– Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for non-resident Indians (accepted 2007) 2009 – Zakir Hussain Memorial "Pride of India" Award. 2009 – Inspiration of the Year Award at GQ's Man of the Year Awards. 2009 – Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, Maharana of Udaipur. 2010 – Sarva Deshiya Prathibha Award, Pazhassiraja Charitable Trust, Kozhikode. 2010 – "New Age Politician of the Year" Award, at NDTV's Indian of the Year awards. 2010 – Fifth IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award, New Delhi. 2010 – Digital person of the year, Indian Digital Media Awards (IDMA), for popularising the digital medium in India. 2012 – : Commander of the Order of Charles III by King of Spain 2013 – First Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular and Peace Award at Thiruvananthapuram. 2013 – PETA's "Person of the Year". 2019 – Sahitya Akademi Award for his book, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. 2022 - : Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, for his writings and speeches Honorary degrees Honorary Doctor of Letters in International Affairs from University of Puget Sound Doctor Honoris Causa in history from University of Bucharest. Bibliography Fiction The Great Indian Novel (1989) The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories (1990) Show Business (1992) Riot (2001) Non-fiction Reasons of State (1985) India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997) Nehru: The Invention of India. Arcade Publishing (2003). New York. First edition. Bookless in Baghdad (2005) The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India – The Emerging 21st-Century Power (2007) Shadows Across the Playing Field: Sixty Years of India-Pakistan Cricket (2009) (with Shaharyar Khan) Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century (2012) India: the Future is Now (Editor)(2013) India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time (2015) Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017), first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016). Why I Am A Hindu (2018) The Paradoxical Prime Minister (2018) The Hindu Way (2019) The New World Disorder and the Indian Imperative (2020), co-authored with Samir Saran. The Battle of Belonging (2020) Tharoorosaurus (2020) Pride, Prejudice and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor (2021) The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy (2021) Ambedkar: A Life (2022) Illustrated books Kerala: God's Own Country (2002) (along with artist M.F. Husain). Inde (in French) or India (in English) (2008) along