Fantasy Omnibus II

1. Mythohistorical Thrillers by Ashwin Sanghi

i) The Rozabal Line
ii) Chanakya’s Chant
iii) The Krishna Key

2. The Awakening Trilogy by Josephine Angelini

i) Starcrossed
ii) Dreamless
iii) Goddess

3. Novels by Neil Gaiman

i) Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (with Terry Pratchett)
ii) Neverwhere 
iii) Stardust 
iv) American Gods
v) Anansi Boys 
vi) The Ocean at the End of the Lane

4. Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot

i) Abandon
ii) Underworld
iii) Awaken

05 – Goddess Test Series by Aimée Carter

01 – The Goddess Test
01.5 – The Goddess Hunt
02 – Goddess Interrupted
02.5 – The Goddess Legacy
03 – The Goddess Inheritance

06 – Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B Cooney

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Weight Loss by Upamanyu Chatterjee

'Between the ages of eighteen and thirty-seven, when he died, Bhola had just eight sexual partners, four women and four males. When he reviewed his life...it pleased him that he had maintained a balance between genders in his choice of lovers. Of course, it was ridiculous that he should at the age of thirty-seven be lightheadedly embarrassed about how few were the people he had slept with. Then he reminded himself that that was nothing new, that he had always felt ridiculous, not to worry.'

Weight Loss, Upamanyu Chatterjee's fourth novel, is only tangentially about losing weight. And though the hero dies tragically young, it is, fundamentally, comic.

Bhola, innocent and unremarkable, but for his near crippling obsession with sex and running, fears taking on the burden of emotional commitment and goes through life falling in love with all kinds of inappropriate people. At school, he lusts indiscriminately after his teachers, of both sexes, and is attracted to eunuchs. While in college, far from home, he has vaguely demeaning affairs with his landlady and with a vegetable vendor-cum-nurse and her husband. Later, he marries (a woman who sings with a voice of liquid gold), fathers a daughter (‘a warm, living thing') and suspects he is close to balance and beauty. Then his past catches up with him.

Upamanyu Chatterjee's genius for black humour and the absurd has never been more compelling than in this unforgettable portrait of a lost life.

Mainak Dhar Omnibus

1. Alice in Deadland Series

Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters. Fifteen year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases. 

What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfill. A prophecy based on the charred remains of the last book in the Deadland- a book called Alice in Wonderland.

i) Off With Their Heads
ii) Alice in Deadland
iii) Through the Killing Glass
iv) Hunting the Snark
v) Deadland

2. Heroes R Us

What happens when fate chooses an ordinary man for an extraordinary mission?

Arnab Banerjee, a shy twenty-five-year-old, has little excitement in his life other than tracking down missing books as an assistant librarian in a Delhi college. But all that changes when one day he is beaten up during a bank robbery. He awakens to discover that he has developed superhuman powers, which he hones with the help of Khan chacha, an ex-army man. And so begins his crusade against eve-teasers, corrupt policemen, and scheming politicians. But in his final adventure to thwart a deadly terror attack, Delhi’s ‘Guardian Angel’ is forced to join hands with the very men he has fought against: the minister who wants to use him to rig elections, the policemen who tried to kill him in an ‘encounter’, and the liquor baron who invited him to become his brand ambassador. Will he succeed in his mission and still preserve his ideals?​

3. Vimana

Legends have it that Gods flew in aircraft called vimanas and waged war with fantastic weapons. What if these turned out to be true? College student by day and wannabe fighter pilot by night, Aaditya’s immense knowledge of flying and fighter planes is displayed only on flight sims and Internet forums.

A chance encounter propels him into the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil that has been raging for thousands of years, revealing to him a hidden world that we dismiss as mere myths from our ancient past. Alongside Shiva, Karthik, Durga, Indra and other gods, Aaditya has to stop the terrible plans of Kalki, the prodigal son. Seated at the controls of a vimana, Aaditya finds himself living his dream in a way he had never imagined possible!

