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
13552 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 2013 American English
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13772 Flood Of Fire Amitav Ghosh 2015 Indian English
13886 Googled Ken Auletta 2009 American English
13924 The Buddha And His Religion J. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire 1860 French French
14025 Time's Monster Priya Satia 2020 American English
14025 Miss New India Bharati Mukherjee 2011 American English
14070 Erste Erde Epos Raoul Schrott 2016 Austrian German
14173 Wife Bharati Mukherjee 1975 Indian English
14192 Pax Britannica James Morris 1968 British English
14232 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
14232 In Custody Anita Desai 1984 Indian English
14335 India Under British Rule From The Foundation Of The East India Company James Talboys Wheeler 1874 British English
14390 The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman 2005 American English
14390 The End Of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs 2005 American English
14449 Q & A Vikas Swarup 2005 Indian English
14458 The Post American World Fareed Zakaria 2008 American English
14458 The White Man’s Burden William Russell Easterly 2006 Unknown English
14493 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14499 Super Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt 2009 American English
14554 Eradication Nancy Leys Stepan 2011 American English
14554 Poor Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2011 American English
14554 Portfolios Of The Poor Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven 2009 Unknown English
14589 Fuzz Mary Roach 2021 American English
14589 The Good Girls Sonia Faleiro 2021 Indian English
14630 The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan 1962 Canadian English
14677 Men Of The Old Stone Age Henry Fairfield Osborn 1915 American English
14680 Epic Measures Jeremy N. Smith 2015 American English
14732 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14788 The Tibetan Book of the Dead Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa 1350 Tibetan Tibetan
14788 The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1951 Indian English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14833 Nine Pints Rose George 2018 British English
14828 Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta 1016 Indian Sanskrit
14899 The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz 1956 Polish English
14892 The Deceivers John Masters 1952 British English
14899 The Room On The Roof Ruskin Bond 1956 Indian English
14949 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14985 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English
14980 Full Tilt Dervla Murphy 1965 Irish English
14985 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14985 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14985 A Strange And Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri 1991 Indian English
14985 River Of Gods Ian McDonald 2004 British English
14985 English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee 1988 Indian English
14985 Jejuri Arun Kolatkar 1976 Indian English
14985 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14985 Into The Silence Wade Davis 2011 Canadian English
14985 The Collector Of Worlds Iliya Troyanov 2006 German German
14985 Ornamentalism David Cannadine 2001 British English
14985 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14985 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14985 The Last Mughal William Dalrymple 2006 British English
14985 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra 2006 Indian English
14985 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
14985 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
14985 Rosarita Anita Desai 2024 Unknown English
15567 Good Economics For Hard Times Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2019 American English
15762 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
15790 The Fig Tree Aubrey Menen 1959 Indian English
15916 Avesta Zoroastrian scripture -1200 Iranian Avestan
15916 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
16505 Coolie Mulk Raj Anand 1936 Indian English
15916 The Financial Expert R. K. Narayan 1952 Indian English
15916 Private Life Of An Indian Prince Mulk Raj Anand 1953 Indian English
15916 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15916 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life Santideva 700 Indian Sanskrit
15916 Tattvachintamani Gaṅgeśa 1321 Indian Sanskrit
15916 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1913 Indian Bengali
15916 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
15916 Sunlight On A Broken Column Attia Hosain 1961 British English
15916 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15916 Light On Yoga B. K. S. Iyengar 1966 Indian English
15916 Days Of Longing Nirmal Verma, Krishna Baldev Vaid 1964 Unknown Hindi
15916 My India Jim Corbett 1952 British English
15916 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15916 Caste, Class And Power André Beteille 1965 Indian English
15916 Constitution Of India Indian Government 1950 Indian English
15916 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15916 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15916 Age Of Nandas And Mauryas K.A. Nilakanta Sastri 1952 Unknown English
15916 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
15916 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
15916 Stories Alun Lewis 1946 Welsh English
15916 Neo Colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Ghanaian English
15886 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15916 Nightrunners Of Bengal John Masters 1951 British English
15890 Ocean Of The Streams Of Story Somadeva 1063 Indian Sanskrit
16595 Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling 1893 British English
16552 My Son's Father Dom Moraes 1968 Indian English
16552 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
16619 Demian / Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
16536 Cows, Pigs, Wars And Witches: The Riddels Of Culture Marvin Harris 1974 American English
16535 Mahabharata Ganguli, translator 1883 Indian English
16774 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16634 The Bhagavad Gita Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
16671 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17163 The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh 1995 Indian English
17163 The Book Of Joy Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho 2016 Tibetan English
17163 Love And Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra 1997 Indian English
17163 The Impressionist Hari Kunzru 2002 British English
17163 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17163 The Trotternama I. Allan Sealy 1988 Indian English
17163 When Dreams Travel Githa Hariharan 1999 Indian English
17163 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17163 That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande 1988 Indian English
16925 Kanthapura Raja Rao 1938 Indian English
17163 Delhi Khushwant Singh 1990 Indian English
17163 Old Cypress Nisha Da Cunha 1991 Indian Unknown
17163 The Root And The Flower L. H. Myers 1935 British English
17163 The Far Cry Emma Smith 1949 British English
17163 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British English
17163 Nation Of Fools Balraj Khanna 1984 Indian English
17163 Mr Isaacs F. Marion Crawford 1882 British English
17163 On The Face Of The Waters Flora Annie Steel 1896 British English