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
237 members
3 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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2
The Spoiled Heart
by Sunjeev Sahota
74 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
47,425 members
1,050 reviews
3.9
11
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
42,022 members
612 reviews
4.1
12
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
31,273 members
421 reviews
4
13
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
23,904 members
887 reviews
½ 3.5
14
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,198 members
436 reviews
4.1
15
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by J. K. Rowling
18,039 members
176 reviews
½ 3.7
16
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
17,494 members
763 reviews
4
17
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
16,764 members
636 reviews
4
18
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,498 members
269 reviews
4
19
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,925 members
167 reviews
3.8
20
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
13,880 members
171 reviews
½ 3.7
21
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
12,066 members
272 reviews
4
22
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
11,387 members
441 reviews
4.2
23
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
10,368 members
442 reviews
3.8
24
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
10,179 members
215 reviews
3.8
25
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,977 members
271 reviews
½ 4.4
26
Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
8,130 members
255 reviews
4.1
27
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
7,519 members
205 reviews
½ 3.4
28
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
6,949 members
129 reviews
4.1
29
The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
6,678 members
60 reviews
3.9
30
Tigers at Twilight
by Mary Pope Osborne
6,649 members
20 reviews
3.8
31
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,081 members
198 reviews
½ 4.4
32
Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes
5,198 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
4,186 members
51 reviews
4
35
A Son of the Circus
by John Irving
4,155 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
37
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C. G. Jung
4,033 members
26 reviews
4.2
38
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
by Rick Riordan
3,827 members
57 reviews
4.2
39
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
3,784 members
118 reviews
½ 3.7
40
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
3,470 members
155 reviews
4
41
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,423 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
42
Wielding a Red Sword
by Piers Anthony
3,410 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
43
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by Maggie O'Farrell
3,409 members
214 reviews
3.8
44
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
3,228 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
3,138 members
55 reviews
3.8
47
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
3,107 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
48
The Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
3,085 members
73 reviews
3.8
49
Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
2,892 members
74 reviews
4
50
Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
2,722 members
54 reviews
4
51
The Space Between Us
by Thrity Umrigar
2,677 members
115 reviews
3.9
52
The Rise of Nine
by Pittacus Lore
2,652 members
68 reviews
3.9
53
Homeless Bird
by Gloria Whelan
2,645 members
62 reviews
4.1
54
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
2,623 members
81 reviews
4.2
55
Sharpe's Tiger
by Bernard Cornwell
2,612 members
55 reviews
3.9
56
The Far Pavilions
by M. M. Kaye
2,551 members
73 reviews
4.1
57
The Master of Ballantrae
by Robert Louis Stevenson
2,512 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
58
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
2,456 members
72 reviews
4.1
59
Men Explain Things to Me {updated edition}
by Rebecca Solnit
2,416 members
84 reviews
3.9
60
The Blue Lotus
by Hergé
2,414 members
26 reviews
4
61
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,406 members
92 reviews
3.8
62
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
2,389 members
110 reviews
3.8
63
Zoo
by James Patterson
2,346 members
114 reviews
½ 3.3
64
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J. G. Farrell
2,300 members
73 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
2,269 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
2,132 members
26 reviews
4.1
70
Sacred Games
by Vikram Chandra
2,110 members
52 reviews
3.8
71
Monkey
by Wu Ch'eng-en
2,061 members
26 reviews
4
72
Tiger's Curse
by Colleen Houck
2,051 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
73
Buddha
by Karen Armstrong
2,019 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
2,000 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
76
The Fall of Five
by Pittacus Lore
1,988 members
39 reviews
4
77
Sharpe's Triumph
by Bernard Cornwell
1,979 members
36 reviews
3.9
78
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology
by Joseph Campbell
1,973 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
1,948 members
53 reviews
½ 3.4
81
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
by Elisabeth Elliot
1,908 members
10 reviews
4.2
82
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
1,897 members
36 reviews
4
83
Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuściński
1,862 members
43 reviews
4
84
The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
1,781 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
1,745 members
28 reviews
3.9
87
River of Gods
by Ian McDonald
1,727 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
1,693 members
34 reviews
3.9
90
The Second Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
1,669 members
19 reviews
3.8
91
The Jewel in the Crown
by Paul Scott
1,633 members
34 reviews
4
92
The Conference of the Birds
by Farid Ud-Din Attar
1,604 members
16 reviews
4
93
The Campaigns of Alexander
by Arrian
1,589 members
13 reviews
3.8
94
A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
1,509 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
1,503 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
97
Joseph Anton
by Salman Rushdie
1,496 members
40 reviews
3.8
98
Freedom at Midnight
by Larry Collins
1,472 members
35 reviews
4.2
99
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
by William Dalrymple
1,472 members
28 reviews
4
100
The Impressionist
by Hari Kunzru
1,457 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6