4. Zombiestan

It began with stories of undead Taliban rampaging through Afghan villages, and faster than anyone could have anticipated; the darkness spreads through the world. In a world laid waste by this new terror, four unlikely companions have been thrown together- a seventeen year old boy dealing with the loss of his family, a US Navy SEAL trying to get back home, an aging, lonely writer with nobody to live for, and a young girl trying to keep her three year old brother safe. 

When they discover that the smallest amongst them holds the key to removing the scourge that threatens to destroy their world, they begin an epic journey to a rumoured safe zone high in the Himalayas. A journey that will pit them against their own worst fears and the most terrible dangers- both human and undead.

A journey through a wasteland now known as Zombiestan.

Mary Balogh Omnibus IV

A. Single Novels

i) The Secret Pearl
ii) Christmas Beau
iii) Beyond the Sunrise
iv) A Christmas Promise
v) Deceived
vi) Tangled
vii) Longing
viii) Truly
ix) The Temporary Wife
x) Thief of Dreams
xi) The Last Waltz
xii) A Matter of Class

B. Novellas

i) The Star of Bethlehem
ii) Playing House
iii) Golden Rose
iv) The Best Christmas Ever
v) A Waltz Among the Stars
vi) The Treasure Hunt
vii) The Dark Rider
viii) The Porcelain Madonna
ix) The Substitute Guest
x) The Wrong Door
xi) The North Tower
xii) No Room at the Inn
xiii) The Anniversary
xiv) The Best Gift
xv) The Forbidden Daffodils
xvi) Precious Rogue
xvii) The Surprise Party
xviii) Guarded by Angels
xix) The Betrothal Ball
xx) The Heirloom
xxi) The Wassail Bowl
xxii) The Bond Street Carolers
xxiii) A Handful of Gold
xxiv) A Family Christmas
xxv) Spellbound
xxvi) Almost Persuaded
xxvii) Only Love

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Mary Balogh Omnibus III

1. A Masked Deception
2. The Double Wager
3. Red Rose
4. The Constant Heart
5. Gentle Conquest
6. Secrets of the Heart
7. An Unacceptable Offer
8. The Ungrateful Governess
9. Daring Masquerade
10. A Gift of Daisies
11. The Obedient Bride
12. Lady with a Black Umbrella
13. The Incurable Matchmaker
14. An Unlikely Duchess
15. A Certain Magic
16. Snow Angel


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Mary Balogh Omnibus II

1. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

i) Indiscreet
ii) Unforgiven
iii) Irresistible

2. Mistress Series

i) The Secret Mistress
ii) More than a Mistress
iii) No Man's Mistress
iv) Now a Bride

3. Huxtable Family

i) First Comes Marriage
ii) Then Comes Seduction
iii) At Last Comes Love
iv) Seducing an Angel
v) A Secret Affair

4. Survivors' Club

i) The Proposal
ii) The Suitor
iii) The Arrangement
iv) The Escape
v) Only Enchanting
vi) Only a Promise


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Mary Balogh Omnibus I

1. Mainwaring Series

i) A Chance Encounter
ii) The Wood Nymph

2. Waite Series

i) The Trysting Place
ii) A Counterfeit Betrothal
iii) The Notorious Rake

3. Frazer Series

i) The First Snowdrop
ii) Christmas Belle

4. Web Series

i) The Gilded Web
ii) Web of Love
iii) The Devil's Web
iv) A Promise of Spring

5. Sullivan Series

i) Courting Julia
ii) Dancing with Clara
iii) Tempting Harriet

6. Marlowe Series

i) Heartless
ii) Silent Melody


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Rick Riordan Omnibus

1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians

i) The Lightning Thief
ii) The Sea of Monsters
iii) The Titan's Curse
iv) The Battle of the Labyrinth
iva) The Sword of Hades
v) The Last Olympian
va) The Singer of Apollo
vi) The Demigod Files
vii) Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods

2. The Heroes of Olympus

i) The Lost Hero
ii) The Son of Neptune
iii) The Mark of Athena
iv) The House of Hades
v) The Blood of Olympus
vi) The Demigod Diaries

