Best Indian Love Story Novels To Read - April 2024

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: 1542048273
• ASIN: 1542048273
• ISBN: 1542048273
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Life of Pi

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0156027321
• ASIN: 0156027321
• ISBN: 9780156027328
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Island of the Blue Dolphins

• ASIN: 0547328613
• ASIN: 0547328613
• ISBN: 0545289599
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142405965
• ASIN: 0142405965
• ISBN: 0142405965
• Brand: Speak
• Manufacturer: Speak

Lonesome Dove: A Novel

• ASIN: B003NE6HD4
• ASIN: B003NE6HD4
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which star... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451163966
• ASIN: 0451163966
• ISBN: 0451163966
• Brand: Signet
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Indian in the Cupboard

• ASIN: B003F3PK4A
• ASIN: B003F3PK4A
• Manufacturer: Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Walk Two Moons

In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.As Sal entertains he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0064405176
• ASIN: 0064405176
• ISBN: 0064405176
• Brand: HarperCollins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Touching Spirit Bear

• ASIN: 038080560X
• ASIN: 038080560X
• ISBN: 038080560X
• Brand: Harper Collins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Siddhartha: A Novel

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man’s se... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553208845
• ASIN: 0553208845
• ISBN: 0553208845
• Brand: Bantam Classics
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (Paperback)

Little Mary, captured by Indians, learns to love them and refuses to leave when English soldiers try to rescue

• UPC: 531774
• Rating: 4.067

The Great American Read: The Book of Books : Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels?

• UPC: 270948048

Mount Vernon Love Story : A Novel of George and Martha Washington

Follows the story of George Washington from the time he steps down from the presidency to return with Martha to his beloved Mount Vernon home, a period during which the couple shares a renewal of

• UPC: 2130253
• Rating: 3.714

Watch Me Read and Draw: Things Girls Love : A step-by-step drawing & story book

With easy-to-follow drawing steps and an engaging story, Watch Me Read and Draw: Things Girls Love teaches kids to draw all their favorite

• UPC: 710710011

My First Read and Learn Love & Kindness Bible Stories (Board Book)

Highlighting timeless love and kindness stories and verses from both the Old and New Testaments, this board book is ideal for parents and children to enjoy together as they deepen their faith. Full color. 5

• UPC: 56076014

American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings

Illuminating the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience, this volume collects the finest stories and nonfiction writings by a Native American author and

• UPC: 25245741

It Is a Good Day to Die : Indian Eyewitnesses Tell the Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

"I am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers. Therefore, I shall speak only the truth in telling what I know of the fight

• UPC: 26349364
• Rating: 5.0

The Little Englishman : A Tale of Kidnapping, Slavery, Indians, Hardship and Survival in the Canadian Wilderness. Based on a True Life Story

The Little Englishman: A Tale of Kidnapping, Slavery, Indians, Hardship and Survival in the Canadian Wilderness. Based on a True Life

• UPC: 298689994

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Nestled deep in the Ecuadoran jungle stands the remote river town of El Idilio, where widower Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in the tear-jerking novels brought to him from the brothel downstream. But the love

• UPC: 25686862
• Rating: 3.6

Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories

"'Grandpa, ' I quietly asked, 'how come when you talk about the past, you say you were a cowboy and an Indian?' I sensed the regret in his short laugh when he answered, 'Cause I

• UPC: 52851386