Global Reads: Books Set in South Asia

1
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
31,302 members
420 reviews
4
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aulsmith
2
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,914 members
167 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
3
Burmese Days
by George Orwell
4,191 members
86 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
4
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
3,466 members
155 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
Explanations
5
Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
798 members
43 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
6
The Far Field
by Madhuri Vijay
563 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
7
The Caretaker
by A .X. Ahmad
132 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
8
The Bloodstone Papers
by Glen Duncan
119 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
9
Greenland
by David Santos Donaldson
114 members
6 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
The Wildings
by Nilanjana Roy
111 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
11
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,594 members
404 reviews
3.9
12
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9,969 members
272 reviews
½ 4.4
13
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
8,453 members
350 reviews
4
14
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
4,452 members
251 reviews
3.8
15
Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
4,267 members
102 reviews
½ 3.5
16
The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri
3,686 members
183 reviews
3.9
17
Home Fire
by Kamila Shamsie
2,123 members
85 reviews
4.1
18
The Swallows of Kabul
by Yasmina Khadra
1,424 members
70 reviews
½ 3.6
19
The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
1,399 members
81 reviews
3.8
20
The Tea Planter's Wife
by Dinah Jefferies
646 members
134 reviews
½ 3.6
21
The Steady Running of the Hour: A Novel
by Justin Go
368 members
26 reviews
3.1
22
Above All Things
by Tanis Rideout
362 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
23
The Devil's Light
by Richard North Patterson
291 members
7 reviews
½ 3.4
24
Night Theater
by Vikram Paralkar
201 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
25
What Lies Between Us
by Nayomi Munaweera
155 members
10 reviews
3.8
26
An Unrestored Woman
by Shobha Rao
116 members
9 reviews
4
27
A Shadow Intelligence (An Elliot Kane Thriller)
by Oliver Harris
108 members
7 reviews
3.8
28
The Hope Factory
by Lavanya Sankaran
102 members
20 reviews
3.9
29
On the Ganges: Encounters with Saints and Sinners Along India's Mythic River
by George Black
27 members
1 review
½ 3.3
30
Enemy of the Good
by Matthew Palmer
15 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6