Reading Theme: Indian Books in August + August 2014 To-Be-Read List!

Yay! It's that time of the year again...the time to set a Reading Theme and read all things India.

I did the same thing last year when I read only Indian books in the month of August to celebrate The Indian Independence Day, which is celebrated on the 15th of August. In honour and celebration, I decided to dedicate a month of reading all things India...but...I also included the Indian subcontinent in my reading plans. This year I'll be reading books from both Pakistan and Bangladesh apart from India.

I have a sligtly ambitious reading-list, but lately my reading game has been super on point. In the last few months, I've been reading around 25 books a month...I KNOW RIGHT!? Insane..but good insane. So I've added a few more books to my TBR and I tend to fly through Indian books, must be something about knowing the setting and background really well.

I also have a motley number of books I'd like to re-read, I won't get to all of them, but I'd like to get to some.

So here it is..my TBR for my All-Indian-Books Month.

If you want to join in the madness, please do! The more the merrier! :)

1. Red-Earth and Pouring Rain- Vikram Chandra

2. Bookless in Baghdad- Shashi Tharoor

3. The Return of Butterfly- Moni Mohsin; from Pakistan

4. The Ice-Candyman- Bapsi Sidhwa "

5. The Anti-Social Network- Piyush Jha

6. Fasting and Feasting- Anita Desai

7. Fire in the Mountain- "

8. Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie (RR)

9. The Hungry Tide- Amitav Ghosh (RR)

10. Two Virgins- Kamala Markandaya

11. The Home and The World- Tagore

12. The Golden Age- Tahmima Anam (RR)- this one is from Bangladesh

13. The Corpse Bearer- Cyrus Mistry

14. Hanuman's Ramayana- Devdutt Pattnaik

15. Sita: An Illustrated Re-Telling of the Ramayan- Devdutt Pattnaik

16. Secrets- Ruskin Bond

17. The Lives of Others- Neel Mukherjee (this just got Long-Listed for the Man Booker!)

18. Sunlight on a Broken Column- Attia Hosain

19. Girl in the Garden- Kamala Nair (RR)

20. Inside The Haveli- Rama Mehta

So much reading! I can't wait to get started!

Have a lovely month ahead, and happy Reading :)

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