Mahatma Gandhi – The Story Of My Experiments With The Truth - Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has always been a very prominent figure in Indian history.
R.K. Narayan – The Guide - The Guide is the story of a tour guide who transforms himself into a spiritual Guru and then the greatest holy man of India.
Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance - The story of friendship and love that progresses among the characters of the book will keep you hooked till the end.
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie's book Midnight’s Children portrays the journey of India from British rule to independence and then partition.
Jhumpa Lahiri – The Interpreter Of Maladies - The stories are based on the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are lost between the two cultures.
Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy - Published in 1993, this 1349-pages-long book is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English Language.
Arundhati Roy – God of Small Things - The book was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 and is Roy’s only published novel so far.
Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace - The Glass Palace book won Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001.
Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss - The book won Kiran Desai various awards including the Man Booker Prize in 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
Mulk Raj Anand – The Private Life of an Indian Prince - The Private Life of an Indian Prince book was published in 1953 and is considered one of Anand’s finest works.
Vikram Chandra – Red Earth and Pouring Rain - Red Earth and Pouring Rain won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book.
Suketu Mehta – Maximum City - his New York- Based writer was born in India and was raised in Mumbai in his early years. He penned down his experiences in Mumbai in his incredible work Maximum City,
Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali - This collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore was originally published in Bengali in August 1910 and had 157 poems.
Mitra Phukan – The Collector’s Wife - This book is set up against Assam’s insurgencies and is the first English novel to be published by a writer from North-East India.
Nayantara Sehgal – Rich Like Us - Rich Like Us is a political fiction novel set during a time of political and social change between 1932 and the mid-1970s.
Anita Desai – In Custody - The book portrays the life of a Hindi teacher whose heart lies in Urdu poetry by Anita Desai.
Sunetra Gupta – The Glassblower’s Breath - The Glassblower’s Breath talks about the journey of a woman and her emotional, intellectual, and sexual experiences.
A. K. Ramanujan – The Collected Poems - The book is a collection of poems that includes poems out of the three books he published during his lifetime.
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Published in 1951, the book describes the life of the writer from the time he was born in 1897 in Bangladesh to his youth in Calcutta.
Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan - The book touches upon the human angle and brings out a sense of reality and horror.