregon! If you liked Honor, here are some other stories you might enjoy. We suggest books by the same author, fiction set in India, and books that explore some of the same themes that Honor does.

Updated March 28, 2024
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Lake Oswego Public Library
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Honor : a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan's women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions...

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Binny's Diwali
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
Binny woke up happy but nervous. It was her day to share about Diwali, the Festival of Lights!Binny is excited to talk to her class about her favorite holiday. But she struggles to find the words.Taking a deep breath, she tells her classmates about the fireworks that burst like stars in the...
A passage to India
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Paper Book
A beautiful Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, with an introduction by P. N. Furbank. Britain's three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only...
Interpreter of maladies stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
The god of small things
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Mother Mary Comes to Me "[The God of Small Things] offers such...
A suitable boy a novel
Seth, Vikram, 1952-
Paper Book
Set in post-colonial India, this is a sweeping saga of four Indian families who must conduct their lives through an era of newborn independence and political crises, when Hindu, Muslim and Western cultures clash with new vehemence.
The covenant of water
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in...

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