Non-fiction Books (alphabetical order by author's last name)

1. Pallavi Aiyar — Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China
2. Alberuni — Alberuni's India
3. Hannah Arendt — Eichmann in Jerusalem
4. Karen Armstrong — A History of God
5. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
6. A. L. Basham (2)— The Wonder That Was India; A Cultural History of India
7. Susan Bayly — Caste, Society and Politics in India
8. Isaiah Berlin (2)— The Crooked Timber of Humanity; The Sense of Reality
9. Francois Bernier — Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire
10. William Blattner — Heidegger's Being and Time
11. Daniel J. Boorstin — The Discoverers
12. Edwin Bryant — The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture
13. Jacob Burckhardt — The Greeks and Greek Civilization
14. Noam Chomsky — The Chomsky Reader
15. Amy Chua — World on Fire
16. Cicero — Selected Political Speeches
17. JM Coetzee (2)— Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship; Stranger Shores: Literary Essays
18. Simon Critchley — Continental Philosophy
19. Norman Davies — Europe: A History
20. Jared M. Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel
21. Hubert Dreyfus — What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason
22. Will Durant — The Story of Philosophy
23. Modris Eksteins — Walking Since Daybreak
24. Ainslee T Embree — The Hindu Tradition
25. Majid Fakhry — A History of Islamic Philosophy
26. M.I. Finley (3)— The World of Odysseus; Greek Historians; The Ancient Greeks
27. Michel Foucault — The Foucault Reader
28. Raimond Gaita — A Common Humanity
29. JK Galbraith — Economics in Perspective
30. Mahatma Gandhi — The Story of My Experiments with Truth
31. John Gardner — The Art of Fiction
32. Ramachandra Guha — India After Gandhi
33. Herodotus — The Histories
34. E. J. Hobsbawm — Nations and Nationalism since 1780
35. Albert Hourani — A History of the Arab Peoples
36. Kancha Ilaiah — Why I Am Not a Hindu
37. Robert Jensen — Citizens of the Empire
38. Kenneth W. Jones — The New Cambridge History of India: Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India
39. Sudhir and Katrina Kakar — The Indians
40. John Keay — India: A History
41. Bernard Knox — The Norton Book of Classical Literature
42. David S Landes — The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
43. TZ Lavine — From Socrates to Sartre
44. Primo Levi — Survival in Auschwitz
45. Mahmood Mamdani — Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
46. Rollo May — Man's Search for Himself
47. David Midgley, Editor — The Essential Mary Midgley
48. Czeslaw Milosz — The Captive Mind
49. Pankaj Mishra — An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
50. VS Naipaul (3)— India: A Million Mutinies Now; An Area of Darkness; A Wounded Civilization
51. Ashis Nandy — Return from Exile
52. Friedrich Nietzsche (3)— Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Genealogy of Morals; Ecce Homo
53. Jose Ortega y Gasset — The Revolt of the Masses
54. Pandey, Gyanendra and Jan Breman — Remembering Partition
55. Plato — Theaetetus
56. Plutarch — Greek Lives
57. Marco Polo — The Travels
58. H. W. F. Saggs — Civilization Before Greece and Rome
59. Edward W. Said — Orientalism
60. Michael Sandel — Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
61. Arthur Schopenhauer — The World As Will and Idea
62. Amartya Sen — The Argumentative Indian
63. Jonathan Spence — The Search for Modern China
64. Talbot, Ian and Singh, Gurharpal — The Partition of India
65. Colin Thubron — The Lost Heart of Asia
66. Thucydides — The History of the Peloponnesian War
67. Mark Tully — No Full Stops in India
68. Omprakash Valmiki — Joothan: A Dalit's Life
69. Howard Zinn — A People's History of the United States

Fiction Books (alphabetical order by author's last name)

1. Chinua Achebe — The African Trilogy
2. Usha Alexander — Only the Eyes are Mine
3. Saul Bellow — Herzog
4. Albert Camus (3)— The Stranger; The Plague; A Happy Death
5. Upamanyu Chatterjee (2)— English, August; Mammaries of the Welfare State
6. J. M. Coetzee (4)— Disgrace; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Age of Iron; The Lives of Animals
7. Machado de Assis — Epitaph of a Small Winner
8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2)— Crime and Punishment; Notes from the Underground
9. Ralph Ellison — Invisible Man
10. Damon Galgut — The Good Doctor
11. Nadine Gordimer (2)— None to Accompany Me; The Pickup
12. Guntur Grass — The Tin Drum
13. Knut Hamsun — Hunger
14. Githa Hariharan — In Times of Siege
15. Hermann Hesse — Narcissus and Goldmund
16. Michel Houellebecq — The Elementary Particles
17. Homer — The Iliad
18. Zora Neale Hearston — Their Eyes Were Watching God
19. Kazuo Ishiguro — The Remains of the Day
20. Franz Kafka — The Castle
21. Imre Kertesz — Fateless
22. Arthur Koestler — Darkness at Noon
23. Giuseppe di Lampedusa — The Leopard
24. Mario Vargas Llosa — Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
25. Thomas Mann — Death in Venice and other stories
26. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2)— Love in the Time of Cholera; Chronicle of a Death Foretold
27. Vladimir Nabokov — Lolita
28. Salman Rushdie — Haroun and the Sea of Stories
29. Jose Saramago — The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
30. Virgil — The Aeneid