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Books set in India:
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (1st book in trilogy)
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: A Novel by Kiran Desai
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (1st book in series)
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott (1st book in series)
In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel by Vikram Chandra
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Between the Assasinations by Aravind Adiga
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
The Weight of Heaven: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye
The Splendor of Silence: A Novel by Indu Sundaresan
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors by Abraham Eraly
The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas by Paul Theroux
English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
Gay Bombay by Parmesh Shahani
The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
The Upanishads by Anonymous
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
Chef: A Novel by Jaspreet Singh
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
India: A History. Revised and Updated by John Keay
A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert
One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT by Chetan Bhagat
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
The Game by Laurie R. King
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn
The Sandalwood Tree: A Novel by Elle Newmark
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
More books set in India:
2 states: the story of my marriage by Chetan Bhagat
The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran
The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Shadow Princess: A Novel by Indu Sundaresan
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair
Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee
Making Miss India Miss World by Susan Dewey
Truly Madly Deeply by Faraaz Kazi
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi
Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Mostly set in US)
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India by Miranda Kennedy
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
For Matrimonial Purposes by Kavita Daswani
Leaving India: My Family's Journey by Minal Hajratwala
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India by John Speed
Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji
Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
Olivia and Jai by Rebecca Ryman
Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
East, West by Salman Rushdie
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan
Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi (1st book in series)
Karan Quma and the Meluha Tree by Matthew Panamkat
The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1st book in series)
Staying On by Paul Scott
The Last Kashmiri Rose: Introducing Detective Joe Sandilands by Barbara Cleverly
The Sari Shop: A Novel by Rupa Bajwa
Miss Timmins' School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy
An Area of Darkness by V.S. Naipaul
Family Planning by Karan Mahajan
Darjeeling: A Novel by Bharti Kirchner
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India by Jonah Blank
Imagining India: The Idea of a Nation Renewed by Nandan Nilekani
India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes by Shoba Narayan
Mandala: A Novel of India by Pearl S. Buck
In the Convent of Little Flowers by Indu Sundaresan
India: From Midnight to the Millennium by Shashi Tharoor
Bollywood Nights by Shobhaa De
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India by Anita Jain
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon Godden
Women Of The Raj by Margaret MacMillan
Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India by Shaharyar M. Khan
Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet by Kashmira Sheth
The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
The Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani
Deep River by Shusaku Endo
Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
The Thousand Faces of Night by Githa Hariharan
Persistent Rumours by Lee Langley
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
The Trotter-Nama by Irwin Allan Sealy
Plans for Departure by Nayantara Sahgal
Staying On by Paul Scott
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
The Girl from Foreign by Sadia Shepard
The House of Blue Mangoes: A Novel by David Davidar
Lesser Breeds by Nayantara Sahgal
Partitions: A Novel by Amit Majmudar
A Tiger for Malgudi by R.K. Narayan
Someone Else's Garden: A Novel by Dipika Rai
More Books Set in India:
Along the Ganges by Ilija Trojanow
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India by Norman Lewis
In Light of India by Octavio Paz
In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World by Justine Hardy
The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul
Dancing to the Flute by Manisha Jolie Amin
Shiva's Fire by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Behind the Veil by Shahzad Rizvi
A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
The Sacred Thread: A True Story Of Becoming A Mother And Finding A Family Half A World Away 
The Sacred Thread and Other Stories: An Intimate Portrait of India 1933-53
The Great Arc by John Keay
Mira KamdarMotiba's Tattoos A Granddaughter's Journey Into Her Indian Family's PastMemoir based in Gujarat, India to America
New and upcoming releases for 2013:
The City of Devi by Manil Suri
The Abundance: A Novel by Amit Majmudar
As Sweet as Honey by Indira Ganesan
Passages: 24 Modern Indian Stories by Barbara H. SolomonIt's a short story collection, covering many different regions and cultures in India. Also includes some stories about Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Chokher Bali/Binodini: A Novel by Rabindranath TagoreBoth are one and the same, and their English translations retain their original Bengali titles.
Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes - journals compiled by William Dalrymple though GR doesn't recognize him as the author of this book.
The Leaving of Things,
About an Indian born, US raised, teenage boy who's forced to move back to India to attend college and beome reacquainted with the family and country he left behind years ago.
From the river to the Sea: A Life's journey from India to South America. by Joseph Matchanickal
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Rumer Godden wrote several books set in India:The Peacock Spring
The River
Under the Indian Sun
A Time to Dance, No Time To Weep - her autobiography about her life living in India.
