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
17171 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17171 The Hero's Walk Anita Rau Badami 2000 Canadian English
17171 What The Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin 1999 Canadian English
17171 The Nutmeg's Curse Amitav Ghosh 2021 Indian English
17171 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17171 India John Keay 2000 British English
17171 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17171 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17171 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17171 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17171 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17171 A Concise History Of South India Noboru Karashima 2014 Unknown English
17171 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17171 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17171 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17171 Ancient Cities Of The Indus Valley Civilization Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 1998 Unknown English
17171 The Other Side Of Silence Urvashi Butalia 1998 Indian English
17171 Victory Colony, 1950 Bhaswati Ghosh 2020 Unknown English
17171 Midnight's Furies Nisid Hajari 2015 Unknown English
17171 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17171 Partitions Amit Majmudar 2011 American English
17171 Why Orwell Matters Christopher Hitchens 2002 British English
17171 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17171 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17171 Age Of Vice Deepti Kapoor 2023 Unknown English
16987 Buddha Osamu Tezuka 1972 Japanese Japanese
17171 Our Final Warning Mark Lynas 2020 British English
17171 All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews 2022 Unknown English
17171 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17171 The Chaos Machine Max Fisher 2022 Unknown English
17171 The Bangalore Detectives Club Harini Nagendra 2022 Indian English
17171 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17171 The Confusion Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17171 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
16906 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
17171 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17171 A Place For Us Fatima Farheen Mirza 2018 American English
17171 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17171 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
17171 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17171 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17171 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
17171 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17171 Fire From Heaven Mary Renault 1969 British English
17119 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17171 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17171 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17171 Savarkar Vikram Sampath 2019 Indian English
17171 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17171 Yellow Book Amitava Kumar 2023 Unknown English
17171 Intertidal Yuvan Aves Unknown English
17171 Breaking The Mould Raghuram Rajan, Rohit Lamba Unknown English
17171 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17171 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17171 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17171 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
16937 Fate Is The Hunter Ernest K. Gann 1961 American English
17131 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17171 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
16917 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17171 The Moghul Thomas Hoover 1983 American English
16814 Shadow Of The Moon M.M. Kaye 1956 British English
17171 Raj Gita Mehta 1989 Indian English
17171 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17171 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17171 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17171 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17171 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17171 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17171 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17171 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17171 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
17171 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17171 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17171 A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness Jai Chakrabarti 2023 Unknown English
17171 Courting India Nandini Das 2023 Unknown English
17171 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17171 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
17171 The Best Possible Experience Nishanth Injam 2023 Unknown English
17171 This Must Be The Place Maggie O'Farrell 2016 British English
17171 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne 1992 American English
17171 The Forest Of Enchantments Chitra Divakaruni 2019 Indian English
17171 The Folded Earth Anuradha roy 2011 Indian English
17171 Colossus Niall Ferguson 2004 British English
17171 Destinations Jan Morris 1980 British English
17171 Video Night In Kathmandu And Other Reports From The Not So Far East Pico Iyer 1988 British English
17171 The Women's History Of The World Rosalind Miles 1988 British English
17171 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17171 The Climate Crisis And The Global Green New Deal Noam Chomsky 2020 American English
16901 1001 Arabian Nights Anonymous -800 Multiple Arabic
17171 The Dalai Lama's Cat David Michie 2012 Australian English
17171 Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan 2002 American English
17171 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
17171 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17171 In Light Of India Octavio Paz 1995 Mexican Spanish
17171 Scion Of Ikshvaku Amish Tripathi 2015 Indian English
17171 The Nirvana Express Mick Brown 2023 Unknown English
16931 The King And The Corpse Heinrich Zimmer 1948 German English
17171 Like Hidden Fire: The Plot To Bring Down The British Empire hopkirk 1994 Unknown English
17171 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English
17171 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17171 The Blue Umbrella Ruskin Bond 1980 Indian English
17171 A Study In Scarlet / The Sign Of The Four Arthur Conan Doyle British English
17171 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English
17171 The Gita Anant Pai 1999 Indian English
17171 रश्मिरथी Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 1981 Indian Hindi
17171 The Age Of Kali William Dalrymple 1998 British English
17171 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
17171 The Secret Of The Nagas Amish Tripathi 2011 Indian English
17171 The Oath Of The Vayuputras Amish Tripathi 2013 Indian English
17171 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English
17171 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English
17171 A Burning Megha Majumdar 2020 American English
17171 Indian Sun Craske, Oliver Unknown English
17156 Jataka Tales Ellen C. Babbitt 1940 American Pali