Recommended South Asian Literature
(These include books by South Asian authors as well as those set in South Asian countries)
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Anees Salim: Vanity Bagh
Anjana Appachanna: Listening Now
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Basharat Peer: Curfewed Nights
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Palace of Illusions
Duniyal Mueenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea
Indu Sunderesan: the Twentieth Wife
Jaishree Mishra: Rani
Khalid Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nadeem Aslam: The Wasted Vigil
Rahul Mehta: Quarantine
Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
William Dalrymple: City of Djinns (non-fiction)
(These include books by South Asian authors as well as those set in South Asian countries)
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Anees Salim: Vanity Bagh
Anjana Appachanna: Listening Now
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Basharat Peer: Curfewed Nights
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Palace of Illusions
Duniyal Mueenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea
Gulzar: Silences (poetry)
Indu Sunderesan: the Twentieth Wife
Jaishree Mishra: Rani
Khalid Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Khalid Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Meera Syal: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Mohsin Hamid: Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nadeem Aslam: The Wasted Vigil
Rahul Mehta: Quarantine
Salman Rushdie: Shame
Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
Vikas Swarup: Q & A
Vikram Seth: An Equal Music
William Dalrymple: City of Djinns (non-fiction)