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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17163 Васко да Гама от село Рупча the Mormarev Brothers 1977 Bulgarian Bulgarian
17163 The Cult Of Emptiness The Western Discovery Of Buddhist Thought And The Invention Of Oriental Philosophy Urs App 2012 Swiss English
17163 Dignaga's Investigation Of The Percept Douglas Duckworth 2016 Unknown English
17163 The Blood Telegram Gary J. Bass 2013 American English
17163 The Adventures Of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn 1986 American English
17163 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17163 Think Like A Monk Jay Shetty 2020 British English
17163 Mistress Of Spices Chitra Divakaruni 1997 American English
17163 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17163 The Crow Eaters Bapsi Sidhwa 1978 Pakistani English
17163 The Blue Bedspread Raj Kamal Jha 1999 Indian English
16889 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17163 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
17163 How The World Became Rich Mark Koyama 2022 British English
17163 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17163 Hunger Martin Caparros 2014 Argentinian Spanish
17163 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
17163 La Dame De Cachemire Francisco González Ledesma 1986 Spanish Spanish
17163 The Discoverers Daniel J. Boorstin 1983 American English
17163 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17163 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17163 The Veiled Suite Agha Shahid Ali 2009 American English
17163 Corridor Sarnath Banerjee 2004 Indian English
17163 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17163 Arzee The Dwarf Chandrahas Choudhury 2009 Indian English
17163 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17163 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17163 The Point Of Return Siddhartha Deb 2003 Indian English
17163 Collected Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17163 The Circle Of Reason Amitav Ghosh 1986 Indian English
17163 Difficult Daughters Manju Kapur 1998 Indian English
17163 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17163 Such A Long Journey Rohinton Mistry 1991 Canadian English
17163 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian English
17163 The Collected Poems Of A.K. Ramanujan A.K. Ramanujan 1995 Indian English
17163 An Atlas Of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008 Indian English
17163 The Alchemy Of Desire Tarun J. Tejpal 2005 Indian English
17163 Indian Love Poems Meena Alexander 2005 Unknown English
17163 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17163 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17163 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17163 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17163 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17163 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17163 The Imam And The Indian Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17163 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17163 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
17163 Diddi: My Mother's Voice Ira Pande 2005 Indian English
17163 On Balance Leila Seth 2003 Indian English
17163 Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins 1984 American English
17163 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17163 One Two Three Four Craig Brown 2020 British English
17163 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17163 The One Device Brian Merchant 2017 American English
17163 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17163 In An Antique Land Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17163 Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2010 Unknown English
17163 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17163 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17163 The Endtimes Of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 2013 British English
17163 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
17163 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 2018 American English
17163 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17163 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17163 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17163 The New India Rahul Bhatia 2024 Unknown English
17163 Choice Neel Mukherjee 2024 Unknown English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 My Beloved Life Amitava Kumar 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Secret War Of Julia Child Diana R. Chambers 2024 Unknown English
17163 Amrikan Khushbu Shah 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Incarcerations Alpa Shah 2024 Unknown English
17163 Death In The Air Ram Murali 2024 Unknown English
17163 Shadows At Noon Joya Chatterji 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17163 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17163 Burma Sahib Paul Theroux 2024 American English
17163 In Exile Sadiya Ansari 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Partition Project Saadia Faruqi 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Lucky Ones Zara Chowdhary 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Museum Of Failures Thrity Umrigar 2023 American English
17163 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17163 Inner Engineering Sadhguru 2016 Indian English
17163 A Thousand Times Before Asha Thanki 2024 Unknown English
17163 Not Quite A Husband Sherry Thomas 2009 American English
17163 The Brothers K David James Duncan 1992 American English
17163 Quarterlife Devika Rege 2024 Unknown English
17163 Gujarat Under Modi Christophe Jaffrelot 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Many Lives Of Syeda X Neha Dixit 2024 Unknown English
17163 Iconoclast Anand Teltumbde 2024 Unknown English
17163 Black Order James Rollins 2006 American English
17059 Tales From The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang 1898 Multiple English
17163 The Way Of Zen Alan Watts 1989 British English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
17163 Socialite Evenings Shobhaa De 1989 Indian English
16808 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17163 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17163 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17163 Tamil David Dean Shulman 2016 Unknown English
17163 Cuckold Kiran Nagarkar 1999 Indian English
17163 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17163 The Spirit Of Indian Painting B. N. Goswamy 2014 Indian English
17163 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17163 Poverty And Famines Amartya Sen 1981 Indian English
17163 Event, Metaphor, Memory Shahid Amin 1995 Unknown English
17163 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17163 The Country Without A Post Office Agha Shahid Ali 1997 Indian English
17163 Poems Of Love And War A.K. Ramanujan 1985 Indian Tamil
17163 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17163 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17163 Everybody Loves A Good Drought Palagummi Sainath 1996 Indian English
17163 The Remembered Village M. N. Srinivas 1978 Indian English
17163 Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight Rujuta Diwekar 2009 Indian English
17163 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17163 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17163 Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat 2004 Indian English
17163 Banaras Diana L. Eck 1982 Unknown English
17163 Jayadeva's Gitagovinda Barbara Stoler Miller 1977 Unknown Sanskrit
17163 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English