LITERATURE BY SOUTH ASIAN WRITERS WRITING IN ENGLISH

1. ALEXANDER, MEENA
2. ALTER, STEPHEN
3. ANAND, MULK RAJ
4. BARATHAM, GOPAL
5. BHATTACHARYA, BHABANI
6. BHRATA, SHASTI
7. BHATIA, GAUTAM
8. BISSOONDATH, NEIL
9. BOND, RUSKIN
10. CHAND, MEIRA
11. CHANDRA, VIKRAM
12. CHARAK, DINKER
    
13. CHATTERJEE, UPAMANYU
14. CHAUDHURI, NIRAD C.
15. CHAUDRI, AMIT
16. CORBETT, JIM
17. COUR, AJEET
18. DAS, GURCHARAN
19. DAS, KAMALA
20. DAS, MANOJ
21. DE SHOBA
22. DESAI, ANITA
23. DESAI, KIRIN
24. DESANI. G. V.
25. DESHPANDE, SHASHI
26. DISSANAYAKE, DAYA
27. DIVAKARUNI, CHITRA
28. ESSOP, AHMED
29. GHOSH, AMITAV
30. GHOSH, NIRMAL
31. GHULAM, ABBAS
32. GUNASEKARA, ROMESH
33. GUPTA, SUNETRA
34. GYALTSEN, INDIRA AIKETH
35. HARIHARAN, GITA
36. IYER, PICO
37. JEYARATNAM, PHILIP
38. JHABWALA, RUTH PAWAR
39. JOSHI, ARUN
40. KAMANI, GINU
41. KAPUR, MANJU
42. KARMAKAR, BASANTI
43. KESAVAN, MUKUL
44. KIPLING, RUDYARD
45. KUREISHI, HANIF
46. LANGLEY, LEE
47. MALGONKAR, MANOHAR
48. MANGALA, CHRISTINE
49. MANIAM, K. S.
50. MARKANDAYA, KAMALA
51. MATHAI, MANORAMA
52. MATHUR, ANURAG
53. MEER, AMEENA
54. MEHTA, GITA
55. MEHTA, VED
56. MENEN, AUBRY
57. MILLER, HARRY
58. MISTRY, ROHINTON
59. MUKHERJEE, BHARATI
60. NAGARAKAR, KIRIN
61. NAIPAUL, SHIV
62. NAIPAUL, V. S.
63. NAMJOSHI, SUNITI
64. NARLIKAR, JAYANT V.
65. NARAYAN, R. K.
66. NARAYAN, KIRIN
67. NAYAK, MEENA ARORA
68. ONDAATJE, MICHAEL
69. PADAYACHEE, DEENA
70. RAJU, R. K.
71. RAO,K. BHASKARA
72. RAO, RAJA
73. RAO, RANGA
74. ROY, ARUNDHATI
75. RUSHDIE, SALMAN
76. SADIQ, ZEEBA
77. SAHGAL, NAYANTRA
78. SARAF, SUJIT
79. SELVADURAI, SHYAM
80. SELVON, SAM
81. SETH, PEPITA
82. SETH, VIKRAM
83. SIDHWA, BAPSI
84. SINGH, KHUSHWANT
85. SINGH, KIRPAL
86. SIRIWERDENE, REGI
87. SIVANANDA, A
88. SINGH, SHAUNA BALDWIN
89. SREENIVASAN, KASTHURI
90. SULERI, SARA
91. SYAL, MEERA
92. TAGORE, RABINDRANATH
93. THAROOR, SASHI
94. VAKIL, ARDASHIR
95. VARGHESE, ABRAHAM
96. VASSANJI, M. G.
97. VELOO, RAVI
98. VERMA, NIRMAL
99. VIRANI, PINKI

 Fiction

1. Swami and Friends
2. The Bachelor of Arts
3. The English Teacher (previously titled as "Grateful to Life and Death" and the one which got the West to recognise R.K.Narayan)
4. The Dark Room
5. Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi
6. The Financial Expert
7. Waiting for the Mahatma
8. The Guide (Made into a movie by Dev Anand; Script by Pearl S. Buck)
9. The Man-Eater of Malgudi
10. The Vendor of Sweets
11. The Painter of Signs
12. A Tiger for Malgudi
13. Talkative Man
14. The World of Nagaraj
15. Grandmother's Tales
16. Salt and Sawdust

