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
1,029 books — 881 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)
6,261 books — 8,076 voters