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Books are considered to be a person’s best friend. It does everything that you’d expect your best friend to do. It tells you stories about the people that you might have once heard about or stories about a complete stranger. While it lets you experience different emotions and lets you walk alongside with the characters of the story, it sometimes lets you want to be the character. So, taking this into account, let’s explore five books written by Indian authors that are a must read.

A God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Set in the backdrops of a small village in Kerala, it is a story about the childhood experience of fraternal twins. With a few unfortunate turn of events, their lives completely changed and took a detour.

This was Roy’s debut novel and was published in the year 1996, making it one of the all-time favorites of the readers. In 1997, The God of Small Things won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

The Palace of Illusions: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Have you wondered what if Mahabharata, the Sanskrit epic of ancient India was retold from a woman’s perspective? Well, The Palace of Illusions: A Novel is an execution of Hindu epic Mahabharata from Draupadi’s viewpoint, namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world.

A book that captured the true emotions of Draupadi, it was critically acclaimed by many with positive reviews. The novel written by the award-winning Indian-American author and poet, this is considered to be one of the finest works by the author.

Looking for a twist in the plot and a different perspective, you know where to lay your hands.

Nacropolis by Jeet Thayil

Set in the 1970s Old Bombay, Narcopolis tells the story about the city of intoxication, intoxicated in the influence of opium. The novel draws on his own experiences as a drug addict, but the story expands with characters that are closely associated with the drug scene of the city.

As a novel that took the author five years to write, this book was nominated for Man Booker Prize in 2012. As a book that talks about the darkest side of the drug scene in a city, some might find depressing and some exciting. But it’s worth a read.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Written by Rupi Kaur, an Indo-Canadian poet and illustrator, this book is a collection of poetry, prose and hand-drawn illustrations dealing with themes of violence, abuse, love, loss, and feminism.

Critically appreciated by all around the world, the book topped the New York Times bestsellers list and remained on it for 52 consecutive weeks. While emotions are a thing for all the readers, Milk and Honey will make you experience all kinds of emotions, empowering you to do things that you haven’t do before.

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

A recipient of Man Booker Prize 1981, the story is set in the context of actual historical events. The story told by Saleem Sinai, the chief protagonist was born in the midnight of the independence of India and the partition of British India.

Written by Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, and essayist, this novel is considered as an example of postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist literature. In addition to the positive acclimations received, the book was also awarded Booker of Bookers prize and was listed as the best-loved novels on the BBC’s The Big Read poll of the UK.

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