books by south asian authors you NEED to read!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
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↳ 0:00 intro
↳ 4:46 Literary Fiction
↳ 11:04 Self-Help + Memoirs
↳ 13:18 Romances
↳ 15:29 Historical Fiction - I forgot to mention The Henna Artist!
↳ 16:32 Fantasy
↳ 19:26 YA (Young Adult) Contemporary
↳ 25:56 YA Fantasy
↳ 30:48 outro
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Glad you made this video because I feel like I can always find East Asian authors but never too many South Asian.
Oh my god I always assumed you were Tamil but today I *know* you are Tamil. Hello my fellow Tamilian! I think I must admit that you can find South Asian reads around here and there but sadly, a lot of people's idea of being Indian/South Asian seems to be limited to Bollywood's Hindi/North Indian and maybe a little bit of Pakistani heritage thrown in, but us, Tamils - South Indians and Sri Lankans - tend to be left out. :( Thank you for this video!
I also really love Roshani Chokshi's middle-grade series, Aru Shah and the End of Time. It's super fun and adventurous, like the Percy Jackson series, but based on Hindu mythology.
Love that finally there are some recommendations from south asian authors. On Indian mythology I recently read 'The Palace of Illusions' which is a retelling of Drupadi and I loved. Another one by same author is 'The Forest of Enchantments' which is on Sita. While searching I I found a lot of books on Indian mythology. There are some more which I loved are 'The namesake', 'The Henna Artist' and the sequel.
Always love your recs! Looking forward to picking these up ❤️
The happiness of discovering a fellow Sri Lankan and someone from a familiar name...also ending up loving her videos!
Yasss! I’m a desi booktuber as well and doing the Asian readathon for the first time has helped me find so many new south Asian recs - I love it!!
Thanks so much Jananie for all these great recommendations !! I’ve heard of a lot of these books before but didn’t know what they were about; needless to say I’ve now added a bunch of them to my Goodreads TBR ahhh so excited ❤️❤️
Tashi Suri is one of my all time top favorite authors now glad to see her on your list ♡ I love all of those books, the Jasmine Throne is my fav. Looking forward to the White Oleander
So many amazing recs , thank you!!
Uuuf my TBR just got a lot thicker XD great recs thank you so much!!
I LOVED Kaikeyi! Look forward to picking up the other recs too!
So grateful for these recommendations. My area doesn’t have a large of South Asian population but I’ve always been curious about the mythology and in general South Asian authors. Thank you so so much. ❤❤❤
Loved this. Defo coming back to get more suggestions over time. For now I’ll be reading Kaikeyi soon.
Hunted By Sky was really good Ya fantasy. I love all the amazing elements in the book and I can't wait to read the second book. I do admit though this book had quite a slow start but it delivers in the end. I can't wait to read the other recs!!! Thank you
As someone who is Sri-Lankan Tamil as well, thank you so much for these recommendations
Oo I just picked up A Show for Two yesterday! saw it at the bookstore and was pleasantly surprised cuz I didn't realize it was out yet XD loved Counting Down With you so I'm excited for this one
Thank you for mentioning several books with queer characters! That is something I often look for. Hani & Ishu and the Ember in the Ashes quartet are one my TBR.
Thanks so much for this video! I wrote down every rec, I really need to read more books by AAPI authors! I have read several of Sandhya Menon's books--When Dimple Met Rishi, There's Something About Sweetie (also my fave!) and From Twinkle, With Love. They are really fun and adorable books, and the cultural aspects were woven so well into the stories. I started Blue Skinned Gods last night, and it was so hard to put down!
Love that you made this video, something will finally show up on this specific search 😭😭
But also- just finished The Ivory Key and it is 👌🏾 YA South Asian fantasy with complicated sibling relationships and the default throne setting is Maharani.
so happy you made this and looking forward to more South Asian recs! My goal is to read 30 SA author books this year.
Some of my favorites have been books by Adiba Jaigirdar (loved loved loved Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating so much), Jhumpa Lahiri (classic), Sajni Patel (cute romantic books-favorite was first love, take two), and Balli Kaur Jaswal (Erotic stories for Punjabi women was amazing)
I'm excited to pick up All My Rage and Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Ok girl...you convinced me to read Kaikeyi. I just finished it yesterday and I was BLOWN away. I'm usually a thriller/mystery gal- but I loved this recommendation! 😊
Girls burn brighter was such a hard read and had some heart breaking situations but it was a beautifully told story! I had to take a bit of time before picking up another book after that one.
The way I clicked on this video so fast- great recommendations as always 😍
Love all these recommendations! My copy of Kaikeyi is on its way to me!
I adore Tasha Suri. I cannot wait for What Souls Are Made of and to see what she does with a Wuthering Heights retelling!
YES so excited for her retelling!!
*immediately runs to add most of them to my TBR*
Dating Dr. Dil is already on my phone so I need to get round to listening this audiobook asap!
Empire of Sand and The Jasmin Throne are going to be released in my country this year so I'll probably wait a little.
