Book Haul//// Books of May 2018, Part- II.

Hello!

Time to share some of my newest bookish loves. So far, May has been a fantastic month for book buying.

I got all of these books from Amazon in the very beginning of the month and I got mostly a bunch of translated regional fiction. I found some great books and I am so excited to getting to them soon!

Here's what I added to my bookshelves recently...

BOOKS BOUGHT///

The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told by Muhammed Umar Memon

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam

Diwali in Muzaffarnagar by Tanuj Solanki

Murder in the City by Supratim Sarkar

Karmachari by V.P. Kale

This book sounds so interesting and I am so happy to be reading some Marathi tales in translation.
I also adore the cover illustration, a Mumbai local in all of it's glory.

My current read which I am enjoying a lot.

12 Cases from the Kolkata Police case files.

Short stories set in Muzaffarnagar. I have half a mind to save this book for Diwali but I might cave in and read it early.

A book from Sri Lanka.

I might save this for my Indian Books in August.

This gorgeous book has been on my radar for so long. But it's for ₹ 599 and I just couldn't justify spending so much on a book. Do you have a cut-off for how much you spend on a book? I find anything over 400 a bit much and requires me to think if I should get it or now. I waited for so long to get this book and finally got it for 60% off! Yay!

I was so happy to see so many different writers, most of whom I've never read before.

All of the books I bought in this haul are from the Indian subcontinent and will make perfect reading material for Indian Books in August, a yearly tradition I have been doing for the last 5 years wherein I read only books from the Indian subcontinent.
Of course, August is still some ways off and I might cave and read some of these books early.

This has been a very good haul!

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