3. The Kane Chronicles

i) The Red Pyramid
ii) The Throne of Fire
iii) The Serpent's Shadow
iv) Curse Reversed (by Christina)
v) The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide

4. Crossovers

i) The Son of Sobek
ii) The Staff of Serapis

5. Demigods and Monsters (by various authors)


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Gaelen Foley Omnibus

1. Ascension Trilogy

a) The Pirate Prince
b) Princess
c) Prince Charming

2. Inferno Club

a) My Wicked Marquess
b) My Dangerous Duke
c) My Irresistible Earl
d) My Ruthless Prince
e) My Scandalous Viscount
f) My Notorious Gentleman

3. Novellas

a) Ever After
b) The Imposter Bride

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Non-Series Pieces by Stephanie Laurens

1. Melting Ice
2. Rose in Bloom
3. Scandalous Lord Dere
4. The Seduction of Sebastian Trantor
5. The Fall of Rogue Gerrard
6. The Wedding Planner
7. A Return Engagement
8. The Lady Risks All
9. The World of Stephanie Laurens


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East-West (Purbo-Paschim) Part I by Sunil Gangopadhyay

                East-West is a Bengali novel set against the backdrop of the biggest exodus in human history—the 1947 partition of India. That a newly born country could exist as two geographically separated units was also an unheard of event. But the inevitable had to happen. Culturally and linguistically dissimilar, East and West Pakistan had to forge their different destinies.

             This novel is a record of those tumultuous times in East Pakistan as well as in Indian Bengal. But their problems were vastly different. The story, revolving around two college friends, both Bengali though one Hindu and the other Muslim soon takes into its expanding orbit other characters, families, issues. The two friends drift apart, separated by the political division, then each is caught up in his own problem. There is no sentimental reunion, in fact the novel precariously poised, steers clear of sentimentality. There is the unspoken and inescapable bitter conclusion— perhaps the twain can never meet. Under the deceptively simple surface are hidden deeper and more complex human issues. East and west were initially a demarcation on the map but soon west recedes further as younger people from the east migrate to the US and the UK leaving the aging parents at home. Sunrise and sunset are two other symbols spun into the fabric of the novel, pointing to the evolution of human life, the movement from birth to death. Thus from a partition novel set at a particular place and time, it rises to the level of the universal, encompassing the entire gamut of human emotions and cultural encounters.

             

Bengali original: Download here: 1 + 2.

The Imam and the Indian by Amitav Ghosh

Over the past two decades or so, Amitav Ghosh has enthralled readers with novels and travelogues that have acquired the status of modern classics: The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, The Circle of Reason, The Calcutta Chromosome, and The Glass Palace.

Much less known is the fact that, simultaneously, over all these years, Amitav Ghosh has been writing non-fictional prose — reflective essays, activist pieces, political commentary, book reviews, autobiographical articles, academic expositions, translations from Bengali, and literary anthropology.

Here, for the first time, is as complete a collection as can be made of the prose which reveals that relatively unknown Amitav Ghosh: the novelist as thinker, the man of ideas as a writer of luminous, illuminating non-fiction.

This considerable and distinguished body of writing has appeared sporadically and been scattered within periodicals and magazines, learned journals and academic books. It has never been available as a single body of ideas, as the large and singular bedrock upon which Amitav Ghosh’s fictional imagination has drawn. Readers of these wonderful essays will discover that — to quote the novelist himself — ‘despite the difference in form and diction, they share with my fiction certain characteristic subjects and concerns.’

Ghosh’s concerns here, as in his novels, are with exploring the connection between past and present, between events and memories, and between people, cultures and countries that have shared a past. India and Egypt, Islam and Hinduism, the Mughal Emperor Babur and the would-be empress Indira Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore's Bengal and Agha Shahid Ali’s Kashmir, the novel and history, fundamentalism and cosmopolitanism, migration and diaspora—all these themes come alive in the essays of one of the most lucid and captivating writers of modern times.

