Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali (Song Offerings) - A collection of poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things - A Booker Prize-winning novel that weaves a poignant story of family, caste, and social change in Kerala.
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children - A magical realist novel that follows the lives of children born at the stroke of midnight on India's independence day.
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies - A collection of short stories exploring the lives of Indian immigrants and their struggles in the United States.
Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy - A sprawling novel that portrays the lives of four families in post-independence India and the search for a suitable groom for a young woman.
Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace - A historical novel spanning generations and continents, focusing on the impact of colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss - A novel that delves into the complexities of identity, migration, and globalization, set in India and the United States.
Ruskin Bond: The Room on the Roof - A classic coming-of-age novel about a young boy named Rusty, set in the picturesque Himalayan town of Dehradun.
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance - A gripping novel that explores the lives of four characters during the turbulent period of the Indian Emergency in the 1970s.
Chetan Bhagat: Five Point Someone - A bestselling novel that explores the lives of three engineering students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.