A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, released in 1994. At 1349 pages (1488 pages softcover) and 591,552 words, the book is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English language. A Suitable Boy is set in post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows the story of four families over a period of 18 months as a mother searches for a suitable boy to marry her daughter.

The 348th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 3rd on The Greatest 20th Century Novels (Waterstone)
  2. - 40th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
  3. - 50th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
  4. - Best Books Ever (bookdepository.com)
  5. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
  6. - 100 Novels That Shaped Our World (BBC)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
A Suitable Boy: A Novel Hardcover 135537 $10.95 $0.21
A Suitable Boy Paperback 1814664 $4.27 $0.01 1994
A Suitable Boy: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation Audio CD 1969228 $79.82 2003
Summer Requiem Hardcover 5420341 $18.16 $15.49 2015
A Suitable Boy: v. 3 Paperback 6269095 $27.66 $0.01 1995
A Suitable Boy Audible Audiobook 80384 $28.44 2021
Suitable Boy Paperback 2604690 $2,420.43 $0.01 1994
A Suitable Boy Paperback 3857424 $19.89 $0.13 1994
Summer Requiem : A Book of Poems(Hardback) - 2015 Edition Hardcover 11731868 $9.32 $6.19
Suitable Boy Volume 2 Mass Market Paperback 5494449 $0.01
An Equal Music: A Novel Paperback 348152 $10.40 $1.38 2000
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Paperback 891581 $6.19 $0.01 1987
From Heaven Lake Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (Abacus Books) Hardcover 1869628 $58.72 $0.01
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Paperback 3098791 $89.50 $0.01 1993
A Suitable Boy: v. 2 Paperback 10112363 $0.07 1995
A Suitable Boy Hardcover 1731390 $39.95 $0.01
A Suitable Boy. Paperback 4636469 $1.24
A Suitable Boy : A Novel (Perennial Classics) Paperback 3468071 $13.83 $9.16 2005
Suitable Boy Volume 1: (Paper) Mass Market Paperback 6146984 $3.00
From Heaven Lake Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Paperback 7358929 $0.54
Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems Hardcover 3239133 $5.98 $3.33
Summer Requiem Paperback 9369050 $118.35 $83.91
A Suitable Boy Hardcover 5519237 $12.95
A Suitable Boy Kindle Edition 37165 $7.99 2020
Suitable Boy Hardcover 2367439 $140.23 $22.34
a suitable boy Paperback 5212388 $0.37
A Suitable Boy : a novel Hardcover 4830970 $0.01 1993
A Suitable Boy Paperback 5418057 $148.78 $0.99 1994
A Suitable Boy: v. 1 Paperback 6001236 $0.01 1995
A Suitable Boy Paperback 360012 $4.25 $0.01 1994
Summer Requiem: From the author or the classic bestseller A SUITABLE BOY Paperback 3931739 $8.83 $4.00 2016
A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics) Paperback 65692 $11.49 $2.58 2005
A Suitable Boy : Novel, A Paperback 6675457 $5.00 $0.81 1994