Great Eastern Hotel is a 2025 historical novel by the Indian writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi. It was published by Fourth Estate, the HarperCollins India imprint, in February 2025, and is Joshi's second novel after The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001). Set mainly in Calcutta during the 1940s and narrated from the perspective of the 1970s, the book runs to about 920 pages. It won the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2025.

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