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9 authors in the ranking·13 rated books·9 books set here

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This page brings together authors from India who appear in the reader ranking, among them Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and the Bombay-born Salman Rushdie, and books whose story is set in India. Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” won the Booker Prize in 1981 and Roy’s “The God of Small Things” in 1997. In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The most-read authors and their best books

The Very Secret Society of Irregular WitchesSangu Mandanna8.2Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie8.1The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy7.8The Gene: An Intimate HistorySiddhartha Mukherjee8.3Autobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda8.0Hit RefreshSatya Nadella7.7

Authors 9

1. Sangu Mandanna2 ranked booksThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches8.2
2. Salman Rushdie3 ranked booksMidnight's Children8.1
3. Arundhati Roy1 ranked bookThe God of Small Things7.8
4. Siddhartha Mukherjee2 ranked booksThe Gene: An Intimate History8.3
5. Paramahansa Yogananda1 ranked bookAutobiography of a Yogi8.0
6. Satya Nadella1 ranked bookHit Refresh7.7
7. Deepak Chopra1 ranked bookThe Seven Spiritual Laws of Success7.7
8. Megha Majumdar1 ranked bookA Guardian and a Thief7.6
9. Kiran Desai1 ranked bookThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny8.1

The story is set here 9

Books whose story is set in this country, according to Wikidata and our own additions.

A Fine BalanceRohinton Mistry8.4Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie8.1SiddharthaHermann Hesse8.0The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy7.8

1. Life of PiYann Martel7.8
2. The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling7.7
3. For the WinCory Doctorow7.6
4. KimRudyard Kipling7.5
5. A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster7.4

An author's country is their citizenship in Wikidata or, where none is recorded, the country they were born in; a story's setting comes from Wikidata too. Obvious errors and gaps are corrected by hand. Authors are ordered by the number of reader ratings. Country shapes: Natural Earth.