Books like Sartha by S. L. Bhairappa

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

A sweeping late‑nineteenth‑century cattle drive from Texas to Montana follows former Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and William F. Call as they confront the American West's myths, love, and violence in this epic of adventure and friendship.

In the late 17th‑century, a fledgling Royal Society probes science while a cast of rogues, scholars and alchemists navigate plague, fire, finance, and cryptography in Neal Stephenson’s ambitious prequel to Cryptonomicon.

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 woman born on a snowy night in 1910 dies and is reborn repeatedly, each life giving her the chance to alter history as the world heads toward another global conflict.

Richard Sharpe, a green private in the British army, infiltrates Tippoo Sultan’s Mysore to strike at a French-backed tyrant and save a Scottish spy, risking his life to survive the tyrant’s men‑eating tigers.

Amitav Ghosh’s sweeping historical fiction follows Rajkumar, a humble boy in 1885 Burma who rises from exile to empire amid the British invasion, his life forever altered by the love of Dolly, a young courtier.

A humorous story of a Trinidadian man trying to improve his life and overcome his family's expectations.

Hugh De Luc's quest to find Sophie, kidnapped during the Crusades, is fraught with danger and historical intrigue.

A historical mystery about a thug who becomes a detective in Victorian London, set in a small Bihari village in India and filled with skull-lined mansions and underground tunnels.

Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel, a milestone in Mexican-American and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change. After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between two young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the U.S.-Mexico War. Caballero's young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender and sexual contradictions. An introduction by Jose E. Limon, epilogue by Maria Cotera, and foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck offer a clear picture of the importance of the work to the study of Mexican-American and Texas history and to the feminist critique of culture. This work, long lost in a collection of private papers and unavailable until now, serves as a literary ethnography of South Texas-Mexican folklore customs and traditions.