Best Novels Written By Indian Authors - April 2024

Dragon Teeth: A Novel

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062473352
• ASIN: 0062473352
• ISBN: 0062473352
• Brand: Harper
• Manufacturer: Harper

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

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

Copper River: A Novel (6) (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)

Sheriff Cork O’Connor is running for his life—straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways in this thrilling installment of William Kent Krueger’s “buy-today-read-tonight series” (Lee Child).Desperately avoiding the professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he’s hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a young girl surfaces along the banks of the Copper River. And then, soon after, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439157812
• ASIN: 1439157812
• ISBN: 9781439157817
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks…including Murder on the Orient Express, the most famous Hercule Poirot mystery, which has the brilliant detective hunting for a killer aboard one of the world’s most luxurious passenger trains.

• ASIN: 0062073508
• ASIN: 0062073508
• ISBN: 0062073508
• Brand: HarperCollins
• Manufacturer: Harper

There There: A novel

• ASIN: B075HY1NFB
• ASIN: B075HY1NFB
• Manufacturer: Vintage

An Unrestored Woman

“What an astonishing collection! Provoking, ferocious, moving, splendid, generous and essential. I seemed to finish the book in a different world than the one in which I began it.” —Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble and Stranger Things HappenIn her mesmerizing debut, Shobha Rao recounts the untold human costs of one of the largest migrations in history.1947: the Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever. An Unrestored Woman explores the fault lines in this mass displacement of humanity:... [Read More]

• ASIN: B014CS5OZQ
• ASIN: B014CS5OZQ
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures)

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01LF08CU8
• ASIN: B01LF08CU8
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

Orphan Train: A Novel

The #1 New York Times BestsellerNow featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel A Piece of the World, coming February 2017.Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel—the captivating story of a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to long-buried questions…now with an extended scene that addresses the number one question readers ask, and an excerpt from Kline’s upcoming novel A Piece of the World.“A lovely novel about the search for family that also happen... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0089LOG02
• ASIN: B0089LOG02
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

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 Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California

David Paulides, a former police investigator, has applied his skills to questioning Bigfoot witnesses. The results he has achieved in gaining access to witnesses and getting detailed information from them is both remarkable and intriguing. A commissioned forensic police artist meet with witnesses and sketch the creatures as they saw them. These drawings provide insights into the creature's nature never realized before. On October 2, 1958, Jerry Crew, a road construction worker, found unusual, large human-like footprints near his bulldozer, in a road under construction, near Bluff Cree in North... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0888396538
• UPC: 783324827378
• ASIN: 0888396538
• ISBN: 0888396538
• Brand: Brand: Hancock House
• Manufacturer: Hancock House Publishers

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

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

Evil Under the Sun

• ASIN: B002WG36ME
• ASIN: B002WG36ME

Robopocalypse: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307740803
• ASIN: 0307740803
• ISBN: 0307740803
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Written in My Own Heart's Blood : A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKLIST In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse

• UPC: 51193702
• Rating: 4.3

Written in My Own Heart's Blood : A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946,

• UPC: 44721009
• Rating: 4.4

Indian Summer : A Novel

Originally published: Great Britain: Bantam Press,

• UPC: 55312204
• Rating: 3.5

Written in My Own Heart's Blood : A Novel

"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743...Now the

• UPC: 23963723
• Rating: 4.5

A Good Indian Wife: A Novel - eBook

“An absorbing tale of contrasts. . . . Cherian tells the story with quiet strength.” —San Francisco ChronicleHandsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family’s pleas that he marry a “good” Indian girl.

• UPC: 558905683
• Rating: 3.7

Kanthapura : Indian Novel

Originally published: London: Allen & Unwin,

• UPC: 25663184
• Rating: 3.0

The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot : Two Novels

A pair of sophisticated novels by one of Japan's most important novelists of the twentieth century tells the stories of an ancient Japanese warrior obsessed with severed heads, and of two friends who journey into

• UPC: 2001575
• Rating: 3.0

The French & Indian War Novels : 2-The Rulers of the Lakes & The Masters of the Peaks

The French and Indian War-the collision between Britain, its provincial troops and Indian allies against France and its own allies during the eighteenth century in America is fascinating to many students of the period. It

• UPC: 53608089

Aesop's Fables - 284 Fables Written by the Famous Author - Audiobook

This brilliant new audio version of Aesop's timeless tales offers a fresh take on the classic stories. In this audiobook, you can listen to over 280 fables written by Aesop. These stories teach moral lessons,

• UPC: 336271831
• Rating: 3.7

The Indian Agent : A Novel

Dan O'Brien's earlier award-winning novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Crazy Horse. Through McGillycuddy's eyes, the novel recounts the friendship that so deeply impacted history.

• UPC: 15440773
• Rating: 4.0