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Important Books and Authors Names
| Books’ Name | Authors’ Name |
|---|---|
| Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life | Gita Piramal |
| Wrist Assured | Gundappa Vishwanath, R. Kaushik |
| The last Diary of Kastur, My Ba | Tushar Gandhi |
| Russian Revolution and civil war 1971-1921 | Antony Beevor |
| Meltdown: The Earth without glaciers | Jorge Daniel Taillant |
| Water: A biography | Giulio Boccaletti |
| The new Delhi Conspiracy | Meenakshi Lekhi |
| The promise | Damon Galgut |
| 2030 | Mauro F. Guillen |
| The changing World order: Why Nations succeed and fall | Ray Dalio |
| An Economist’s quest for Reforms: The Vajpayee and Singh years | Arvind Panagariya |
| Modi @ 20: Dreams Meet Delivery | Sudha Murti and Others |
| The living mountain | Amitav Ghosh |
| Dream Town | David Baldacci |
| How to prevent the Next Pandemic | Bill Gates |
| At home in the universe | Bala Krishna Madhur |
| The Midway Battle: Modi’s roller-coaster second term | Gautam Chintamani, Bloomsbury India |
| Public services Ethics – A quest for Naitik Bharat | Prabhat Kumar, IC Centre for Governance |
| 1971: charge of the Gorghas and others stories | Rachna Bisht Rawat, Penguin Random House, India |
| Watershed: how we destroyed India’s water and How we can save it | Mridula Ramesh, Hachette, India |
| Prides, Prejudice and punditry | Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Aleph book company |
| India’s Ancient Legacy of wellness | Dr. Rekha Choudhari |
| An economist at home and Abroad: A personal journey | Dr. Shankar Acharya, Harper Collins, India |
| The sage with two horns: Unusual tales from Mythology | Sudha Murty, penguin Random House, India |
| Not just cricket: A Reporter’s Journey | Pradeep Magazine, Harper Collins, India |
| Nathuram Godse: The true story of Gandhi’s Assassin | Dhaval Kulkarni, pan macmillan, India |
| India to the rescue | Sushant Singh & shruthi Rao |
| The Art of conjuring alternate realities: How information Warfare shapes your world | Shivam Shankar Singh & Anand Venkata- Narayanan, Harper Collins, India |
| The Forth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi | Venn Madhav Govindu & Srinath Raghavan, Aleph Book company |
| Lady Doctors: The Untold stories of India’ First women in Medicines | Kavitha Rao westland books |
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Indian Authors and their Books
| Authors | Books |
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| Pt. Vishnu Sharma | Panchatantra |
| Vishakhadatta | Mudra Rakshas |
| Raskhan | Prem Vatika |
| Hitopdesh | Narayan Pandit |
| Panini | Ashtadhyayi |
| Shudrak | Mrichhakatikam |
| Kalidasa | Raghuvansham, Kumarsambhavam, Meghdootam, Abhigyanshakuntalam |
| Vatsyayana | Kama Sutra |
| Vigyaneshwar | Mitakshara |
| Jeemootwahan | Daybhag |
| Kalhana | Rajtarangini |
| Plini | Natural History |
| Kautilya | Arthashastra |
| Dandi | Avanti Sundari, Dashkumaracharitam |
| Ved Vyas | Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharata |
| Ashwaghosh | Buddha Charitam |
| Jayadev | Geet Govind |
| Bana Bhatt | Kadambari |
| Bhavabhuti | Malti Madhav, Uttar Ramcharit |
| Amar Singh | Amar Kosh |
| Bhartrihari | Niti-Shatak, Shringar Shatak, Vairagya Shatak |
| Firdausi | Shahnama |
| Abul Fazal | Ain-i- Akbari, Akabarnama |
| Surdas | Sahityalahari, Sursagar |
| Kabirdas | Bijak, Ramayani, Sabad |
| Gulbadan Beghum | Humanyunama |
| Al-Beruni | Kitab-ul-Hind |
| Malik Mohammed Jayasi | Padmavat |
| Mulk Raj Anand | Cootie, Confession of a Lover, Two leaves and a bud, The Death of a Hero, The Big Heart, The Bride’s Book of Beauty |
| Nirad C. Chaudhury | Hinduism, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, A Passage to England, Culture in the Vanity Bag, Continent of Crime |
| Rabindra Nath Tagore | Chitrangada, Gitanjali, Gora, Chandalika, Visarjana, Hungry Stones, The Court Dancer, Post Office, King of Dark Chamber |
| Sumitranandan Pant | Jyotsana, Yugwani, Chidambara, Pallav, Gramya, Tarapath, Swachchhand Kala aur Boodha Chand |
| Kuldip Nayyar | The Judgment, Distant Neighbours; India: The Critical Years; In Jail, India after Nehru, Between the Lines, Beyond the Line: An Autobiography |
| Sri Aurobindo | The Life Divine, Essays on the Gita |
| Swami Shivanand | Divine Life |
| Amrita Pritam | Death of a City, Kagaz te Canvas, Forty-nine Days |
| Munsi Premchand | Godan, Gaban, Karmabhumi, Rangbhumi |
| Khushwant Singh | Indira Gandhi Returns, Indira Gandhi : Badhate Kadam, The Company of Women, Train to Pakistan, Burial at Sea, Dilli, True Love and Little Malice |
| B. M. Kaul | Untold Story, Confrontation with Pakistan |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Unhappy India |
| M. K. Gandhi | Gokhale, My Political Guru; My Experiments with Truth |
| Vijay Tendulkar | Sakharam Binder |
| R. K. Narayan | The Dark Room, Malgudi Days, The Guide, My Days, Swami and Friends, The English Teacher, The Man-Eater of Malgudi, The Painter of Signs, Talkative Man, Waiting For Mahatma |
| Dr. S. Radhakrishnan | Indian Philosophy, The Hindu View of Life |
| Sarojini Naidu | Golden Threshold, Broken Wings |
| Suryakant Tripathi Nirala | Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Juhi Ki Kali |
| Yashpal | Jhootha Sach, Dada Kamred, Divya, Meri-Teri Uski Baat |
| Jai Shankar Prasad | Kamayani, Aansoo, Skandagupta, Ajatshatru, Lahar |
| Kazi Nazrul Islam | Agni Veena |
| Maithili Sharan Gupt | Bharat Bharati |
| Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Kurukshetra, Urvashi, Sanskriti Ke Chaar Adhyay, Rashmirathi |
| Indira Gandhi | Eternal India |
| S. H. Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ | Kitni Nawon Mein Kitnee Bar, Aangan Ke Paar, Dwar, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, Nadi Ke Dweep |
| Mahadevi Verma | Yama, Niharika, Neeraja |
| Amrit Lal Nagar | Amrit Aur Vish |
| Nayantara Sehgal | A Voice of Freedom |
| V. S. Naipal | Area of Darkness, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Million Mutinies Now, A Bend in the River |
| Devkinandan Khatri | Chandrakanta Santati, Chandrakanta, Bhootnath, Narendra-Mohini, Kusum Kumari |
| Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay | Devdas, Charitraheen,Shrikant, Parineeta |
| Vrindavanlal Verma | Jhansi ki Rani |
| Jainendra Kumar | Sunita, Tyagpatra |
| Bhagwati Charan Verma | Chitralekha |
| Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’ | Maila Aanchal, Mare Gaye Gulfam |
| Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’ | Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai |
| Bhartendu Harischandra | Bharat Durdasha, Satya Harischandra |
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Foreign Authors and their Books
| Authors | Books |
|---|---|
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kamph |
| Albert Einstein | The World as I See it |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | August 1914 |
| A. L. Basham | The Wonder that was India |
| Anton Chekhov | Cherry Orchard |
| Arther Hele | Airport |
| Aristotle | Politics |
| Boris Pasternak | Dr. Zhivago |
| David Baldacci | Absolute Power |
| Dante | Divine Comedy |
| E. M. Forster | A Passage to India, Maurice |
| H. G. Wells | Odyssey, Illiad |
| Harold Evans | Shape of Things to Come |
| Henry Miller | Good Times, Bad Times |
| Issac Newton | Tropic of Cancer |
| Katherine Mayo | Principia |
| Machiavelli | Mother India |
| Maxim Gorky | The Prince |
| Plato | Republic |
| Jean J. Rousseau | The Social Contract |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost, Lycidas |