1. My Days (Autobiography of R.K. Narayan, Useful in understanding the writer, his thinking and his literary works)
2. My Dateless Diary (R.K's US Travel Memoir)
3. A Writer's Nightmare (Random Thoughts)
4. The Emerald Route (Travel memoir)
5. Next Sunday

1. A Horse and Two Goats
2. Lawley Road
3. Malgudi Days (TV Serials directed by Shankar Nag)
4. Reluctant Guru
5. Under the Banyan Tree
6. An Astrologer's Day and Other Short Stories
7. Sawdust and Salt

1. Gods, Demons and Others
2. The Ramayana
3. The Mahabarata

 Fiction
 
 

1. The Tiger's Daughter
2. Wife
3. Jasmine
4. The Holder of the World
5. Leave It To Me

1. Darkness
2. The Middleman and Other Stories

1. Days and Nights in Calcutta
2. The Sorrow and the Terror (with Clark Blaise)

1. Cry the Peacock
2. In Custody
3. Fire on the Mountain
4. Where Shall We Go This Summer
5. Voices in the City
6. Bye, Bye Blackbird
7. A Village By the Sea
8. Baugmarten's Bombay
9. Clear Light of Day
10. Games at Twilight and Other Stories
11. Journey To Ithaca
12. Fasting, Feasting

1. Nectar in a Sieve
2. Some Inner Fury
3. Possession
4. A Handful of Rice
5. A Silence of Desire
6. Nowhere Man
7. Two Virgins
8. The Coffer Dams
9. The Golden Honeycomb
10. Pleasure City
11. Shalimar
12. A Silence of Desire

1. Kanthapura
2. The Serpent and the Rope
3. Comrade Kirillov
4. The Cat and Shakespeare
5. On the Ganga Ghat
6. The Chessmaster and His Moves
7. Changing India (Non-fiction, I think)
8. The Cow of the Barricades and other stories
9. The Policeman and the Rose: stories

1. Rich Like Us
2. Storm in Chandigarh
3. Indira Gandhi:Her Road to Power
4. A Situation in New Delhi
5. Mistaken Identity
6. Plans for Departure
7. A Time to be Happy
8. This Time In the Morning
9. Prison and Chocolate Cake
10. Day in Shadow
11. A Voice for Freedom

1. Neglected Lives
2. Silk and Steel
3. The God Child
4. Renuka
5. Great Indian Hunting Stories (Editor)
6. Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories (Editor)- (This book contains translated short stories of the following Indian writers: Premendra Mitra (Bengal,1904-1988,Male) , Amrita Pritam (Punjab, 1919-....,Female) , Gangadhar Gadgil (Maharashstra, 1923-....,Male) , U.R. Ananda Murthy (Karnataka, 1932-....,Male) , Gopinath Mohanty (Orissa, 1914-....,Male) , S. Mani "Mowni" (Madras,1907-1985,Male) , Chunilal Madia (Gujarat,1922-1969,Male) , P.S Rege (Maharashtra,1910-1981,Male) , Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Kerala,1914-....,Male) , Mahadevi Varma (1907-1987,Female) , O. V. Vijayan (Kerala, 1930-....,Male) , Bhisham Sahni (1915-....,Male) , Sunil Gangopadhaya(W.Bengal,Male) , Nirmal Verma(Simla,1929-....,Male) , Devanuri Mahadeva (Karnataka, 1949-...., Male) (This book is in the UNESCO collection)

 

 
 
 

1. The Great Indian Novel
2. Reasons of State
3. Show Business
4. The Five-dollar Smile: Fourteen Early Stories and a Farce in Two Acts
5. India: From Midnight to Millenium
6. Riot
7. Invention of India- Jawaharlal Nehru
   

1. Train to Pakistan
2. History of Sikhs - 2 Volumes
3. Delhi- a Novel
4. View of India
5. India - An Introduction
6. I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale
7. Joke Books
8. Uncertain Liasons
9. Not A Nice Man To Know: The Best of Khuswant Singh (Edited by Nandini Mehta)

1. Love Letters
2. People Make You Cry
3. Sayang
4. The Candle or The Sun
5. The Caning of Michael Fay
6. Beads In A Sutra
7. Memories That Glow In the Dark
8. Moonrise,Sunset

