New Books from South Asia (2024)

Description
A list to keep track of new writing in English from South Asia in 2024. I will try and make this an annual thing. Includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives.
Based on place
India
1
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
by Amitav Ghosh
236 members
3 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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2
The Spoiled Heart
by Sunjeev Sahota
75 members
4 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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3
Choice
by Neel Mukherjee
56 members
2 reviews
3
2 Members
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4
My Beloved Life: A novel
by Amitava Kumar
39 members
½ 3.5
2 Members
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5
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States
by John Zubrzycki
38 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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6
Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir
by Chitralekha Zutshi
9 members
Member
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7
The Kannada Mahabharata, Volume 1
by Kumāravyāsa
7 members
½ 3.5
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10
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,403 members
1,049 reviews
3.9
11
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
41,991 members
612 reviews
4.1
12
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
31,310 members
420 reviews
4
13
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
23,899 members
887 reviews
½ 3.5
14
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
18,861 members
435 reviews
4.1
15
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by J. K. Rowling
18,020 members
176 reviews
½ 3.7
16
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
17,488 members
763 reviews
4
17
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
16,761 members
635 reviews
4
18
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,303 members
269 reviews
4
19
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,922 members
167 reviews
3.8
20
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
13,877 members
171 reviews
½ 3.7
21
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
12,076 members
274 reviews
4
22
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
11,376 members
440 reviews
4.2
23
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
10,367 members
442 reviews
3.8
24
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
10,174 members
215 reviews
3.8
25
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,947 members
272 reviews
½ 4.4
26
Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
8,126 members
254 reviews
4.1
27
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
7,516 members
204 reviews
½ 3.4
28
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,946 members
129 reviews
4.1
29
The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
6,673 members
60 reviews
3.9
30
Tigers at Twilight
by Mary Pope Osborne
6,645 members
20 reviews
3.8
31
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,237 members
198 reviews
½ 4.4
32
Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes
5,196 members
183 reviews
½ 3.7
33
The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
4,900 members
33 reviews
½ 4.3
34
An Autobiography; or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
4,184 members
51 reviews
4
35
A Son of the Circus
by John Irving
4,156 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
37
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C. G. Jung
4,018 members
26 reviews
4.2
38
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
by Rick Riordan
3,821 members
57 reviews
4.2
39
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3,785 members
118 reviews
½ 3.7
40
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
3,466 members
155 reviews
4
41
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,411 members
126 reviews
½ 4.3
42
Wielding a Red Sword
by Piers Anthony
3,409 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
43
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by Maggie O'Farrell
3,406 members
214 reviews
3.8
44
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
3,220 members
165 reviews
4.1
45
Being a Green Mother
by Piers Anthony
3,209 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
46
Shalimar the Clown
by Salman Rushdie
3,137 members
55 reviews
3.8
47
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
3,100 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
48
The Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
3,084 members
73 reviews
3.8
49
Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
2,894 members
74 reviews
4
50
Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
2,724 members
55 reviews
4
51
The Space Between Us
by Thrity Umrigar
2,675 members
115 reviews
3.9
52
The Rise of Nine
by Pittacus Lore
2,656 members
68 reviews
3.9
53
Homeless Bird
by Gloria Whelan
2,644 members
61 reviews
4.1
54
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
2,622 members
81 reviews
4.2
55
Sharpe's Tiger
by Bernard Cornwell
2,610 members
55 reviews
3.9
56
The Far Pavilions
by M. M. Kaye
2,549 members
73 reviews
4.1
57
The Master of Ballantrae
by Robert Louis Stevenson
2,504 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
58
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
2,459 members
72 reviews
4.1
59
The Blue Lotus
by Hergé
2,411 members
26 reviews
4
60
Men Explain Things to Me {updated edition}
by Rebecca Solnit
2,404 members
84 reviews
3.9
61
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,404 members
92 reviews
3.8
62
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
2,388 members
110 reviews
3.8
63
Zoo
by James Patterson
2,359 members
114 reviews
½ 3.3
64
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J. G. Farrell
2,299 members
74 reviews
4
65
Hearts Of Fire: Eight Women In The Underground Church And Their Stories Of Costly Faith
by Steve Cleary
2,295 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
66
The Game
by Laurie R. King
2,273 members
66 reviews
4
67
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong
2,240 members
38 reviews
3.8
68
King and Maxwell
by David Baldacci
2,187 members
55 reviews
3.8
69
Be Here Now
by Ram Dass
2,129 members
26 reviews
4.1
70
Sacred Games
by Vikram Chandra
2,110 members
51 reviews
3.8
71
Monkey
by Wu Ch'eng-en
2,062 members
26 reviews
4
72
Tiger's Curse
by Colleen Houck
2,049 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
73
Buddha
by Karen Armstrong
2,015 members
36 reviews
3.8
74
Secret Daughter
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
2,012 members
144 reviews
3.8
75
The Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri
2,001 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
76
The Fall of Five
by Pittacus Lore
1,983 members
39 reviews
4
77
Sharpe's Triumph
by Bernard Cornwell
1,978 members
36 reviews
3.9
78
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology
by Joseph Campbell
1,974 members
16 reviews
4.1
79
Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons
1,973 members
67 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Mistress of Spices
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1,947 members
52 reviews
½ 3.4
81
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
by Elisabeth Elliot
1,907 members
10 reviews
4.2
82
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
1,901 members
36 reviews
4
83
Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuściński
1,861 members
42 reviews
4
84
The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
1,783 members
59 reviews
½ 4.4
85
Sharpe's Fortress
by Bernard Cornwell
1,756 members
25 reviews
4
86
Such a Long Journey
by Rohinton Mistry
1,746 members
29 reviews
3.9
87
River of Gods
by Ian McDonald
1,729 members
47 reviews
3.9
88
Nectar in a Sieve
by Kamala Markandaya
1,711 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
89
Sister of My Heart
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1,696 members
34 reviews
3.9
90
The Second Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
1,667 members
19 reviews
3.8
91
The Jewel in the Crown
by Paul Scott
1,634 members
34 reviews
4
92
The Conference of the Birds
by Farid Ud-Din Attar
1,607 members
16 reviews
4
93
The Campaigns of Alexander
by Arrian
1,588 members
13 reviews
3.8
94
A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
1,508 members
81 reviews
3.9
95
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
1,506 members
31 reviews
3.9
96
India: A History
by John Keay
1,505 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
97
Joseph Anton
by Salman Rushdie
1,498 members
40 reviews
3.8
98
Freedom at Midnight
by Larry Collins
1,473 members
35 reviews
4.2
99
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
by William Dalrymple
1,473 members
28 reviews
4
100
The Impressionist
by Hari Kunzru
1,458 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6