Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts (Mumbai)
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster (India)
City of Djinns – William Dalrymple (Delhi)
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (Kerala)
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (India)
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga (India)
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure – Sarah Macdonald (India)
Nine Lives – William Dalrymple (India)
The Far Pavilions – M. M. Kaye (India)
Running in the Family – Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
The Tea Planter’s Wife – Dinah Jefferies (Sri Lanka)
Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
Reef – Romesh Gunesekera (Sri Lanka)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors – Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka)
Elephant Complex – John Gimlette (Sri Lanka)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka)