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
13551 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 2013 American English
13735 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13742 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13771 Flood Of Fire Amitav Ghosh 2015 Indian English
13885 Googled Ken Auletta 2009 American English
13923 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
14334 India Under British Rule From The Foundation Of The East India Company James Talboys Wheeler 1874 British English
14389 The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman 2005 American English
14389 The End Of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs 2005 American English
14448 Q & A Vikas Swarup 2005 Indian English
14457 The Post American World Fareed Zakaria 2008 American English
14457 The White Man’s Burden William Russell Easterly 2006 Unknown English
14492 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14498 Super Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt 2009 American English
14553 Eradication Nancy Leys Stepan 2011 American English
14553 Poor Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2011 American English
14553 Portfolios Of The Poor Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven 2009 Unknown English
14588 Fuzz Mary Roach 2021 American English
14588 The Good Girls Sonia Faleiro 2021 Indian English
14629 The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan 1962 Canadian English
14676 Men Of The Old Stone Age Henry Fairfield Osborn 1915 American English
14679 Epic Measures Jeremy N. Smith 2015 American English
14730 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
14832 Nine Pints Rose George 2018 British English
14830 Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta 1016 Indian Sanskrit
14897 The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz 1956 Polish English
14890 The Deceivers John Masters 1952 British English
14897 The Room On The Roof Ruskin Bond 1956 Indian English
14947 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14984 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English
14980 Full Tilt Dervla Murphy 1965 Irish English
14984 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14984 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14984 A Strange And Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri 1991 Indian English
14984 River Of Gods Ian McDonald 2004 British English
14984 English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee 1988 Indian English
14984 Jejuri Arun Kolatkar 1976 Indian English
14984 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14984 Into The Silence Wade Davis 2011 Canadian English
14984 The Collector Of Worlds Iliya Troyanov 2006 German German
14984 Ornamentalism David Cannadine 2001 British English
14984 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14984 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14984 The Last Mughal William Dalrymple 2006 British English
14984 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra 2006 Indian English
14984 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
14984 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
14984 Rosarita Anita Desai 2024 Unknown English
15561 Good Economics For Hard Times Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2019 American English
15773 The Fig Tree Aubrey Menen 1959 Indian English
15766 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
15898 Avesta Zoroastrian scripture -1200 Iranian Avestan
15898 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
16488 Coolie Mulk Raj Anand 1936 Indian English
15898 The Financial Expert R. K. Narayan 1952 Indian English
15898 Private Life Of An Indian Prince Mulk Raj Anand 1953 Indian English
15898 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15898 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15898 A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life Santideva 700 Indian Sanskrit
15898 Tattvachintamani Gaṅgeśa 1321 Indian Sanskrit
15898 The Padārthatattvanirūpaṇam Of Raghunātha śiromaṇi Karl H. Potter 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15898 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15898 The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1913 Indian Bengali
15898 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
15898 Sunlight On A Broken Column Attia Hosain 1961 British English
15898 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15898 Light On Yoga B. K. S. Iyengar 1966 Indian English
15898 Days Of Longing Nirmal Verma, Krishna Baldev Vaid 1964 Unknown Hindi
15898 My India Jim Corbett 1952 British English
15898 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15898 Caste, Class And Power André Beteille 1965 Indian English
15898 Constitution Of India Indian Government 1950 Indian English
15898 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15898 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15898 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15898 Age Of Nandas And Mauryas K.A. Nilakanta Sastri 1952 Unknown English
15898 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
15898 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
15898 Stories Alun Lewis 1946 Welsh English
15898 Neo Colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Ghanaian English
15876 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15898 Nightrunners Of Bengal John Masters 1951 British English
16567 Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling 1893 British English
16532 My Son's Father Dom Moraes 1968 Indian English
16532 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
16581 Demian / Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
16516 Cows, Pigs, Wars And Witches: The Riddels Of Culture Marvin Harris 1974 American English
16743 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16642 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17120 The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh 1995 Indian English
17120 The Book Of Joy Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho 2016 Tibetan English
17120 Love And Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra 1997 Indian English
17120 The Impressionist Hari Kunzru 2002 British English
17120 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17120 The Trotternama I. Allan Sealy 1988 Indian English
17120 When Dreams Travel Githa Hariharan 1999 Indian English
17120 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17120 That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande 1988 Indian English
16885 Kanthapura Raja Rao 1938 Indian English
17120 Delhi Khushwant Singh 1990 Indian English
17120 Old Cypress Nisha Da Cunha 1991 Indian Unknown
17120 The Root And The Flower L. H. Myers 1935 British English
17120 The Far Cry Emma Smith 1949 British English
17120 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British English
17120 Nation Of Fools Balraj Khanna 1984 Indian English
17120 Mr Isaacs F. Marion Crawford 1882 British English
17120 On The Face Of The Waters Flora Annie Steel 1896 British English
17120 Васко да Гама от село Рупча the Mormarev Brothers 1977 Bulgarian Bulgarian
17120 The Cult Of Emptiness The Western Discovery Of Buddhist Thought And The Invention Of Oriental Philosophy Urs App 2012 Swiss English
17120 Dignaga's Investigation Of The Percept Douglas Duckworth 2016 Unknown English