Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Books In Order
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Sister of My Heart | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vine of Desire | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Brotherhood of the Conch Books
The Conch Bearer | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadowland | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Girls of Many Lands Books
Neela | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spring Pearl: The Last Flower | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leyla: The Black Tulip | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Mistress of Spices | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Queen of Dreams | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
California Uncovered | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lives of Strangers | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Palace of Illusions | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Amazing Thing | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oleander Girl | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before We Visit the Goddess | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Forest of Enchantments | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Queen | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Independence | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
The Reason for Nasturtiums | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Candle | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arranged Marriage | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leaving Yuba City | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1947 | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1956 | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1979 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1982 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1983 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1986 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1992 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1993 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1995 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1996 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1997 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2000 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2003 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2020 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2022 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Full-Blooded Fantasy | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in Kolkata, India in the year 1956, and lives close to San Francisco with her two kids (named Abhay and Anand, whose names she once used in her kid’s books) and a husband. She teaches creative writing courses at a local college, and coordinates a helpline for South Asian women.
Chitra came to the United States for her graduate studies, getting her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and wrote her doctoral dissertation on Christopher Marlowe. She also got a Master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
To earn money during her education, she had many odd jobs, including selling merchandise in an Indian boutique, washing instruments in a science lab, babysitting, and slicing bread in a bakery. While she was Berkeley, she worked in the dining hall and she lived in the International House. She lived for a short time in Ohio and Illinois, but has spent a lot of her life in Northern California, which she writes about often.
Chitra is the former president and co-founder of Maitri, which is a helpline for South Asian women that are dealing with domestic abuse and was founded in the year 1991. She has also served on Pratham Houston’s board, which is a non-profit organization that works on bringing literacy to disadvantaged Indian kids.
Chitra’s work has been published in more than fifty magazines, including The New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly. It has also been published in more than fifty anthologies, which includes the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Chitra’s work has been translated in over twenty languages, including: Japanese, Dutch, Bengali, Hebrew, and Russian. Many have been used for city-wide and campus-wide reads.
Her collection of short stories, called “Arranged Marriage” won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction, and an American Book Award. “The Conch Bearer” was nominated for a Bluebonnet Award in the year 2003.
Her books “The Mistress of Spices” and “Sister of My Heart” have both been made into movies by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges (an English language film) and Suhasini Mani Ratnam (a Tamil TV serial) respectively. “The Word Love” was adapted into a bilingual short film in English and Bengali, that was called “Ammar Ma”.
Chitra’s debut novel, called “The Mistress of Spices”, was released in the year 1997. She writes the “Brotherhood of the Conch” series and some stand alone books. Her work is from the genre of children’s fiction and literary fiction.
The “Brotherhood of the Conch” series takes place entirely in India and draws upon both the folklore and the culture of the region.
“The Mistress of Spices” is the first stand alone novel and was released in the year 1997. Sensual, magical, and tantalizing, this is the story of Tilo, a young woman that was born in a faraway place in another time. She is trained in the ancient art of spices and got ordained as a mistress charged with some unique powers.
Once she is fully initiated in a rite of fire, this newly immortal Tilo, who inhabits the arthritic and gnarled body of an old lady, travels through time to Oakland. Here she opens up a shop where she administers spices as cures to all her customers.
An unexpected romance with a good looking stranger makes her have to pick between the vicissitudes of modern life and the supernatural life of an immortal.
“The Conch Bearer” is the first novel in the “Brotherhood of the Conch” series and was released in the year 2003. In a dirty shack in the not-so-desirable Indian neighborhood he lives in, twelve-year-old Anand has been entrusted with a conch shell that has mystical powers. He is tasked with returning the shell to its rightful home hundreds of miles away.
Going with him on the journey are Nisha (who is a resourceful yet headstrong child of the streets) and Abhaydatta (a mysterious man of surprising resources and indeterminate age). This journey is going to take him a lot further from home than he has ever been and is going to teach him a lot more than he ever thought it would. It is also going to require him to make a poignant choice that is going to alter him forever.
“The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming” is the second novel in the “Brotherhood of the Conch” series and was released in the year 2005. Anand, who found his vocation as the Keeper of the Conch, is now living in the Himalayan Silver Valley. Here, he trains to become the Healer in the Brotherhood. While Anand practices the art of far-seeing, he has a vision of a horrified wise-woman that pleads for help.
He is devastated by Master Abhaydatta’s choice to leave him behind as he goes to help the woman out. Anand is able to convince the magic conch to make a magic portal that allows him and Nisha to suddenly appear by Abhaydatta’s side. However, during the metaphysical hurtle, Anand and Nisha get separated and he gets thrown back to an ancient Indian kingdom.
Here, there is an evil sorcerer that plans the royal family’s downfall. What hope could Anand have of beating this sorcerer, finding his friends, and getting back to his own time without his powerful conch? The answers could lie within the depths of the Mirror of Fire and Dreaming.
“Shadowland” is the third novel in the “Brotherhood of the Conch” series and was released in the year 2009. Anand’s beloved Conch goes missing, and he and Nisha have to travel into a dystopian future in order to get it back. It is a future where the water and the air have been severely corrupted that the upper classes live in luxury in their hermetically sealed domes, and the lower classes battle to survive.
Ecological and class issues wind up coming to a head in a world of customs, exotic lore, and the smells and sights of India.
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