Bombay


Shantaram
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
A Fine Balance
Family Matters (Vintage International)
Em and The Big Hoom
Narcopolis
Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
Bombay Balchão
City Adrift : A Short Biography of Bombay
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Sacred Games
Such a Long Journey
Milk Teeth
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai
Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaThe Jungle Book by Rudyard KiplingKim by Rudyard KiplingRikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard KiplingA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
India India
344 books — 52 voters
Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaReading New India by Emma Dawson VarugheseRaising Jesca by Shana Marie GilbertThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorFive Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat
21st Century Young India
51 books — 17 voters

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek ShanbhagCobalt Blue by Sachin KundalkarOne Part Woman by Perumal MuruganSamskara by U.R. AnanthamurthyPather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Indian Fiction Translated Into English
328 books — 26 voters
The Great War of Hind by Vaibhav AnandLife of Pi by Yann MartelTe Amo... I LOVE YOU by Rohit  SharmaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti Biswas
The India Reading List
662 books — 587 voters

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. Hermans
Ambedkarite
26 books — 4 voters
Maximum City by Suketu MehtaBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooShantaram by Gregory David RobertsAlice in Bhuleshwar by Kaiwan MehtaBeautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro
Best Bombay/Mumbai Non-Fiction
28 books — 18 voters

...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....
New York Times

Gregory David Roberts
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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