The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (June 2017) Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things. Now, 19 years later she is set to come out with her next work of fiction titled The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in June 2017. Roy’s latest book will be published by Hamish Hamilton UK and Penguin India. Talking about her latest book she said in a statement, “I am glad to report that the mad souls in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness have found a way into the world, and that I have found my publishers. To publish this book is both a pleasure and an honour.” Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (released in Feb 2017)Internationally acclaimed best-selling author Haruki Murakami’s latest book Kishidancho Goroshi or Killing Commendatore was released on February 24, 2017. Murakami has described Killing Commendatore as a “strange story”. It is about a 36-year-old portrait painter and how his life changes when his wife divorces him. The painter then moves to an old house in Tokyo, that’s when he meets a neighbour and finds the painting which is the book’s title. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (released March, 2017)Internationally best-selling author Mohsin Hamid’s latest book Exit West is a story about two lovers – fiercely independent Nadia and the gentle Saeed. The story is set in the backdrop of a country which is on a brink of the civil war. It follows the journey of Nadia and Saeed who struggle to hold on to each other and emerge to an uncertain future and their existence. Origin by Dan Brown (October, 2017)Dan Brown’s popular character Robert Langdon will feature again in the author’s next thriller Origin which would be out on October 3, 2017. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions, and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them, reads a statement on Brown’s website. This will be the fifth Langdon thriller after The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, The Lost Symbol and Inferno. It will also be available as an ebook and an audiobook. Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley (May, 2017)On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, TV presenter and historian Lucy Worsley takes the readers into Austen’s world. Jane Austen at Home as the name suggests is about how Austen lived and looks at “the rooms, spaces and possessions that mattered to her”. The book would be released on May 18, 2017.