CITY · INDIABooks set in Bombay
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29 books · 22 authors · 1872–2021
29 books here
Most-set authors
Rohinton Mistry (3) · Salman Rushdie (3) · Sujata Massey (2) · Aravind Adiga (2) · Vikram Chandra (2) · Frances Hodgson Burnett (1)
Genres
literary fiction (16) · historical fiction (1) · mystery & crime (1) · adventure (1)
Books set here
Set in Bombay (23)
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe and her father Captain Crewe voyage from Bombay to London at the novel's opening
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
Annawadi — Mumbai airport slum where Katherine Boo spent three years reporting on its residents' lives and struggles
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Lin arrives, Leopold Cafe
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
unnamed Bombay-like city
Bombay Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto
1930s-1940s Bombay; prostitutes, pimps, gangsters, and aspiring film actors in the seedy pre-Partition city
Delhi: A Novel
Khushwant Singh
Malabar Hill family saga
Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry
Parsi family flat, Mumbai
Love and Longing in Bombay
Vikram Chandra
Bombay bar storytelling frame
Maximum City
Suketu Mehta
entire subject of book
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Primary narrative city
Murder in Old Bombay
Nev March
1892 colonial Bombay
Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil
scientific institute and slum
No Presents Please
Jayant Kaikini
Mumbai's streets and neighbourhoods throughout all 16 stories
Ravan and Eddie
Kiran Nagarkar
post-independence Bombay
Sacred Games
Vikram Chandra
Mumbai crime underworld
Saraswati Park
Anjali Joseph
Letter-writer and family life in Bombay/Mumbai
Serious Men
Manu Joseph
Mumbai cricket academy world
Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry
Khodadad Buildings community
The Bombay Prince
Sujata Massey
1921 royal visit Bombay
The Death of Vishnu
Manil Suri
apartment building setting
The Lost Man of Bombay
Vaseem Khan
1950s Bombay — India's first female police inspector solves the Ice Man case
The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie
Main narrative setting
Selection Day
Aravind Adiga
Bombay opium den district
Also featuring Bombay (6)
Em and the Big Hoom
Jerry Pinto
family apartment
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Sujata Massey
widows mansion
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Bombay stop — temple incident
Honor
Thrity Umrigar
Urban Mumbai — journalist Smita returns to the city she fled
Last Man in Tower
Aravind Adiga
Mumbai real-estate pressure
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Bombay Bollywood world
Notable locations in Bombay
Mumbai25Annawadi1Colaba, Mumbai1Dharavi, Mumbai1Mahim1Malabar Hill1Sassoon Dock1Shuklaji Street, Mumbai1Vakola, Mumbai1
Nearby books
Selection Day
Aravind Adiga
1 km · Shuklaji Street, Mumbai
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Sujata Massey
4 km · Malabar Hill
Em and the Big Hoom
Jerry Pinto
7 km · Mahim
Love and Longing in Bombay
Vikram Chandra
8 km · Sassoon Dock
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
8 km · Colaba, Mumbai
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
12 km · Mumbai
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
12 km · Mumbai
Bombay Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto
12 km · Mumbai