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75 Indian Book Recommendations. (Indian Books You Need to Read.)

Happy Independence Day Loves. 

75 Years of Freedom.

A freedom that took blood, sweat and tears to achieve. 

This year and every year I can only wish we always value the sacrifice that went into building this country and that we always uphold the values and ideals that this country of ours was built on. 

:) 

My way to honour this day is to make a megaaaa list of book recommendations of 75 Indian Books that I love best and think everyone ought to read. 

This list is also a great place to start if you've always wanted to read Indian writing but didn't know where to start. 

This list is a mix of writing in English and translated works. 

A mix of literary fiction, historical fiction, romance, thrillers, and classics and contemporary fiction. 

I think there is something here for everyone. 

I hope you enjoy it and I hope it helps. 

So let's just jump into it..oh and this is in no particular order. 

 


75 INDIAN BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: 


1.  The Adventures of Feluda Vol I and II  by Satyajit Ray 

2. Chokherbali A Grain of Sand by Rabindranath Tagore 

3. The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh 

4. The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru 

5. The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 

6. Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 

7. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 

8. Riot by Shashi Tharoor 

9. Matchbox and Other Stories by Ashapurna Devi 

10. Pinjar- Amrita Pritam 

11. Raavi Paar and Other Stories by Gulzar 

12. Belonging by Umi Sinha 

13. The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond 

14. Getting Granny's Glasses by " 

15. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy 

16. A Fine Balance by Rohington Mistry 

17. Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande 

18. Jorasanko and Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti

19. Inheritors by Aruna Chakravarti 

20. The All Bengali Crime Detectives by Suparna Chatterjee

21. Those Days & First Light by Sunil Gangopadhyay 

22. Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur 

23. Lifting the Veil and Other Stories by Ismat Chughtai 

24. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

25. Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra 

26. The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay by Siddhant Dhanvant Sanghvi 

27. Byomkesh Bakshi Stories by Saradindu Bandhopadhyay 

28. Undertow by Jahnavi Barua 

29. Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra 

30. The House with a Thousand Stories by Aruni Kashyap 

31. The Adivasi Wont's Dance by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar 

32. A Burning by Megha Majumdar 

33. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Annaparna 

34. Good Talk by Mira Jacob 

35. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 

36. Jaya by Devdutt Pattnaik 

37. Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair 

38. Leila by Prayaag Akbar 

39. Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan 

40. Here Falls the Shadows by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay 

41. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 

42. 1/7 Bondel Road by Gautam Benegal 

43. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 

44. Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 

45. What Really Happened by Banaphool 

46. The Taj Trilogy by Indu Sundaresan 

47. Our Trees Still Grows in Dehra by Ruskin Bond 

48. Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya 

49. Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph 

50. Book of Rachel by Esther David 

51. Bitterfruit Stories by Manto 

52. Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale 

53. Bombay Balchao by Jane Borges 

54. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai 

55. The Widows of Malabar Hills by Sujata Massey 

56. The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur 

57. Poonachi by Perumal Murugan 

58. Indigo Stories by Satyajit Ray 

59. Parineeta by Saratchandra 

60. Left from the Nameless Shop by Aditi Rao 

61. Mrs. C Remembers by Himanjali Shankar 

62. No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini 

63. The Wreck by Rabindranath Tagore 

64. The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee 

65. Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra 

66. Ladies Couple by Anita Nair 

67. Bhaunri by Anukrti Upadhyay 

68. Dark Circles by Udayan Mukherjee 

69. The Adventures of Goopy Gayne and Bagha Byne by Upendra Kishore Ray Chowdhury 

70. Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi 

71. The Sari Shop by Rupa Bawa 

72. Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandhopadhyay 

73. Night with A Black Spider by Ambai 

74. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbag 

75. My Kind of Girl by Buddhadeva Bose 


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And done! 

I have tried to be keep this list as varied as I can and not repeated too many books from the same authors and included books from years ago and also some recent-ish books. 

I hope this list helps and let me know how many books your's read from this list. 


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