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All of us book lovers know the struggle to find a good book so that we can binge on it. Reading a book or even listening to audiobooks are a great stress reliever ( at least for me). It also gives us a different perspective to life and opens up our mind, helping us understand the different positive aspects of life.
Here we have picked 7 must read nepali books with the link of audiobooks that you can binge on
1 EK SARKO MAYA
Author : G.S. Poudel
Category : Fiction/ Fantasy
This novel is the story of a Nepali youth who came to Maldives for employment, who unknowingly falls into addiction and does not succeed in coming out. His love affair with a beautiful model in the middle of the cult, his mental struggle between love and addiction. The writer keeps its audience on the edge with the writing and makes the readers travel a whole new world of imagination.
Audiobook: Ek sarko maya
2 SUMMER LOVE
Author : Subin Bhattarai
Category: Fiction /Romance
Year : 2012
Subin Bhattarai’s second book and first novel, the plot concerns college students Atit Sharma and Saya Shakya falling in love, their journey as they get to know each other and the conflicts arising through their inter caste love through Atit’s eyes. It was a best selling book in Nepal with in excess of 20,000 copies sold. A sequel titled ‘Saaya’ was released in September 2014.
Audiobook : Summer Love
3 RADHA
Author : Krishna Dharabasi
Category : Fiction/ Mythopoeia
Year : 2005
Awards : Winner of Madan Puraskar 2005
Radha is a mythopoetic novel which starts with a real situation and takes the reader to the world of fiction. It relies on the subject drawn from the ‘Mahabharata’ and revolves around the love between Radha and Krishna. Written from Radha’s perspective, this is an extraordinary novel which portrays Radha as a strong, dignified and revolutionary woman.
Audiobook : Radha
4 KARNALI BLUES
Author : Buddhisagar
Category: Fiction/ Realistic fiction
Year : 2010
The novel expresses the story of the struggle of a lower middle class father in the Far Western Region of Nepal through his son’s eyes. It is a journey of a boy from childhood to adulthood and the role of his father in each step of his life. The book takes the readers on an emotional roller coaster making the readers bound to move along with the characters of the story.
Audiobook : Karnali Blues
5 SETO DHARTI
Author : Amar Neupane
Category : Fiction
Year : 2012
Award : Madan puraskar
The novel is based on the painful story of the life of a nine-year-old child widow, and reveals the bitter reality of Nepalese society. It portrays the pain and hardships that the young girl has to go through all her life.
Audiobook : Seto dharti
6 PALPASA CAFE
Author : Narayan Wagle
Category : Fiction
Year: 2005
Award : Madan Puraskar
The novel tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil-War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and Palpasa. The story progresses ahead with unexpected twists and turns, and series of coincidences.
Audiobook: Palpasa cafe
7 SIRISH KO PHOOL
Author: Parijat
Category: Fiction
Year : 1965
Award : Madan Puraskar
Shirish Ko Phool (The Blue Mimosa) is one of the most famous novels of Nepal written by Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba).The novel follows the life of Suyogbir, an ex-army man who fought against the Japanese soldiers in the Second World War. As Suyogbir deals with horrors from his past, he falls in love with Sakambari. This is a tragic tale of love and loss.
Audiobook: Shrish ko phool