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
4369 The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1995 British English
5986 Maximum City Suketu Mehta 2004 American English
8211 China Shakes The World James Kynge 2006 British English
8681 Adapt Tim Harford 2011 British English
9192 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9893 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
10003 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10003 Em And The Big Hoom Jerry Pinto 2012 Indian English
10129 The Winds Of Change Eugene Linden 2006 Unknown English
11134 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11135 The Widows Of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey 2018 American English
11663 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11884 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12657 Thunder & Lightning Lauren Redniss 2015 Unknown English
14449 Q & A Vikas Swarup 2005 Indian English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14985 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14985 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14985 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra 2006 Indian English
14985 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15916 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15916 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
16550 My Son's Father Dom Moraes 1968 Indian English
16550 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
17163 Love And Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra 1997 Indian English
17163 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17163 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17163 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British 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 Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17163 Such A Long Journey Rohinton Mistry 1991 Canadian English
17163 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian 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 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17163 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
17163 Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2010 Unknown English
17163 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17163 The Museum Of Failures Thrity Umrigar 2023 American English
17163 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
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 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17163 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17163 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17163 Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight Rujuta Diwekar 2009 Indian English
17163 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17163 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English
17163 India John Keay 2000 British English
17163 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17163 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17163 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17163 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17163 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17163 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17163 Our Final Warning Mark Lynas 2020 British English
17163 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
16914 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
17163 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
17163 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17163 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
17163 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne 1992 American English
17163 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17163 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English