Also, Thursday's Child by Helen Forrester
Special Holiday Price of $0.99Action, Adventure, Mysteries, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Fun with friends and cousins and a lot more, all at a special holiday price of $0.99.
All books are for middle graders and are set in India.
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Theft at the Fair and Other Stories
Hunt For The Horseman
The Dinosaur Puzzle and Other Stories
King Neptune's Delite
The Unicycle and Other Stories
The Forbidden Forest
Dearie the Deer
Another Midsummer Night's Dream
Krishta, Daughter of Martev
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine BooNon-fiction about poverty in Mumbai.
A House Called Askival by Merryn Glover is currently on sale for $1.70. It has lots of 5 star reviews across Amazon and Goodreads.
An elegant, moving and heartfelt love letter to the sights, sounds and tastes of northern India told through the enthralling story of the troubled relationship between a father and daughter stretching from Partition to the present day. James Connor is a man who, burdened with guilt following a tragic event in his youth, has dedicated his life to serving India. Ruth Connor is his estranged daughter who, as a teenager, always knew she came second to her parents’ missionary vocation and rebelled, with equally tragic consequences. After 24 years away, Ruth finally returns to Askival, the family home in Mussoorie, a remote hill station in the Northern State of Uttarakhand, to tend to her dying father. There she must face the past and confront her own burden of guilt if she is to cross the chasm that has grown between them. In this extraordinary and assured debut, Merryn Glover draws on her own upbringing as a child of missionary parents in Uttarakhand to create this sensitive, complex, moving and epic journey through the sights, sounds and often violent history of India from Partition to the present day.
"Exquisitely observed and intelligently crafted, no other book has captured me in quite the same way - a magnificent immersion in the modern history of India, premodern mission, and the hill station of Mussoorie. Astonishing that this is Merryn's first novel. Most surely not the last." - Goodreads review
A House Called Askival
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector ChopraThis is a light-hearted crime series set in India, for fans of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series. The first book The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra is a Times Saturday bestseller, Waterstones Book Club selection and Amazon Best Debut pick. This 2015 hit introduces readers to Inspector Ashwin Chopra of the Mumbai police as he moves through the turbulent, colourful fabric of modern Indian society in search of a murderer, whilst simultaneously coming to grips with the surreal dilemma of caring for a one-year-old baby elephant that has been sent into his care. “Endearing and gripping” ~ The Sunday Times; “Colour and atmosphere flows out of every page” ~ The Daily Express; “Utterly charming” ~ The Guardian
Currently on 99p Kindle September 2016 offer
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The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Hi!Please read my Guinness record solar bicycle ride experience in India!
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The SunPedal Ride: India: 79 Days, 7424 kilometres, a Solar Awareness Mission
It is a fun travelogue with a message about sustainability. We are fund raising to get solar power to a village school in Rajasthan via an NGO - Hockey Village India
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Books set in Central India:
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Bali and the Ocean of Milk by Nilanjan P. Choudhury
Behind the Veil by Shahzad Rizvi
A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi
Can Love Happen Twice? by Ravinder Singh
Chai, Chai by Bishwanath Ghosh
Chander & Sudha by Dharamvir Bharati (धर्मवीर भारती)
The Courtesan of Lucknow by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
Daylight Robbery by Surender Mohan Pathak
Emperor's Ring by Satyajit Ray
English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman Papers #5)
The Goddess and the Thief by Essie Fox
The Hill of Devi by E.M. Forster
The Hour Before Dawn by Bhabendra Nath Saikia
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
A Killing Wind: Inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal Catastrophe by Dan Kurzman
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Queen of India by Michelle Moran
Narmada by Laxman Rao
Operation Storm City by Joshua Mowll (The Guild of Specialists #3)
The Madness of Waiting by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Salims journey through hell by Suroopa Mukherjee
Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye
Sister India by Peggy Payne
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
Tunnel Vision by Angela M Herst
The Virgins by Siddharth Tripathi
The World Beyond by Sangeeta Bhargava
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
Books set in East India:
All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani
The All Bengali Crime Detectives by Suparna Chatterjee
Anila's Journey by Mary Finn
The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis 
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Bait, and Other Stories by Mahasweta Devi
Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade
Bengali Folk Tales by Lal Behari Day
Breakfast with the Nikolides by Rumer Godden
By The Tungabhadra by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
Calcutta Exile by Bunny Suraiya
The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker
The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
The Complete Adventures of Feluda: Volume I by Satyajit Ray
The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1st in series)
Daughters of the House by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Don't Let Him Know by Sandip Roy
