Best Fiction Novels By Indian Authors - April 2024

Ladies Coupe: A Novel

Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women'... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312320876
• ASIN: 0312320876
• ISBN: 0312320876
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel

An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07415PPP1
• ASIN: B07415PPP1
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native Amer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316013692
• ASIN: 0316013692
• ISBN: 9780316013697
• Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

There There

National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe  Winner of the PEN/Hemingway AwardWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard PrizeWinner of the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner of an American Book Award   Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionShortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize   “Powerful. . . . There There has so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525436146
• ASIN: 0525436146
• ISBN: 0525436146
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel

Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub, Real Simple2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best FictionLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize“Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world.” ―Vogue“A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty and patriarchal societies.” ―The Huffington PostAn electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstance but relentless ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250309506
• ASIN: 1250309506
• ISBN: 1250309506
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

Beneath an Indian Sky: A heartbreaking historical novel of family secrets, betrayal and love

An unforgettable and heart-wrenching story of love, betrayal and family secrets. In colonial India a young woman finds herself faced with an impossible choice, the consequences of which will echo through the generations…1928. In British-ruled India, headstrong Sita longs to choose her own path, but her only destiny is a good marriage. After a chance meeting with a Crown Prince leads to a match, her family’s status seems secured and she moves into the palace, where peacocks fill the gardens and tapestries adorn the walls. But royal life is far from simple, and her failure to provide an heir... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078SKLHL3
• ASIN: B078SKLHL3
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

Land of Wolves: A Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries Book 15)

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series."It's the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries." —The New York Times Book ReviewRecovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that go back generations. When a shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be suicide. But the shepherd's connection to the Extepares... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07N5JNR49
• ASIN: B07N5JNR49
• Manufacturer: Viking

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547485859
• ASIN: 0547485859
• ISBN: 0547485859
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a si... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006239195X
• ASIN: 006239195X
• ISBN: 006239195X
• Brand: Harper
• Manufacturer: Harper

The God of Small Things: A Novel

• ASIN: B001NBEWN6
• ASIN: B001NBEWN6
• Manufacturer: Random House

Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson (A Mercy Thompson Novel)

Shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has friends in high places—and in low, dark, scary ones. And in this must-have collection of short stories, you’ll meet new faces and catch up with old acquaintances—in all their forms...Includes the new stories...“Silver”“Roses in Winter”“Redemption”“Hollow”…and reader favorites“Fairy Gifts”“Gray”“Seeing Eye”“Alpha and Omega”“The Star of David”“In Red, with Pearls”“One of the best urban fantasy anthologies I’ve ever read.”—The BiblioSanctum

• ASIN: 0425265013
• ASIN: 0425265013
• ISBN: 0425265013
• Brand: Ace Books
• Manufacturer: Ace

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07MGS81WS
• ASIN: B07MGS81WS
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Best Indian Short Stories (vol.1)

The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well-plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativity flowers and a fresh and imaginative story emerges. This volume is chock-full with such stories, written by authors well known in their regional languages as well as those who have made a name for themselves in English literary circles. Carefully se... [Read More]

• ASIN: 8172236328
• ASIN: 8172236328
• ISBN: 9788172236328
• Brand: Brand: Harpercollins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Listening Woman: A Leaphorn & Chee Novel (A Leaphorn and Chee Novel)

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.Now the solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man’s secrets—and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn’s investigation leads him further away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006282175X
• ASIN: 006282175X
• ISBN: 006282175X
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

Roofwalker

Roofwalker, made up of a unique combination of fiction and nonfiction, or "stories" and "histories," reveals the ways that native traditions and beliefs work in the lives of characters who live far from the reservation—and in the author’s own life. Many of the "histories" repeat subjects and themes found in the "stories," making Roofwalker a book that in which spirits and the living commingle and Sioux culture and modern life collide with disarming power, humor, and joy. The first seven pieces in the book are "stories," fictional accounts primarily of girls and women. In the title story, a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 157131041X
• ASIN: 157131041X
• ISBN: 9781571310415
• Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions

The Best Saturdays of Our Lives

Mark McCray wasn't the only boy who loved Saturday morning cartoons, but he may have been the only one to call the networks and tell them what he liked and disliked about them. For instance,

• UPC: 53079612

The Best of Black Heart 2014: Celebrating 10 Years of Short Fiction, Poetry, Author Interviews & More Indie Literary Mayhem - eBook

Born on the mean streets of Montreal, where one might just as well become a French-speaking hooker as write dirty little stories, Black Heart has been peddling its wares from atop wobbly stilettos straight from

• UPC: 566400579

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 - eBook

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2014. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Dale Bailey, Kelly Barnhill, Richard Bowes, Marie Brennan, Adam Christopher, John Chu, A. M.

• UPC: 116762966
• Rating: 5.0

7 best short stories: French Authors - eBook

The French authors are great pioneers in the short story format, with famous names of this genre such as Guy de Maupassant and Honore de Balzac. For the present book, the critic August Nemo has

• UPC: 555978862

7 best short stories: Russian Authors - eBook

C onceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some

• UPC: 284570965

The Danes Sketched by Themselves (Complete): A Series of Popular Stories by The Best Danish Authors - eBook

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology,

• UPC: 413279794

Stories and Sketches by our Best Authors - eBook

DR. GRAHAM sat in his office, his book closed on his knee, and his eyes fixed upon the street. There was nothing of interest to be seen. A light snow was falling, making the pavement

• UPC: 923317526

The Three Impostors and Other Stories : Vol. 1 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of

• UPC: 574466
• Rating: 3.0

American Indian Life - eBook

“The old ethnology, like every science in its beginnings, was speculative. The new ethnology is inductive. Fifty or sixty years ago the attempt was first made to read the riddle of human origins and substantiate

• UPC: 782551923

Mythic Orbits: Mythic Orbits Volume 2: Best Speculative Fiction by Christian Authors (Paperback)

This anthology aims to collect the best available speculative fiction short stories written by Christian authors. That's whether the stories have openly Christian themes or characters or not, without requiring the stories to have any

• UPC: 516823059