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• The God of Small Things

  Roy, Arundhati

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  Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Night at the Call Center

  a Novel

  Bhagat, Chetan

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  Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter and YouTuber. He was listed in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Bhagat has produced many novels, with several of these works turned into movies, such as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inheritance of Loss

  Desai, Kiran, 1971-

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  Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.

• The White Tiger

  a Novel

  Adiga, Aravind

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  Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

• The Glass Palace

  a Novel

  Ghosh, Amitav

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  Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Queen

  Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-

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  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Namesake

  Lahiri, Jhumpa

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  Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.

• Knife

  Meditations After An Attempted Murder

  Rushdie, Salman,

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  Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shaadi Set-up

  a Novel

  Vale, Lillie,

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  Lillie Vale is the author of The Shaadi Set-Up and the young adult novels Beauty and the Besharam and Small Town Hearts. She writes about secrets and yearning, complicated and ambitious girls who know what they want, the places we call home and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Dimple Met Rishi

  Menon, Sandhya,

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  Sandhya Menon is an Indian American author based in Colorado, United States. She is the author of New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi and From Twinkle, with Love.

• A Necessary Evil

  a Novel

  Mukherjee, Abir,

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  Abir Mukherjee is a British-Indian author best known for his crime novels. He wrote the Wyndham and Banerjee series set in the British Raj era in India.

• What Souls Are Made of

  a Wuthering Heights Remix

  Suri, Tasha,

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  Tasha Suri is a British fantasy author and former academic librarian. Her debut novel won Suri the Best Newcomer Award at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards and was listed by Time as one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time in 2020.

• My Big, Fat Desi Wedding

  a YA Romance Anthology

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  This book is a collaborative masterpiece, brought to life by the combined creativity of multiple Indian authors!

• Born Confused

  Desai Hidier, Tanuja

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  Tanuja Desai Hidier is an Indian-American author and singer/songwriter. She is best known for her 2002 young adult novel Born Confused, and its 2014 sequel Bombay Blues.

• Mirror in the Sky

  Khorana, Aditi,

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  Aditi Khorana is an American-Indian author based in Los Angeles. This book was named "one of the most powerful reads of the year" by Paste Magazine