Non-fiction Books (alphabetical order by author's last name)

1. Aijaz Ahmad — On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right

2. Pallavi Aiyar — Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China

3. Alberuni — Alberuni's India

4. Amrith, Sunil — The Burning Earth: A History

5. BR Ambedkar — Annihilation of Caste

6. Benedict Anderson — Imagined Communities

7. Perry Anderson — The Indian Ideology

8. Hannah Arendt — Eichmann in Jerusalem

9. Karen Armstrong — A History of God

10. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations

11. A. L. Basham (2) — The Wonder That Was India; A Cultural History of India

12. Susan Bayly — Caste, Society and Politics in India

13. Isaiah Berlin (2) — The Crooked Timber of Humanity; The Sense of Reality

14. Francois Bernier — Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire

15. Neeladri Bhattacharya — The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World

16. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya — Talking Back: The Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse

17. William Blattner — Heidegger's Being and Time

18. Daniel J. Boorstin — The Discoverers

19. Edwin Bryant — The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture

20. Jacob Burckhardt — The Greeks and Greek Civilization

21. Urvashi Butalia — The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India

22. Partha Chatterjee — Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse

23. Noam Chomsky — The Chomsky Reader

24. Amy Chua — World on Fire

25. Cicero — Selected Political Speeches

26. JM Coetzee (2) — Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship; Stranger Shores: Literary Essays

27. Simon Critchley — Continental Philosophy

28. William Dalrymple — The Anarchy

29. Meghan Daum — Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

30. Norman Davies — Europe: A History

31. Dr. Devangana Desai: Erotic Sculpture of India: Socio Cultural Study

32. Frans De Waal — Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

33. Jared M. Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel

34. Nicholas Dirks — Castes of Mind

35. Assa Doron — Life on the Ganga

36. Hubert Dreyfus — What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason

37. Louis Dumont — Homo Hierarchicus

38. Will Durant — The Story of Philosophy

39. Modris Eksteins — Walking Since Daybreak

40. Ainslee T Embree — The Hindu Tradition

41. Abraham Eraly — The First Spring: The Golden Age of India

42. Majid Fakhry — A History of Islamic Philosophy

43. M.I. Finley (3) — The World of Odysseus; Greek Historians; Early Greeks: The Bronze and Archaic Ages

44. Lars Fogelin — An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism

45. Michel Foucault — The Foucault Reader

46. Raimond Gaita — A Common Humanity

47. JK Galbraith — Economics in Perspective

48. Mahatma Gandhi — The Story of My Experiments with Truth

49. Jonardon Ganeri (Editor) — The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy

50. John Gardner — The Art of Fiction

51. Atul Gawande — Being Mortal

52. Amitav Ghosh — The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

53. Yuval Noah Harari — Sapiens

54. Herodotus — The Histories

55. E. J. Hobsbawm — Nations and Nationalism since 1780

56. Albert Hourani — A History of the Arab Peoples

57. Kancha Ilaiah — Why I Am Not a Hindu

58. Christophe Jaffrelot — Religion, Caste and Politics in India

59. Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil — India's First Dictatorship

