Best Novels To Read By Indian Authors - April 2024

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   -  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookNamed a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and SlateFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history            In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world wer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307742482
• ASIN: 0307742482
• ISBN: 0307742482
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Life of Pi

• ASIN: B0070Y46UY
• ASIN: B0070Y46UY
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

When Breath Becomes Air

• ASIN: 081298840X
• UPC: 642688054472
• ASIN: 081298840X
• ISBN: 081298840X
• Manufacturer: Random House

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 Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

There There: A novel

• ASIN: B075HY1NFB
• ASIN: B075HY1NFB
• Manufacturer: Knopf

News of the World: A Novel

• ASIN: B01122BZNK
• ASIN: B01122BZNK
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

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

And Then There Were None

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead."Eight . . ."Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die."Seven . . ."Which among them is the ki... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062073486
• ASIN: 0062073486
• ISBN: 0062073486
• Brand: Harper
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The Whistler: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as “the best thriller writer alive” by Ken Follett We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the flow of justice. But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe?    Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. It is her job to resp... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01C1LUFFK
• ASIN: B01C1LUFFK
• Manufacturer: Dell

Island of the Blue Dolphins

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

Lonesome Dove: A Novel

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

Shantaram: A Novel

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prosti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312330537
• ASIN: 0312330537
• ISBN: 0312330537
• Brand: Gregory David Roberts
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

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

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

• ASIN: B00AK78P8W
• ASIN: B00AK78P8W
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Bean Trees: A Novel

The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West.Written with humor and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, abandonment and belonging as Taylor, o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062277758
• ASIN: 0062277758
• ISBN: 0062277758
• Brand: Harper Perennial
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

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

Armada : A novel by the author of Ready Player One

"THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go

• UPC: 49744216
• Rating: 3.443

Start Here: Read Your Way into 25 Amazing Authors - eBook

There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25

• UPC: 934174882
• Rating: 4.0

Last Night's Reading : Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors

Whimsical illustrations of authors are paired with the charming, wise and hilarious things they say at their readings.

• UPC: 45969977
• Rating: 4.0

Kanthapura : Indian Novel

Originally published: London: Allen & Unwin,

• UPC: 25663184
• Rating: 3.0

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: 3.714

Howl : Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Presursor Texts, and Bibliography

A deluxe hardcover commemorative facsimile edition of this groundbreaking American classic celebrates the 40th anniversary of the prophetic masterpiece that revolutionized American poetry and American

• UPC: 4859595
• Rating: 5.0

Indian Summer : A Novel

Originally published: Great Britain: Bantam Press,

• UPC: 55312204
• Rating: 3.5

The Indian Agent : A Novel

9780803235885

• UPC: 15440773
• Rating: 4.0

More Baths Less Talking : Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself

"Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author's monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful

• UPC: 20464100
• Rating: 4.368