Nikesh Shukla Books in Order

Three Asian teenage boys in 1990s Harrow form a hip-hop group to escape the feeling that they fit in nowhere. With little musical skill and inadequate equipment, they navigate disapproving parents, school prejudice, and street dangers while chasing credibility and romance.

Grieving Ashok tries to recreate his mother's cooking, hoping familiar Gujarati flavors can bring him back to the family home he remembers. Recipes and relatives' advice accompany a search for connection with the woman whose absence has changed everything.

Unemployed writer Kitab spends his days shaping an online identity while his offline life deteriorates. After his brother leaves to find a lookalike in America, Kitab's internet namesake appears at his door, demanding friendship and unsettling the boundaries of his isolated existence.

Edited by Nikesh Shukla, twenty-one essays by writers of color explore immigration, identity, and belonging in Britain. Personal accounts examine racism, cultural expectations, public representation, and the pressure to prove worthiness in a society that often treats minority citizens as outsiders.

Twins Taran and Hari have found community in a tower block after their family's financial troubles force a move. When tragedy strikes amid signs of redevelopment, they go on the run and try to expose the sinister forces threatening their home.

Diagnosed with the cancer that killed her mother, Neha builds a computer program to trace patterns across her family's lives. Migration from Kenya, racial violence, and her brother's comedy career become part of an inquiry into inheritance, chance, and the meaning of destiny.

Nikesh Shukla and Sammy Jones assemble twenty-one accounts by young people in Britain. Contributors speak from their own experience about the issues shaping their lives, offering an anthology that places youth perspectives at the center of discussions about contemporary society.

After a racist attack, seventeen-year-old Sunny joins a boxing club and finds a mentor and a sense of belonging. Told through the rounds of his first fight, his story confronts rising racial tensions and the possible radicalization of a close friend.

Mumbai's Spider-Man, Pavitr Prabhakar, faces a new Lizard whose dangerous abilities threaten the city. A professor's experiments and a ruthless businessman's plans complicate his fight, while public hostility makes returning to his costume an increasingly perilous choice.