Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.
INDIA:
FICTION
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator by Tarquin Hall
Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Miniaturist by Kunal Basu
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni
Partitions by Amit Majmudar
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
NON-FICTION
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji
In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World by Justine Hardy
India: A History by John Keay
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic by Ramesh Menon
Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India by Miranda Kennedy
Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire by Diana and Michael Preston
The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul
Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon and Rumer Godden
FILMS