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Romance novels with South Asian heroines, aunties, matchmaking and a lot of food. Two are retellings of Pride and Prejudice, and one is YA.
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Ayesha at Last
Uzma Jalaluddin
Pride and Prejudice in a Muslim community in Toronto. Ayesha wants to be a poet, and Khalid is very sure of his opinions.
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Unmarriageable
Soniah Kamal
Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan, with the five Binat sisters and a wedding season full of gossip.
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Hana Khan Carries On
Uzma Jalaluddin
Hana's family runs a halal restaurant in Toronto, and a new restaurant opens down the street. She likes its owner's son.
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The Matchmaker's List
Sonya Lalli
Raina is 29 and single, so her grandmother starts setting her up, and a misunderstanding gets out of hand.
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The Marriage Game
Sara Desai
Layla's father sets up a dating profile for her and arranges interviews in an office she has to share with a man she can't stand.
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The Dating Plan
Sara Desai
Daisy needs a fake fiancé to stop her family's matchmaking, and the man who agrees is her teenage crush.
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Accidentally Engaged
Farah Heron
Reena bakes bread to cope with her family. When her parents set her up with Nadim, she agrees to a fake engagement for a cooking contest.
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The Trouble with Hating You
Sajni Patel
Liya, an engineer in Houston, walks out of a setup with Jay, then finds out he's the lawyer hired to save her company.
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Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words
Annika Sharma
An Indian American woman starting her career in New York falls in love and has to decide what she owes her family.
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Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged
Ayisha Malik
A Muslim woman in London is asked to write a book about Muslim dating, so she has to start dating.
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When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon
YA. Dimple goes to a coding camp to get away from her parents' marriage plans, and Rishi is there to meet her.