Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is a magical realism novel that explores the history of India from independence in 1947 to the Emergency in 1975.

Toru Dutt, a Bengali poet and novelist, is often regarded as the first Indian writer to write in English.

Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" is a novel that explores the lives of two fraternal twins in Kerala, India.

Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy" is a novel that follows the lives of four families in post-independence India.

Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" is a novel that tells the story of Balram Halwai, a poor Indian man who becomes a successful entrepreneur.

Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss" is a novel that tells the story of a young Indian woman who travels to the United States to study.

Shashi Tharoor's "The Great Indian Novel" is a satirical novel that retells the history of India from the perspective of a fictional character named Saleem Sinai.

Amitav Ghosh's "Sea of Poppies" is a historical novel that tells the story of a group of Indian sailors who travel to Mauritius in the 19th century.

Amitav Ghosh's "The Shadow Lines" is a novel that tells the story of two families, one in India and one in Bangladesh, who are separated by the partition of India in 1947.

Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" is a novel that tells the story of a marine biologist who travels to the Sundarbans in India to study the endangered Ganges river dolphin.

Amitav Ghosh's "The Glass Palace" is a historical novel that tells the story of a Burmese family who are forced to flee their home during World War II.

Pankaj Mishra's "The Illicit Happiness of Other People" is a novel that tells the story of a young Indian man who travels to the United States to study and falls in love with an American woman.

Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland" is a novel that tells the story of two brothers who grow up in Calcutta, India, and are separated by the Naxalite movement in the 1970s.

Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake" is a novel that tells the story of an Indian family who immigrates to the United States.

Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" is a collection of short stories that explore the lives of Indian immigrants in the United States.