My bestie is from Sri Lanka, the other day I talked about that since I met her, I’ve been seeing more people or stuff of her culture all over my social media, especially TH-cam and TikTok. I’ve been enjoying it and surprising from what I’ve learned. Especially when I learn some words in Sinhala! She’ll get a kick out of this! I’m going to send her this video.
Ps: I’ll definitely read these books so that way I can feel closer to her in a way or give me an idea! I can’t wait to learn more about it!!!
i recommend 'run rebel' by manjeet mann !! we studied it for my ya module at uni and all of us brown girls in the class agreed that we had never felt more represented
Thanks for teh recommendations.
Thank you for all the reccomendations.
you are my fav booktuber❤️
Ugh yes LOVE Ember in the Ashes!!!
Hi . I am from sri lanka. Nice to see that Sri lankan lady talking about good books. I will sure read the books that u Mentioned on thi video. Thank u for uploading this video.
ah thank u!
Love this thanks for sharing 😍
A Show for Two sounds so good!
Especially for aapi month I’ve been looking for more books by south Asian authors! Im eastern Asian and I think it’s important to read different narratives from other Asian ethnicities.
I recently read From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon. I also read Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed. I enjoyed Aru Shah and the End of Time. I am excited to read Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigaridar. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini has few scenes set in Pakistan.
Funny Boy is sooooooooooo good. I read it in a novels of polical resistence class in college, which is an amazing lens to read through !
Highly recommend Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. My best book of 2022 so far !
Can’t wait to read Kaikeyi!
Rn I’m on my rereading journey of Rick riordan’s mythology series. Been done w PJO and working thru TKC. Before that I think I was not in the mood to read romance for a while. Besides mythology retelling (mainly Greek) the only genre I read is romance😂so I’m trying to get back into fantasy. Once I’m done w 2/3 of TKC or finish it, then I’ll read 1 of the 3 fantasy books I acquired in March
There is also Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie.
I am so mad at myself for not preordering Kaikeyi. Now getting the Hardcover, for a decent price, is not easy. But I will be traveling in a few days and hope that I will get my hands on it then :-)
Please read Good Talk by Mira Jacob! It's a graphic novel and one of my favorite books ever. It reminds me a bit of Kal Penn's book, but I honestly love it even more!
I was hoping you were going to put the henna artist I love an ember in the ashes
Love this video adding a lot to my list. Side note: in dating dr. dil Kareena is not a doctor; she's a lawyer that helps women set up their small businesses
Yes!! Anything by Sayantani Dasgupta is excellent!
I just love, love, love Asian Book's and, African American and, Nav Native American books that was all the books that I'm looking forward to read and romance and mystery books I will be following you on your TH-cam Read's❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤📚📚📚📚📚📚😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Just ordered the audio of Kal Penn’s book
All My Rage was such an amazing book
i highly recommend chai time at cinnamon gardens by shankari chandran!! i discovered it while traveling to australia and i thought of you because the main characters are tamil from sri lanka!
Grown Up Pose and The trouble of having you are pretty good too.
Definitely look up the trigger warnings for girls burn brighter. I didn’t and found the book to be a bit disturbing. Basically any awful thing that can happen to a woman in South Asia was in the book.
Also I highly recommend A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza! It’s about an Indian Muslim American family. It’s a beautiful, heartbreaking tale of an estranged son who reunites with his family at his sisters wedding.
i loved these reccomendations. i feel like we don't have as much representation in literature compared to visual medias (i.e movies and shows). The only thing I want to mention is related to Mansions of the Moon- Buddha was born in Nepal and he was a Nepali prince. So many of us in the Nepali diaspora struggle with establishing our own national identity, and our nation's contributions are often overlooked or attributed to India. I just wish the author would have kept that in mind.
Does anyone have any recs from punjabi authors in particular?
I couldn't finish "Star Touched Queen" though. The writing was beautiful but there wasn't enough actual story in terms of clarity on character internal responses to external events. So I got bored very quickly.
Have you read Chetan Bhagat?
Indian authors to give a try: jhumpa Lahiri, arundhati roy, taslima nasrin, Amish Tripathi.
PLS PLS PLS read Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.
Funny boy❤
I have started reading south asian romance novels, as I struggled with finding representation and I also struggle with porn watching and my specialist recommended I read some erotica, but I wanted to read some SA romance novels.
hi I just found your channel you remind me of RinceyReads here on TH-cam do you know or follow her .
I like watching Rincey’s videos too!
you're EXTREMELY beautiful
As a South Asian person who wants to read about South Asian people I am getting sick of how every story surrounding every South Asian protagonist has to revolve around their culture. Can't I just read a story about a South Asian character and NOT have it be about their culture? Way too many times the characters are too stereotypical for me or the story involves some personal struggle having to do with their culture, I'm sorry but that's just boring to me now. So yeah, I am looking at all these kind of videos lol
and don't let the name fool you I am South Asian lol, I am just a big fan of the Yakuza games. lol