1. Coolie
2. The Untouchable
3. Two Leaves and a Bud
4. Selected Short Stories
5. Caliban and Gandhi
6. Pipali Sahab
7. Apology for Heroism
8. Little Plays of Mahatma Gandhi
9. The Sword and the Sickle
10. Private Life of an Indian Prince
11. Gauri
12. The Big Heart
13. The Bubble
14. Confession of a Lover
15. Death of a Hero
16. Lajwanti and Other Stories
17. Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts
18. Morning Face
19. The Road
20. Seven Summers

1. A House for Mr. Biswas
2. An Area of Darkness
3. India: A Wounded Civilisation
4. India: A Million Mutinies
5. Among the Believers : Islamic Journey
6. Bend in the River
7. Guerrillas
8. A Turn in the South
9. The Suffrage of Elvira
10. Miguel Street
11. The Mimic Men
12. The Middle Passage
13. In a Free State
14. A Flag on the Island
15. The Mystic Masseur
16. Mr. Stone and The Knight's Companion
17. The Loss of El Dorado (History)
18. The Overcrowded Barracoon (Essays)
19. The Return of Eva Peron (Essays)
20. The Enigma of Arrival
21. Finding the Center
22. A Way in the World

1. The Dark Holds No Terrors
2. If I Die Today
3. Come Up and Be Dead
4. Roots and Shadows
5. That Long Silence
6. Intrusion and Other Stories
7. Binding Vine
8. A Matter of Time

1. Video Nights in Kathmandu
2. The Lady and the Monk
3. Falling off the Map
4. Cuba and the Night

1. The Golden Gate
2. From Heaven Lake- Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
3. The Humble Administrator's Garden
4. All You Who Sleep Tonight
5. Mappings
6. Beasty Tales
7. Three Chinese Poets
8. A Suitable Boy (Winner if the 1994 Commonwealth Book Prize)
9. An Equal Music

1. The Prevalence of Witches
2. The Stumbling Stone
3. The Backward Bride
4. The Duke of Gallodoro
5. The Abode of Love
6. SheLa- a satire
7. A Conspiracy of Women
8. The Space Within the Heart: An Autobiography
9. Four Days of Naples
10. The Ramayana, as told by Aubrey Menen
11. The Fig Tree
12. The Great Cities (Time Life Series)
13. The Baroque and Mr. Waugh
14. Dead Man in the Silver Market
15. Fonthill; a comedy
16. The Mystics
17. Presenting Robert Cormier
18. Upon this rock.

1. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
2. A Continent of Circe
3. Scholar Extraordinary: The Life of Professor, the Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Mueller, P.C.
4. The Intellectual in India
5. To Live Or Not To Live
6. A Passage to England
7. Culture in a Vanity Bag: Clothing and Adornment in Passing and Abiding India
8. Thy Hand, Great Anarch!India:1921-1952
9. Clive of India: a political and psychological essay
10. Hinduism, a religion to live by.
11. Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse

1. So Many Hungers
2. Music For Mohini
3. He Who Rides a Tiger
4. Steel Hawk and Other Stories
5. Shadow From Ladakh
6. A Dream in Hawaii
7. A Goddess Named Gold

1. The Last Labyrinth
2. The Apprentice
3. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
4. The Foreigner

1. Out of India
2. An Experience of India
3. Like Birds, Like Fishes and Other Stories
4. How I became a Holy Mother
5. A Stronger Climate
6. Amrita (or To Whom She Will)
7. The Nature of Passion
8. Esmond of India
9. The Householder
10. Get Ready for Battle
11. A Backward Place
12. A New Dominion
13. Heat and Dust
14. In Search of Love and Beauty
15. Three Continents
16. How I became a holy mother and other stories
17. Travellers
18. Poet and Dancer
19. Shards of Memory
20. Delhi Stones and Streets

1. Shakespeare Wallah
2. Autobiography of a Princess
3. The Europeans
4. Quartet
5. Heat and Dust
6. The Bostonians
7. A Room With A View
8. The Remains of the Day

1. Grimus
2. Midnight's Children
3. Shame
4. The Jaguar's Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
5. The Satanic Verses
6. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
7. Imaginary Homelands
8. East, West
9. The Wizard of Oz
10. The Moor's Last Sigh
11. The Painter and the Pest (For Film)
12. The Riddle of Midnight (For Film)
13. The Moor's Last Sigh

1. My Story
2. Alphabet of Lust
3. A Doll for the Child Prostitute
4. Kamala Das, Selected Poems
5. Tonight, this savage rite: the love poems of Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy
6. The Old Playhouse and other poems
7. The Descendants

