27 Great Books by Indian Authors

So many of our patrons have loved reading The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi! So, on the heels of our wonderful author talk with her last week, we have a list of other fabulous authors to read next! All can be ordered via the Sage System. Click the title of the book to find it in the catalog.

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27 Great Books by Indian Authors

This list was curated by Isabelle! Those with asterisks* can be found at HCL.

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Ghosh, Amitav –  

• Gun Island (Adult Fiction)
• The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Adult Non Fic)

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Adiga, Aravind –

• The White Tiger (Fiction)
• Selection Day (Fiction)
• Amnesty (Fiction)

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Lahiri, Jumpa –

• *The Lowland (Fiction)
• Interpreter of Maladies (Fiction - Short Stories)
• The Namesake (Fiction)
• Unaccustomed Earth (Fiction)
  

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Sonali, Dev –

• Pride, Prejudice, and other Flavors (Fiction)
  
• Recipe for Persuasion (Fiction)
  
• Incense and Sensibility (Fiction)
  

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Perkins, Mitali –

• Rickshaw Girl (Juvenile Fiction)
• *Bamboo People (Adult Fiction)
• Forward Me Back to You (YA Fiction)

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Rushdi, Salman –

• The Ground Beneath her Feet (Adult Fiction)
• Shalimar the Clown (Adult Fiction)
  

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Majumdar, Megha –

• *A Burning (Adult Fiction)

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Umrigar, Thrity –

• The Space Between Us (Adult Fiction)

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Vijay, Madhuri –

• The Far Field  (Adult Fiction)

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Basu, Dksha –

• The Windfall (Adult Fiction)

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Enjeti, Anjali –

• The Parted Earth (Adult Fiction)

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Desai, Kiran –

• The Inheritance of Loss (Adult Fiction)

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Tagore, Rabindranath –

• Gitanjali : A collection of Indian poems by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (Poertry)

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Verghese, Abraham –

• Cutting for Stone (Adult Fiction)
• My own country : a doctor's story (Adult Non-Fiction)

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Joshi, Alka –

• The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (Adult Fiction, second in the Henna Artist series)

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