Welcome to the bookshelf of Dr. Vandana Sharma
A collection of works that span the boundaries of fiction, non-fiction, and literary criticism. Each title reflects her lifelong engagement with literature and her commitment to bringing its insights to a wider audience.
Fiction
Stories that explore the human psyche, relationships, and the intricate dance between tradition and change.
Threads of Longings: Shadows of Loss
A collection inspired by love, grief, and resilience.
This book weaves together reflections on longing, memory, and healing in the face of loss. Through intimate narratives and evocative imagery, it explores how grief shapes us, how silence carries its own weight, and how resilience slowly takes root in the shadow of absence. Both deeply personal and universally resonant, it speaks to anyone who has known the quiet ache of loss and the enduring strength of love.
Available now in paperback and Kindle formats.
A Memoir
Veiled Horizons: My Eleven Years Beneath Saudi Skies
The paradox at the heart of this book is unexpected and precise: the culture presumed to confine her becomes the first place that allows her space. Veiled Horizons is not merely a memoir of an expatriate woman in a foreign land, nor a story of escape. It is a story of emergence. Widowed early and carrying unresolved loss, Vandana Sharma arrives in Saudi Arabia a stranger and discovers solitude not as absence, but as power. Over eleven years, much of it spent on the Farasan Islands, an unexpected freedom of becoming takes root in a place known for restriction, and identity begins to form, almost imperceptibly, in midlife and in silence
Coming Soon
Ruins that Ruined — A mother’s renunciation, a daughter’s reckoning – a story of devotion, abandonment, and resilience. (Fiction – Expected December 2026)
Non-Fiction
Scholarly yet accessible works on literature, offering fresh perspectives on both classic and modern texts.