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. BR Ambedkar — Annihilation of Caste

5. Benedict Anderson — Imagined Communities

6. Perry Anderson — The Indian Ideology

7. Hannah Arendt — Eichmann in Jerusalem

8. Karen Armstrong — A History of God

9. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. William Blattner — Heidegger's Being and Time

17. Daniel J. Boorstin — The Discoverers

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

19. Jacob Burckhardt — The Greeks and Greek Civilization

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

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

22. Noam Chomsky — The Chomsky Reader

23. Amy Chua — World on Fire

24. Cicero — Selected Political Speeches

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

26. Simon Critchley — Continental Philosophy

27. William Dalrymple — The Anarchy

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

29. Norman Davies — Europe: A History

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

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

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

33. Nicholas Dirks — Castes of Mind

34. Assa Doron — Life on the Ganga

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

36. Louis Dumont — Homo Hierarchicus

37. Will Durant — The Story of Philosophy

38. Modris Eksteins — Walking Since Daybreak

39. Ainslee T Embree — The Hindu Tradition

40. Majid Fakhry — A History of Islamic Philosophy

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

42. Lars Fogelin — An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism

43. Michel Foucault — The Foucault Reader

44. Raimond Gaita — A Common Humanity

45. JK Galbraith — Economics in Perspective

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

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

48. John Gardner — The Art of Fiction

49. Atul Gawande — Being Mortal

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

51. Yuval Noah Harari — Sapiens

52. Herodotus — The Histories

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

54. Albert Hourani — A History of the Arab Peoples

55. Kancha Ilaiah — Why I Am Not a Hindu

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

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

58. Robert Jensen — Citizens of the Empire

59. DN Jha — Early India: A Concise History

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

61. Tony Joseph — Early Indians

62. Daniel Kahneman — Thinking Fast and Slow

63. Sudhir and Katrina Kakar — The Indians

64. John Keay — India: A History

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

66. Bernard Knox — The Norton Book of Classical Literature

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

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

69. TZ Lavine — From Socrates to Sartre

70. Mahmood Mamdani — Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

71. Rollo May — Man's Search for Himself

72. David Midgley, Editor — The Essential Mary Midgley

73. Czeslaw Milosz — The Captive Mind

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

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

76. Harbans Mukhia — The Mughals of India

77. DR Nagaraj — The Flaming Feet and Other Essays

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85. Gyanendra Pandey and Jan Breman — Remembering Partition

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

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

88. Plato — Theaetetus

89. Plutarch — Greek Lives

90. Marco Polo — The Travels

91. Gyan Prakash — Emergency Chronicles

92. M. Rajshekhar — Despite the State

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

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

95. Edward W. Said — Orientalism

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

97. Arthur Schopenhauer — The World As Will and Idea

98. Amartya Sen — The Argumentative Indian

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

100. Upinder Singh — Ancient India: Culture of Contradictions

101. Jonathan Spence — The Search for Modern China

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

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

104. Ajantha Subramanian — The Caste of Merit

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

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

107. Anand Temtumbde — The Persistence of Caste

108. 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

109. Colin Thubron — The Lost Heart of Asia

110. Thucydides — The History of the Peloponnesian War

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

112. Mark Tully — No Full Stops in India

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

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

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

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

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

118. 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