Best Indian authors

Indian authors ranked by the scores readers give their books. Indian writing in English has a global reach, from Salman Rushdie's exuberant historical novels to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Jhumpa Lahiri's precise stories of migration and family. The ranking below orders Indian authors by readers' ratings, a starting point for exploring the subcontinent's fiction and ideas.

Ranked by each author’s score — the average of their books’ reader ratings on BookRank. Citizenship data: Wikidata.

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