CITY · INDIABooks set in Delhi
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20 books · 17 authors · 1980–2025
20 books here
Most-set authors
Akhil Sharma (2) · Deepa Anappara (2) · Salman Rushdie (2) · Vikram Seth (1) · Kamila Shamsie (1) · William Dalrymple (1)
Genres
literary fiction (13) · historical fiction (1) · mystery & crime (1)
Books set here
Set in Delhi (18)
A Suitable Girl
Vikram Seth
Contemporary Delhi setting
An Obedient Father
Akhil Sharma
childhood home, immigrant departure point
City of Djinns
William Dalrymple
Year-in-Delhi travelogue
Delhi: A Novel
Khushwant Singh
Entire novel setting
Djinn Patrol on the Path to the Stars
Deepa Anappara
Unnamed Indian megacity slum; author a Delhi journalist, city deliberately unnamed but clearly Delhi-inspired
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Deepa Anappara
Unnamed Delhi slum on the Purple metro line; children disappear from the basti in this unnamed but Delhi-inspired settin
Half the Night is Gone
Amitabha Bagchi
Early 20th-century Delhi where merchant Lala Motichand's household saga unfolds; Hindi novelist Vishwanath writes their
How to Kidnap the Rich
Rahul Raina
Modern Delhi — exam scams, class inequality, and kidnapping
The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
fictionalized capital, independence-era India
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
Sunny's family home
The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie
city as protagonist, centuries spanned
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mahabharata retelling Pandava palace
The Storyteller's Tale
Omair Ahmad
18th-century Delhi Mughal decline
The Walls of Delhi
Uday Prakash
Delhi slums and urban poverty; three novellas about invisible communities in contemporary Delhi
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
Das family house, Bela Road
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Historic city setting
Murder at the Mushaira
Raza Mir
Old Delhi mushaira 1857 mutiny eve
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
Hijra graveyard, walled city
Notable locations in Delhi
Old Delhi4Nizamuddin1
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An Obedient Father
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Delhi: A Soliloquy
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Family Life
Akhil Sharma
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The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
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Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
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City of Djinns
William Dalrymple
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Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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