Shortlisted books (2018-2022)

Flying with Grandpa

Thukpa for All

The Tale of Babban Hajjam

The Clever Tailor

Sera Learns to Fly

Sadiq Wants to Stitch

Neel on Wheels

Red

Machher Jhol 🏆

I Need to Pee

A Match Made in Mehendi

The Prince 🏆

The Lies We Tell

Being Gandhi

Grit: The Major Story

The Rise of the Midnight King

Nadya

Flyaway Boy

All of Me 🏆

Unlucky Chamki

Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers 🏆

The Girl Who Ironed Her Hair and Other Stories

Rattu and Poorie’s Adventures in History

Letters to Ammi

Hungry To Play

The Gular Flower

The Mountains of Mumbai 🏆

Lost and Found in a Mumbai Koliwada

Dotted Lines

In My Heart

Ammama’s Sari

Somnath Hore: Wounds

Rain Must Fall

Bandilanka’s Forgotten Lives

The Secret Life of Debbie G.

The Teenage Diary of Razia Sultan

Queen of Earth

Oonga 🏆

Nomad’s Land

Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased