Books

This is the most comprehensive book ever published on curries, written by Madhur Jaffrey, the world's bestselling Indian cookery author.

Shifting dreamlike between present and past withintoxicating language, visceral action, compelling characters, and stark emotion, The Devourers offers a reading experience quite unlike any other novel.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time.

Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai is a quiet yet powerful novel that explores solitude, loss, and the hidden tensions beneath a woman’s retreat into isolation in the Indian hills.

A quirky and darkly comic take on domestic life in southern India.

"A Book of Simple Living" is a gift of beauty and wisdom from India's most loved, and most understated, writer.

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life.

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.

Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling.

Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.

With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him praise as India’s Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand recreates in Untouchable what it was like to live on the fringes of society in pre-independence India.

A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, and reconciliation.

A masterpiece from one of the world’s finest novelists.

Kiran Desai’s dazzling debut novel is a hilarious story of life, love, and family that tells the surprising and delightful story of a young man’s unusual path to fame in a small Northern Indian city

Wickedly funny, brutally honest, and deeply provocative, The White Tiger reveals the stark realities of class, corruption, and opportunity in contemporary India.

A celebration of storytelling as a bridge between worlds—linking history, myth, and modern identity in a timeless search for meaning and belonging.

As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.

From India’s highest-selling author comes a page-turner that will not only keep you glued to the story but also touch you deeply.

Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial

Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the “must reads” of Indian literature.