Reading

South Asian Heritage month is marked every 18 July to 17 August in the UK.

Search the online catalogue to find or request these books in a library near you, or search Borrowbox to read for free online.

Children and Young Adults

• Stolen History by Sathnam Sanghera
• Noor Un Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed
• Nura and the Immortal Palace by M. T. Khan
• The Novice by Taran Matharu
• Dadaji's Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande and Ruchi Mhasane
• South Asian Folktales, myths and legends by Sara Shaffi
• Fearless Fairytales by Konnie Huq and James Kay
• Stand up by Nickesh Shukla
• The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• These Are the Words by Nikita Gill
• When Shadows Fall by Sita Brahmachari
• In Case of Emergency by Poorna Bell

Poetry and fiction

• Hiding to Nothing by Anita Pati
• Chasing Hares by Sonali Bhattacharyya
• The Last White Man by Moshin Hamid
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
• I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel
• Good Intention by Kasim Ali
• The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
• Your Heart is the Sea by Nikita Gill
• The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
• Very Close to Pleasure There's a Sick Cat by Shakti Chattopadhyay

History, Culture, Memoir

• Munnu a Boy From Kashmir by Malik Sajad
• Rumours of Spring by Farah Bashir
• The Roles We Play by Sabba Khan
• Shramatan by B. N. Joshi
• Brown Girl Like Me by Jaspreet Kaur
• The Corner Shop by Babita Shama
• Sex Bomb by Sadia Azmat
• The Right Sort of Girl by Anita Rani
• Partition Voices by Kavita Puri
• EmpireLand by Sathnam Sanghera
• In the Language of Remembering by Aanchal Malhotra
• The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer by Shrabani Basu

LGBTQ+

• The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
• All the Yellow Suns by Malavika Kannan
• Burning My Roti by Sharan Dhaliwal
• If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• The Devourers by Indra Das
• Kari by Amruta Patil
• The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
• [re:desire] by Afshan d'souza-lodhi
• Ritu Weds Chandni by Ameya Narvankar
• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
• A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi