Read the World: India

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

Updated February 19, 2024
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Read the World: India

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

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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...
A fine balance
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Paper Book
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry's stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days...
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
Slumdog millionaire
Swarup, Vikas
Paper Book
Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested--for answering twelve questions correctly on TV's Who Will Win a Billion? Ram has never gone to school and never read a newspaper. There is no way a poor orphan from Jimmy's Bar could know the names of the planets or the plays of Shakespeare ... unless he...
A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta
Theroux, Paul
Paper Book
Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta. InA Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a...
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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