Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger. City, State: Press, Date.
White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society.

Banerjee Divakaruni, Chitra. The Palace of Illusions. New York, New York: Anchor, 2009.
Half history, half myth, and wholly magical,The Palace of Illusions, gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, in a vibrant retelling of an ancient, epic saga.

Joseph, Manu. Serious Men. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
An Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements. Ayyan Mani will not be constrained by Indian traditions. Despite working at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai as the lowly personal assistant to a brilliant but insufferable astronomer, he dreams of more for himself and his family. Funny and irreverent, Serious Men is a portrayal of runaway egos, ambitions, and a moving portrait of love and its strange workings.

Shroff, Murzban. Breathless in Bombay. New York, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008.
A collection of 14 stories set in contemporary Bombay features a range of characters in a variety of situations” from the laundry wallas water shortage problems, to the doomed love affair of a schizophrenia painter and his Bollywood girlfriend, to the wandering thoughts of a massagewall at Chowpatty Beach, to the heart-warming relationship of a carriage driver and his beloved horse. Each of these stories is crafted and arranged against the grand chaotic backdrop of life that is Bombay.

Rohinton, Mistry. Family Matters. New York, New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Family Matters is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of modern Mumbai. At 79, Variman Vakeet finds himself wholly dependent on his family. He turns to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance,compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of emotional power.

Arundhati, Roy. The God of Small Things. New York, New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
Equal parts family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969.