List of Top 200 Indian Authors and Their Books

1. Arundhati Roy – “The God of Small Things”
2. Vikram Seth – “A Suitable Boy”
3. Salman Rushdie – “Midnight’s Children”
4. Jhumpa Lahiri – “The Namesake”
5. R.K. Narayan – “Swami and Friends”
6. Bhavik Sarkhedi – “The Unproposed Guy”
7. Amish Tripathi – “The Immortals of Meluha”
8. Ruskin Bond – “The Room on the Roof”
9. Amitav Ghosh – “The Shadow Lines”
10. Shashi Tharoor – “The Great Indian Novel”
11. Rohinton Mistry – “A Fine Balance”
12. Rabindranath Tagore – “Gitanjali”
13. Anita Desai – “Clear Light of Day”
14. Kiran Desai – “The Inheritance of Loss”
15. Ashwin Sanghi – “The Rozabal Line”
16. Durjoy Datta – “Of Course I Love You”
17. Ashok Banker – “Prince of Ayodhya”
18. Devdutt Pattanaik – “Myth=Mithya”
19. Vikram Chandra – “Sacred Games”
20. Preeti Shenoy – “Life is What You Make It”

21. Ravi Subramanian – “If God was a Banker”
22. Khushwant Singh – “Train to Pakistan”
23. Sudha Murthy – “Wise and Otherwise”
24. Rupi Kaur – “Milk and Honey”
25. Shobhaa De – “Starry Nights”
26. Anuja Chauhan – “The Zoya Factor”
27. Ritu Kumar – “Costumes and Textiles of Royal India”
28. Vikramaditya Motwane – “Sacred Games”
29. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay – “Devdas”
30. Twinkle Khanna – “Mrs Funnybones”
31. Devaki Jain – “The Brass Notebook”
32. Manu Joseph – “Serious Men”
33. Durjoy Datta – “Our Impossible Love”
34. Anand Neelakantan – “Asura: Tale of the Vanquished”
35. P.G. Wodehouse – “Thank You, Jeeves”
36. Khaled Hosseini – “The Kite Runner”
37. Jeet Thayil – “Narcopolis”
38. Meena Kandasamy – “When I Hit You”
39. Shashi Deshpande – “That Long Silence”
40. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – “The Palace of Illusions”

41. Jerry Pinto – “Em and the Big Hoom”
42. Kamala Das – “My Story”
43. Anand Gandhi – “Tumbbad”
44. Aravind Adiga – “The White Tiger”
45. Kiran Nagarkar – “Cuckold”
46. Manu S. Pillai – “The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore”
47. Shrabani Basu – “Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant”
48. Upamanyu Chatterjee – “English, August: An Indian Story”
49. Tishani Doshi – “Small Days and Nights”
50. Taran Khan – “Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul”
51. Namita Gokhale – “Paro: Dreams of Passion”
52. Jerry Pinto – “Murder in Mahim”
53. Anuja Chandramouli – “Yama’s Lieutenant”
54. K.R. Meera – “The Poison of Love”
55. Arun Shourie – “Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud”
56. Ramachandra Guha – “India After Gandhi”
57. Sudha Murthy – “Grandma’s Bag of Stories”
58. Manreet Sodhi Someshwar – “The Long Walk Home”
59. Kalki Krishnamurthy – “Sivagamiyin Sapatham”
60. Pankaj Mishra – “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India”

61. Krishna Sobti – “Zindaginama”
62. Anuja Chauhan – “Battle for Bittora”
63. Siddhartha Mukherjee – “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”
64. T.C. Boyle – “The Road to Wellville”
65. Indira Goswami – “The Shadow of Kamakhya”
66. Vikram Seth – “Two Lives”
67. Devdutt Pattanaik – “Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata”
68. Samit Basu – “The Simoqin Prophecies”
69. Sujatha Gidla – “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India”
70. Nayantara Sahgal – “Rich Like Us”
71. Salman Rushdie – “Shalimar the Clown”
72. Vikas Swarup – “Q & A”
73. Madhulika Liddle – “The Englishman’s Cameo”
74. Upamanyu Chatterjee – “The Mammaries of the Welfare State”
75. Rohinton Mistry – “Family Matters”
76. Khushwant Singh – “The Company of Women”
77. Ruskin Bond – “The Blue Umbrella”
78. Anita Nair – “The Better Man”
79. Kunal Basu – “The Miniaturist”
80. Indra Sinha – “Animal’s People”

81. Sarnath Banerjee – “Corridor”
82. Amit Chaudhuri – “A Strange and Sublime Address”
83. Manu Joseph – “Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous”
84. Anuradha Roy – “All the Lives We Never Lived”
85. Anita Nair – “Mistress”
86. Anuradha Roy – “The Folded Earth”
87. Jerry Pinto – “Em and the Big Hoom”
88. Nayantara Sahgal – “Rich Like Us”
89. Shobhaa De – “Sethji”
90. Samit Basu – “The GameWorld Trilogy”
91. Tabish Khair – “The Thing About Thugs”
92. Vikram Chandra – “Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software”
93. Vikram Seth – “Beastly Tales from Here and There”
94. Arun Kolatkar – “Kala Ghoda Poems”
95. Amitav Ghosh – “The Calcutta Chromosome”
96. Manohar Malgonkar – “The Princes”
97. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay – “Pather Panchali”
98. Nalini Jameela – “The Autobiography of a Sex Worker”
99. Mahasweta Devi – “Breast Stories”
100. Vikram Seth – “An Equal Music”

