Fiction
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Young friends and their pet elephant travel back in time to meet Alexander the Great in this book
Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia
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‘The Issue’: Read Tanuj Solanki’s short fiction from a new anthology featuring young Indian writers
Tanuj Solanki
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In this new novel, a group of eccentrics gets together to solve the mysterious death of a neighbour
Pashupati Chatterji
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Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’
Julian Novitz, The Conversation
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A young man who finds fame in early 20th century Bombay is the star of this new novel
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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Anees Salim’s newest novel is set in Paradise Lodge, a hotel where people come to die
Anees Salim
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‘Honor’ is a novel of two couples and the heartbreaking challenges of love across cultural divisions
Thrity Umrigar
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If you loved Homer’s Greek epic ‘The Odyssey’, here are five other books you might want to read
Rachel Bryant Davies, The Conversation
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Jerry Pinto’s new novel is an ode to friendship, sexual and political awakening in 1980s’ Mumbai
Jerry Pinto
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‘The Mendicant Prince’ retells with compassion a legendary court case involving a ‘dead’ prince
Madhulika Liddle
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September reading: Life in India over the years with seven recently published works of fiction
Sayari Debnath
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Durjoy Datta is back with a new romance novel – starring a single mother and her employee
Durjoy Datta
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‘Banaras Talkies’ in translation is an adroit recreation of a wickedly funny campus novel in Hindi
Mohini Gupta
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‘Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors’: This novel about a young couple’s sex scandal is an assured debut
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Last White Man’: Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel is a redemptive fable about race and identity
Rabeea Saleem
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In ‘After Sappho,’ iconic women in history claim the rights to their lives and queer identities
Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Mohsin Hamid’s new novel: What happens when a white man’s skin suddenly turns dark?
Mohsin Hamid
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‘Crimson Spring’ uses fiction to re-scrutinise the imperial ambitions behind Jallianwala Bagh
Shubhangi Tiwari
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A new novel explores how the digital world of games can offer intimacy that is elusive in real life
Gabrielle Zevin
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The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize: Three Indian-origin authors make it to the longlist
Scroll Staff