Babyji
Abha Dawesar
The story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. 

Beach Boy
Ardashir Vakil
A coming-of-age story set in Bombay following a boy's passage to adolescence with sex and samosas, sea and shore, truant afternoons, Hindi films, and a woman's seductive daughter. The city is full of unforgettable sights and smells and includes discoveries about lies and death, meals and girls.

Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai
From the heart of a close-knit Indian household to the cool centre of an American family, this novel examines a surfeit of feasting and Indian family life, and the self-denial and starving of affluent American women in the land of plenty.

Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives.

Gifted
Nikita Lalwani
This debut novel offers a coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old Indian British math prodigy and the pressures placed upon her as she is thrust into the adult world of a university.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
The story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai
Sampath Chawla is a failure--at school, at work, at life in general. Then, quite unexpectedly, he achieves fame and recognition as a holy man.

Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee
Jasmine Vijh, widowed in India at 17, flees to America. This is the story of her daring travels, her painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis and, eventually, the home she finds in Iowa where she accepts how inextricably her fate has become part of America's.

Life of Pi
Yann Martel
When his ship sinks, a teen emigrating with his family from India to North America finds himself alone in a lifeboat--his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.

Londonstani
by Gautam Malkani
This debut comic novel portrays the lives of young Muslim, Sikh, andHindu men in the ethnically charged enclave of one of the world'sbiggest cities--London. Malkani completed Londonstani shortlyafter the bombings in London last July.

Motherland
Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Fifteen-year-old Maya is disgruntled when her mother impels her to visit India for the summer to reacquaint herself with her extended Indian family. Over the course of three months, Maya learns why a rift has always existed between her mother and herself, an understanding that allows her to bridge that gap

Prince of Ayodhya (The Ramayana #1)
Ashok K. Banker
A retelling of the ancient Sanskrit tale, "Ramayana". In the ancient city of Ayodhya, a young prince has a terrifying apocalyptic vision. Shortly after, an ancient seer arrives at the city gates with an equally terrifying prophecy. Together they journey to the ends of the world.

Professor of Light
Marina Budhos
Adolescent Meggie Singh faces her complex personal history as she struggles under her father's demanding tutelage in this novel that chronicles Indo-Caribbean displacement.

The Twentieth Wife
Indu Sundaresan
Set in 16th century India, this novel chronicles the rise to prominence of Mehrunnisa, the daughter of a Persian courtier to the Mughal emperor, Akbar.

The Village by the Sea
Anita Desai
With their mother ill and their father permanently drunk, Hara and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, leaving Lila to cope alone.