Famous Books and Authors List – Important for Competitive Exams
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Books are extremely important to understand the societal structure of history and past events. Books have always been an integral part of civilisations.
We have two great epics in India – Ramayana and Mahabharata. Similarly, Homer has been known to narrate epics as well. A lot of structural senses can be achieved via the writings of the authors.
Let us see the list of various famous and important Books and their Authors. This is an important topic for competitive exams. So let’s start!!
Books and Authors List
| Name of the Book | Author |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| Alchemist, The | Paulo Coelho |
| Alice in the Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| All’s Well that Ends well | William Shakespeare |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| An idealist view of life | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| Anand Math | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Ape and Essence | A. Huxley |
| Apple Cart | George Bernard Shaw |
| Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| Area of Darkness | V.S. Naipaul |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| Arms and the man | George Bernard Shaw |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| As you like it | William Shakespeare |
| Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | Nirad C. Choudhury |
| Name of the Book | Author |
| Babur-nama | Babur |
| Between the Lines | Kuldip Nayar |
| Bharat Bharati | Maithili Sharan Gupt |
| Bitter Sweet | Noel Coward |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Broken Wing | Sarojini Naidu |
| A Bunch of Old Letters | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Name of the book | Author |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | George Bernard Shaw |
| Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Chitra | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| Coolie | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Descent of Man | Charles Darwin |
| Dilemma of Our Time | Harold Joseph Laski |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Divine Life | Swami Siv Ananda |
| Doctor’s Dilemma | George Bernard Shaw |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| Don Juan | Lord Byron |
| Ends and Means | Aldous Huxley |
| Farewell to Arms, A | Ernest Hemingway |
| First Among Equal | Jeffrey Archer |
| For whom the Bell Tolls | Emest Hemingway |
| Freedom at Midnight | Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre |
| Future Shock | Alvin Toffler |
| Name of the Book | Author |
| Geet Govind | Jaya Dev |
| Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Gita Rahasya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Godan | Munshi Prem Chand |
| Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
| Golden Gate, The | Vikram Seth |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Gora | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Grammar of Politics | Harold Laski |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Guide, The | R. K. Narayan |
| Gul-e-Naghma | Raghupati Sahai Firaq |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Harsha Charita | Bana Bhatt |
| Heat and Dust | Ruth P. Jhabwala |
| Hindu View of Life | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
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| Iliad | Homer |
| Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| India Divided | Rajendra Prasad |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| Indian Home Rule | M. K. Gandhi |
| Indian Philosophy | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| Invisible man | H. G. Wells |
| Iron in the Soul | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| Name of the Books | Author |
| Natya Shastra | Bharat Muni |
| Nine Days Wonder | John Masefield |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Passage to England, A | Nirad C. Choudhary |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Passage to India, A | E. M. Forster |
| Patriot, The | Pearl S. Buck |
| Post Office | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
| Ram Charita Manas | Tulsidas |
| Ramayan | Valmiki |
| Ratnavali | Harsha Vardhan |
| Ritu Samhara | Kalidas |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| Rubaiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| Sadar-i-Riyasat | Karan Singh |
| Satyartha Prakash | Swami Dayanand Saraswati |
| Savitri | Sri Aurobindo Ghose |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Satanic Verses, The | Salman Rushdie |
| Shahnama | Firdausi |
| Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| Shame | SCome,Rushdie |
| Sohrab and Rustam | Mathew Ahold |
| Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Name of Books | Author |
| Tale of Two Cities, A | Charles Dickens |
| Tempest, The | William Shakespeare |
| Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| To Live or Not to Live | Nirad C. Choudhary |
| Triumph | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Twenty Years After | Alexander Dumas |
| Two Leaves and Bud | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Unto This Last | John Ruskin |
| Utopia | Thomas Moore |
| Uttar Ramcharit | Bhavbhuti |
| Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
| Vanity Fair | William Thackeray |
| Vinay Patrika | Tulsidas |
| Virginians, The | William Thackeray |
| Vish Vriksha | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Voice of Conscience | V. V. Giri |
| Wake up India | Annie Besant |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| Wonder what was India | A. L. Basham |
| Yam | Mahadevi Verma |
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| Name of the Book | Author |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| Baburnama | Babur |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| Anand Math | Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| A passage to India | E.M.Forster |
| The Moon and Sixpence | Somerset Maughan |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| The Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare |
| Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| Chitra | R.N.Tagore |
| Bisarjan | R.N.Tagore |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| Ancient Mariner | Coleridge |
| Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| Around the World in eighty days | Jules Verne |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Le Contrat Social | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| A Dangerous place | D.P. Moynihan |
| Ain-i-Akbari & Akbar-Nama | Abul Fazal |
| The Lady of the Last Minstrel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Raghuvamsa Avigyan Shakuntalam | Kalidas |
