Khushwant Singh's "Train to Pakistan" is a powerful and moving account of the human cost of the Partition of India.

Mulk Raj Anand's "Untouchable" is often regarded as the first modern Indian novel in English.

R. K. Narayan's "The Guide" is a poignant tale of love, loss, and redemption set against the backdrop of rural India.

Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is a magical realism novel that explores the history of India after independence.

Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" is a powerful and moving story about the lives of two fraternal twins in Kerala, India.

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

Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" is a novel that explores the lives of people living in the Sundarbans, a region in India and Bangladesh.

Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake" is a novel that follows the lives of two generations of Indian immigrants in America.

Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" is a satirical novel that follows the life of Balram Halwai, a young man from a poor village in India who becomes a successful entrepreneur.

Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss" is a novel that follows the lives of two families in India and America.

Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance" is a novel that follows the lives of four people in India during the Emergency.

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

Vikram Chandra's "The House of Blue Mangoes" is a novel that follows the lives of three generations of a family in India.

Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" is a novel that follows the lives of people living in the Sundarbans, a region in India and Bangladesh.

Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" is a powerful and moving story about the lives of two fraternal twins in Kerala, India.