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 — The Wonder That Was India
6. Isaiah Berlin — The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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. Amy Chua — World on Fire
13. Cicero — Selected Political Speeches
14. JM Coetzee — Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship; Stranger Shores: Literary Essays
15. Simon Critchley — Continental Philosophy
16. Norman Davies — Europe: A History
17. Jared M. Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel
18. Modris Eksteins — Walking Since Daybreak
19. Majid Fakhry — A History of Islamic Philosophy
20. M.I. Finley — The World of Odysseus
21. Michel Foucault — The Foucault Reader
22. Raimond Gaita — A Common Humanity
23. Mahatma Gandhi — The Story of My Experiments with Truth
24. John Gardner — The Art of Fiction
25. Ramachandra Guha — India After Gandhi
26. Herodotus — The Histories
27. E. J. Hobsbawm — Nations and Nationalism since 1780
28. Robert Jensen — Citizens of the Empire
29. Kenneth W. Jones — The New Cambridge History of India: Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India
30. Sudhir and Katrina Kakar — The Indians
31. John Keay — India: A History
32. Primo Levi — Survival in Auschwitz
33. Mahmood Mamdani — Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
34. David Midgley, Editor — The Essential Mary Midgley
35. Czeslaw Milosz — The Captive Mind
36. Pankaj Mishra — An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
37. VS Naipaul — India: A Million Mutinies Now; An Area of Darkness; A Wounded Civilization
38. Ashis Nandy — Return from Exile
39. Friedrich Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Genealogy of Morals; Ecce Homo
40. Jose Ortega y Gasset — The Revolt of the Masses
41. Plato — Theaetetus
42. Plutarch — Greek Lives
43. Marco Polo — The Travels
44. H. W. F. Saggs — Civilization Before Greece and Rome
45. Edward W. Said — Orientalism
46. Arthur Schopenhauer — The World As Will and Idea
47. Amartya Sen — The Argumentative Indian
48. Jonathan Spence — The Search for Modern China
49. Colin Thubron — The Lost Heart of Asia
50. Thucydides — The History of the Peloponnesian War
51. 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. Albert Camus — The Stranger; The Plague; A Happy Death
4. Upamanyu Chatterjee — English, August; Mammaries of the Welfare State
5. J. M. Coetzee — Disgrace; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Lives of Animals
6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Crime and Punishment; Notes from the Underground
7. Ralph Ellison — Invisible Man
8. Nadine Gordimer — None to Accompany Me
9. Knut Hamsun — Hunger
10. Hermann Hesse — Narcissus and Goldmund
11. Homer — The Iliad
12. Kazuo Ishiguro — The Remains of the Day
13. Franz Kafka — The Castle
14. Imre Kertesz — Fateless
15. Arthur Koestler — Darkness at Noon
16. Giuseppe di Lampedusa — The Leopard
17. Mario Vargas Llosa — Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
18. Thomas Mann — Death in Venice and other stories
19. Vladimir Nabokov — Lolita
20. Jose Saramago — The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
21. Virgil — The Aeneid