Ordinary Grace and/or This Tender Land by William Kent Kreuger are two rich novels that you might enjoy. Another good book that I just finished was Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell that is a novel about Shakespeare and his family.

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal is a light but very enjoyable novel about Sikh women in London.

And The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is a much deeper novel set in India.

Handmaid’s Tale and the sequel might be good for you. I acutally really like the audiobook versions of these books.

If you haven’t read Watership Down, it’s my favorite book ever.

I’ve never read The White Tiger, but I do rather like To Kill a Mockingbird, so here are some other books I enjoy for their stories and their use of language:

The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie (fiction)

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (historical/science fiction)

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (realistic fiction)

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (creative memoir)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (historical fiction)

Dragon Keeper (series) by Robin Hobb (fantasy)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (fiction)

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (fiction)

More Stories We Tell ed. Wendy Martin (anthology of short stories—it’s technically the second anthology, but I never read the first, “We Are the Stories We Tell”)

Authors I recommend without a specific book in mind: Lorrie Moore (fiction), Ursula K. Le Guin (science fiction), Haruki Murakami (admittedly I’m not as well read of him as I want to be)

Thanks @janbb @Caravanfan @sadiesayit I’ll browse through them and make my list for the year. :)

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

I’m currently reading Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I’m about ⅓ of the way through and enjoying it greatly.

@tedibear I loved A Gentleman in Moscow!