Books about Tamils & Sri Lanka

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“My favourite fiction and non-fiction books about Tamils and the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.”

1		Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
2		Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Goodreads Author)
2		Tamil Tigress by Niromi de Soyza
4		Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints by Anita Pratap
5		Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
6		Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
7		The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Rohini Mohan (Goodreads Author)
8		Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War by Frances Harrison
9		The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss
10		Bone China by Roma Tearne
11		ஈழம் எதிர்ப்பு அரசியலின் எதிர்காலம் [Eezham Edhirppu Arasiyalin Edhirgaalam] by Yamuna Rajendran
12		Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
13		Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
14		The Fall and Rise of the Tamil Nation by V. Navaratnam
15		The Amazing Racist by Chhimi Tenduf-La (Goodreads Author)
16		The Road to Urbino by Roma Tearne
16		A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State by N. Malathy (Goodreads Author)
18		Will to Freedom, The: An Inside View of Tamil Resistance by Adele Balasingham
19		The Swimmer by Roma Tearne
20		A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State by N. Malathy (Goodreads Author)
21		Mosquito by Roma Tearne
21		Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
23		Sri Lankan Tamil History: Origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dutch Period in Ceylon, Sri Lanka and State Terrorism by Books LLC  d
23		Learning Politics From Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka by Mark P. Whitaker
25		Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets by R. Cheran
26		A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
27		The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
28		The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Rohini Mohan (Goodreads Author)
29		Intervention in Sri Lanka: The IPKF Experience Retold by Harkirat Singh
30		Holy Kural – Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations by Thiruvalluvar
31		Sri Lanka’s Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder by Trevor Grant
32		Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by Neil De Votta
32		Tamils in Sri Lanka, A Comprehensive History (C.300 B.C. – C. 2000 A.D.) by Murugar Gunasingam
32		This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian (Goodreads Author)
32		The Story of India and Srilanka and the Tamils by Selva Ganesan (Goodreads Author)
32		Losing Santhia: Life and loss in the struggle for Tamil Eelam by Ben Hillier
37		Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law by Francis A. Boyle
37		On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
37		Women Fighters of Liberation Tigers by Adele Balasingham
37		World Without Walls: Being Human, Being Tamil by R. Cheran (Editor)
37		Panther by Chhimi Tenduf-La (Goodreads Author)
42		Dare to Dream – Heroic Tales for the Tamil Diaspora by J.K. Sivalingam
42		Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran: The First Profile of the World’s Most Ruthless Guerrilla Leader by M.R. Narayan Swamy
42		Uncivil War by Indran Amirthanayagam
42		Unreal: An Anthology Of Speculative Fiction: Volume 1 by Aditya Deshmukh (Editor)
46		Tigers of Lanka: From Boys to Guerrillas by M.R. Narayan Swamy
46		In Our Translated World: Contemporary Global Tamil Poetry by Chelva Kanaganayakam (editor)
48		Homesick by Roshi Fernando
48		The Broken Palmyra: The Tamil Crisis in Sri Lanka, An Inside Account by Rajan Hoole
48		The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Goodreads Author)
51		Notes on Love in a Tamil Family by Margaret Trawick
52		Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India by Susan Seizer  4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
52		Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism: A study of its origins by Murugar Gunasingam
54		“The Tamil Eelam Liberation Struggle” State Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing (1948-2009) by Murugar Gunasingam
55		Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by Frederic P. Miller
56		Tamil Cinema: Rajinikanth, Tamil Cinema and Dravidian Politics, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, List of Tamil Film Families, Enthiran by Source Wikipedia
57		Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Mark Stephen Meadows
58		Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka by Adele Marie Barker
58		Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation by Robert I. Rotberg (editor)
58		Britain’s dirty war against the Tamil people 1979-2009 by Phil Miller
61		Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers by Shyam Selvadurai (Editor, Author)
61		Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism: Its Origins and Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
63		When Elephants Fight by Eric Walters
63		Sri Lanka: Hiding the Elephant’ Documenting War Crimes, Crimes against humanity and Genocide by Ramu Manivannan (Head-Department of Politics)
65		The exile returned: A self-portrait of the Tamil Vellahlahs of Jaffna, Sri Lanka by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
65		Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction by Rebecca Knuth
67		Sri Lanka–Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
68		Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka by R. Cheran (editor)
68		Was I a Stranger in My Homeland?: Has One Two Lives? by Malavi Sivakanesan
70		Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) (Volume 10) by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
71		War Journey: Diary of a Tamil Tiger by Malaravan
72		A Sociological Exploration of Disappearances in Sri Lanka by Jane Thomson-Senanayake
73		Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera (Goodreads Author)
74		A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka by Commodore Ajith Boyagoda as told to Sunila Galappatti
75		On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin
76		Tamils and the Nation: India and Sri Lanka Compared by Madurika Rasaratnam
77		The Tiger’s Pause: The Untold Story Of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Peace Efforts In Sri Lanka by Swami Virupaksha
78		Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict by Benjamin Dix