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this is the list of books i've read (since the beginning of my current book phase)
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Fiction:
377, by Manish Jani
A Life Apart, by Neel Mukherjee
All the Words Unspoken, by Serena Kaur
A Thousand Dreams Within Me Softly Burn, by Sahil Sood
Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal
The Boyfriend, by R. Raj Rao
The Boy and the Bindi, by Vivek Shraya
Bright Lines: A Novel, by Tanwi Nandini Islam
The Carpet Weaver, by Nemat Sadat
Cinnamon Gardens, by Shyam Selvadurai
The City of Devi, by Manil Suri
Cobalt Blue: A Novel, by Sachin Kundalkar
Don’t Let Him Know, by Sandip Roy
Funny Boy, by Shyam Selvadurai
Hostel Room 131, by R. Raj Rao
My Magical Palace, by Kunal Mukherjee
Marriage of a Thousand Lies, by SJ Sindhu
A Married Woman, by Manju Kapur
Memory of Light, by Ruth Vanita
Mohanaswamy, by Vasudhendra
My Father’s Garden, by Hansda Sowvendra Shekar
The Normal State of Mind, by Susmita Bhattacharya
Ode to Lata, by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
The Paths of Marriage, by Mala Kumar
The Pregnant King, by Devdutt Pattanaik
Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta
The Quilt and Other Stories, by Ismat Chughtai
Stealing Nasreen, by Farzana Doctor
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, by Shyam Selvadurai
Tell Me How to Be: A Novel, by Neel Patel
Trying to Grow, by Firdaus Kanga
The Two Krishnas, by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
Valmiki’s Daughter, by Shani Mootoo
When Tara Met Farah, by Tara Pammi
The World Unseen, by Shamim Sarif
Poetry:
High Noon and the Body, by Kyla Pasha
If They Come for Us: Poems, by Fatima Asghar
She of the Mountains, by Vivek Shraya
The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen, by Avinash Matta
The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia, by Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal
Young Adult:
The Best at It, by Maulik Pancholy
Bruised, by Tanya Boteju
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adbia Jaigirdar
The Henna Wars, by Adiba Jaigirdar
Jaya and Rasa, Sonia Patel
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens, by Tanya Boteju
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
We are Totally Normal, by Naomi Kanakia
Zara Hossain is Here, by Sabina Khan
Fantasy:
The Devourers, by Indra Das
The Ivory Key, by Akshaya Raman
The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri
Biography & Memoir:
Between Queens and the Cities, by Niranjan Kunwar
Dirty River, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
A Dutiful Boy, by Mohsin Zaidi
The Man Who Would be Queen, by Hoshang Merchant
Me Hijra, Me Laxmi, by Laxminarayan Tripathi
A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance, by Parvez Sharma
So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay In India, by Vivek Tejuja
A Truth About Me: A Hijra Story, by A. Revathi
We Have Always Been Here, by Samra Habib
You Can’t Be Serious, by Kal Penn
Non-Fiction & Anthologies:
AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, by Amartya Sen and various authors
Because I Have A Voice: Queer Politics in India, edited by Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan
Close, Too Close: The Tranquebar Book of Queer Erotica, by Meenu and Shruti
The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader, by Suniti Namjoshi
Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love, and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India, by Parmesh Shahani
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, by Gayatri Gopinath
The Invisibles, by Zia Jaffrey
A Lotus of Another Color, by Rakesh Ratti
Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita
Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India, by Maya Sharma
Made in India: Decolonializations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects, by Suparna Bhaskaran
Moving Truth(s): Queer and Transgender Desi Writings on Family, by Various authors
Neither Man Nor Woman, Serena Nanda
No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy, by Chaynika Shah, Raj Merchant, et al.
Out! Stories from the New Queer India, by Minal Hajratwala
Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, by Ruth Vanita
Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics, by Naisargi Dave
Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India, by Giti Thadani
Same-Sex Love in India, edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwal
Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia, by Sanjay Srivastava
Sex Longing and Not Belonging: A Gay Muslim’s Quest for Love and Meaning, by Badruddin Khan
Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You, by Devdutt Pattanaik
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, by Gaytri Reddy
Yaraana: Gay Writings from South Asia by Hoshang Merchant
As a person who is dying for book recommendations: What is a book you picked up randomly that you heard nothing about previously that blew you away?
I feel like we all have at least one hidden gem we stumbled upon.
