indian books & authors

India's Best Books Since Independence

No. Book Author 1. A House For Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul 2. Aag Ka Dariya Qurratulain Hyder 3. Adha Gaon Rahi Masoom Reza 4. Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh 5. All About H. Hatterr GV Desani 6. Aranyer Din Ratri Sunil Gangopadhyay 7. Charandas Chor Habib Tanvir 8. Chidamabara Sumitranandan Pant 9. Coolie Mulk Raj Anand 10. Dipshikha Mahadevi Verma 11. English August Upamanyu Chatterjee 12. Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 13. Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar 14. God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 15. Golden Gate Vikram Seth 16. Hajar Churashir Ma Mahasweta Devi 17. Indulekha O. Chandu Menon 18. Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 19. Kanthapura Raja Rao 20. Kayar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai 21. Khasakinte Ithihaasam O.V. Vijayan 22. Kitne Pakistan  Kamleshwar 23. Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar Ajneya 24. Krishnakali Shivani 25. Kurukku Faustina Barna 26. Kutiyozhikkal Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon 27. Madhushala Harivansh Rai Bachchan 28. Marali Mannige Kota Shivaram Karanth 29. Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 30. Nilkanthi Broja Indira Goswami 31. Paraja Gopinath Molianty 32. Parimal Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' 33. Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay 34. Pathummayude Aadu Vaikom Mohammed Basheer 35. Raag Darbari Shrilal Shukla 36. Randamuzham M. T. Vasudevan 37. Rasidi Ticket Amrita Pritam 38. Sabdar Akash Sitakant Mohapatra 39. Samskara U. R. Ananthamurthy 40. Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh 41. Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 42. Tamas Bhisham Sahni 43. Terhi Lakeer Ismat Chugtai 44. The Flight of Pigeons Ruskin Bond 45. Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 46. Tughlaq Girish Karnad 47. Zindaginama Krishna Sobti