The Indian Fiction Top 25

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Jerry Pinto, Indian poet and novelist, 25 Books

This is a list of the top 25 Indian fiction books by Jerry Pinto. Jerry is a Mumbai-based Indian-English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto's works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb, which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women and Asylum and Other Poems.

This list was originally published in 2005 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17117 Love And Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra 1997 Indian English
15768 The Fig Tree Aubrey Menen 1959 Indian English
14983 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
1774 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 American English
17117 The Impressionist Hari Kunzru 2002 British English
1991 All about H. Hatterr G. V. Desani 1948 Indian English
12249 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
2852 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 1935 Indian English
16487 Coolie Mulk Raj Anand 1936 Indian English
1365 Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya 1954 Indian English
17117 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
3386 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh 1988 Indian English
17117 The Trotternama I. Allan Sealy 1988 Indian English
3406 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
17117 When Dreams Travel Githa Hariharan 1999 Indian English
17117 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17117 That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande 1988 Indian English
359 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997 Indian English
16881 Kanthapura Raja Rao 1938 Indian English
17117 Delhi Khushwant Singh 1990 Indian English
17117 Old Cypress Nisha Da Cunha 1991 Indian Unknown
14896 The Room On The Roof Ruskin Bond 1956 Indian English
10163 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
17117 The Devil In The Dustbin Indi Rana 1989 Unknown Unknown