The Unexpected Son
Shobhan Bantwal
2010 · 2013 edition
328 pages
The most popular south Asian experience books
These books tell the stories of people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and their diasporas. Family, marriage, faith, partition, migration and ambition fill some of the most celebrated novels of recent decades. Expect big casts, rich food and stories that cross continents.
Results
Marriage Material
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Sathnam Sanghera
2013 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Blue Jasmine
Kashmira Sheth
2004 · 2013 edition
162 pages
The Middleman and Other Stories
Bharati Mukherjee
1988 · 2020 edition
224 pages
In the City by the Sea
Kamila Shamsie
1998 · 2004 edition
224 pages
Seaglass Summer
Anjali Banerjee
Published 2010
163 pages
Vanished
Sheela Chari
Published 2011
336 pages
The Perfect Gentleman A Muslim Boy Meets the West
Imran Ahmad
2012 · 2024 edition
400 pages
The Karma of Brown Folk
Vijay Prashad
Published 2000
253 pages
Shine, Coconut Moon
Neesha Dosanjh Meminger
Published 2009
253 pages
The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen
Mitali Perkins
1993 · 2005 edition
192 pages
Michelangelo's Ghost
Gigi Pandian
Published 2016
273 pages
East is East
Ayub Khan-Din
1996 · 2014 edition
84 pages
Brown What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Fajer Al-Kaisi
2016 · 2017 edition
352 pages
The Garden of My Imaan
Farhana Zia
Published 2013
192 pages
Disgraced
Saira Ahmed & Andrew Crofts
Published 2009
320 pages
A Long Pitch Home
Natalie Dias Lorenzi
2016 · 2018 edition
248 pages
Can't Is Not an Option My American Story
Nikki Haley
2012 · 2025 edition
264 pages
Quarantine Stories
Rahul Mehta
2010 · 2011 edition
224 pages
A Small Fortune
Rosie Dastgir
2012 · 2013 edition
384 pages
Saffron Dreams
Shaila Abdullah
2009 · 2010 edition
284 pages
Grandma and the Great Gourd
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2013 · 2023 edition
32 pages
My Dadima Wears a Sari
Kashmira Sheth, Yoshiko Jaeggi
2007 · 2022 edition
32 pages
Jaya and Rasa A Love Story
Sonia Patel
Published 2017
304 pages