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
1,012 books — 862 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)
6,229 books — 8,067 voters