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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRise of Kali: Duryodhana's Mahabharata
Anand Neelakantan · 534 pages
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 372 pages
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of the wife of an amazing woman.Relevant to today's war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancien
Sita: Warrior of Mithila
Amish Tripathi · 375 pages
Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
Pratibha Ray · 402 pages
Epistolary novel about Draupadī, Hindu mythological character from the Mahābhārata.
Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
Devdutt Pattanaik
Bhima Lone Warrior
M.T. Vasudevan Nair · 392 pages
Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince
Anuja Chandramouli · 364 pages
Toads and Diamonds
Heather Tomlinson · 288 pages
A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny · 261 pages
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality. Adopting the panoply of the venerable Hindu religion, they live lives as its Gods, surrounded by advanced technology within the trappin
Ka
Roberto Calasso · 454 pages
Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is. So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky,
Ramayana: Divine Loophole
Sanjay Patel · 184 pages
Artist and veteran Pixar animator Sanjay Patel lends a lush, whimsical illustration style and lighthearted voice to one of Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, flying monkey gods, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love, Ramayana tells the story of Rama, a god-turned-prince, and his quest to rescue his wife Sita after she i
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
Valmiki, Ramesh Menon · 539 pages
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar · 256 pages
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R.K. Narayan · 171 pages
A retelling of the Tamil epic poem which records Prince Rama's search for his abducted sweetheart, Sita.
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint · 308 pages
Alcestis
Katharine Beutner · 304 pages
In this vivid reimagining of a classical Greek myth, the eponymous Greek heroine Alcetis, known as the good wife because she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life, tells about her childhood, her marriage to the young king of Pherae, and what happened during the three days she spent in the underworld before being rescued by Heracles. Set in the world of Mycenaean Greece.
The High Queen
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit
Mercedes Lackey · 404 pages
The bestselling author of the Valdemar novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur's legendary queen.Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Ye
The Star-Touched Queen
Roshani Chokshi · 355 pages
Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political conve
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India
Thomas Mann · 143 pages
An ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together.