Books like A Night in the Hills by Manav Kaul

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A sweeping tale of two Afghan women—Mariam and Laila—whose intertwined lives span decades of war, oppression, and cultural change, revealing the strength of friendship, family, and love.

The God of Small Things chronicles the upended childhood of fraternal twins in India, exploring love, caste, and the impact of small moments on fate.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize‑winning novel, intertwines India’s journey from colonial rule to independence with the personal saga of Saleem Sinai in a tale of historical myth and magical realism.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

Balram Halwai rises from servant to entrepreneur, revealing the brutal path of ambition and survival in modern India.

A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's critically acclaimed second novel, set in India in the mid-1970s and focusing on four unlikely individuals who come together in a city apartment during a state of emergency.

A reimagining of the epic tale of the Mahabharat, told from the perspective of Panchaali, the wife of the Pandavas, as she balances her wives' kingdoms and faces the threats of war and betrayal.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland traces two brothers—Subhash, who settles in America, and Udayan, who joins a political uprising in Calcutta—and their divergent paths until a tragic event forces a return to India and a quest to mend family bonds.

A seasoned investigative journalist, Scott McGrath, is drawn into a deadly mystery when the celebrated cult‑film director Stanislas Cordova, father of the murdered actress Ashley Cordova, disappears from the public eye after decades of silence.

An Indian judge in a Himalayan estate grapples with retirement and family secrets when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives, sparking personal discovery amid the echoes of colonial history.

In the years leading to the Opium Wars, the slave ship Ibis carries a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, convicts, and passengers—including a bankrupt raja, a widowed village woman, a mulatto American, and an evangelical opium trader—who bond as ship-brothers on a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean.

In the Lake of the Woods follows John and Kathy Wade as they grapple with political defeat, marital strain, and Kathy’s sudden disappearance on a Minnesota lake, prompting a desperate search and a haunted look at their hidden secrets.

After a traumatic hijacking, Marcie Waters retreats to an Adirondack cabin she inherited from her uncle, only to discover a long‑standing family feud and the unexpected romance with her friendly neighbor, John Harley.

Elizabeth Scott, a lovely, spirited young maiden from the Scottish Lowlands, is outraged to learn that she must leave the comforts of Ballantine, her ancestral home, and journey to the remote and barbaric Highlands in order to honor a marriage contract with Robert Kirkland. The arrogant and handsome Laird of Ashkirk, her intended husband, is not only a notorious womanizer, but is also a supporter of the hated Montrose in Scotland's Civil War. In Robert's wilderness fiefdom, antagonism flares between the bridal pair, and Elizabeth resolves to flee both her husband and the Highlands at the earliest possible opportunity. But the heat of conflict ignites flames of passion, melting old grievances and fusing together their proud, rebellious hearts, until the man Elizabeth has vowed to despise becomes the man she cannot live without.

A story rooted in the struggle of the Naga people in Northeastern India.

A thirteen‑year‑old African slave girl in 1760s France chronicles her escape with her mistress to the New World, where they become entangled in the French and Indian War and discover a new path toward freedom.