The Navathi online bookshop has a very good list of books about our culture, language and community that can be purchased on them.
| History of the Saraswats Gopalakrishna Baliga  | Traces the origins of the Saraswat community from the Saraswati River region and follows their migrations across India. It offers a concise overview of their religious, cultural, and social development, written for general readers rather than as an academic treatise. | Available to buy on Navathi bookshop |
| Swapna Saraswatha Gopalakrishna Pai  | Saga of migration of a community called Saraswaths in the west coast of India, extending from Goa to the south of Mangalore. Please check out my review here | Kannada/English/Malayalam version available to buy on Navathi bookshop or Amazon India. |
| Ta ta tingana: Paramparagata konkani janapada kavya sangraha Shri Santoshkumar Gulvadi | A must have for all the GSB parents with newborns. It is an exhaustive compilation of all the konkani rhymes for children. | Available to download for free here. Also available to purchase from the Vishwa Konkani Kendra. Write to [email protected] or [email protected] |
| Business Brahmins: The Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Kanara Harald Tambs-Lyche  | A casual read. An outsiders view of the the culture prevalent in GSB families in Udupi – their history and way of living. | Available to buy on Amazon India. |
| Journey of a Konkani Family Mulki R Bhat  | What a wonderful well researched, detailed work. The author has left a reference for the future generations of his family. The book transported me to my good old days with my grandparents and stories I heard from them. | It is available to buy on the Amazon US website. It used to be available to download free online. I have a copy of it downloaded from those days if anyone wants access. To the best of my knowledge this book was self published, if the publisher has any issues with this free access please write to me at [email protected]. |
Saraswatha Heritage  | If I had to buy one book to pass on to my kids, it would be this. A must have reference book in every GSB household. Amazing effort! | I purchased my copy from The GSB Hitarakshan Vedike office by calling on their office number (+91 94487 60380). |
| Dakshinatya Saraswats Nagesh Sonde  | A detailed research on the history of Saraswats that makes for an interesting read. | It is available to download here on the author Mr. Nagesh Sonde’s website. |
| Vaishnavism of Gowd Saraswat Brahmins V N Kudva | is a good book to read to understand why although most of our kuldevatas are from the Shiv/Shakti tradition, we identify ourselves as Vaishnavs. | Available to buy on Amazon India or read here |
| History of Dakshinaya Saraswats V N Kudva  | Available to download here | |
| Konkani Bhashecho Itihaas Nagesh Sonde  | This book is in Konkani written in Devanagari script and details the origin of the language. | Available to download here http://nageshsonde.com/images/Konkani-Bhashecho-Ithihas.pdf |