What are the best books to read in India?

Best Overall – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Best Romantic – Wish I Could Tell You by Durjoy Datta.
Best Crime Fiction – One Arranged Murder by Chetan Bhagat.
Best on Mental Health – Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty.
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Do Indians read the most?

Among 30 major countries surveyed, the NOP World Culture Score Index ranks India as the country that loves reading the most if the time spent doing so is taken into consideration. Indians clocked 10.4 hours of weekly reading, as per the list. On an average, that’s around one and a half hours of reading in a day.

Do people in India read books?

A recent study puts India at the top of the heap as far as reading is concerned. The average Indian is spending more that 10 hours reading books per week, so says a survey that puts India on top in comparison with other countries like China and the US; and the average Brit spends only about five hours reading books.

What percentage of India reads books?

India has a literacy rate of 74.04 percent (as per the 2011 census) whereas the others in the list which trail India such as Thailand, China, Philippines, Egypt have literacy rates of 93.5 percent, 95.1 percent, 95.4 percent, 73.9 percent respectively.

What kind of books can you read in India?

You’ll find books about life in India, non-fiction books about India, fiction books about India, India travel books, Indian memoirs, and everything in between. The only thing you probably won’t find on this list is older books that would probably fall more into the category of a classic.

Which is the best satirical novel in India?

The Great Indian Novel. This satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor recreates the Hindu epic Mahabharata within the context of the Indian Independence Movement and its following decades to become one of the most exciting reads in contemporary Indian literature.

Which is the longest book by an Indian author?

At 1,349 pages, Seth’s work is among the longest English language Indian books published in a single volume. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel tells the story of Anuradha, who moves to 1920s Bombay from Udaipur to marry Vardhmaan. The novel follows their blossoming marriage through its highs and lows with powerful, addictive prose.

Which is the best book about nine people in India?

Nine Lives is a story about nine people, spiritual in their own way. William shows how the lives of these people have changed and are being affected by the modernization of India. Some of them are neglected; some of them have to be a ‘part-time’ god and the others are shunned by the society.