Contents

1 The Imam and the Indian

2 Tibetan Dinner

3 Four Corners

4 An Egyptian in Baghdad

5 The Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi

6 The Human Comedy in Cairo

7 Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel

8 Empire and Soul: a review of The Baburnama

9 The Relations of Envy in an Egyptian Village

10 Categories of Labour and the Orientation of the Fellah Economy

11 The Slave of MS. H.6

12 The Diaspora in Indian Culture

13 The Global Reservation:Notes toward an Ethnography of International Peacekeeping

14 The Fundamentalist Challenge

15 The March of the Novel through History: the Testimony of my Grandfather’s Bookcase (Winner, Pushcart Prize, 1999)

16 The Greatest Sorrow: Times of Joy Recalled in Wretchedness

17 The Hunger of Stones (a translation of 'Kshudhita Pâshân' by Rabindranath Tagore)

18 ‘The Ghat of the Only World': Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn

Matthew Reilly Omnibus

Action thrillers from the Down Under.

1. Shane Schofield Series

i) Ice Station
ii) Area 7
iii) Scarecrow
iv) Hell Island
v) Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

2. Jack West Series

i) Seven Ancient Wonders
ii) The Six Sacred Stones
iii) The Five Greatest Warriors

3. Stand Alone Novels

i) Contest
ii) Temple
iii) Hover Car Racer
iv) The Tournament

4. Short Pieces

i) Rewind
ii) The Mine
iii) A Bad Day at Fort Bragg
iv) Altitude Rush
v) The Rock Princess and the Thriller Writer
vi) Time Tours
vii) The Dead Prince
viii) Complex 13

5. Wikipedia profile of the author

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Chetan Bhagat Omnibus

From India's toppest selling author in English.

1. Five Point Someone

2. One Night @ the Call Center

3. The 3 Mistakes of My Life

4. 2 States

5. Revolution 2020

6. What Young India Wants


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Shadow from Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya

In this epoch-making novel, the author provides a true insight into contemporary India, in the backdrop of China-India flareup. He tells an extremely gripping story of unsurpassed drama, on a broad and revealing canvas. Bhashkar, an American-trained Chief Engineer in a steel plant, wants to dispossess Gandhigram, because it is a hindrance to India's industrialization. He brings every pressure to bear, but to his surprise, the community of the believers in non-violence stands firm under its great leader, Satyajit, and he himself falls in love with Satyajit's daughter Sumita, a barefoot, white-saried girl . . .

A cult novel from one of the forerunners of the Indian novel in English, it won of the Sahitya Akademi Award for 1967.

For snippet view at Google Books, click here.

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Amitav Ghosh Omnibus

From one of the frontline authors of India's English literature

1. The Circle of Reason (Prix Médicis étranger, France, 1990, for French translation: Les feux du Bengale)

2. The Shadow Lines (Sahitya Akademi Award, India, for English, 1989 and Ananda Puraskar, West Bengal, 1989)

3. The Calcutta Chromosome (Arthur C. Clarke Award, U.K., 1997)

4. The Glass Palace (selected for Commonwealth Writers' Prize; refused; Myanmar National Literature Award for Burmese translation, 2012, Grand Prize for Fiction, Frankfurt eBook Award, 2001)

5. The Hungry Tide (Hutch Crossword Book Award, India, 2004; finalist, Kiriyama Prize, USA, 2006)

6. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy 01) (Vodafone Crossword Book Award, India, 2008, Indiaplaza Golden Quill Book Award, India, 2009, Tagore Literature Award, 2012 and Dan David Prize, Israel, 2010; also shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize)

7. River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy 02) (shortlisted for Man Booker Asian Literary Prize 2012)

8. In an Antique Land (non-fiction)

9. Countdown

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Chowringhee by Sankar

'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'

Written in the format of a hotel receptionist's memoirs, the novel contains anecdote after anecdote about what happens in a hotel, the smallest story being that about two young American girls who were accompanying their father on a world tour. They left him in Bombay to attend to some urgent business and went off by themselves to Delhi. Apparently, they put up at Maidens Hotel. They went on a buying spree as tourists usually do and spent all their money. Having no options left, they sent an express telegram to their father. He was foxed by the cable his daughters had sent:  'All money spent. Can stay maidens no longer.'

