The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
India
1,018 books — 864 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,235 books — 8,067 voters