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
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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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The weight of heaven : a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Ebook
From the bestselling author of THE SPACE BETWEEN US comes an emotionally-charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss. "Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of...
The story hour : a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Ebook
"Thrity Umrigar has an uncanny ability to look deeply into the human heart and find the absolute truth of our lives. The Story Hour is stunning and beautiful. Lakshmi and Maggie will stay with readers for a very long time." -- Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird...
The secrets between us : a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Audiobook
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar's beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel--a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for...
The space between us
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
Thrity Umrigar, who "displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks," (Washington Post Book World) brings her talent to the social struggles of modern day Bombay in THE SPACE BETWEEN US.<...
Everybody's son : a novel
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
During a terrible heatwave in 1991--the worst in a decade--ten-year old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton...
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...
Sugar in milk
Umrigar, Thrity N.
Paper Book
A young girl in modern times comes from India to live in America with her extended family. She feels so alone-like she's not wanted-and then remembers a story her mother once told her about a group of Persians who were ousted from their country and who sailed to the Western shores of India in search...
The good girls : an ordinary killing
Faleiro, Sonia
Paper Book
By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, The Good Girls is a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation. On a summer night in 2014, Padma and Lalli went missing from Katra Sadatganj, an eye...
A passage to India
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Paper Book
Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and the basis for director David Lean's Academy Award-nominated film, A Passage to India turns on a tragic clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering on...
Tomb of sand
Gītāñjali Śrī, 1957-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE "A triumph of literature."--Financial Times "Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride."--BookPage "A breath of fresh air."--Guardian A playful, feminist, and utterly...
The henna artist
Joshi, Alka
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK "Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."--Reese Witherspoon Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle...
Age of vice
Kapoor, Deepti
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR! "Dazzling...Finally free from the book's grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked."--...
Interpreter of maladies stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces...
The lowland
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
National Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most...
A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
Maher, Sanam
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "An exemplary work of investigative journalism." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The murder of a Pakistani social media star exposes a culture divided between accelerating modernity and imposed...
The widows of Malabar Hill
Massey, Sujata
Paper Book
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and...
The god of small things
Roy, Arundhati
Ebook
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 "[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that,...
The woman who climbed trees
Smriti Ravindra
Paper Book
"A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman's coming-of-age... This is electrifying."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Is this a ghost story" Meena asked the barber's wife who told the tale. "I don't want to hear scary stories one night before I marry."  "Not all...
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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