The Greatest Books of All Time Set in India

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
8032 An Area Of Darkness V. S. Naipaul 1964 British English
8032 Slowly Down The Ganges Eric Newby 1966 British English
8061 The Anarchy William Dalrymple 2019 British English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8211 China Shakes The World James Kynge 2006 British English
8261 Diccionario Sánscrito Español Oscar Pujol 2011 Spanish Spanish
8414 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8589 Sold Patricia McCormick 2006 American English
8595 The Adventures Of Tintin Hergé 1929 Belgian French
8643 Water Marq de Villiers 2000 Canadian English
8647 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8681 Adapt Tim Harford 2011 British English
8726 The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells 2019 American English
8748 The Murder Of The Maharajah H. R. F. Keating 1980 British English
8784 Mother Mary Comes To Me Arundhati Roy 2025 Unknown English
8816 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8897 I Have Not Seen Mandu Swadesh Deepak 2003 Indian Hindi
8901 Vendor Of Sweets R. K. Narayan 1967 Indian English
8915 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva 1988 Indian English
8943 Chasing The Monsoon Alexander Frater 1987 British English
8990 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9044 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
9192 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9192 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9262 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 Indian English
9314 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9377 Actions And Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1909 British English
9377 The Phantom Rickshaw Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9377 Plain Tales From The Hills Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9377 Traffics And Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1904 British English
9527 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9577 The Princess Stakes Amalie Howard 2021 Unknown English
9636 Resources, Values And Development Amartya Sen 1984 Indian English
9647 Heart Lamp Banu Mushtaq 2024 Unknown English
9660 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
9690 Development As Freedom Amartya Sen 1999 Indian English
9773 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9833 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9860 Meghadūta Kālidāsa -400 Indian Sanskrit
9860 The English Teacher R. K. Narayan 1945 Indian English
9860 Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore 1917 Indian English
9893 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9893 Songs Of Kabir Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 2011 Indian Hindi
9982 A Guardian And A Thief Megha Majumdar 2025 Indian English
10003 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10003 Em And The Big Hoom Jerry Pinto 2012 Indian English
10003 Seeing Like A Feminist Nivedita Menon 2012 Indian English
10012 Tamas Bhisham Sahni 1974 Indian Hindi
10040 Goat Days Benyamin 2008 Indian Malayalam
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10129 The Winds Of Change Eugene Linden 2006 Unknown English
10168 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
10189 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10246 The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
10241 In Love With The World Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov 2019 Unknown English
10454 The World Is What It Is Patrick French 2008 Trinidadian English
10489 Munnu Malik Sajad 2015 Indian English
10489 Farthest Field Raghu Karnad 2015 Indian English
10454 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10502 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10508 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10536 Ai Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee 2018 Chinese English
10538 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10578 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10620 Along The Ganges Ilija Trojanow 2005 German German
10647 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10647 Indica Pranay Lal 2016 Indian English
10786 Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi 2020 Indian English
10812 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
10837 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 2017 American English
10896 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
10947 Latitudes Of Longing Shubhangi Swarup 2018 Indian English
11002 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11046 My Seditious Heart Arundhati Roy 2019 Indian English
11077 Smoke And Ashes Abir Mukherjee 2018 British English
11113 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11134 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11135 The Widows Of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey 2018 American English
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11223 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11346 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11389 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11419 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara 2020 Indian English
11445 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal 1985 Indian English
11500 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11545 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11614 The Cross Cultural Process In Christian History Andrew Walls 2002 Unknown English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11663 The Association Of Small Bombs Karan Mahajan 2016 Indian English
11663 Out Of India Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1995 Indian English
11663 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11663 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11884 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11936 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
12077 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12084 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12131 The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh 2000 Indian English
12259 May You Be The Mother Of A Hundred Sons Elisabeth Bumiller 1990 American English
12326 A Way In The World V. S. Naipaul 1994 American English
12401 Hot, Flat, And Crowded Thomas L. Friedman 2008 American English
12515 Nampally Road Meena Alexander 1991 Indian English
12634 Shattered Lands Sam Dalrymple Unknown English
12657 Thunder & Lightning Lauren Redniss 2015 Unknown English
12690 This Beautiful, Ridiculous City Kay Sohini 2025 Unknown English
12814 Intemperance Sonora Jha 2025 British English
12834 Incantations And Other Stories Anjana Appachana 1992 Indian English
12936 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
13118 Saraswati Gurnaik Johal 2025 Unknown English
13119 The Tiger's Share Keshava Guha 2025 Unknown English
13186 The Once And Future Riot Joe Sacco 2025 American English
13340 River Of Smoke Amitav Ghosh 2011 Indian English
13362 The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 British English
13508 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13550 How To Be A Good Creature Sy Montgomery 2018 American English
13551 Waiting for the Mahatma R. K. Narayan 1955 Indian English