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.

The Man Who Saw Everything is a novel that treads into the unknown and fantastic, it has fun with its own form but fails to create a coherent narrative for the reader.

In Jan Carson’s second book, the setting exists as an exquisite character, but the disparate threads refuse to weave together.

Shankari Chandran shows atrocities, horror, and senseless violence of the Sri Lankan civil war in ‘Song of the Sun God’.

Wading through love, through the eyes of a problematic protagonist.

In the fractured, imperfect interactions of Sally Rooney’s novel, our own ruptured attempts to carry forward our thoughts to another end is reflected, often with completely undesirable results.

Anukriti Upadhyay’s Daura is an interesting work that reveals layers of possibilities and meanings under its folksy cloak.

This critically-acclaimed novel is an adaption of ancient Greek myth, and its gritty female protagonist is still one for the ages.

The writer leaves a fierce presence of her existence in her memoir-poetry-novel--but subtly.

Following a shapeshifting protagonist through this timewarping murder mystery is a mindbending experience in deft literary and narrative skill.

A failing, disgruntled, middle-aged writer travels the world to forget his beloved, and finds love again where he least expects it Nothing unique about the concept

Divided into 11 chapters, the writer flits between subjects and associations with a practiced, if clumsy, tread. There is much thought spent on gardens and their benefits; changing landscapes; histories and nocturnal activities; libraries and truths.