Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian-born writer famous for contemporary literature that uses complex narrative strategies to explore the personal and national identity of people from India and South Asia origins. Ghosh was born on 11th July 1956 to a Bengali Hindu family in Calcutta. His father, Shailendra Chandra Ghosh was a retired officer in the pre-independence Indian army who worked as a diplomat during Ghosh’s early life.

The best place to start is the Ibis Trilogy series, the earliest of Amitav Ghosh's multi-book series: it opens with Sea of Poppies (2008) and runs to 3 books across 2008–2015, ending with Flood of Fire (2015). Amitav Ghosh's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Amitav Ghosh has 27 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1986 and 2026. 7 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Berlin Family Lectures series with 4 books — and 20 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Amitav Ghosh's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ibis Trilogy (2008–2015, 3 books) and Berlin Family Lectures (2016–2021, 4 books).

This guide splits Amitav Ghosh's 27 books into 2 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Berlin Family Lectures (4 books, 2016–2021); Ibis Trilogy (3 books, 2008–2015).