In Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face the truths of the country are revealed thick and fast, and reiterated through characters and tropes.

The new Dorota Maslowska novel is a ruthless critique and clever parody of the world within and around us.

In searing, malleable prose that forms the strength of the novel, Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage presents the complexities, dissolution and fragility of relationships.

Nadeem Zaman’s stories have relatable portrayals of Bangladesh here and there, but they do not bring out the true essence of a people and its culture.

Despite its promises, Jaipur Journals is a sad and lonely work, layered with contempt and spite.

Keshava Guha’s debut novel, Accidental Magic, attempts to delve into the murky ground between the virtual and the real, literary and literal, the mind in solitude and its transformation within a clique.

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tells a story of love, in the most dire circumstance, but betrays history in doing so.

What happened to Michelle Obama as she stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her super-powerful husband? This is essentially what her autobiography ‘Becoming’ seeks to capture.

'The Far Field' gets richer by the page, as Madhuri Vijay chronicles the story of a woman in the troubled lands of Jammu and Kashmir.

Elif Shafak’s ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ is an ode to the space a woman occupies in this world with light play of words, but the plot lacks finesse.

The past decade has been a reader’s delight in Nepal, as writers continue to innovate and push the envelope.

Numair Atif Choudhury’s maiden ‘Babu Bangladesh!’ unfurls into a cornucopia of symbols, motifs and metaphors.

Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half the Night is Gone’ is an ode to life itself, with its infinite layers and mysteries.

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Gun Island’ creates a world of an all-engulfing dystopia with layers of revelations, mysteries, and inexplicable occurrences.

Tara Westover’s ‘Educated’ recounts the extremity of her upbringing and her efforts to find liberation through formal education.