Books set all or part in India

A Guardian and a Thief

A Novel

by Megha Majumdar

Hardcover: Oct 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two ...

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A Novel

by Kiran Desai

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.

Mother Mary Comes to Me

by Arundhati Roy

Hardcover: Sep 2025

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as...

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family ...

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

A Novel

by Shubnum Khan

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous

Loot

A Novel

by Tania James

Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty ...

Victory City

A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

Hardcover: Feb 2023 | Paperback: Jan 2024

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.

The Bandit Queens

A Novel

by Parini Shroff

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Jan 2024

A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.

Age of Vice

A Novel

by Deepti Kapoor

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Jan 2024

This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill.

Moth

A Novel

by Melody Razak

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2023

Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family's trials through the tumultuous partition - the 1947 split of Pakistan from India - exploring its impact on women, what it means to be "othered" in ...

The Earthspinner

A Novel

by Anuradha Roy

Hardcover: Jul 2022 | Paperback: Jul 2023

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political ...

Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

by Sindya Bhanoo

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power - a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner.