Kama Recommended Reading List

Here’s a list of some of our favorite Kama Books over the years:


Fiction

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Tamarind Men by Anita Rau Badami
Black Bird by Michel Basilieres
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto
The Swinging Bridge by Ramabai Espinet
The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz by Faiz Ahmed Faiz; translated by Naomi Lazard
The Best of Faiz by Faiz Ahmed Faiz; translated by Shiv K. Kumar
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz; translated by Agha Shahid Ali
Make Believe Love by Lee Gowan
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog
Buddha Stevens and Other Stories by Steven Hayward
Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
Deafening by Frances Itani
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Way the Crow Flies, by Ann-Marie MacDonald
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Dutch Wife by Eric McCormack
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
In the Shadow of Kirinyaga by Sophia Mustafa
Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan
The Bachelor of Arts by R.K. Narayan
Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan
The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel
Vintage Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
Playing House by Patricia Pearson
A Splinter in the Heart by Al Purdy
Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy by Al Purdy
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Quartet by Jean Rhys
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
The Fall of Gravity by Leon Rooke
One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto
Story-Wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction, Edited by Shyam Selvadurai
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Discerner of Hearts by Olive Senior
My Mother's Last Dance by Honor Ford-Smith
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
What Casanova Told Me by Susan Swan
Pack up the Moon by Richard Teleky
A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart
The Gunny Sack by M.G. Vassanji
Blues from the Malabar Coast by Nalini Warriar
The Big Why by Michael Winter
This All Happened by Michael Winter
Adultery by Richard B. Wright
The Age of Longing by Richard B. Wright
Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

Non-Fiction
Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future by Lloyd Axworthy
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson
Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl by Carmit Delman
Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business by Madeleine Drohan
The Green Labyrinth by Sylvia Fraser
In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
Flint and Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake by Charlotte Gray
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Baltimore's Mansion by Wayne Johnston
"New Voices" Dropped Threads 2 by Flora MacDonald
The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change by Irshad Manji
Slipstream by Rachel Manley
In My Own Name: A Memoir by Maureen McTeer
Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India by Gita Mehta
Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
Out of Poverty and Into Something More Comfortable by John Stackhouse
Timbit Nation by John Stackhouse
Labyrinth of Desire: A Story of Women and Romantic Obsession by Rosemary Sullivan
The Families of the World Collection by Hélène Tremblay
Water by Marq de Villiers
Honeymoon in Purdah by Alison Wearing
In the Shadow of a Saint by Ken Wiwa
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa