Books by Indian Writers and Authors – A List of 200 Books to Read

Books by Indian Writers and Authors

A bend in the river : V.S. Naipal
A brush with life : Satish Gujral
A House of Mr. Biswar : V.S. Naipal
A Million Mutinies Now : V.S. Naipal
A Passage to England : Nirad C.Chodhury
A Prisoner's Scrapbook : L.K. Advani
A River Sutra : Gita Mehra
A sense of time : H.S.Vatsyayan
A strange and sublime address : Amit Chaudhary
A suitable boy : Vikram Seth
A village by the sea : Anita Desai
A voice for freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
Aansoo : Jayashankar Prasad
Afternoon Raag : Amit Chaudhari
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Deepak Chopra
Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ain-i-Akbari : Abul Fazal
Amar Kosh : Amar Singh
An autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
An Equal Music : Vikram Seth

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An Idealist View of life : Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Amrit Aur Vish Amrit : Lal Nagar
Anamika : Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Anandmath : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Areas of Darkness : V.S. Naipal
Arthashastra : Kautilya
Ashtadhyayi : Panini
Autobiography of an Unknown India Nirad C. Choudhury
Bandicoot Run : Manohar Malgonkar
Beginning of the Beginning Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh
Between the Lines : Kuldip Nayyar
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self Sisirkumar Ghose
Bhagvad Gita : Ved Vyas
Bharat Bharati : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Bharat Durdasha : Bhartendu Harischandra
Border and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Bharat Bharati : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Breaking the Silence : Anees Jung
Bride and the Sahib and the other stories Khushwant Singh
Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu




The Bubble: A NovelMulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam : Ashwaghosh
By God's Decree : Kapil Dev
Chandalika : Rabindra Nath Tagore
Chandrakanta Santati : Devkinandan Khatri
Chemmen : Thakazhi : Sivasankara Pillai
Chitra : Rabindranath Tagore
Chitralekha : Bhagwati Charan Verma
Chitrangada : Rabindra Nath Tagore
Circle of Reason : Amitav Ghosh
Clear Light of Day : Anita Desai
Confessions of a Lower : Mulk Raj Anand
Confrontation with Pakistan B. M. Kaul
Conquest of Self : Mahatma Ghandhi
Continent of Crime : Nirad C Chaudhary
Coolie : Mulk Raj Anand
Court Dancer : Rabindranath Tagore
Culture in the Vanity Bag : Nirad C Chaudhury
Days of My Years : H.P. Nanda
Daybhag : Jeemootwahan

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Death of a City : Amrita Pritam
Devdas : Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Discovery of India : Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums : Manohar Malgonkar
Distint Neighbours : India Kuldip Nayar
Divine Life : Swami Shivananda
Durgesh Nandini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change : Chandra Shekhar
Eight Lives : Rajmohan Gandhi
English August : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Essays on Gita : Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Eternal Himalayas : Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Eternal India : Mrs Indira Gandhi
Faces of Everest : Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Foreign Policy of India : I.K. Gujral
Forty Nine Days : Amrita Pritam
From Rajpath to Lokpath Vijaya Raje Scindia
Gaban : Munsi Premchand
Ganadevata : Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gardener : Rabindra Nath Tagore




Geet Govind : Jayadev
Ghasiram Kotwal : Vijay Tendulkar
Gitanjali : Rabindranath Tagore
Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru
Godan : Prem Chand
Golden Threshold : Sarojini Naidu
Gora : Rabindra Nath Tagore
Guide : R.K. Narayanan
Harsha Charita : Bana Bhatta
Harvest : Manjula Padmanabhan
Heir Apparent : Dr. Karan Singh
Himalayan Blunder : Brigadier J.P. Dalvi
Hind Swaraj : M.K. Gandhi
Hindu View of Life : Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Hinduism : Nirad C. Choudhury
History of India : Romila Thapar
Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard Kiran Desai
Humanyunama : Gulbadan Beghum
Hungary Stones : Rabindranath Tagore




