R/india let's compile a list of r/india's Modern Day top reads [np]
| . | Book | Author | Votes | h/t |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| • | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 11 | u/avinassh |
| • | India after Gandhi | Ramachandra Guha | 8 | u/saptarsi |
| • | The Skeptical Patriot | Sidin Vadukut | 8 | u/saptarsi |
| • | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 7 | u/mujerdeindia |
| • | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 7 | u/avinassh |
| • | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 6 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Martian | Andy Weir | 6 | u/avinassh |
| • | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | 6 | u/agentbigman |
| • | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | 6 | u/_2_4_8 |
| • | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | 6 | u/_2_4_8 |
| • | Millennium Trilogy | Stig Larson | 6 | u/_2_4_8 |
| • | Maus | Art Spiegelman | 4 | u/mujerdeindia |
| • | Good Omens | Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | 4 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 4 | u/avinassh |
| • | English, August | Upamanyu Chatterjee | 4 | u/nomadsunil |
| • | Catch-22 | Joesph heller | 4 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | In Other Words | Jhumpa Lahiri | 3 | u/wordswithmagic |
| • | The Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | Ibis Trilogy | Amitav Ghosh | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | Watchmen | Alan Moore, | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | House of Leaves | Mark Danielewski | 3 | u/psysaucer |
| • | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K Dick | 3 | u/psysaucer |
| • | 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 3 | u/psysaucer |
| • | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 3 | u/mujerdeindia |
| • | Khasakkinte Ithihasam | O.V. Vijayan | 3 | u/the_next_door_guy |
| • | A Confederacy of dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 3 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis | 3 | u/psysaucer |
| • | 11/22/63 | Stephen king | 3 | u/HeadToToes |
| • | The Terror | Dan simmons | 3 | u/HeadToToes |
| • | If on a winter's night a traveler | Italo calvino | 3 | u/HeadToToes |
| • | Midnight's Children | Salman rushdie | 3 | u/HeadToToes |
| • | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki murakami | 3 | u/HeadToToes |
| • | Malegalalli madumagalu | KuVemPu | 3 | u/HeadToToes |
| • | The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 3 | u/psysaucer |
| • | Between the World and Me | Ta Nehisi Coates | 3 | u/Dawny33 |
| • | A Song of Ice and Fire | George RR Martin | 3 | u/random_account1124 |
| • | Dune | Frank Herbert | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | The Killing Joke | Alan Moore | 3 | u/an8hu |
| • | Millennium Trilogy | Stieg Larsson | 3 | u/youre_not_ero |
| • | Misery | Stephen King | 3 | u/wordswithmagic |
| • | Dark Tower series | Stephen King | 3 | u/wordswithmagic |
| • | Malgudi Days | RK Narayan | 3 | u/wordswithmagic |
| • | Curfewed Night | Basharat Peer | 3 | u/wordswithmagic |
| • | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | Men at Arms | Terry Pratchett | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | Ilium & Olympos | Dan Simmons | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | Hyperion Cantos Series | Dan Simmons | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | Codex Alera | Jim Butcher | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | The Traveler's Gate Trilogy | Will Wight | 3 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | The Devotion of Suspect X | Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith | 3 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | Contact | Carl Sagan | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, Ilse Lasch | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | Cosmos | Carl Sagan | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | 2 | u/SupremeLeaderOrnob |
| • | Foundations Series | Isaac Asimov | 2 | u/SupremeLeaderOrnob |
| • | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 2 | u/SupremeLeaderOrnob |
| • | My Name is Red | Orhan Pamuk | 2 | u/fookin_legund |
| • | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 2 | u/iammrinal0 |
| • | Y the Last Man | Brian K. Vaughan | 2 | u/an8hu |
| • | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 2 | u/orthancdweller |
| • | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | Love in the time of cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 2 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 2 | u/avinassh |
| • | L.A Confidential | James Ellroy | 2 | u/Hydra001 |
| • | Mort | Terry Pratchett | 1 | u/Magodo |
| • | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 1 | u/mujerdeindia |
| • | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 1 | u/meta-phorest |
| • | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 1 | u/jmxt |
| • | Expanse Series | James S.A. Corey | 1 | u/coolirisme |
| • | Mistborn series | Brandon Sanderson | 1 | u/coolirisme |
| • | Ringworld | Larry Niven | 1 | u/coolirisme |
| • | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 1 | u/coolirisme |
| • | Destroyermen series | Taylor Anderson | 1 | u/coolirisme |
| • | Old Man's War | John Scalzi | 1 | u/coolirisme |
| • | The Emperor of All Maladies | Siddhartha Mukherjee | 1 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | one hundred years of solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | Misery | Stephen King | 1 | u/_2_4_8 |
| • | The Shining | Stephen King | 1 | u/_2_4_8 |
| • | Gentleman bastard series | Scott Lynch | 1 | u/imVegeta |
| • | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 1 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | The sense of an ending | Julian Barnes | 1 | u/doc_two_thirty |
| • | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | 1 | u/an8hu |
| • | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 1 | u/an8hu |
| • | The Sandman Series | Neil Gaiman | 1 | u/an8hu |
| • | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 1 | u/neoronin |
| • | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert | 1 | u/neoronin |
| • | The Gene: An Intimate History | Siddhartha Mukherjee | 1 | u/neoronin |
| • | Hitler - Hubris - 1889-1936 & Hitler - Nemesis - 1936-1945 | Ian Kershaw | 1 | u/kuttappan-peter-mon |
| • | A suitable boy | Vikram Seth | 1 | u/timonsmith |
| • | The Return of the dancing master | Henning Mankell | 1 | u/Unkill_is_kill |
| • | The Company of Women | Khushwant Singh | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Delhi | Khushwant Singh | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Süskind | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Pale King | David Foster Wallace | 1 | u/mujerdeindia |
