Children's Reading List: High School Aged Kids

A Book List from the American Embassy School in Delhi:

Fiction
A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry
A passage to India by E. M. Forster
Difficult daughters by Manju Kapur
Gora by Rabindranath Tabore
Homeless bird by Gloria Whelan
Ice-candy-man by Bapsi Sidhwa
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
Raj by Gita Mehta
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Such a long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Suitable boy by Vikram Seth
The gift of a cow by Premchand
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The great Indian novel by Shashi Tharoor
The Inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
The white tiger by Aravind Adiga
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Water by Bapsi Sidhwa

Travel
An area of darkness by V.S. Naipaul
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
Desert Places by Robyn Davidson
Karma Cola by Gita Mehta
Slowly down the ganges by Eric Newby
The age of Kali by William Dalrymple

History and Politics
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Oxford History of India by Vincent Smith
Plain tales of the Raj by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
The Great Indian Middle class by Pavan K. Varma
The Nehrus and the Gandhis by Tariq Ali
The wonder that was India by A.L. Basham

Women
May you be the mother of one hundred sons by Elisabeth Bumiller
Unveiling India by Anees Jung

Religion
Am I a Hindu by Viswanathan (ed.)
Hindy mythology by Wendy O'Flaherty (ed.)
Hinduism an introduction by Shakunthala Jagannathan
The riddle of Ganesha by Rankorath Karunakaran

Miscellaneous
Lonely Planet guide to India ( There are also regional guide books)
World Food India (will take you on a tour through Indian cusine