 | The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.74 Better if read before you see Slumdog Millionaire, but a fun, fast read.
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 | Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.98 I am convinced that this, Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh are as good as the order you read them (i.e. whichever you read first you will like most). But the scope of this one is amazing.
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 | The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $1.59 I wasn't going to post two novels by the same author, but this is a lovely read. Helped me understand Kashmir a little!
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 | The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy used from: $1.86 Wonderfully good novel. Her short stories are, probably, better. No-one evokes the gentle sadnesses of the middle-class Indian diaspora in America like JL.
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 | The God of Small Things: A Novel by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.45 Arundhati Roy is a shining star in the firmament, and this is a small bright yellow light.
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 | Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $3.75 Since she helped Kiran win fame and fortune her own celebrity has accrued, but her writing has been perceptive and precise for a lot longer. Clear Light of Day may be better, but this is, I think, the most famous.
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 | Buddha of Suburbia (FF Classics) by Hanif Kureishi
Buy used from: $4.85 This and The Black Album are both pretty special, but the film of My Beautiful Laundrette is a wonderful exercise in 80s race relations, UK-style (as is My Son, The Fanatic).
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 | Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.99 The shortest 1000pp novel you've ever read. Eye-opening and mind-blowing. I mean, yes, written by an Australian, but one who knows what he's talking about!
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 | Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Buy used from: $0.01 A student bought me this -- not always an auspicious sign -- but this is a wonderful study. Despite the title, understated.
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