The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga. The novel is the winner of the Man Booker Prize of 2008. The work is a brilliant satire on the inequality in India at the face of its growing economy. Instability in the country is brought out through the eyes of a Rickshaw puller’s son’s letters to the Chinese Premier.

The China Lover by Ian Buruma. The work speaks through the voice of three different narrators, telling the life story of the Chinese singer and actress Ri Koran. Each narration is contradictory to each other and is partly a historical novel.

The End of the World Book by Alistair McCartney. The book is an autobiographical novel by this Australian Gay author. Each of the twenty six chapters represents each alphabet and is a delightful effect of controversial topics.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. The work is a deeply observed study of Bengali Americans striving for a better life. These characters living in posh suburbs can somehow not let go of their traditions.

2666 by Robert Bolano. The Chilean author who died in 2003 has risen posthumously. The book is a detective novel with a twist of the surreal.

A Mercy by Toni Morrison. The tale is of a slave child who had been abandoned by her mother. It is part in puzzle and partly in a dream. The novel has strong Seventeenth century American characters.

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser. The work is a collection of thirteen short stories, which use the normal American families to spin surreal tales out of them.

The Size of the World by Joan Silber. This is also a collection of tales, in this case six, each in a different setting in the world to deal with agility and happiness in people’s lives.

Lucky Billy by John Vernon. As is the case with most of his novels, this too is a remarkable historical work about the story of the Lincoln Country War of 1878 and the lost legend of Billy the Kid.

The Expeditions by Karl Iagnemma. The story follows the two narratives of a teenage runaway and the other of his ill widower father. Set in 1844 Detroit and Michigan, it is a novel of comedy and errors.