Eden Gardens by Louise Brown
The Edge of Desire by Tuhin A. Sinha (1st book in The Edge Series)
A Far Horizon by Meira Chand
First Light by Sunil Gangopadhyay
The First Promise by Ashapurna Devi
Flame Tree Road by Shona Patel
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore
Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Glass Blower's Breath by Sunetra Gupta
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Glimpses of Bengal by Rabindranath Tagore
A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India by Norman Lewis Glimpses of Bengal 
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore 
Grain Of Sand: Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore
Half Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Hotel Calcutta by Sankar
The House of Wives by Simon Choa-Johnston
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
It Does Not Die by Maitreyi Devi
The Kolkata Conundrum: An Orko Deb Mystery by Kalyan Lahiri (1st in series)
The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly (1st in series)
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Lion by Saroo Brierley
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Lost & Found in India by Braja Sorensen
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna by Amitava Kumar
The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón by Amitava Kumar
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
A New World by Amit Chaudhuri
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Opium Clerk by Kunal Basu
Outcast by Dianne Noble
Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Pilgrimage by Savitri Devi
Point Ten Zeros Six Nine by Dhiraj Singh
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (1st book in Sam Wyndham series)
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
Saris and the City by Rekha Waheed
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey (1st in Daughters of Bengal series)
Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter 
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Third-class Ticket by Heather Wood
Those Days by Sunil Gangopadhyay
The Tiger's Daughter by Bharati Mukherjee
To Touch and to Be Touched by Chinmayee Tripathy
The Untamed Bride by Stephanie Laurens (1st in Black Cobra Quartet)
Urnabhih: A Mauryan Tale of Espionage, Adventure and Seduction 
The Vice Consul by Marguerite Duras
The Vigil by Satinath Bhaduri
The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta by Andrew O'Hagan
When the Lotus Blooms by Kanchana Krishnan Ayyar
When the Time Is Right by Buddhadeva Bose
The Wreck by Rabindranath Tagore
Books set in North India:
2 States: The Story of My Marriage by Chetan Bhagat
The Accidental Apprentice: A Novel by Vikas Swarup
Almost Single by Advaita Kala
Another Man's Wife and Other Stories by Manjul Bajaj
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
That Autumn in Awadh by Rachna Singh
Babyji by Abha Dawesar
A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor
Belonging by Umi Sinha
Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj by Marian Fowler
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Bhimsa, The Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed
The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta
Caravan to Tibet by Deepa Agarwal
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (1st book in Vish Puri series)
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
City of Djinns: A Year In Delhi by William Dalrymple
City of Ghosts by Bali Rai
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed
Come, Before Evening Falls by Manjul Bajaj
The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
Custody: A Novel by Manju Kapur
Dead Meat: There's a Butcher on the Loose by Ankush Saikia
Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye
Deep River by Shūsaku Endō
Delhi by Khushwant Singh
Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity by Sam Miller
Delhi Is Not Far by Ruskin Bond
Delhi Love Story by Swati Kaushal
Delhi Noir by Hirsh Sawhney
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest by Waheed Rabbani
The Enchantress Of Florence by Salman Rushdie
The Englishman's Cameo by Madhulika Liddle (1st in Muzaffar Jang series)
The Everest Hotel: A Calendar by Irwin Allan Sealy
An Extraordinary Life by Princess Mehrunissa of Rampur
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
A Feast in Exile by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Feng Shui Detective by Nury Vittachi
Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat
Flash House by Aimee Liu
The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi by Aman Sethi
Grk Smells a Rat by Joshua Doder
The Half Mother: A Novel by Shahnaz Bashir
Helium by Jaspreet Singh
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love by Durjoy Datta
The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi (1st book of Shiva Trilogy)
It Must've Been Something He Wrote by Nikita DeshpandeJahanara: Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling Of The Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik
A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism by Andrew Harvey
Kashmir Saivism: The Central Philosophy of Tantrism by Kamalaka Mishra
The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Love Masala by Advaita Kala
A Lovesong for India: Tales from the East and West by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Nine Lives: In Search Of The Sacred In Modern India by William Dalrymple
Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
Of Course I Love You...! Till I Find Someone Better... by Durjoy Datta
One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
Origins of Love by Kishwar Desai
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of The Kashmiri Pandits
The Peacock Throne by Sujit Saraf
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pritam
The Recession Groom by Vani
Remember Death: An Arjun Arora Mystery by Ankush Saikia
The Road Back by Liz Harris
Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily by Justine Hardy
Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir by Jaspreet Singh
Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India by Miranda Kennedy
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
Singles and Spice by Elaine Spires
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
Tears of Jhelum by Anita Krishan
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy
Witness the Night: A Novel by Kishwar Desai
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Books set in Northeast India:
Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends by Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih
Bitter Wormwood by Easterine Kire
The Black Hill by Mamang Dai
The Blue-necked God by Indira Goswami
The Boatman of the Padma by Manik Bandopadhyay
Boats on Land by Janice Pariat
A Bowstring Winter by Dhruba Hazarika
The Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar by Indira Goswami
Chasing Brenda by Pauline Hayton
Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater
Che in Paona Bazaar by Kishalay Bhattacharjee
Chocolate Guitar Momos by Kenny Deori Basumatary
The Code Snatch by Alan Stripp
The Collector's Wife by Mitra Phukan
Darjeeling: A Novel by Bharti Kirchner
Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn (Lady Julia Grey #4)
The Far Cry by Emma Smith
Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II's Most Daring Jungle Rescue
A Full Night's Thievery: Stories by Mitra Phukan
A Game of Chess: Classic Assamese Stories by Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah
Gift in the Pot Earth Poetry by J. Longkumer
The Girl From Nongrim Hills by Ankush Saikia
The Grasshopper's Run by Siddhartha Sarma
Highway 39 by Sudeep Chakravarti
The House with a Thousand Stories by Aruni Kashyap
Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao
Land Where I Flee by Prajwal Parajuly
Last Rites and Other Stories by Bhabendra Nath Saikia(ড˚ ভবেন্দ্ৰ নাথ শইকীয়া)
The Legends of Pensam by Mamang Dai
Luck - Stories by Dhruba Hazarika
The Maharaja's Household: A Daughter's Memories of Her Father by Binodini
Man from Chinnamasta by Mamani Rayachama Goswami
Mareng by Anuradha Sarma Pujari
Mari by Easterine Kire
The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley
Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes by Shoba Narayan
The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker by Indira Goswami
Nagaland Chronicle - Over the Hills and Down the Valleys by George Kurian
New Folktales of Manipur by James Oinam
Once Upon a Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir by Temsula Ao
Poems on Sikkim by Arun Budhathoki
The Power to Forgive and Other Stories by Avinuo Kire
The Secret Children by Alison McQueen
Shadow of Kamakhya: Stories by Indira Goswami
Sikkim Himalaya: Travels in the Cloud Kingdom by David Lang
Slow by Digonta Bordoloi
Son of the Thundercloud by Easterine Kire
Sons of Brahma by Dhruba Hazarika
The Story of Felanee by Arupa Patangia Kalita
Swarnalata by Tilottoma Misra
The Tea Planter's Daughter by Janet MacLeod Trotter (1st in series)
Teatime for the Firefly by Shona Patel
A Terrible Matriarchy by Easterine Iralu
These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone by Temsula Ao
To the Elephant Graveyard by Tarquin Hall
Trekking To Kangchenjunga And Other Impressions of India
Two leaves and a bud by Mulk Raj Anand
An Unfinished Autobiography by Indira Goswami
When the River Sleeps by Easterine Kire
Written in Tears by Arupa Patangia Kalita
The Yearning of Seeds by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Zorami by Malsawmi Jacob
Books set in South India:
2 States: The Story of My Marriage by Chetan Bhagat
And Laughter Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Jyotsna Sreenivasan
The Angel's Share by Satyajit Sarna
Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
The Bachelor Of Arts by R.K. Narayan
Banquet on the Dead by Sharath Komarraju
Being Someone by Adrian Harvey
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig (Pink Carnation #6)
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
The Body in the Bath: A Chupplejeep Mystery by Marissa De Luna
Camel On An Ashtray by A.S. Anand
The Communist Cookbook by Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury
Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden
Crooked Lines by Holly Michael
A Cut-Like Wound by Anita Nair
The Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande
Dollar Bahu by Sudha Murty
The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal
The Elephant Girl by Henriette Gyland
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan
Fields of Gold by Fiona McIntosh
The Financial Expert by R.K. Narayan
The Forgotten Daughter by Renita D'Silva
Gently Falls the Bakula by Sudha Murty
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
The Girl from Lace Island by Joanna Rees
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
Goa Traffic by Marissa De Luna
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
God's Mischief by M. Mukundan
A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian
Grandma's Bag Of Stories by Sudha Murty
Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran
A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi
A House In Pondicherry by Lee Langley
The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
House of Cards by Sudha Murty
How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company
Idris : Keeper of the Light by Anita Nair
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
The Infinity Of Grace by O.V. Vijayan
It Happens for a Reason by Preeti Shenoy
The Ivory Swing by Janette Turner Hospital
Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore by Manu S. Pillai
Kaalam by M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
Kesavan's Lamentations by M. Mukundan
Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair
The Last Hangman by Shashi Warrier
