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
'A powerful, important, unforgettable book' - Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

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A passage to India
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Paper Book
'His great book ... masterly in its prescience and its lucidity' ANITA DESAI A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when...
Tomb of sand
Gītāñjali Śrī, 1957-
Paper Book
"An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a hijra (trans) woman - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to...
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
HIGHLY ANTICIPATED OPRAH DAILY PICK FOR 2023 'Ill-fated love and toxic family power struggles provide emotional drive for this big dynastic saga' JAKE ARNOTT, GUARDIAN 'Huge, epic, immersive and absorbing . . . certain to be a book of the year'...
Interpreter of maladies stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Ebook
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new...
The lowland
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's...
The widows of Malabar Hill
Massey, Sujata
Ebook
1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new...
The surprise Bollywood baby
Pammi, Tara
Paper Book
Falling for a Bollywood superstar ... leads to the shock of a lifetime!For actress Zara Khan, a pretend romance with an old flame, director Virat Raawal is the ideal story to feed the press - and halt her family's attempts to marry her off. But after sparks reignite one scorching night, she has a...
The god of small things
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming...
A suitable boy a novel
Seth, Vikram, 1952-
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel' Evening Standard ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD...
The covenant of water
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Paper Book
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.

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