1. Socialite Evenings
2. Starry Nights
3. Sisters
4. Strange Obsession
5. Sultry Days
6. Snapshots
7. Suviving Men
8. Second Thoughts
9. The Shoba De Omnibus

1. Beyond the Dragon's Mouth
2. Black and White
3. Hot Country
4. North of South : African Journey
5. An Unfinished Journey
6. Fireflies
7. The Chip-Chip Gatherers

1. A Family Affair : India under Three Prime Ministers
2. Ledge between the Streams
3. Sound Shadows of the New World
4. Stolen Light
5. Vedi
6. Mamaji
7. Fall to Face
8. Walking the Indian Streets
9. Fly and Fly-Bottles
10. The New Theologian
11. Delinquent Chacha
12. Portrait of India
13. John is Easy to Please
14. Mahatma Gandhi & His Apostles
15. Daddaji
16. The New India
17. The Photographs of Chachaji
18. Up at Oxford
19. Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom

1. The Night Train at Deoli and Other stories
2. A Garland of Memories
3. Room on the Roof
4. The Flight of Pigeons (Hindi Movie "Junoon" is based on this)
5. Dehr and Short Stories
6. The Penguin Book of Indian Railway Stories
7. Vagrants in the Valley
8. Rain in the Mountains
9. Time Stops at Shamli
10. Our Trees Still Grow in Dehr
11. Delhi is not so far.

1. A Strange Sublime Address
2. Afternoon Raag
3. Freedom Song

1. The Shadow Lines
2. The Circle of Reason
3. In An Antique Land
4. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers,Delirium and Discovery

1. Tales From Ferozsha Baag (Also Issued as "Swimming Lessons")
2. Such A Long Journey
3. A Fine Balance

1. Crows of Deliverance

1. Love in the Throes of Tradition
2. Love's Fearful Passage

1. Memories of Rain
2. The Glassblower's Breath
3. Moonlight into Marzipan

1. English August
2. The Last Burden

1. The Wreck
2. Chitra
3. Mashi
4. The King of the Dark Chamber
5. Gitanjali
6. Fruit Gathering
7. Hungry Stories
8. Creative Unity
9. Glimpses of Bengal
10. Nationalism
11. Reminiscences
12. Red Orleanders
13. Collected Stories
14. Gora
15. Homecoming
16. The Home and the World
17. Quartet
18. Fire Flies
19. Court Dance
20. The Post Office

1. Jim Corbett's India
2. Jungle Lore
3. Man-eaters of India
4. Man-eaters of Kumaon
5. The man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag
6. My India
7. The Temple Tiger and more man-eaters of Kumaon
8. Tree Tops

1. The Bride
2. The Crow-Eaters
3. Cracking India (Published also as "Ice-Candy Man" in India)
4. An American Brat

1. Inscrutable Americans

1. The Firewalkers (includes a supplement of Tamil Vegetarian recipes for dishes mentioned in the novel)

1. All About H. Hatterr
2. Hali and collected stories

1. Dark Like The River (Poems)
2. The Reasons for Nasturtiums (Poems)
3. Black Candles: Poems about women from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
4. Arranged Marriages
5. Mistress of Spices

1. I Root My Name (Poems)
2. Stone Roots (Poems)
3. House of a Thousand Doors (Poems/Prose)
4. Fault Lines
5. Nampally Road
6. The Bird's Bright Ring: A Long Poem
7. Without Place
8. The Shock of Arrival:Reflections on Postcolonial Experience
9. Manhattan Music

1. Meatless Days
2. The Rhetoric of English India

1. Karma Cola
2. The Raj
3. A River Sutra
4. Snakes and Ladders: A View of Modern India

1. Daughters of the House
2. Cranes' Morning

1. In the Aftermath

1. Tales of the Blue Donkey
2. Saint Suniti and the Dragon
3. The Mothers of Maya Dip
4. Because of India:Poems and Fables
5. The Conversations of Cow
6. Feminist Fables
7. Building Babel

1. The Gossamer Fly
2. The Last Quadrant
3. The Bonsai Tree
4. The Painted Cage (Being made into a movie- theme is something like "A Passage to India")
5. House of the Sun
6. A Choice of Evils

