You’ll recognize the pleasure of slipping between intertwined lives the way you did when the novel moved among characters linked by an online fan forum, a cross-continental romance, and a political scandal that flared in Delhi. In The Lowland, Lahiri shifts gracefully between relatives whose decisions in Calcutta and Rhode Island echo for decades, offering the same layered, globe-spanning intimacy you enjoyed when Boston, Bangalore, and Delhi kept reflecting each other in unexpected ways.

If you loved how the protagonists’ college years were quietly transformed by their time on a Harry Potter forum—how posting, lurking, and collaborating online bled into who they became offline—then Fangirl will feel like home. Rowell follows Cath as she navigates freshman year, family strains, and love, all while writing fanfiction that’s as defining and consuming as those late-night threads that first drew your characters together.

What probably hooked you was the way a single relationship—complicated by class, ambition, and secrets—kept evolving in small, piercing moments, much like the affair that began in Boston and spiraled into public consequences back in India. Normal People offers that same hushed intensity, tracking two people over years as they drift apart and return, with the kind of close-up emotional detail that made the quieter chapters of The Accidental Magic so addictive.

If the strings of emails, forum posts, and messages in The Accidental Magic—those half-public, half-private exchanges that stitched together Boston and Bangalore—stayed with you, The Idiot will too. Batuman follows a first-year Harvard student as awkward emails and language classes become the terrain of her first love and self-invention, echoing the way digital conversations shaped identity and connection in the book you loved.

You enjoyed how a handful of people—tethered by a fan community, desire, and ambition—sparked repercussions that reached into news cycles and political rooms in Delhi. In The Incendiaries, a few students’ private beliefs and choices escalate into headline-making acts, told with the same close, intense lens that made the campus and apartment scenes in The Accidental Magic feel electric.