Asian Literature

Recommended South Asian Literature

(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

Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger

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)

Hanif Qureishi: Intimacy

Ismat Chughtai: Lifting the Veil
 
Indu Sunderesan: The Shadow Princess

Indu Sunderesan: the Twentieth Wife

Jaishree Mishra: Rani

Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie: Broken Verses 
 
Khalid Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Khalid Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Meera Syal: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee 

Manju Kapur: Difficult Daughters 

Mohammed Hanif: A Case of Exploding Mangoes 
 
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 


Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
Vikas Swarup: Q & A

Vikram Seth: An Equal Music 

William Dalrymple: City of Djinns (non-fiction)