Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel "The God of Small Things", which won the Booker Prize in 1997.

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose novel "Midnight's Children" won the Booker Prize in 1981.

Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy" tells the story of four families in post-independence India and the search for a suitable boy to marry Lata, the daughter of one of the families.

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author whose novel "The Hungry Tide" won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2005.

Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "Interpreter of Maladies" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.

Aravind Adiga's novel "The White Tiger" won the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

Rohinton Mistry's novel "Such a Long Journey" tells the story of a Parsi family in Bombay during the Emergency in India.

Amitav Ghosh's novel "The Shadow Lines" won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.

Bharati Mukherjee's novel "Jasmine" tells the story of an Indian woman who immigrates to the United States and struggles to build a new life.

Kiran Desai's novel "The Inheritance of Loss" won the Man Booker Prize in 2006.

Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" tells the story of a man who is born at the stroke of midnight on the day of India's independence and is granted two additional lives.

Shashi Tharoor's novel "The Great Indian Novel" is a satirical retelling of the history of India.

Vikram Chandra's novel "Red Earth and Pouring Rain" tells the story of a group of friends in Bombay who are trying to find their place in the world.

Arundhati Roy's novel "The God of Small Things" won the Booker Prize in 1997.

Rohinton Mistry's novel "Family Matters" tells the story of a family who immigrates to Canada and struggles to adjust to their new life.