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

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