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Top
Ten Tuesdays
this weeks theme at the Broke and the Bookish is Top X Genre Books (pick the genre you want: Top
Ten Historical fiction books, Top Ten Dystopian Books, Top Ten Victorian
Novels). You can pick the genre – mine for this week is books by Indian authors.
Top ten books by Indian authors
  1. Abraham Varghese – Cutting
    for Stone
  2. Aravind Adiga – White
    Tiger/Last Man In Tower
  3. Vikram Seth – Suitable boy
  4. Salman Rushdie – Haroun
    and the Sea of Stories
  5. R.K.Narayan – The English
    Teacher, The Guide
  6. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    – Sister of my Heart/mistress of spices
  7. Anjali banerjee –
    invisible lives/looking for bapu
  8. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle
    Book
  9. Rabindranath Tagore – Kabuliwala
    and more
  10. Munshi Premchand – Godan
  11. Rupa Bajwa – The Sari Shop
Other authors/books I did not add include Indu Sundaresan,
Sudha Murthy, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, R.K.Laxman, Manjula Padmanabhan as well as Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh, and Shashi Taroor (the last three – are on my TBR list). 
Note: i know I have 11:)
“When her eyesight had begun to dim, over a decade ago, Mrs. Pinto had kept a strict count of the the steps (even retracing her path when she lost the count), but that was no longer necessary.
The walls had sprouted eyes for her.”
From Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga

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