1. The English Patient
2. The Cinnamon Peeler
3. Secular Love
4. There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do
5. Elimination Dance
6. Rat Jelly
7. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
8. The Man with 7 Toes
9. The Dainty Monsters

1. The Thousand Faces of Night (Winner of the 1993 Commonwealth's Best First Book Award)
2. The Art of Dying (Collection of Short Stories)
3. The Ghosts of Vasu Master
4. A Southern Harvest

1. Persistent Rumours

1. INDIA - Labyrinths in the Lotus Land
2. My God Died Young
3. Astride Two Worlds:Traitor To India
4. Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
5. Encounter
6. A Search for Home
7. The Sensuos Guru: The Making of a Mystic President
8. She and He

1. Mulligatawny Soup
2. Lilies That Fester
3. An Unsuitable Woman
4. In Other Words

1. A Frog In My Soup

1. Lord of the Grassland

1. The Haji and Other Stories
2. The Emperor
3. The Hajji and Other Stories
4. Noorjahan and Other Stories
5. The Visitation

1. The Gunny Sack
2. No New Land
3. Uhuru Street
4. The Book of Secrets

1. What's Love Got To Do With It

1. Outskirts
2. My Beautiful Launderette
3. Sammie and Rosie Get Laid
4. Buddha of Suburbia
5. The Black Album
6. Love in a Blue Time
7. Intimacy

1. Short Stories in Flaming Spirit, New Writing 3
2. Bombay Talkie

1. Campfire - Short Story
2. Evening Under Frangipani Tree - Short Story
3. First Loves
4. Raffles Place Ragtime
5. Abraham's Promise

1. The Interview and Other Stories

1. Kampung Chicken

1. The Return of Vaman: A Science-Fiction Novel

1. The Spirit Land

1. Funny Boy

1. Tiger Series
2. Ways of Sunlight
3. Those Who Eat the Cascadura
4. A Brighter Sun
5. An Island is a World
6. The Lonely Londeners
7. Turn Again Tiger
8. I Hear Thunder
9. Moses Ascending
10. Moses Migrating
11. Friday Morning
12. The Plains of Caromi
13. The Housing Lark

1. Bend in the Ganges
2. Chatrapathis of Kolhapur
3. The Devil's Wind
4. The Princes
5. Spy in Amber

1. Reef (Shortlisted for 1994 Booker Prize)
2. Monkfish Moon

1. The Light That Failed
2. Stalky and Co.
3. Schoolboy Lyrics
4. Plain Tales From the Hills
5. Barrack Room Ballads
6. The Jungle Book
7. Kim
8. Just So Stories
9. A Diversity of Creatures
10. Debits and Credits
11. Limits and Renewals
12. Something of Myself

1. A Fine Family

1. A Tiger at Twilight
2. Farewell To a Ghost

1. Limbo

1. Red Earth and Pouring Rain
2. Love and Longing in Bombay

1. Hotel MohenjoDaro and Other Stories

1. Looking Through Glass

1. My Own Country
2. The Tennis Partner

1. The Return
2. In a Far Country
3. Sensous Horizons-Stories and Plays

1. Fowl Filcher
2. The Drunk Tantra
3. An Indian Idyll and Other Stories

1. The Light from Heaven
2. Climbing the Coconut Tree

1. Love Stars and All That
2. Story Tellers, Saints and Scoundrels:Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teachings.
3. Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Stories

1. English Lessons and Other Stories
2. A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide To America(Non-Fiction)

1. On The Eve of Uncertain Tomorrow
2. A  Casual Brutality
3. Digging Up The Mountain
4. The Innocence of Age

1. Husband, Lover and Holy Man: A Comical Tragedy

1. Junglee Girl

1. 38 Bahadurabad

1. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

1. Dollar Rain No More and Other Stories

1. Cuckold

1. Aruna's Story

1. Difficult Daughters

1. Pebbles in a Tin Drum

1. Punchtantra - Parables for 21st Century

1. When Memory Dies

1. Kat Bitha
2. The Saadhu Testament
3. The Healer and the Drug Pusher

1. Beach Boy (Winner of Betty Trask Award; Finalist for the Whitbread Prize for 1st fiction in Britain)

1. Among My Souvenirs

1. Anita and Me

1. The God of Small Things (Winner of Booker Prize, 1997)
2. The Algebra of Infinite Justice
   
3. An Odinary Person's Guide to Empire
   

1. The Murmurs of the Dawn