The World of Sudeep Nagarkar
Heartfelt stories that have captured millions of readers. Now ready to move millions on screen.
Sudeep Nagarkar
India’s most loved contemporary romance author, Sudeep Nagarkar, has a gift for storytelling that touches hearts and stays with readers long after the last page. His books are bestsellers that have sold in large numbers and continue to find new readers every day.
Sudeep published his debut novel, Few Things Left Unsaid, in 2011 and left his job in IT in 2012 to write full time. Since then, his stories of friendship, first love, heartbreak and second chances have been published by Penguin Random House India and translated into languages including Hindi, Marathi and Telugu. Beyond books, he has also written for television.
A readership built over fifteen years.
Seventeen stories about people, their choices and the hearts they break and mend.
From campus romances and long-distance love to thrillers and second chances, here is the complete shelf.
Few Things Left Unsaid
Two engineering students fall hard, break apart, find their way back to each other, and discover that one devastating turn can change the meaning of first love forever.
That’s the Way We Met
After love has already been found and lost, Aditya and Riya must confront the consequences of their choices as the past refuses to stay buried.
It Started with a Friend Request
A conservative young man and an independent mass-media student connect online, but a seemingly harmless friendship collides with trust, religion, politics and social pressure.
You’re the Password to My Life
Two best friends believe nothing can break them, until an unexpected crisis forces them to discover what friendship really costs.
Sorry, You’re Not My Type
Three friends in a Delhi college band have their carefully balanced world disrupted when a new arrival turns friendship, attraction and loyalty into a volatile emotional triangle.
You’re Trending in My Dreams
Four college friends find their carefully contained world destabilised when one friend’s crisis pulls the entire group into consequences none of them anticipated.
She Swiped Right into My Heart
A new relationship begins with a swipe, but when love is lost, the real story becomes whether friendship can heal what romance could not.
All Rights Reserved for You
A writer and a woman who dislikes reading fall in love across cities, testing whether digital intimacy can bridge the distance between two lives.
Our Story Needs No Filter
A love story collides with student elections, power games and social fault lines when an idealistic young man becomes trapped in a campus political storm.
She Friend-Zoned My Love
A charming young man wants a girlfriend, but the woman he likes sees him as a friend, setting off a comic and surprisingly emotional journey through attraction, rejection and self-worth.
The Secrets We Keep
An intelligence officer finds that love and secrecy are incompatible when the hidden truths surrounding a relationship begin to threaten everything he is sworn to protect.
Stand By Me!
When a mysterious death is ruled a suicide, a grieving brother becomes convinced he saw the killer, and risks everything to prove it.
A Second Chance
When the past reopens an old relationship, two people must decide whether a second chance is a gift, or simply another way to get hurt.
Can’t Quarantine Our Love
When lockdown closes the world down, two people discover that physical distance can intensify love, loneliness, doubt and the need to stay connected.
Happily Never After
A reserved woman falls for a man who loves someone else, forcing her to choose between losing herself and finding her own centre.
It Was Always You
Sometimes the person we keep searching for is the person who has been there all along, but recognising love is only the beginning.
Why Should I Trust You?
When trust becomes the central question in a relationship, every explanation starts to sound like a lie, and every secret becomes a possible betrayal.
From a first book to a shelf of seventeen.
Fifteen years of writing, touring and talking to readers, in a few milestones.
His debut novel, Few Things Left Unsaid, is published while he is still working in IT.
After his second book, he leaves his IT job to write full time.
Wins the Youth Achievers Award, is named Amazon India’s Celebrity Author, and It Started with a Friend Request becomes the platform’s most popular fiction title of the year.
Takes She Swiped Right into My Heart on a 15-city tour. The Kolkata launch at STORY on Elgin Road is the second stop.
Launches Our Story Needs No Filter, his campus political drama, at JNU in New Delhi.
Talks to The Honest Critique about how a novel gets published. By now his books are available in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Telugu, and he has spoken at IITs and TEDx events.
Goes live with Sipping Thoughts Live on Happily Never After, on 13 November.
Publishes Why Should I Trust You?, a relationship thriller set in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, inspired by a tourist guide he met on a holiday there.
17 bestselling books, 2.5 million copies sold, and a readership that keeps growing.
Where readers met the stories.
She Swiped Right into My Heart
At STORY, Elgin Road, eastern India’s biggest standalone bookstore. Young readers packed in for a session of over an hour on the book’s themes, followed by questions, signings and plenty of selfies.
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Our Story Needs No Filter
The campus political drama was launched at JNU, with guests from the university’s Centre for English Studies in attendance.
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Sudeep in conversation.
Interviews and live sessions from across his career.
In Conversation with Sudeep Nagarkar on Happily Never After
Sipping Thoughts Live · 13 November 2021
Stories already loved by millions, ready for the screen.
From campus romances and ensemble youth dramas to relationship thrillers, Sudeep’s shelf offers recognisable, emotionally driven stories with a ready audience. His books have long been a natural fit for features and limited series.
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