Saumya Dave Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Saumya Dave is a published author. In addition to being a writer, she is also a psychiatrist and a mental health advocate.

She is known for her novels, including her 2020 debut Well-Behaved Indian Women. The book was featured in such publications as Bustle, The New York Times Book Review, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and more. Her second novel came out in 2021 and was released in 2021. Saumya’s essays, poetry and articles have also been featured in different outlets that include ABC News, The New York Times, Refinery27, and HuffPost.

Saumya is a practicing therapist. She is also a co-founder of thisisforHER, a mental health nonprofit. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Mount Sinai, where she teaches students about Narrative Medicine.

The author attended and graduated from Georgia Tech and the Medical College of Georgia. There she was an inductee into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She also completed her psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a place where she was a Chief Resident as well as inducted into the AΩA Medical Honors Society. She has also gone through and completed a Psychoanalytic Fellowship with the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Saumya resides in New York City. She is married and shares a son with her husband.

What a Happy Family is a 2021 novel by Saumya Dave. This is a fictional novel that is sure to bring a smile to your face if you have been looking for a new voice in fiction to follow. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six and called this a ‘full, big hearted novel’. If this sounds good to you, check out this book for yourself or find out more about it by reading on!

Placed in the suburbs of Atlanta, a family finds out that sometimes the most humorous punchlines can work to hide the hardest truths in this women’s fiction novel. The Joshi family might look like the perfect Indian-American family from the outside. But is that really the case?

It was decades ago that Bina and Deepak chose to come to America. Here she became a pillar of their local community. Deepak went on to become a successful psychiatrist. Now their oldest daughter Suhani is going along in the same career as her father and is happily married. Natasha is their middle daughter and she’s getting ready to get engaged to the son of longtime family friends. Their son Anuj is just their son, but they are very proud of him.

A family scandal may just end up revealing that nothing is really what it appears to be. Bina’s oldest friendship starts unraveling and even though she helped build up this community she discovers that she is an outsider. Suhani also finds that her marriage might not be as perfectly solid as she previously believed it to be. Meanwhile, Natasha deals with a variety of rejections that start sending her into a downward spiral.

As they deal with all types of factors from public humiliation to aunties who gossip and a bevy of self doubt, the family is going to have to rely on each other as they never have before. Sometimes a family has a rare opportunity to fall apart so that it can return stronger than it was before. Could this be a good thing even though it’s something that they would have never chosen themselves? Read this book to find out!

The Guilt Pill is a 2025 novel by Saumya Dave. If you love good books that also bring their psychological drama as a thriller direct to the reader like a shot full of adrenaline, check out this book and let the entertainment begin.

A CEO is on maternity leave but she ends up going missing after she gets addicted to a pill that is experimental but promises to get rid of guilt. This story takes an up close and personal look at themes such as race, motherhood, privilege, and often how the world decides to treat women who want to ‘have it all’.

What if it were possible for women to dispose of their guilt? Maya Patel thought that she had it all, but maybe she was wrong about that. She has her own start-up, a husband who is not only sexy but dotes upon her, is an influencer, and now she has been blessed with a new baby. While she previously thought she had everything or at least presented that way, now she understands that she is completely drowning in everything that is going on.

It’s just too much and everything is too intense. Her newborn is having a huge effect on her marriage, and her best friend who used to be so available doesn’t want to return her calls. Her company is just barely hanging in there and she feels like it’s not a coincidence. It’s all directly related to her and is all her fault. If she could be better at being a mother, wife, boss, daughter or friend, perhaps she would not go around all the time feeling so guilty.

Then there is the entrance of none other than Liz Anderson, who identifies as a girl boss. She is the one who introduces Maya to an experimental supplement called the guilt pill that is supposed to erase female guilt. It is a great antidote to the self-blame that Maya is piling on herself as well as her sense of impostor syndrome.

Upon taking this pill, she at last becomes the woman she has always want to be– one who doesn’t make apologies. But in order for her to have it all, she has to be ready to risk it all and put it all on the line. As Maya goes deeper down the guilt free rabbit hole the pill gives her, her ruthlessness could threaten to put everything she has built at risk, including her family. Can she pull back on this thing if she needs to, or will it be others who are threatened by the way that she has become? Get a copy of The Guilt Pill by Saumya Dave to find out!