| • | The Sympathiser | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 1 | u/greyhound2901 |
| • | The Great Indian Novel | Sashi Tharoor | 1 | u/greyhound2901 |
| • | Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom | 1 | u/greyhound2901 |
| • | The Accursed Kings series | Maurice Druon | 1 | u/random_account1124 |
| • | Sharpe series | Bernard Cornwell | 1 | u/random_account1124 |
| • | Get Shorty | Elmore Leonard | 1 | u/mean_median |
| • | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 1 | u/random_account1124 |
| • | The Way of Kings | Brandon Sanderson. | 1 | u/brownboy13 |
| • | A brief history of time | Stephen Hawking | 1 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal golden Braid | Douglas Hofstadter | 1 | u/sree_1983 |
| • | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | 1 | u/an8hu |
| • | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | Robert M. Pirsig | 1 | u/an8hu |
| • | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman | 1 | u/an8hu |
| • | City of Djinns | William Dalrymple | 1 | u/supercoldd |
| • | Delhi | Khushwant Singh | 1 | u/supercoldd |
| • | Twilight in Delhi | Ahmed Ali | 1 | u/supercoldd |
| • | Dragons of Eden | Carl Sagan | 1 | u/mandark2000 |
| • | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | The Argumentative Indian | Amartya Sen | 1 | u/black-clothes-saul |
| • | Fault Lines | Raghuram Rajan | 1 | u/black-clothes-saul |
| • | The thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | Underworld | Don DeLillo | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 1 | u/0112358132134 |
| • | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Selected Stories | Alice Munro | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Americannah | Nigozie Adichie | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin | 1 | u/RahulHP |
| • | City & The City | China Meville | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West | Cormac McCarthy | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Consider the Lobster and Other Essays | David Foster Wallace | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | White Noise | Don Delillo | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | 2666 | Roberto Bolano | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The Door | Magda Szabo | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The House of The Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The Color Purple | Alice Walker. | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Stoner | John E. Williams | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | 1 | u/test_twenty_three |
| • | The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper Funded Indian Startups | Kashyap Deorah | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | 2014: The Election That Changed India | Rajdeep Sardesai | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | Sacred Games | Vikram Chandra | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | Suketu Mehta | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power | Robert D. Kaplan | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | Maharaja: The lives, loves and intrigues of the Maharajas of India | Diwan Jarmani Dass | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | John Perkins | 1 | u/ribiy |
| • | The Black Book | Orhan Pamuk | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Red Dragon | Thomas Harris | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | No Country For Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Stories of Anton Chekhov | Anton Chekhov | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Stand | Stephen King | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | A House for Mr Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Ned Vizzini | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Vendor Of Sweets | R.K. Narayan | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Schindler's List | Thomas Keneally | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Dark Places | Gillian Flynn | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | City of Thieves | David Benioff | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 1 | u/sarcasticprani |
| • | Arrow of the blue Skinned God | Jonah Blank | 1 | u/notsosleepy |
| • | If its Monday it must be Madurai | Srinath Perur | 1 | u/notsosleepy |
| • | Immortaity | Milan Kundera | 1 | u/ulternater |
| • | Palace of Illusion | Chitra Bannerjee | 1 | u/kalli_billi |
| • | Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India | Akshaya Mukul | 1 | u/discovery_of_india |
| • | Chander Pahar | Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Pather panchali | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay | 1 | u/avinassh |
| • | Byomkesh Bakshi: Detective stories and novels | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | A collection of historical fiction novels and stories | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | Company Limited | Sankar | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | The Middleman | Sankar | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | The Adversary | Sunil Gangopadhyay | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | পার্থিব | Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | প্রথম আলো | Sunil Gangopadhyay | 1 | u/saptarsi |
| • | দেশে বিদেশে | Syed Mujtaba Ali | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | শিবরাম রচনা সমগ্র (কিশোর) | Shibram Chakraborty | - | u/bombachak |
| • | শঙ্কু সমগ্র (Shonku) | Satyajit Ray | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | Gora | Rabindranath Tagore | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | পরশুরাম গল্পসমগ্র | Rajshekhar Basu | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | সুকুমার রচনা সমগ্র | Sukumar Ray | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | ঘনাদা সমগ্র ১ | Premendra Mitra, Onkarnath Bhattacharya | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | আরণ্যক (Aranyak) | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay | 1 | u/bombachak |
| • | সেই সময় ১ | Sunil Gangopadhyay | 1 | u/bombachak |
it's been a year since this post
figured it was time to have a go at another list of modern day reads; books published post 1960s (last 50 years)
- separate comment for each title.
- upvote your favorite recommendations
Edit: meanwhile check out the authors of the month at r/Indianbooks Haruki Murakami and Jhumpa Lahiri
Edit 1: please do a ctrl+f to see if the book has been already listed :(
Edit 2: u/avinassh has listed some good books, but is in the downvote hell for some inexplicable reason.
EDIT 3: (FINAL EDIT) Whoa! that was crazy. over 200+ books suggestions. I will sort them by vote now.
Thanks a lot for participating.
Posted Aug 1, 2016, 3:48 AM UTC · edited
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