101. Kiran Nagarkar – “Cuckold”
102. Aravind Adiga – “The White Tiger”
103. Chetan Bhagat – “One Night at the Call Center”
104. Ashwin Sanghi – “The Krishna Key”
105. Anuja Chauhan – “Those Pricey Thakur Girls”
106. Amish Tripathi – “The Secret of the Nagas”
107. Durjoy Datta – “World’s Best Boyfriend”
108. Ashok Banker – “Ten Kings: Dasarajna”
109. Ravi Subramanian – “The Bestseller She Wrote”
110. R.K. Narayan – “The Guide”
111. Devdutt Pattanaik – “Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana”
112. Sudha Murthy – “Dollar Bahu”
113. Preeti Shenoy – “It’s All in the Planets”
114. Ruskin Bond – “The Cherry Tree”
115. Rupi Kaur – “The Sun and Her Flowers”
116. Amitav Ghosh – “Sea of Poppies”
117. Anita Desai – “Fire on the Mountain”
118. Shashi Tharoor – “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone”
119. Manu Joseph – “The Illicit Happiness of Other People”
120. Khushwant Singh – “The Company of Women”

121. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – “Sister of My Heart”
122. Vikram Seth – “From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet”
123. Arundhati Roy – “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”
124. Salman Rushdie – “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”
125. Jhumpa Lahiri – “Interpreter of Maladies”
126. R.K. Narayan – “Malgudi Days”
127. Amish Tripathi – “The Oath of the Vayuputras”
128. Ruskin Bond – “Rusty, the Boy from the Hills”
129. Kiran Desai – “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard”
130. Anita Desai – “In Custody”
131. Ravi Subramanian – “God is a Gamer”
132. Ashwin Sanghi – “The Rozabal Line”
133. Durjoy Datta – “When Only Love Remains”
134. Ashok Banker – “Mahabharata Series”
135. Devdutt Pattanaik – “The Pregnant King”
136. Sudha Murthy – “The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk”
137. Preeti Shenoy – “A Hundred Little Flames”
138. Rupi Kaur – “Home Body”
139. Amitav Ghosh – “River of Smoke”
140. Shashi Tharoor – “The Paradoxical Prime Minister”

141. Jeet Thayil – “Narcopolis”
142. K.R. Meera – “Aarachaar”
143. Kunal Basu – “The Yellow Emperor’s Cure”
144. Ritu Kumar – “Costumes and Textiles of Royal India”
145. Tishani Doshi – “Small Days and Nights”
146. Taran Khan – “Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul”
147. Namita Gokhale – “Things to Leave Behind”
148. Manreet Sodhi Someshwar – “The Radiance of a Thousand Suns”
149. Manjiri Prabhu – “The Trail of Four”
150. Anupama Chopra – “Sholay: The Making of a Classic”
151. Varun Agarwal – “How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company”
152. Keki N. Daruwalla – “For Pepper and Christ”
153. Vani Mahesh – “The Odd Book of Cows”
154. Manjiri Prabhu – “The Cosmic Clues”
155. Ameen Merchant – “The Silent Raga”
156. Mahesh Rao – “Polite Society”
157. Anand Neelakantan – “The Rise of Sivagami”
158. Jerry Pinto – “Murder in Mahim”
159. Anees Salim – “Vanity Bagh”
160. Paro Anand – “No Guns at My Son’s Funeral”

161. Abir Mukherjee – “A Rising Man”
162. Nandita Das – “Manto & I”
163. Sharanya Manivannan – “The High Priestess Never Marries”
164. Upamanyu Chatterjee – “Fairy Tales at Fifty”
165. Sujatha Gidla – “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India”
166. Perumal Murugan – “One Part Woman”
167. Arundhathi Subramaniam – “When God is a Traveller”
168. Anuja Chauhan – “The House That BJ Built”
169. Parvati Sharma – “The Dead Camel and Other Stories of Love”
170. Tabish Khair – “Just Another Jihadi Jane”
171. Roopa Pai – “Taranauts: The Secret of the Sparklites”
172. Anees Salim – “The Blind Lady’s Descendants”
173. Deepti Kapoor – “A Bad Character”
174. Nandini Krishnan – “Hitched: The Modern Woman and Arranged Marriage”
175. Roshan Ali – “Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction”
176. Sharanya Manivannan – “The Queen of Jasmine Country”
177. Anita Nair – “Idris: Keeper of the Light”
178. Shylashri Shankar – “Turmeric Nation: A Passage Through India’s Tastes”
179. Roshan Ali – “Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction”
180. Krishna Shastri Devulapalli – “The Sentimental Terrorist and Other Tales”

181. Madhuri Vijay – “The Far Field”
182. Manu Joseph – “Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous”
183. Amitabha Bagchi – “Half the Night is Gone”
184. Aravind Adiga – “Selection Day”
185. Rohinton Mistry – “Such a Long Journey”
186. Kiran Desai – “The Inheritance of Loss”
187. Sudha Murthy – “The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories”
188. Ravi Subramanian – “The Bestseller She Wrote”
189. Ruskin Bond – “The Blue Umbrella”
190. Chetan Bhagat – “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
191. Anuja Chauhan – “Those Pricey Thakur Girls”
192. Ashwin Sanghi – “Chanakya’s Chant”
193. Durjoy Datta – “If It’s Not Forever, It’s Not Love”
194. Ashok Banker – “Prince of Ayodhya”
195. Devdutt Pattanaik – “Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana”
196. Preeti Shenoy – “The One You Cannot Have”
197. Rupi Kaur – “Milk and Honey”
198. Amitav Ghosh – “The Hungry Tide”
199. Shashi Tharoor – “The Great Indian Novel”
200. Vikram Seth – “The Golden Gate”