| Winston Churchill | Gathering Storm |
| George Orwell | Farm House, Animal Farm |
| Charles Darwin | Descent of Man, Origin of Species |
| William Shakespeare | Commedy of Errors, As You Like It, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Apple Carte, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra, Candida |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield |
| J. K. Galbraith | Affluent Society, Ambassador’s Journal, The Triumph |
| Herold Joseph Laski | Grammar of Politics, Dilema of Our Time |
| J. M. Barrie | Hindu Civilization, Peter Pan |
| Gunnar Myrdal | Against the Stream, Asian Drama |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace, The Kingdom of God is Within You |
| Z. A. Bhutto | Great Tragedy |
| Vladimir Nabakov | Lolita |
| Mao-tse Tung | On Contradiction |
| Earnest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Gunter Grass | The Tin Drum |
| V. S. Naipaul | Among the Believers, India-A Million Mutinies, An Area of Darkness |
Latest Books and Authors
| Books | Authors |
|---|---|
| Playing It My Way (autobiography) | Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Majurndar |
| My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Fractured Times | Eric Hobsbawm |
| Neither a Hawk nor a Dove | Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri |
| The Sergeant’s Son | Ashim Choudhury |
| The Cuckoo’s Calling | Robert Galbraith |
| And then one day | Nasiruddin Shah |
| Gone Girl | Gilian Flynn |
| And The Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Red Sari (Biography of Sonia Gandhi) | Javier Moro |
| This Town | Mark Leibovish |
| Happy, Happy, Happy | Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach |
| The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years | Pranab Mukharjee |
| Shiva Triology: 1. The Immortals of Meluha, 2. The Secrets of Nagas and 3. The Oath of Vayuputras | Amish Tripathi |
| Ram Chandra Series: 1. Scion of Ikshwaku* (2015), 2. Sita: Warrior of Mithila* (2017) [ *These are two books of the RC Series have been published. The other three books of this series are yet to be published.] | Amish Tripathi |
| The Race of My Life | Milkha Singh |
| Freedom in Exile (autobiography) | Dalai Lama |
| Worshipping False Gods | Arun Shourie |
| Romancing with Life | Dev Anand |
| Saurabh Ganguli: The Maharaja of Cricket | Debasheesh Dutta |
| Born Again on the Mountain: A Story of Losing Everything and Finding I | Arunima Sinha |
| Lets Kill Gandhi | Tushar Gandhi |
| When God is a Traveller | Arundhati Subramaniam |
| Manzilon se Jyada Safar | V. P. Singh |
| A Call To Honour: In Service of Emergent India | Jaswant Singh |
| The Three Mistakes in My Life, Half Girlfriend, One Indian Girl, Revolutions-2020 | Chetan Bhagat |
| All My Sisters | Zudith Lenox |
| The Longest Race | Tom Alter |
| Gulab Bai: The Queen of Nautanki Theatre | Deepti Priya Mehrotra |
| Touch Play (Biography of Prakash Padukone) | Dev Sukumar |
| Out of My Comfort Zone: The Autobiography | Steev Waugh |
| Honeymoon | James Petterson |
| Da Vinci Code | Don Brown |
| The Gods of Antarctica | Yashwardhan Shukla |
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Rai |
| Speed Post | Shobha De |
| The Better Man | Anita Nayyar |
| Bookless in Baghdad | Shashi Thiroor |
| The Argumentative Indians | Dr. Amartya Sen |
| The Algebra of Infinite Justice | Arundhati Rai |
| Fire fly: A Fairy Tale | Ritu Beri |
| Two Lives | Vikram Seth |
| Glass Palace, The Great Derangement | Amitav Ghosh |
| The Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| Freedom from Fear | Aung San Suu Kyi |
| Fasting, Feasting | Anita Desai |
| The Lord of the Flies | William Goldings |
| Struggle for Change | K. B. Lal |
