Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Girl Who Ate Books | 2016 | Nilanjana Roy | Buy |
| 2 | Patriots, Poets and Prisoners | 2016 | Nilanjana Roy | Buy |
| 3 | The Autobiography of a True Gentleman | 2019 | Nilanjana Roy | Buy |
| 4 | Our Freedoms | 2021 | Nilanjana Roy | Buy |
Nilanjana Roy’s non-fiction reflects the range of her work as a journalist and cultural critic. The Girl Who Ate Books (2016) is a memoir-in-essays about her life as a reader, drawn from decades of engagement with literature across languages and traditions. It is one of the warmest portraits of a reading life in contemporary Indian writing.
Her other non-fiction is more directly political. Patriots, Poets and Prisoners (2016), The Autobiography of a True Gentleman (2019), and Our Freedoms (2021) address questions of civil liberties, free expression, and what it means to be Indian at a time of political change. These books draw on her journalism and her long attention to Indian public life.
Roy also contributes to edited collections as a writer and editor, and her non-fiction has appeared in major international publications over more than two decades.