Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Girl Who Ate Books | 2016 | Buy |
| Patriots, Poets and Prisoners | 2016 | Buy |
| The Autobiography of a True Gentleman | 2019 | Buy |
| Our Freedoms | 2021 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Black River | 2022 | Buy |
The Wildings Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Wildings | 2012 | Buy |
| The Hundred Names of Darkness | 2013 | Buy |
Nilanjana Roy is a Delhi-based novelist, editor, and literary critic. Born in Kolkata in 1971, she studied literature at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and has written for the Financial Times, New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, and numerous other publications. She is one of India’s most widely read critics writing in English.
Her fiction spans different genres. The Wildings (2012) and its sequel The Hundred Names of Darkness (2013) are fantasy novels told from the perspective of a clan of cats living in Nizamuddin, a historic neighbourhood in Delhi. The Wildings won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize. Her standalone novel Black River (2022), a work of Delhi noir, grew from years of reporting on gender violence for the New York Times and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger.
Roy also appears in several non-fiction collections as a contributor or editor, covering subjects from Indian politics to literary culture. Her non-fiction writing addresses freedom of expression, patriotism, and social justice in contemporary India.