Please reblog with your books in the tags :)
finished the world we make. but at what cost. spoilers under cut
idk. it really just didnt live up to the standard of the og book. it felt rushed, it felt like it’s characters werent explored as much, although one could argue that padmini didnt get much of a focus in the last book and shone here and manny was a main character last time and was pushed to the side a bit here, but still. i feel like it was trying to do too much in too little time. maybe a slower pace wouldve done it well. i appreciated the exploration of manny’s backstory but well, it didnt make much sense. it didnt make sense how his mom knew he would be a city and didnt make sense why he had to be chicago. am i in the wrong here? mayhaps. but i wasnt a fan of that plot point. rarely do i ever say this but i wished the romance between manny and neek was explored more, and i say i rarely say that because such adventurous books really dont need romance, but yet the whole knight dynamic was set up so intriguingly in the first book and was toned down a lot in this book. thats about all ive got for criticisms. i love istanbul because i love cats. i liked seeing all the other cities too. it was fun! bronca is iconic as per usual. sao paolo is still the little guy he was before. im still wishing for a little more because the great cities series was just an amazing concept to have of all these god-like entities representing their city while members of it, and i feel like theres just so much more left in its story. but yknow. it iz what it iz
hello bookblr. while i update my reading page for this blog, does anyone have recs that will slice me in half
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went back to the ari and dante books and got highlighting. its over for me
thinking about the absolute brainfuck of the darkness outside again. amazing book. dont read it at night. dont read it in the dark. reserve an entire day for your brain melting. oh also its cute but thats not the point here the point is that it dropkicks you and leaves you to the wolves
hello i am the op of this post. you picked it up because WHAT
whenever i see someone on pjotwt tweet something about the rrverse that is along the liens of "who is your favorite [trait] character in the rrverse" i am sooooo SOOOOOOOOOO tempted to respond with a pandava quintet character. to make them mad
the aristotle and dante brainrot is way too powerful. i am literally like aristotle mendoza on a spiritual level. we're the same fucking person. i cannot stop thinking about that book. i read it 2 days ago and i need to read it again. im going insane. im going feral. ari mendoza is me
i got aristotle and dante last year. i never read it. i picked it up recently. i finished it today. i wept as i finished it, in the middle of my research class. the prose in this book really is beautiful. i think the same way ari does. i dream the same way ari does. and i think i love the same way ari does. i need to think about things for a while now. i need to give this book a big, big hug.
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hi! can you recommend some books by indian writers? both fiction and nonfiction. thank you
Hi! I read your other message and here you go (I've also linked other asks where there are more relevant books mentioned)
Fiction
[x] | [xx]
Serious Men by Manu Joseph — about a low-caste man in a chawl in Mumbai and all that he does for his son to escape the limits of his position; satire on caste and class, scientific education in the country
Raag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla (trans. Gillian Wright) — really, really good satire on an village in the north a few decades after Independence; looks at how systems fail on ground, how clearly incapable most of them are at dealing with problems; also about the early years of the nexus forming between criminals, politicians, and businessmen and corruption taking root
High Wind by Tilottoma Misra (trans. Udayon Misra) — about a Sanskrit scholar who in the 19th century moves to colonial Shillong; explores the changes happening in Assamese culture and society during the time, how different communities and 'tribes' take shape and negotiate the colonial order
A Burning by Megha Majumdar — how the lives of three people intersect at the crossroads of law, justice, class aspirations and in an increasingly volatile political atmosphere
Baluta by Daya Pawar (trans. Jerry Pinto) — a memoir by Pawar about being a Dalit and how the identity changes as it moves from the village to the city
Name Place Animal Thing by Daribha Lyndem — it's like a bunch of character portraits of people who are all connected to each other and together they paint a picture of one girl who's growing up in a turbulent community in Shillong
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee — an old and joint family in Kolkata in the 1960s; looks at how it adapts or fails to; it's really good at how it shows a very distinct social class in decay in specifically post-Independence Kolkata but also at the same time could be about similar stories of the zamindar/landholding class unravelling elsewhere
A similar but older take on the joint family decaying in Maharashtra is Old Stone Mansion by Mahesh Elkunchwar. I read the original and I do vaguely remember there being a translation, but I'm not sure so do check that out. I think it'll be in this.
Battlefield by Vishram Bedekar (trans. Jerry Pinto) — about a Hindu man and a Jewish refugee who meet on a ship going from Europe to Hong Kong just before World War II; looks at what it means to be in exile, what it means to aspire to nationhood
I would also recommend the Aleph Book Company series on Greatest Stories Ever Told. I've only read a few but they seem quite well curated.
