Working on your list for next year? Here’s our list of picks!
i. Bad Money – Vivek Kaul
Bestselling author Vivek Kaul dissects India’s biggest banking emergency. The book will explain the role of each stakeholder in the complex banking ecosystem and connect several missing pieces to create the larger picture. In the process, it will answer many questions including the crucial: Is your money safe in public sector banks?
ii. How to Be a Writer – Ruskin Bond
Here’s a book for aspiring writers from the master writer himself. Seven funny, tongue-in-cheek, practical and easy-to-follow steps to becoming a writer from Ruskin Bond.
iii. Shameless – Taslima Nasreen
Shameless is the stunning sequel to Taslima Nasreen’s controversial and bestselling novel Lajja (Shame). According to Taslima Nasreen, Shameless, unlike Lajja, is not a political novel. It is instead a novel about what the politics of religion does to human beings and their relationships: a ruthless, uncompromising, heartbreaking tale of ordinary people’s lives in our times.
iv. The Endgame – Hussain Zaidi
The country faces an unprecedented terror threat…
Hussain Zaidi is back with his irresistible cast of characters in this electrifying story of politics, betrayal and unimaginable terror.
v. The Mother of All Parties – Padmini Sankar
As Pam struggles to juggle all the different aspects of her life, will she still be able to throw the mother of all parties?
vi. Inheritance – Balli Kaur Jaswal
Balli Kaur Jaswal’s award-winning first novel is a tender yet powerful depiction of mental illness. Set in Singapore, spanning two decades, it is also a poignant, unsparing portrait of a family struggling to preserve tradition in the face of an ever-changing nation.
vii. The Missing Memsahib – Arjun Raj Gaind
Summer, 1912. Maharaja Sikander Singh of Rajpore barely returned from his adventures at the Delhi Durbar, receives an invitation to the wedding of his childhood tutor, Peter Rowan. Ever eager to escape his princely duties, he travels to Bombay to attend the nuptials. Upon arriving, he learns that his friend’s intended bride, Miss Mary Hartley, has vanished.
viii. Conversations with the Mystic – Sadhguru
The first book in a two-part series, Conversations with the Mystic is a thought-provoking exchange aimed at motivating, inspiring and uncovering the mysteries of life.
ix. Poison on a Platter – Maneka Gandhi
Poison on a Platter is a sharp insight into the practices of the food industry which take a direct toll on consumers’ health. This book furnishes the readers with impeccably researched facts and reports on how perilous our food is, and how we can tackle these problems.
x. Dreams of a Billion – Boria Majumdar & Nalin Mehta
Dreams of a Billion gives the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage in India’s Olympics world and how it has changed in the last decade, alongside a quick history of how we have fared at the Games over the past century. Which brings us to the question: How good is India’s preparation for Tokyo 2020?
xi. The Dalai Lama – Alexander Norman
For all his universal fame, the Dalai Lama remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed scholar of the history of Tibet, delivers the
definitive biography – unique, multi-layered, and at times even shocking. This is the definitive biography of one of today’s most radical, charismatic, and beloved world leaders.
xii. Baking a Dream: The Theobroma Story – Kainaz Messman Harchandrai w/ Tina Messman Wykes
Anyone who’s tried Theobroma brownies knows that they are literally food for the gods. What most people don’t know is that the recipe was born in a small Colaba kitchen, on a neighbour’s request. From a single cafe with just four tables, today, Theobroma has grown into a chain of 40 outlets across the country.
xiii. The Harper Book of Olympics – V. Krishnaswamy
The Harper Book of Olympics will entail abundant Indian stories of greatness, shame, cheating, victory, defeat alike, putting together an idea about what makes this event so riveting.
xiv. Desserts for Every Mood – Shivesh Bhatia
In his second book, Shivesh shares a range of desserts – gooey caramel chocolate tart, fresh lemon chiffon cake to an exotic litchi rose tiramisu – that have helped him through difficult times and made happy occasions even more joyous, hoping that they will do the same for you.
xv. The Parsi Kitchen – Anahita Dhondy
SodaBottleOpenerWala’s Anahita Dhondy celebrates her heritage in a warm and whimsical food memoir with recipes. Seasoned by the author’s abiding love of food, The Parsi Kitchen is a joyful read that speaks to the creative spirit in us all.
xvi. Karma’s Child – Subhash Ghai & Suveen Sinha
Subhash Ghai is known as the Ultimate Showman of Bollywood, a title reflected by the flamboyance and grandeur of his films. Karma’s Child tells the story of the man who felt he was destined to direct his own future – and did it his way.
xvii. Moustache – S. Hareesh
Originally published in Malayalam as Meesha, S. Hareesh’s Moustache is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance.
xviii. The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia – (edited by) Aditi Angiras & Akhil Katyal
Featuring writing in a number of languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Manipuri, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and, of course, English, The World That Belongs to Us is an urgent, imaginative and beautiful testament to the diversity, politics, aesthetics and ethics of queer life in South Asia today.
xix. The Death Script – Ashutosh Bhardwaj
Narrated in multiple voices, the book is a creative biography of the battlefield of Dandakaranya, combining the rigour of journalism, the intimacy of a diary, the musings of a travelogue, and the craft of a novel.
xx. Kintsugi: A Novel – Anukrti Upadhyay
A new novel from the writer of the acclaimed Daura and Bhaunri, Kintsugi is set in Japan and Jaipur, and follows the intersecting lives of five characters – Meena, Yuri, Hajime, Haruko and Leela – exploring through them various ways of living, loving, creating – and the idea of imperfection being inseparable from beauty.