Set in 1950s Kolkata, then Calcutta, Chowringhee is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta’s largest hotels, the Shahjahan. Shankar, the newest recruit, recounts the stories of several people whose lives come together in the suites, restaurants, bar and backrooms of the hotel. As both observer and participant in the events, he inadvertently peels off the layers of everyday existence to expose the seamy underbelly of unfulfilled desires, broken dreams, callous manipulation and unbidden tragedy. What unfolds is not just the story of individual lives but also the incredible chronicle of a metropolis.

Written by best-selling Bengali author Sankar, Chowringhee was published as a novel in 1962. Predating Arthur Hailey's Hotel by three years, it became an instant hit, spawning translations in major Indian languages, a film and a play. Its larger-than-life characters—the enigmatic manager Marco Polo, the debonair receptionist Sata Bose, the tragic hostess Karabi Guha, among others—soon attained cult status. With its thinly veiled accounts of the private lives of real-life celebrities, and its sympathetic narrative seamlessly weaving the past and the present, it immediately established itself as a popular classic. Available for the first time in English, Chowringhee is as much a dirge as it is a homage to a city and its people.

The novel, translated into English by Arunava Sinha, won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2007 for the best translation.

For Bengali original, see here.

Jim Corbett Omnibus

1. Jungle Lore
2. Man-Eaters of Kumaon
3. The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
4. My India
5. The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon
6. Tree Tops
7. About Jungle Stories
8. Jim Corbett's India (ed. R. E. Hawkins)
    a) Introduction
    b) Goongi
    c) Wild Life in the Village: an Appeal
9. The Jim Corbett Album
10. Wikipedia profile of the author

Incest Omnibus

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Book 5

Book 6

Book 7

Book 8

Book 9

Book 10

Forensic Thrillers by Robin Cook

(Featuring the forensic examiners, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery)


1. Blindsight (1992)
2. Contagion (1995)
3. Chromosome 6 (1997)
4. Vector (1999)
5. Marker (2005)
6. Crisis (2006)
7. Critical (2008)
8. Foreign Body (2009)
9. Intervention (2009)
10. Cure (2010)
11. Death Benefit (2012)

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Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov et al

The most famous series in science fiction. Here is the traditionally accepted complete set plus the Kingsbury novel.

1. Foundation Inspired by Isaac Asimov

2. Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

3. Foundation’s Friends by various authors (ed. Martin H. Greenberg)

4. Foundation’s Fear by Gregory Benford

5. Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov

6. Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear

7. Foundation’s Triumph by David Brin

8. Foundation by Isaac Asimov

9. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

10. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

11. Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov

12. Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

13. Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury


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Fantasy Omnibus

1. Gameworld Trilogy by Samit Basu

                i) The Simoqin Prophecies
               ii) The Manticore’s Secret
              iii) The Unwaba Revelations 

2. Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi

                i) The Immortals of Meluha
               ii) The Secret of the Nagas
              iii) The Oath of the Vayuputras

3. Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
             
                i) Eragon
               ii) Eldest
              iii) Brisingr
              iv) Inheritance

4. Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud

             i) The Ring of Solomon
            ii) The Amulet of Samarkand
           iii) The Golem’s Eye
           iv) Ptolemy’s Gate


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The Immortals

Created at the dawn of time to protect humanity, the ancient warriors have been nearly forgotten, though magic lives on in vampires, werewolves, the Celtic Sidhe, and other Beings. But now one of their own has turned rogue, and the world is again in desperate need of

The Immortals

1. The Calling by Jennifer Ashley
2. The Darkening by Robin T. Popp
3. The Awakening by Joy Nash
4. The Gathering by Jennifer Ashley
5. The Redeeming by Jennifer Ashley
6. The Crossing by Joy Nash
7. The Haunting by Robin T. Popp  
8. The Reckoning by Jennifer Ashley, Joy Nash and Robin T. Popp

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