Top 10 Fiction Books Of The Month | April [Editor’s Choice]

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Fiction books help us escape no matter where we’re curled up reading: a cozy armchair, the beach, or even on the train or bus during a busy morning commute. Even if you have a soft spot for classic novels, there’s a special joy that comes from anticipating a new release from your favorite author—or even a debut author whose book blurb piqued your interest.

Whether you’re in the mood for a gritty suspense novel, a lighthearted rom-com, or thoughtful literary fiction, Here are the Top 10 Fiction Books for you this month. 🙂

1. Sense of a Quiet by Deepak Kripal

Milind and Diya, a doctor couple who settled in Haridwar are struggling with career and relationship issues. Rohan, their common friend from medical college, visits Haridwar to stay with his best friend Milind for a few days. Diya doesn’t like Rohan; she sees him as an impractical and impulsive person who lacks motive in life.

Facing an impending divorce, Rohan wants to rejig his life, to work out the missing pieces and figure out what he really wants from life. In Haridwar, Rohan makes new acquaintances and friends – a rickshaw-wala, a maid, and a rude elderly retired army man. Meanwhile, Milind gets trapped in a corruption Read More..

2. Midnight Freeway by Vivaan Shah

Yogesh Moolchandani, a disreputable builder, is dead. All the signs say suicide but there was nothing wrong with his life. He had just cracked a deal and things were looking hale and hearty for him. He had recently even purchased an imported Volkswagen Jetta. CCTV footage from the night of his death shows him crashing into a toll booth at a speed of 180 km per hour on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. The dealer he had purchased his car from had received five missed calls from him just five minutes prior to the time of the alleged crash.

On the same night, in another part of town, Pranav Paleja, a criminal lawyer who works at the law chamber Read More..

3. Zero Day by S. Hussain Zaidi

Mumbai is in a state of chaos. All traffic signals across the entire city have stopped working.

Shahwaz Ali Mirza, head of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, receives an anonymous email claiming it to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. He quickly puts together a crack team that includes his protege, IG Cybercrime Vikrant Singh, and gets to work trawling the dark web for more information on this mystery attack. However, a move to bring forward the hacker backfires, leading to a second, deadlier attack on Mumbai’s lifeline, the railway system. It is their first brush with cyberterrorism: a zero-day vulnerability in Read More..

4. Carved by Fire by Akshaya Saraf

When a phoenix faces death, its multi-colored wings are transformed into a pyre and consumed by fire. From the flames, it rises, is reborn, and rejuvenated. In the same way, when we allow ourselves to be carved by the fire of difficult seasons we have to live through, we are made new.

In a culture where most women are raised to live discreet lives, Akshaya raises her voice maturely and authentically in a way that all readers throughout the globe will relate to. Within the pages of her hilarious and honest experiences, she hopes to inspire any reader enduring challenging seasons, that there is no such thing as a point of no return.

5. Orenda by Shalaka Kulkarni

This is a gallery of local Indian markets, Gajras, and peppermints. It serves Metkut and adhesives on a dinner plate.

There are earrings on soft boards and Marlboros on the college canteen floor. It has Ghungroos on a Christmas wreath and embroidery hoops stuck in rusty buses. It echoes the walls of a boho apartment and art classes in kaleidoscopic brothels.

This is a gallery of the supernatural, divine, extraordinary and inherent – the power within us and all living beings – of Delivery Executive Manju, Architect Gargi, Professor Miller, Vagabond Bilva, Security Guard Amar Chacha, and umpteen. Read More..

6. Sira Ragata by Meera Vyas

“Power is never evil or good. It’s the man using it.”

The world has never been kind to people possessing power beyond human belief. And it was neither forgiving nor accepting to the witches in 1692, when thousands of women met the cruel fate of being handed to an incident referred to as the Salem Witch Trials.

To save themselves from this fate, true witches hid their powers and their bloodlines. And so had Amaraya and George to save themselves and their two beautiful daughters, Raylina and Ablina. But little did Amaraya know that it’s not possible to change destiny. Losing her husband, George, to the hands of Read More..

7. Dreams of Reality by Gitanjali Warrier

Leena accidentally downloads an app and her world changes. She begins to see an old world from her childhood pop up around her along with a long-lost love. She is lost between the virtual and real-world and the lines start to get blur. The book navigates through her journey and those around her in this sci-fi thriller.

The author of this book spent a decade navigating the roads of communication and marketing in different organizations like Wipro, Zoho, Unacademy, and others. She eventually realized it was time to step out and start her own business and she launched her fashion brand Senshi. Her lifelong dream remained to be an author and she scraped time out to write her first book.

8. A Mixture as Never Before by Pesi J Padshah

A Mixture as Never Before is an eclectic mix of profundity and pure nonsense, which aims to amuse and entertain, while putting across much of what the author believes to be true, though his declarations are often more tongue-in-cheek than direct.

Of the five different sections into which the book is divided, all except Random Writings, give the reader a rough idea of what to expect in each section. Random Writings does not conform to any set pattern and some of its contents may, strictly speaking, belong to another section. For instance, the stories, Grandpa’s Secret Love, The Spirit of Christmas, Tiger Wiger, The Lady in a Green Sari, and Handsome is as Handsome Does, could have Read More..

9. Kaikayi by Mahendra Arya

I am Kaikayi. The same Kaikayi who sent her stepson Ram to an exile of 14 years in deadly forests, infested with the dangers of devils and rakshasas. My daughter-in-law Seeta had to face the harsh consequences of this forced exile. My stepson Lakshman almost lost his life in the battle fighting the strong army of Raavan, the King of Lanka. Not just that, I insisted on the coronation of my son Bharat instead of the most deserving Ram.

And to get all this done, I tricked my husband Maharaj Dashrath by using his two blind commitments to me. He lost his life out of grief. This is all that is mentioned about me in Ramayan.
Thus, I was a wicked and selfish woman in the story Read More..

10. White Darkness by Ramesh Menon

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