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60 Essential English-Language Works of Modern Indian Literature - World Literature Today

List published in the November 2010 issue of World Literature Today.
There are more than 60 books in this list because there is a trilogy (I added each tome), then a couple of books were in two volumes.
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The Veiled Suite (Agha Shahid Ali)
The Veiled Suite
1
Agha Shahid Ali
Corridor (Sarnath Banerjee)
Corridor
2
Sarnath Banerjee
The Simoqin Prophecies (Samit Basu)
The Simoqin Prophecies
3
Samit Basu
The Manticore's Secret (Samit Basu)
The Manticore's Secret
4
Samit Basu
Unwaba Revelations (Samit Basu)
Unwaba Revelations
5
Samit Basu
English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
English, August
6
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Vikram Chandra)
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
7
Vikram Chandra
A Strange and Sublime Address (Amit Chaudhuri)
A Strange and Sublime Address
8
Amit Chaudhuri
Arzee the Dwarf (Chandrahas Choudhury)
Arzee the Dwarf
9
Chandrahas Choudhury
Collected Poems 1970–2005 (Keki Daruwalla)
Collected Poems 1970–2005
10
Keki Daruwalla
Solo (Rana Dasgupta)
Solo
11
Rana Dasgupta
The Point of Return (Siddhartha Deb)
The Point of Return
12
Siddhartha Deb
In Custody (Anita Desai)
In Custody
13
Anita Desai
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The Inheritance of Loss
14
Kiran Desai
Collected Plays, Volume 1 (Mahesh Dattani)
Collected Plays, Volume 1
15
Mahesh Dattani
Collected Plays, Volume 2 (Mahesh Dattani)
Collected Plays, Volume 2
16
Mahesh Dattani
Collected Stories, Volume 1 (Shashi Deshpande)
Collected Stories, Volume 1
17
Shashi Deshpande
Collected Stories, Volume 2 (Shashi Deshpande)
Collected Stories, Volume 2
18
Shashi Deshpande
The Circle of Reason (Amitav Ghosh)
The Circle of Reason
19
Amitav Ghosh
The Glassblower's Breath (Sunetra Gupta)
The Glassblower's Breath
20
Sunetra Gupta
The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (Indrajit Hazra)
The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul
21
Indrajit Hazra
Difficult Daughters (Manju Kapur)
Difficult Daughters
22
Manju Kapur
Looking Through Glass (Mukul Kesavan)
Looking Through Glass
23
Mukul Kesavan
Jejuri (Arun Kolatkar)
Jejuri
24
Arun Kolatkar
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Interpreter of Maladies
25
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974–2008 (Jayanta Mahapatra)
The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974–2008
26
Jayanta Mahapatra
Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry)
Such a Long Journey
27
Rohinton Mistry
Collected Poems, 1954-2004 (Dom Moraes)
Collected Poems, 1954-2004
28
Dom Moraes
The Middleman and Other Stories (Baharati Mukherji)
The Middleman and Other Stories
29
Baharati Mukherji
Collected Poems (A. K. Ramanujan)
Collected Poems
30
A. K. Ramanujan
An Atlas of Impossible Longing (Anuradha Roy)
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
31
Anuradha Roy
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
32
Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
33
Salman Rushdie
Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems (Sudeep Sen)
Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems
34
Sudeep Sen
The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)
The Golden Gate
35
Vikram Seth
Train to Pakistan (Khushwant Singh)
Train to Pakistan
36
Khushwant Singh
The Alchemy of Desire (Tarun J. Tejpal)
The Alchemy of Desire
37
Tarun J. Tejpal
The Great Indian Novel (Shashi Tharoor)
The Great Indian Novel
38
Shashi Tharoor
Written for Ever: The Best of Civil Lines (Rukun Advani)
Written for Ever: The Best of Civil Lines
39
Rukun Advani
Indian Love Poems (Meena Alexander)
Indian Love Poems
40
Meena Alexander
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