A Desi Girls Booklist

Explore the ultimate Desi girls' booklist featuring must-read novels by South Asian authors. Discover empowering stories, cultural gems, and literary favorites perfect for every book lover.

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Born confused

 

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Motherland

by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

Over the course of a single transformative summer, an American teenager travels to southern India to visit her relatives and gains new insight into her …
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Darjeeling

by Bharti Kirchner

Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India, and Manhattan, this is the story of a family torn apart when two sisters fall in …
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The Twentieth Wife

by Indu Sundaresan

The story of Mehrunnisa, the daughter of servents who became the an empresses of the Mughal empire.
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The Feast of Roses

by Indu Sundaresan

The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, …
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Difficult Daughters

by Manju Kapur

The reformist fervour Virmati's family lives by is shattered when she falls in love with a married professor. Ironically, she only met him because earlier …
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The Last Song of Dusk

by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Anuradha Patwardhan, a legendary beauty in 1920s India, marries handsome and well-to-do doctor Vardhmaan, but their married years are challenged by the death of their …
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The Hero's Walk

by Anita Rau Badami

In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his …
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Cracking India

 

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Sister of My Heart

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies …
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The Vine of Desire

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Sister of My Heart are reunited in this powerful narrative that challenges the emotional bond between …
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Nectar in a sieve

 

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Ladies coupé

 

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Holy Cow

by Sarah Macdonald

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport …
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Raj

by Gita Mehta

"An 'historical novel that traces the life of an Indian princess from her birth during the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 until …