Non-fiction
about northeast India | the revolutionary movement | military history | [x] | colonisation and aftereffects |
A People’s Constitution by Rohit De — how people experience the constitution; how they participate in the legal and political process; really great because it takes the constitution beyond its documentary role
India Trilogy by V. S. Naipaul — An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, and India: A Million Mutinies Now; one of the best commentaries on 20th century but post-Independence India; also very different from other commentaries because Naipaul worked to see the country as something other than a former colony; also great because you get to see him traveling and changing his mind and arguing with himself over the three books
Sixteen Stormy Days by Tripurdaman Singh — about the first amendment of the Indian Constitution which has been a controversial one given that very soon after the Constitution being ratified, it put curbs on freedom of expression and property rights and gave birth to the Ninth Schedule
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck — how precolonial and ancient Indians imagined the geography through religion and vice versa; how Hinduism and generally Indic religions are closely tied with the land
India Unbound by Gurcharan Das — it's a personal economic history of sorts where he looks at the post-Independence economic growth (or lack thereof) through the routes his life has taken; really good because he brings to a table the experience of living in a 'mixed' economy and can really get across why 1991 was such a big deal
Castes of Mind by Nicholas Dirks — essays on how caste and race interacted to reorder the social structure in colonial India; how law, policy, politics, and profit all worked together when it came to matters of social categories and identity
The Eastern Gate by Sudeep Chakravarti — sort of journalistic history on how 'mainland' India has seen the Northeast, how insurgency took root; how conflicts have been navigated, solved, worsened
Modern South India by Rajmohan Gandhi — South India from the 17th century to the 20th; a little information heavy at times but useful
Our Moon Has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita — memoir on the Kashmiri Pandit genocide; also see his Hello Bastar if you're interested in the Naxalites
Kanshiram by Badri Narayan — a biography of Kanshiram and through him looks at Dalit politics and the whole world of OBC and Dalit consolidation
The Emergency by Coomi Kapoor — like India Unbound, a personal account of sorts of living through the Emergency; and she was a journalist then so it's really in-depth
Army and the Nation by Stephen Wilkinson — the relationship between the Indian Army and the Republic; how India has managed to keep the military establishment away from politics unlike Pakistan, which to all intents and purposes, inherited the similar institutional setup as India
Happy reading!
anyways if you’re as upset about the first kill cancellation as i am, here’s a list of sapphic books and books featuring queer girls to check out! for those i haven’t read, i’ve heard they’re worth reading, so please check out any of the books on this list!!
the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
the jasmine throne by tasha suri
a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee
the falling in love montage by ciara smyth
not my problem by ciara smyth
i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston
one last stop by casey mcquiston
she drives me crazy by kelly quindlen
some girls do by jennifer dugan
perfect on paper by sophie gonzales
the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo
siren queen by nghi vo
city of dusk by tara sim
i’ll be the one by lyla lee
flip the script by lyla lee
watch over me by nina lacour
we are okay by nina lacour
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
loveless by alice oseman
last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo
a memory called empire by arkady martine
gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
ophelia after all by racquel marie
PLEASE REBLOG WITH YOUR OWN IF YOU HAVE RECS!! i’m looking to add more sapphic books to my tbr and i know i’m not the only one
ZACHARY YING WAS SO FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but why did NOBODY tell me it wasnt a standalone bro what was that cliffhanger omg 😭😭 i loooved the connections between iron widow and zachary ying (i can sense that xiran jay zhao has quite the blorbos) and it was very enjoyable especially as someone who both read percy jackson and watched yugioh during their formative years (do NOT do that)
finally finished aru shah after 5 years. dont hmu. that series…. was so fun. man. man. MAN
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so……. guess whos back 😀
i have taken a long break from reading because of college apps. my storygraph is plotting revenge. but today for the first time in forever i read something!!! only…. 48 books left to go for my 100 book goal of 2022 😐
the book i read was “the mirror season” by anna marie mclenore. its beautiful. it explores its themes perfectly and brings color to its prose, and im telling you, if i hadn’t read it all during a school day, i would’ve sobbed. moreover, this is probably my first experience with an unreliable narrator, which added so much to the story. it was an easy 5 stars from me, and i’m glad i read it. it does tackle the hard topic of sexual assault and homophobia, but it’s a must-read for all!
not ali Hazelwood literally confirming this...
