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
17120 The Blood Telegram Gary J. Bass 2013 American English
17120 The Adventures Of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn 1986 American English
17120 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17120 Think Like A Monk Jay Shetty 2020 British English
17120 Mistress Of Spices Chitra Divakaruni 1997 American English
17120 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17120 The Crow Eaters Bapsi Sidhwa 1978 Pakistani English
17120 The Blue Bedspread Raj Kamal Jha 1999 Indian English
16842 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17120 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
17120 How The World Became Rich Mark Koyama 2022 British English
17120 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17120 Hunger Martin Caparros 2014 Argentinian Spanish
17120 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
17120 La Dame De Cachemire Francisco González Ledesma 1986 Spanish Spanish
17120 The Discoverers Daniel J. Boorstin 1983 American English
17120 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17120 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17120 The Veiled Suite Agha Shahid Ali 2009 American English
17120 Corridor Sarnath Banerjee 2004 Indian English
17120 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17120 Arzee The Dwarf Chandrahas Choudhury 2009 Indian English
17120 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17120 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17120 The Point Of Return Siddhartha Deb 2003 Indian English
17120 Collected Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17120 The Circle Of Reason Amitav Ghosh 1986 Indian English
17120 Difficult Daughters Manju Kapur 1998 Indian English
17120 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17120 Such A Long Journey Rohinton Mistry 1991 Canadian English
17120 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian English
17120 The Collected Poems Of A.K. Ramanujan A.K. Ramanujan 1995 Indian English
17120 An Atlas Of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008 Indian English
17120 The Alchemy Of Desire Tarun J. Tejpal 2005 Indian English
17120 Indian Love Poems Meena Alexander 2005 Unknown English
17120 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17120 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17120 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17120 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17120 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17120 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17120 The Imam And The Indian Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17120 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17120 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
17120 Diddi: My Mother's Voice Ira Pande 2005 Indian English
17120 On Balance Leila Seth 2003 Indian English
17120 Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins 1984 American English
17120 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17120 One Two Three Four Craig Brown 2020 British English
17120 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17120 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17120 In An Antique Land Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17120 Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2010 Unknown English
17120 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17120 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17120 The Endtimes Of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 2013 British English
16833 The Bhagavad Gita Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
17120 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
17120 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 2018 American English
17120 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17120 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17120 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17120 The New India Rahul Bhatia 2024 Unknown English
17120 Choice Neel Mukherjee 2024 Unknown English
17120 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17120 My Beloved Life Amitava Kumar 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Secret War Of Julia Child Diana R. Chambers 2024 Unknown English
17120 Amrikan Khushbu Shah 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Incarcerations Alpa Shah 2024 Unknown English
17120 Death In The Air Ram Murali 2024 Unknown English
17120 Shadows At Noon Joya Chatterji 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17120 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17120 Burma Sahib Paul Theroux 2024 American English
17120 In Exile Sadiya Ansari 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Partition Project Saadia Faruqi 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Lucky Ones Zara Chowdhary 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Museum Of Failures Thrity Umrigar 2023 American English
17120 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17120 Inner Engineering Sadhguru 2016 Indian English
17120 A Thousand Times Before Asha Thanki 2024 Unknown English
17120 Not Quite A Husband Sherry Thomas 2009 American English
17120 The Brothers K David James Duncan 1992 American English
17120 Quarterlife Devika Rege 2024 Unknown English
17120 Gujarat Under Modi Christophe Jaffrelot 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Many Lives Of Syeda X Neha Dixit 2024 Unknown English
17120 Iconoclast Anand Teltumbde 2024 Unknown English
17120 Black Order James Rollins 2006 American English
17057 Tales From The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang 1898 Multiple English
17120 The Way Of Zen Alan Watts 1989 British English
17120 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17120 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
17120 Socialite Evenings Shobhaa De 1989 Indian English
16769 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17120 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17120 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17120 Tamil David Dean Shulman 2016 Unknown English
17120 Cuckold Kiran Nagarkar 1999 Indian English
17120 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17120 The Spirit Of Indian Painting B. N. Goswamy 2014 Indian English
17120 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17120 Poverty And Famines Amartya Sen 1981 Indian English
17120 Event, Metaphor, Memory Shahid Amin 1995 Unknown English
17120 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17120 The Country Without A Post Office Agha Shahid Ali 1997 Indian English
17120 Poems Of Love And War A.K. Ramanujan 1985 Indian Tamil
17120 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17120 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17120 Everybody Loves A Good Drought Palagummi Sainath 1996 Indian English
17120 The Remembered Village M. N. Srinivas 1978 Indian English
17120 Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight Rujuta Diwekar 2009 Indian English
17120 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17120 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17120 Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat 2004 Indian English
17120 Banaras Diana L. Eck 1982 Unknown English
17120 Jayadeva's Gitagovinda Barbara Stoler Miller 1977 Unknown Sanskrit
17120 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English
17120 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17120 The Hero's Walk Anita Rau Badami 2000 Canadian English
17120 What The Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin 1999 Canadian English