| Nehru Gazing at Tomorrow | H. R. Bharadwaj |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Not Just an Accountant | Vinod Rai |
| Ignited Minds, Wings of Fire, Guiding Souls | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| Envisioning an Empowered Nation | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| The Lowland, Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, In Other Words | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| One Day Cricket, The Indian Challenge | Ashish Roy |
| A View from Outside | P. Chidambaram |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | J.K. Rawlling |
| The Year of the Roester | Guy Sorman |
| Above Average | Amitabh Bagchi |
| Dalits in India: A Profile | Sukhdeo Thorat |
| The Top of the Raintree | Kamalini Sengupta |
| Terrifying Visions: Golwalkar, the RSS, and India | Jyotirmay Sharma |
| The Z Factor | Subhash Chandra, Pranjal Sharma |
| Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Millitant Islam | Zahid Hussain |
| The Splender of Silence | Indu Sundaresan |
| The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani Tragedy | Tariq Ali |
| A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi To The 21st Century | Mani Shankar Aiyer |
| Incarnations: India in 50 lives, The Idea of India | Sunil Khilnani |
| Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience | Christophe Jaffrelot |
| Zest for Life | Emile Zola |
| Don’t Laugh: We are police | B.L. Vohra |
| Pyre | Perumal Murugan |
| Old History and New Geography-Bifurcating Andhra Pradesh | Jairam Ramesh |
| A Life in Diplomacy | M.K. Rasgotra |
| Black Taj | Mohini Kent (Lady Noon) |
| Cyber Pathshala | Tarun Vijay |
| A Prisoner’s Scrap Book | L.K. Adwani |
| Born Again on the Mountain | Arunima Sinha |
| Ready Flavour One | Earnest Cline |
| Dark Night | Sandip Naiyyar |
| Exam Warriors | Narendra Modi |
Important List of Books and Authors for Competitive Exams
| Books | Authors |
|---|---|
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| Thoughts on Pakistan | B.R. Ambedkar |
| The Buddha and His Dhamma | B.R. Ambedkar |
| The Room on the Roof | Ruskin Bond |
| A Gallery of Rascals | Ruskin Bond |
| Broom and Groom | Kiran Bedi and Pavan Choudhary |
| The Bachelor of Arts | R. K. Narayan |
| Neel Darpan | Dinabandhu Mitra |
| My Life My Mission | Swami Ramdev |
| An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Timeless Lakshaman | R.K. Lakshaman |
| The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga |
| The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes |
| Every Vote Counts | Navin Chawla |
| Desher Katha | Shakharam Ganesh Deuskar |
| Plagues and Peoples | William H. McNeill |
| The Managerial Revolution | James Burnham |
| A History of Sikhs | Khushwant Singh |
| India of My Dreams | M.K. Gandhi |
| India Shastra: Reflections on the Nations In Our Time | Shashi Tharoor |
| The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and The Spring | Sarojini Naidu |
| The Free Voice: on Democracy, Culture and Nation | Ravish Kumar |
| Swami Vivekananda in The West: New Discoveries | Sister Gargi |
| What Happened | Hillary Clinton |
| Bridgital Nation: Solving Technology’s People Problem | N. Chandrasekaran and Roopa Purushothaman |
| The Reluctant: Shiva in Everyday Life | Nilima Chitgopekar |
| A Concern of Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport | Ramachandra Guha |
| Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa | Mahasweta Devi |
| The Scent of God | Saikat Majumdar |
| Dreams From My Father | Barack Obama |
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy |
| The Arctic Home in the Vedas | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Solo | Rana Dasgupta |
| The Story of Yoga: From Ancient Times to the Modern West | Alistair Shearer |