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
8031 An Area Of Darkness V. S. Naipaul 1964 British English
8031 Slowly Down The Ganges Eric Newby 1966 British English
8060 The Anarchy William Dalrymple 2019 British English
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8209 China Shakes The World James Kynge 2006 British English
8259 Diccionario Sánscrito Español Oscar Pujol 2011 Spanish Spanish
8411 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8586 Sold Patricia McCormick 2006 American English
8592 The Adventures Of Tintin Hergé 1929 Belgian French
8640 Water Marq de Villiers 2000 Canadian English
8644 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8678 Adapt Tim Harford 2011 British English
8722 The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells 2019 American English
8744 The Murder Of The Maharajah H. R. F. Keating 1980 British English
8780 Mother Mary Comes To Me Arundhati Roy 2025 Unknown English
8812 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8894 I Have Not Seen Mandu Swadesh Deepak 2003 Indian Hindi
8898 Vendor Of Sweets R. K. Narayan 1967 Indian English
8912 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva 1988 Indian English
8940 Chasing The Monsoon Alexander Frater 1987 British English
8987 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9041 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
9189 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9189 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9259 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 Indian English
9310 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9373 Actions And Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1909 British English
9373 The Phantom Rickshaw Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9373 Plain Tales From The Hills Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9373 Traffics And Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1904 British English
9523 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9573 The Princess Stakes Amalie Howard 2021 Unknown English
9632 Resources, Values And Development Amartya Sen 1984 Indian English
9643 Heart Lamp Banu Mushtaq 2024 Unknown English
9656 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
9686 Development As Freedom Amartya Sen 1999 Indian English
9769 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9829 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9856 Meghadūta Kālidāsa -400 Indian Sanskrit
9856 The English Teacher R. K. Narayan 1945 Indian English
9856 Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore 1917 Indian English
9889 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9889 Songs Of Kabir Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 2011 Indian Hindi
9977 A Guardian And A Thief Megha Majumdar 2025 Indian English
9998 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
9998 Em And The Big Hoom Jerry Pinto 2012 Indian English
9998 Seeing Like A Feminist Nivedita Menon 2012 Indian English
10007 Tamas Bhisham Sahni 1974 Indian Hindi
10034 Goat Days Benyamin 2008 Indian Malayalam
10086 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10124 The Winds Of Change Eugene Linden 2006 Unknown English
10163 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
10183 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10240 The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
10235 In Love With The World Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov 2019 Unknown English
10449 The World Is What It Is Patrick French 2008 Trinidadian English
10484 Munnu Malik Sajad 2015 Indian English
10484 Farthest Field Raghu Karnad 2015 Indian English
10449 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10497 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10503 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10531 Ai Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee 2018 Chinese English
10533 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10573 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10615 Along The Ganges Ilija Trojanow 2005 German German
10642 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10642 Indica Pranay Lal 2016 Indian English
10781 Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi 2020 Indian English
10807 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
10833 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 2017 American English
10891 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
10942 Latitudes Of Longing Shubhangi Swarup 2018 Indian English
10997 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11041 My Seditious Heart Arundhati Roy 2019 Indian English
11072 Smoke And Ashes Abir Mukherjee 2018 British English
11108 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11129 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11130 The Widows Of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey 2018 American English
11163 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11218 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11341 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11362 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11385 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11415 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara 2020 Indian English
11441 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal 1985 Indian English
11497 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11542 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11611 The Cross Cultural Process In Christian History Andrew Walls 2002 Unknown English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11660 The Association Of Small Bombs Karan Mahajan 2016 Indian English
11660 Out Of India Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1995 Indian English
11660 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11660 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11882 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11934 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
12076 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12083 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12130 The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh 2000 Indian English
12258 May You Be The Mother Of A Hundred Sons Elisabeth Bumiller 1990 American English
12324 A Way In The World V. S. Naipaul 1994 American English
12399 Hot, Flat, And Crowded Thomas L. Friedman 2008 American English
12513 Nampally Road Meena Alexander 1991 Indian English
12632 Shattered Lands Sam Dalrymple Unknown English
12655 Thunder & Lightning Lauren Redniss 2015 Unknown English
12688 This Beautiful, Ridiculous City Kay Sohini 2025 Unknown English
12812 Intemperance Sonora Jha 2025 British English
12832 Incantations And Other Stories Anjana Appachana 1992 Indian English
12933 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
13115 Saraswati Gurnaik Johal 2025 Unknown English
13116 The Tiger's Share Keshava Guha 2025 Unknown English
13183 The Once And Future Riot Joe Sacco 2025 American English
13337 River Of Smoke Amitav Ghosh 2011 Indian English
13359 The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 British English
13506 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
13532 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13549 How To Be A Good Creature Sy Montgomery 2018 American English
13550 Waiting for the Mahatma R. K. Narayan 1955 Indian English