COUNTRY · INDIABooks set in India
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50 books · 27 authors · 1872–2025
50 books here
Most-set authors
Amitav Ghosh (5) · Salman Rushdie (4) · R.K. Narayan (4) · Aravind Adiga (3) · Jhumpa Lahiri (3) · Rohinton Mistry (3)
Genres
literary fiction (27) · romance (1)
Books set here
Set in India (39)
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai
unnamed provincial Indian town
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
grandparents and a funeral
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Balram narrates from here
The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh
Narrator home city
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Lin arrives, Leopold Cafe
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
The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
fictionalized capital, independence-era India
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 Far Pavilions
M.M. Kaye
Ash childhood Himalayan kingdom
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
judge house Gorkha insurgency
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
near-future climate-stricken city
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
malaria research, colonial science
Train to Pakistan
Khushwant Singh
partition border village
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
unnamed Bombay-like city
Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry
Parsi family flat, Mumbai
Love and Longing in Bombay
Vikram Chandra
Bombay bar storytelling frame
Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil
scientific institute and slum
Sacred Games
Vikram Chandra
Mumbai crime underworld
Serious Men
Manu Joseph
Mumbai cricket academy world
Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry
Khodadad Buildings community
Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan
fictional South India town
Swami and Friends
R.K. Narayan
fictional South India town
The Guide
R.K. Narayan
Malgudi fictional south India town
The Vendor of Sweets
R.K. Narayan
fictional South India town
Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
Contemporary North India
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Pi childhood zoo home
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood
fictional hill station post-independence
Selection Day
Aravind Adiga
Bombay opium den district
Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie
Kashmir village pre-conflict setting
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
Das family house, Bela Road
Murder at the Mushaira
Raza Mir
Old Delhi mushaira 1857 mutiny eve
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Syrian Christian family home
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
brothers childhood home
Also featuring India (11)
Family Life
Akhil Sharma
Childhood home, opening scenes
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh
Ganges poppy fields
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
ancestral opening setting
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
Kashmir conflict backdrop
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
Chatterji family Calcutta scenes
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Calcutta durwan apartment stories
The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh
characters depart from city
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
multi-family connections, Uma departs
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ganguli family origins
Last Man in Tower
Aravind Adiga
Mumbai real-estate pressure
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Bombay Bollywood world