Gogol Ganguli, son of Bengali immigrants in America, spends years chafing against the unwanted Russian name his father gave him, before he can understand the private tragedy behind it.
Books mentioned in The Namesake (17)
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol: “His favorite story in the book was the last, "The Overcoat,"”
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol: “Well, we're going to have to read 'The Overcoat.' Either that or 'The Nose.'”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “he had read pages of The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.”
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev: “he had read pages of The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.”
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “he had read pages of The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.”
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: “She is reading a well-thumbed paperback copy of Pride and Prejudice”
The Cat in the Hat by Seuss: “listening to the children's librarian, Mrs. Aiken, reading The Cat in the Hat.”
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare: “The book in her hands is a paperback copy of Timon of Athens”
Mother Goose: “Dr. Gupta gives the boy a handsome illustrated copy of Mother Goose rhymes.”
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien: “He would have preferred The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or even another copy of The Hobbit”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: “He would have preferred The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or even another copy of The Hobbit”
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “He pokes through the box. The Swiss Family Robinson. On the Road. The Communist Manifesto.”
The Comedians by Graham Greene: “There is a book in the pocket of the trench coat, a copy of The Comedians by Graham Greene”