60. Robert Jensen — Citizens of the Empire

61. DN Jha — Early India: A Concise History

62. Kenneth W. Jones — Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India

63. Tony Joseph — Early Indians

64. Daniel Kahneman — Thinking Fast and Slow

65. Sudhir and Katrina Kakar — The Indians

66. John Keay — India: A History

67. George C. Kerner — Three Philosophical Moralists: Mill, Kant, and Sartre

68. Bernard Knox — The Norton Book of Classical Literature

69. Pranay Lal — Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent

70. David S Landes — The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

71. TZ Lavine — From Socrates to Sartre

72. Mahmood Mamdani — Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

73. Rollo May — Man's Search for Himself

74. David Midgley, Editor — The Essential Mary Midgley

75. Czeslaw Milosz — The Captive Mind

76. Pankaj Mishra — An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

77. Peggy Mohan — Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through its Languages

78. Harbans Mukhia — The Mughals of India

79. DR Nagaraj — The Flaming Feet and Other Essays

80. VS Naipaul (4) — India: A Million Mutinies Now; An Area of Darkness; A Wounded Civilization; The Enigma of Arrival

81. Meera Nanda — Science in Saffron: Skeptical Essays on History of Science

82. Serena Nanda — Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India

83. Ashis Nandy (2) — Return from Exile; The Intimate Enemy

84. Friedrich Nietzsche (3) — Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Genealogy of Morals; Ecce Homo

85. Gail Omvedt (2) — Seeking Begumpura; Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India

86. Jose Ortega y Gasset — The Revolt of the Masses

87. Gyanendra Pandey and Jan Breman — Remembering Partition

88. KN Panikkar — Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India

89. Aakar Patel — Our Hindu Rashtra: What it is, how we got here

90. Plato — Theaetetus

91. Plutarch — Greek Lives

92. Marco Polo — The Travels

93. Gyan Prakash — Emergency Chronicles

94. M. Rajshekhar — Despite the State

95. Tirthankar Roy — An Economic History of India 1707–1857

96. H. W. F. Saggs — Civilization Before Greece and Rome

97. Edward W. Said — Orientalism

98. Michael Sandel — Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?; The Tyranny of Merit

99. Arthur Schopenhauer — The World As Will and Idea

100. Amartya Sen — The Argumentative Indian

101. Jyotirmaya Sharma — Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism

102. Upinder Singh — Ancient India: Culture of Contradictions

103. Jonathan Spence — The Search for Modern China

104. Jason Stanley — How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

105. Burton Stein — The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara

106. Ajantha Subramanian — The Caste of Merit

107. Samant Subramanian — This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War

108. Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh — The Partition of India

109. Anand Temtumbde — The Persistence of Caste

110. Romila Thapar (6) — The Penguin History of Early India; The Past as Present; Which of Us Are Aryans?; Our History, Their History, Whose History?; Voices of Dissent; Talking History

111. Colin Thubron — The Lost Heart of Asia

112. Thucydides — The History of the Peloponnesian War

113. Audrey Truschke — The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of a Muslim Past

114. Mark Tully — No Full Stops in India

115. Omprakash Valmiki — Joothan: A Dalit's Life

116. Vatsyayana, Trans. By Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar — The Kamasutra

117. Jan Westerhoff — Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction

118. Isabel Wilkerson — Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents

119. Howard Zinn — A People's History of the United States

120. Flavian Abhay Xaxa, GN Devy — Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion

Fiction Books (alphabetical order by author's last name)

1. Chinua Achebe — The African Trilogy

2. Aravind Adiga — The White Tiger

3. Usha Alexander (2) — Only the Eyes are Mine; The Legend of Virinara

4. Saul Bellow — Herzog

5. Albert Camus (3) — The Stranger; The Plague; A Happy Death

6. Upamanyu Chatterjee (2) — English, August; Mammaries of the Welfare State

7. J. M. Coetzee (5) — Disgrace; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Age of Iron; The Lives of Animals; Youth

8. Machado de Assis — Epitaph of a Small Winner

9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2) — Crime and Punishment; Notes from the Underground

10. Ralph Ellison — Invisible Man

11. Damon Galgut — The Good Doctor

12. Nadine Gordimer (2) — None to Accompany Me; The Pickup

13. Guntur Grass — The Tin Drum

14. Knut Hamsun — Hunger

15. Githa Hariharan — In Times of Siege

16. Hermann Hesse — Narcissus and Goldmund

17. Michel Houellebecq — The Elementary Particles

18. Homer — The Iliad

19. Zora Neale Hearston — Their Eyes Were Watching God

20. Kazuo Ishiguro — The Remains of the Day

21. Franz Kafka (2) — The Castle; The Metamorphosis

22. Imre Kertesz — Fateless

23. Arthur Koestler — Darkness at Noon

24. Giuseppe di Lampedusa — The Leopard

25. Mario Vargas Llosa — Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

26. Thomas Mann — Death in Venice and other stories

27. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2)— Love in the Time of Cholera; Chronicle of a Death Foretold

28. Perumal Murugan — The Story of a Goat

29. Ajay Navaria — Unclaimed Terrain

30. Jerry Pinto — Em and the Big Hoom

31. Vladimir Nabokov — Lolita

32. Salman Rushdie — Haroun and the Sea of Stories

33. Jose Saramago — The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

34. Vivek Shanbhag — Ghachar Ghochar

35. Virgil — The Aeneid