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Global Reads: Books Set in South Asia

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Hermann Hesse

27,787 members

379 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

2

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

12,417 members

142 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Orwell

3,708 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Amitav Ghosh

3,104 members

151 reviews

4

Member: sturlington
Explanations: sturlington: India

5

Girls Burn Brighter

671 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Madhuri Vijay

456 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Caretaker: A Ranjit Singh Novel

121 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

8

The Bloodstone Papers

112 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Nilanjana Roy

90 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

10

by David Santos Donaldson

71 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

11

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

19,613 members

372 reviews

3.9

12

by Rohinton Mistry

9,161 members

255 reviews

½ 4.4

13

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

7,168 members

324 reviews

4

14

by Michael Ondaatje

3,980 members

97 reviews

½ 3.5

15

by Mohsin Hamid

3,603 members

231 reviews

3.8

16

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,305 members

177 reviews

3.9

17

by Kamila Shamsie

1,731 members

81 reviews

4.1

18

The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

1,299 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

19

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

1,148 members

70 reviews

3.8

20

The Tea Planter's Wife

by Dinah Jefferies

569 members

132 reviews

½ 3.6

21

Above All Things

by Tanis Rideout

346 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

22

The Steady Running of the Hour

332 members

26 reviews

3.2

23

The Devil's Light

by Richard North Patterson

255 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

24

by Vikram Paralkar

162 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

25

What Lies Between Us

by Nayomi Munaweera

136 members

10 reviews

3.9

26

An Unrestored Woman

103 members

8 reviews

4

27

The Hope Factory

by Lavanya Sankaran

94 members

19 reviews

3.8

28

A Shadow Intelligence

by Oliver Harris

65 members

5 reviews

3.8

29

On the Ganges: Encounters with Saints and Sinners Along India's Mythic River

by George Black

22 members

1 review

½ 3.3

30

Enemy of the Good

by Matthew Palmer

12 members

1 review

½ 3.7

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December 2013
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