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Readers' Choice! |
The power in your hands to choose the book you think is the best and which deserves the award. The shortlist will be announced shortly and this time will consist of both fiction and non-fiction.
Vote now!
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Welcome to the Indiaplaza 'Golden Quill' Book Awards 2009
 As the largest bookstore in India, we have served book lovers like no other store has. For us selling books is a passion. This passion has enabled us in understanding the hearts and minds of Indian readers and their hunger for good books. Indian writers do not often receive the focus they deserve because of which not many readers are able to read quality Indian writing. We hope to change that and did so with the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Awards, 2008, which was a grand success. Now we continue with the journey with the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Awards, 2009.
The focus this year is on books written by Indian authors domiciled in India in both fiction and non-fiction. That's right, this year we have added a new category of non-fiction to enhance the scope and the reach of this Award and also to introduce new books and authors to the readers.
We also desire that the reader be involved in the process of the selection of the final winner. Hence The Indiaplaza Golden Quill - Readers' choice. We hope you have as much fun selecting your best book as we enjoyed putting the whole thing together. |
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The Longlist for Golden Quill 2009 |
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it - Michael Crichton.
Over 1000 books have been written (and rewritten) and published in India in 2008 ...and here are the best. Chosen for the deftness of plot, crispness of language, delineation of the characters and more such parameters, these are indeed the best of the best Indian writing. We present the 28 books that have made it to the longlist. Each is a winner!
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Fiction Books |
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Krishnaa's Konfessions
Author: Smita Jain
Publisher: Westland Publications.
ISBN: 9788189975470
Language: English
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The Loudest Firecracker
Author: Arun Krishnan
Publisher: Westland Publications
ISBN: 9788189975449
Language: English
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The Inheritors
Author: Neel Chowdhury
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9788184000221
Language: English
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The Wind From the Hills
Author: Sethu
Publisher: Westland Publications
ISBN: 9788189975647
Language: English
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The Immigrant
Author: Manju Kapoor
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9788184000481
Language: English
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The Three Mistakes of My Life
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa Publications
ISBN: 9788129113726
Language: English
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Seance on a Sunday Afternoon
Author: Shinie Antony
Publisher: Rupa Publications
ISBN: 9788129113290
Language: English
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Pink or Black
Author: Tishaa
Publisher: Rupa Publications
ISBN: 9788129114044
Language: English
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Dear Popples
Author: Anouradha Bakshi
Publisher: Undercover Utopia
ISBN: 9780979811654
Language: English
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Sea of Poppies
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670082032
Language: English
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You Are Here
Author: Meenakshi Reddy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143064343
Language: English
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In the Country Of Deceit
Author: Shashi Deshpande
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670081981
Language: English
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Bandicoots in the Moonlight
Author: Avijit Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143103790
Language: English
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T'ta Professor
Author: Manohar Shyam Joshi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670082094
Language: English
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Bombay Rains Bombay Girls
Author: Anirban Bose
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9788172236830
Language: English
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The Japanese Wife
Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9788172237332
Language: English
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Keep Off The Grass
Author: Karan Bajaj
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9788172237561
Language: English
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Zoya Factor
Author: Anuja Chauhan
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9788172237486
Language: English
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Ammi
Author: Saeed Mirza
Publisher: Westland
ISBN: 9788189975364
Language: English
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Non-Fiction Books |
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The 24X7 Marriage
Author: Vijay Nagaswami
Publisher: Westland Publications
ISBN: 9788189975791
Language: English
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Curfewed Night
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9788184000344
Language: English
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Red Sun
Author: Sudeep Chakravarti
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143066538
Language: English
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Imagining India
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670081967
Language: English
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Superstar India
Author: Shobhaa De
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143102588
Language: English
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Go Kiss The World
Author: Subroto Bagchi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670082308
Language: English
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Goodnight and God Bless
Author: Anita Nair
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670081516
Language: English
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Smoke and Mirrors
Author:Pallavi Aiyar
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9788172237462
Language: English
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For the Class of 2010
Author: Al Raines
Publisher: Undercover Utopia
ISBN: 9780979811661
Language: English
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