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Desi Books is a global multimedia forum that showcases South Asian literature and connects readers and writers through conversation and community. ~Jenny Bhatt, Founder & Editor-in-Chief
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Desi Books 2022 VIEW LIST (77 BOOKS)
Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
Translating Myself and Others
The Immortal King Rao
In Sensorium: Notes for My People
Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia
The City Inside
After
Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-Envisioning
They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
Ghazals: Translations of Classic Urdu Poetry
Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins
Sleeping Alone: Stories
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
Diary of a Film
Circa

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Desi Books in English Translation VIEW LIST (44 BOOKS)
Iqbal: Poet of the East
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India
Pyre
Ghazals: Translations of Classic Urdu Poetry
Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation
Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
Breast Stories
Acrobat
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters
The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
Translations Gift Set: India Through Her Literatures
Ghachar Ghochar
River of Fire

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Desi Books Poetry VIEW LIST (57 BOOKS)
They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
Fairoz
The Golden Thread
Iqbal: Poet of the East
Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
Curb
Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful
Acrobat
Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant
Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology
How to Wash a Heart
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters
Auguries of a Minor God
After
A God at the Door

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Desi Books Historical Fiction VIEW LIST (68 BOOKS)
A Fine Balance
River of Fire
Midnight's Children
The Enchantress of Florence
Difficult Daughters
The English Patient
Anil's Ghost
Coming Through Slaughter
In the Skin of a Lion
Warlight
The Garland Keepers
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Baumgartner's Bombay
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
The Book of Saladin

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Desi Books Travel VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870-1940
Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire: 1830-1940
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
From Cairo to Beirut: In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition Through the Holy Land
Around India in 80 Trains
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: Winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-Fiction
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
Wanderland: Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
Desi Books 2021 VIEW LIST (143 BOOKS)
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Curb
The City of Good Death
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful
The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
Dark Tourist: Essays
The Shadows of Men
The Other Man
Serena Singh Flips the Script

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Desi Books 2020 VIEW LIST (124 BOOKS)
Exquisite Cadavers
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Homeland Elegies
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Each of Us Killers
Generation Zero: Reclaiming My Parents' American Dream
Rising Heat
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
Other Side of the Divide
What He Did in Solitary: Poems
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
My Mother's Scribe: Poems and Tales

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