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lilac House by Anita Nair
The Lost Daughter of India by Sharon Maas
The Lusiads by Luís de Camões
A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
The Man-Eater of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan
The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama (1st in series)
Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant!: Three Stories of Muslim Life in South India 
Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee
Monsoon Memories by Renita D'Silva
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
A Mother's Secret by Renita D'Silva
Mrs Ali's Road to Happiness by Farahad Zama
My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia by Agni Sreedhar
Nampally Road by Meena Alexander
Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas
Om Shanti Babe by Helen Limon
On The Banks Of The Mayyazhi by M. Mukundan
One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan பெருமாள் முருகன் 
The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan
The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
Postcards from Goa by Simran Silva
The Red Carpet by Lavanya Sankaran
Riddle of the Seventh Stone by Monideepa Sahu
The Sea of Innocence by Kishwar Desai
Scavenger's Son by Radhakrishnan Pillai
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Shilappadikaram by Ilango Adigal
A Sister's Promise by Renita D'Silva
The Smoke is Rising by Mahesh Rao
The Stolen Girl by Renita D'Silva
A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart
Tell a Thousand Lies by Rasana Atreya
Ten Tales from Pondicherry: Contemporary Indian Fiction by Peter Richards
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach
Tivolem by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
Under the Coconut Tree by Marissa De Luna
Under the Eye of Kali by Susan Oleksiw (1st in Anita Ray series)
Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan
The Wedding Wallah by Farahad Zama
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
Books set in West India:
The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat
Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj
The Algebra Of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy
Arzee The Dwarf by Chandrahas Choudhury
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro
Before the Rains by Dinah Jefferies
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Bhowani Junction by John Masters
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls by Anirban Bose
Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth
Breathless in Bombay by Murzban F. Shroff
By The Sabarmati by Esther David
The City of Devi by Manil Suri
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
The Color of Our Sky by Amita Trasi
The Cosmic Clues by Manjiri Prabhu (1st in series)
The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy
Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir by Asha Miró
Death In Mumbai by Meenal Baghel
The Death Of Mr. Love by Indra Sinha
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Diary Of An Unreasonable Man by Madhav Mathur
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language 
The Duke Of Shadows by Meredith Duran
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Faint Promise of Rain by Anjali Mitter Duva
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Fast Track to Glory by Tomasz Chrusciel
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar
For Matrimonial Purposes by Kavita Daswani
Ghalib Danger by Neeraj Pandey
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal
A House Called Askival by Merryn Glover
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan
India Treasures: An Epic Novel of Rajasthan and Northern India Through the Ages
India Was One by An Indian
Indian Summer by Will Randall
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky
A Killer in Kailash by Satyajit Ray
Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet by Kashmira Sheth
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
Life is Perfect by Himani Dalmia
The Lotus Queen by Rikin Khamar
Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
The Love Detective by Alexandra Potter (1st in series)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Mission Mumbai: A Novel of Sacred Cows, Snakes, and Stolen Toilets 
Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins
Motiba's Tattoos by Mira Kamdar
The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
Mumbai Noir by Altaf Tyrewala
Murder in Bollywood by Shadaab Amjad Khan
Murder in Mumbai by K.D. Calamur
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
The Nidhi Kapoor Story by Saurabh Garg
Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi's Red Light District by Malvika Singh
The Overnight Palace by Janet Marie Sola
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating (1st in Inspector Ghote series)
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Ravan & Eddie by Kiran Nagarkar
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Saturday Date by Ken Doyle
The Scream by Rohinton Mistry
Season of the Monsoon by Paul Mann (1st in series)
Second Thoughts by Shobhaa Dé
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe #2)
Show Business by Shashi Tharoor
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande
Socialite Evenings by Shobhaa Dé
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Swami by रणजित देसाई
Tales From Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
Trust Me by Rajashree
Trying To Grow by Firdaus Kanga
Tulip Season: A Mitra Basu Mystery by Bharti Kirchner
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan (1st in series)
The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
Around the World in 80 Books
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A Burning (other topics)
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India (other topics)
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (other topics)
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