The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Mumbai

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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
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
3318 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
3501 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2002 Canadian English
4368 The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1995 British English
5982 Maximum City Suketu Mehta 2004 American English
8209 China Shakes The World James Kynge 2006 British English
8677 Adapt Tim Harford 2011 British English
9188 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9889 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9998 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
9998 Em And The Big Hoom Jerry Pinto 2012 Indian English
10124 The Winds Of Change Eugene Linden 2006 Unknown English
11127 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11128 The Widows Of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey 2018 American English
11660 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11882 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12655 Thunder & Lightning Lauren Redniss 2015 Unknown English
14448 Q & A Vikas Swarup 2005 Indian English
14787 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14983 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14983 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14983 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra 2006 Indian English
14983 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15897 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15897 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
16530 My Son's Father Dom Moraes 1968 Indian English
16530 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
17117 Love And Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra 1997 Indian English
17117 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17117 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17117 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British English
17117 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17117 Arzee The Dwarf Chandrahas Choudhury 2009 Indian English
17117 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17117 Collected Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17117 Such A Long Journey Rohinton Mistry 1991 Canadian English
17117 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian English
17117 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17117 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17117 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17117 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17117 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17117 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
17117 Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2010 Unknown English
17117 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17117 The Museum Of Failures Thrity Umrigar 2023 American English
17117 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17117 Socialite Evenings Shobhaa De 1989 Indian English
16764 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17117 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17117 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17117 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17117 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17117 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17117 Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight Rujuta Diwekar 2009 Indian English
17117 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17117 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English
17117 India John Keay 2000 British English
17117 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17117 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17117 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17117 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17117 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17117 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17117 Our Final Warning Mark Lynas 2020 British English
17117 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
16882 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
17117 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
17117 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17117 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
17117 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne 1992 American English
17117 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17117 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English