I follow the Mahatma : K.M. Munshi
Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
India After Nehru : Kuldip Nayyar
India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
India Unbound : Gurcharan Das
India of Our Dreams : M.V. Kamath
India Wins Freedom : Abdul Kalam Azad
India's Priceless Heritage : N.A. Palkhivala
Indian Philosophy : Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Indira Gandhi Returns : Khushwant Singh
Indira Gandhi : Badhate Kadam Khushwant Singh
Inscrutable Americans : Anurag Mathur
Interpreter of Maladies : Jhumpa Lahiri
It's Always Possible : Kiran Bedi
Jai Somnath : K.M. Munshi
Geet Govind : Jayadev
Jhansi Ki Rani : Vrindavanlal Verma
Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
Kamasutra : S.H. Vatsyayan




Kanthapura : Raja Rao
Kapala Kundala : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Karmabhumi : Munsi Premchand
Kashmir : A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh
Kashmr : A Tragedy of Errors Tavleen Singh
Kayar : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Kitab-ul-Hind : Al-Beruni
Kitni Navon Men Kitni BarS.H. Vatsyayan
Kulliyat : Ghalib
Kumarasambhava : Kalidas
Kurukshetra : Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Last Burden : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Life Divine : Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Lipika : Rabindranath Tagore
Lost Child : Mulk Raj Anand
Mahabharta : Ved Vyas
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apolstles Ved Mehta
Malgudi Days : R.K. Narayanan
BhavabhutiMalti Madhav
Meghduta : Kalidasa




Mitakshara : Vigyaneshwar
Mrichhakatikam : Shudrak
My Days : R.K. Narayanan
My India : S. Nihal Singh
My Life and Times : V.V. Giri
My Music, My Life : Pt. Ravi Shankar
My Presidential Years : R. Venkatraman
My Truth : Indira Gandhi
Mudra Rakshas : Vishakhadatta
Natural History : Pliny the Elder
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy A.B. Vajpayee
Nisheeth : Uma Shankar Joshi
Operation Bluestar : The True Story Lt. Gen K.S. Brar
Our Films, Their Films : Satyajit Ray
Padmavat : Malik Mohammed Jayasi
Painter of Signs : R.K. Narayan
Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma
Parineeta : Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Past Forward : G.R. Narayanan
Pather Panchali : Bibhuti Bhushan




Plain Speaking : N. Chandrababu Naidu
Portrait of India : Ved Mehta
Post Office : Rabindranath Tagore
Prem Pachisi : Munsi Prem Chand
Prem Vatika : Raskhan
Rajatarangini : Kalhana
Ram Charita Manas : Tulsidas
Ramayana : Maharishi Valmiki
Raghuvamsa : Kalidas
Ranghbhommi : Munsi Premchand
Ratnavali : Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the River) : Gulzar
Red Earth and Pouring Rain : Vikram Chandra
Ritu Samhara : Kalidas
Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Satya Karischandra : Bhartendu Harischandra
Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
Secular Agenda : Arun Shourie
Seven Summers : Mulk Raj Anand
Shadow from Ladakh : Bhabani Bhattacharya




Shahnama : Firdausi
Srikanta : Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Snakes and Ladders – Essays on India : Gita Mehta
Social Change in Modern India : M.N. Srinivas
Sultry Days : Shobha De
Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar
Sursagar : Sur Das
Swami and Friends : R.K. Narayanan
The Bride's Book of Beauty : Mulk Raj Anand
The Cat and Shakespeare : Raja Rao
The Company of Women Khushwant Singh
The Critical Years : In Jail : Kuldip Nayyar
The Dark Room : R.K. Narayanan
The Degeneration of India : T.N. Seshan
The Glass Palace : Amitav Ghosh
The God of Small Things : Arundhati Roy
The Golden Gate : Vikram Seth
The Judgement : Kuldip Nayyar
The Men Who Killed Gandhi : Manohar Malgonkar
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success : Deepak Chopra




The Songs of India : Sarojini Naidu
The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi
The Strange and Subline Address Amit Chaudhuri
The Sword and the Sickle Mulk Raj Anand
The vendor of Sweets : R.K. Narayanan
The way of the Wizard : Deepak Chopra
Train to Pakistan : Khushwant Singh
Two Leaves and a Bud : Mulk Raj Anand
Untold Story : B. M. Kaul
Urvashi : Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Visarjana : Rabindra Nath Tagore
Waiting for the Mahatma R.K. Narayanan
Wake up India : Annie Besant
We, Indians : Khushwant Singh
The WreckRabindranath Tagore
Yama : Mahadevi Verma
Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Years of Pilgrimage : Dr. Raja Ramana