Book Recommendations for
General Fiction, set in India
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Abraham Verghese
Paperback: 05/06/2025
Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone ...
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Shubnum Khan
Paperback: 01/07/2025
"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts ...
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Tania James
Paperback: 06/18/2024
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a ...
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Salman Rushdie
Paperback: 01/30/2024
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the ...
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Parini Shroff
Paperback: 01/09/2024
A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other ...
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Deepti Kapoor
Paperback: 01/02/2024
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can ...
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Melody Razak
Paperback: 08/08/2023
Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family's trials ...
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