| Which is to come | John Bunyan |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Origin of species | Charles Darwin |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| My experiments with Truth | Mahatma M.K.Gandhi |
| Book Name | Author |
| Politics of Opportunism | R P N Singh |
| Malayalam poetry | Akkitham Achuthan Namboodri |
| The Testaments | Margaret Atwood |
| Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi |
| Cheque book | Vasdev Mohi |
| The Overstory | Richard Powers |
| The Braille edition of the book Exam Warriors | PM Narendra Modi |
| Mind-Master | Viswanathan Anand and Susan Ninan |
| Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir | Hemant Karkare’s daughter Jui Karkare |
| “Courts of India” | Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi |
| Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir | Karkare’s Daughter Jui Karkare |
| Braille Edition of ‘Exam Warriors’ | Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
| Bridgital Nation | Shri N Chandrasekaran |
| Girl Power: Indian Women Who Broke The Rules | Neha J Hiranandani |
| From Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Explosive Ideas that Made (and Are Making) Modern Medicine | Roopa Pai |
| Fakir Hassen | ‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma–the South African Legacy’ |
| Turbulence and Triumph: The Modi Years | Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan |
| Handbook on Fisheries Statistics – 2018 | Ministry of fisheries |
| Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883-1924 | Vikram Sampath |
| Glorious Diaspora-Pride of India | Indian Diaspora Club |
| First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks | Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel |
| Obama: The Call of History | Peter Baker |
| Kashmir’s untold story: Declassification | Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza |
| “Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar” | Satyarth Nayak |
| Manav | Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Persistent Systems |
| ‘The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World’ | St James House and the History of Parliament Trust |
| Vivekadeepini | Adi Shankaracharya |
| Listening, Learning and Leading | Venkaiah Naidu |
| ‘My Life, My Mission’ | Baba Ramdev |
| ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’ | Meenakshi Lekhi |
| ‘The Diary of Manu Gandhi’ | Tridip Suhrud |
| “A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief” | Sushil Kumar |
| Vivekadeepini | Adi Shankaracharya |
| “Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly”. | Anupam Kher |
| “Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge” | Ashis Ray |
| My Journey | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| Making of New India | Dr. Bibek Debroy |
| “Whispers of Time” | Dr. Krishna Saksena |
| Indian Fiscal Federalism | Dr. Y.V. Reddy |
| ‘Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon’ | Jairam Ramesh |
| ‘Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way’ | Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji |
| ‘The Heartfulness way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformation’ | Kamlesh Patil & Joshua Pollock |
| Darkness to light | Lamar Odom |
| Fire and Fury Corps — Saga of Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice’, | Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh |
| Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher Education | M Venkaiah Naidu |
| We are Displaced | Malala Yousafzai |
| ‘Saffron Swords’ | Manoshi Sinha Rawal |
| “The New Delhi Conspiracy” | Meenakshi Lekhi |
| ‘Law, Justice and Judicial Power- Justice P N Bhagwati’s Approach’ | Mool Chand Sharma |
| ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ | Mr. Suri |
| ‘Every Vote Counts- The story of India’s Elections’ | Navin Chawla |
| ‘Virat: The making of a Champion’ | Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar |
| ‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’ | P. Chidambaram |
| From Possession to Freedom | R Uma Maheswari |
| The Third Pillar | Raghuram Rajan |
| ‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’ | Ruchir Sharma |
| Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook | Saba Naqvi |
| Game Changer | Shahid Afridi |
| ‘Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music’ | Sharad Dutt |
| “Chandra Shekhar – The Last Icon of Ideological Politics”; | Shri Harivansh and Shri Ravi Dutt Bajpai. |
| ‘Defining India: Through Their Eyes’ | Sonia Singh |
| ‘Function of Data Sovereignty – The Pursuit of Supremacy’ | Vinit Goenka |
| ‘Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord’ | Valay Singh |
| Book Name | Author |
| A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s Future through her Villages | BJP MP Varun Gandhi |
| Changing India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| Timeless Laxman | Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
| Arivu | Dr Murali Mohan Chuntharu |
| The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women’s Cricket in India | Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Pathak |
| Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior | Rima Hooja |
| The Paradoxical Prime Minister | Shashi Tharoor |
| The Rule Breakers | Preeti Shenoy |
| Experiential Learning — Gandhiji’s Nai Talim | Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar |
| From Lehman to Demonetisation: A Decade of Disruption, Reforms and Misadventures | Tamal Bandyopadhyay |
| Poonachi or the Story of a Black Goat | Perumal Murugan |
| Making of Legend | Bindeshwar Pathak |
| Diabetes with Delight | Anoop Misra |
| The Last White Hunter | Donald Anderson with Joshua Mathew |
| Indian Cultures as Heritage | Romila Thapar |
| Strangers No More: New Narratives from Northeast | Sanjoy Hazarika |
| Matoshree | Sumitra Mahajan |
| Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy | Yasser Usman |
| Indian Instinct | Miniya Chatterjee |
| The Coalition years | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World | Snigdha Poonam |
| Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Whitehouse | Michael Wolff |
| Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life | Sheila Dikshit |
| Mere Sapno Ka Bharat | Tarun Vijay |
| Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Syeda Saiyidain Hameed |
| Ants Among Elephants | Sujatha Gidla |
| The Constitution of India: Miracle, Surrender, Hope | Rajeev Dhavan |
| A Ringside Affair | James Lawton |
| The Year of the Hawks | Kanwaljit Singh |
| How May I Help You | Deepak Singh |
| A World of Three Zeroes: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emission | Mohammad Yunus |
| Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistan | Mehr Tarar |
| Xi Jinping’s China | Jayadev Ranade |
| The Book Hunters of Katpadi | Pradeep Sebastian |
| All the Worlds Between | K Srilata and Fiona Bolger |
| Hit Refresh | Satya Nadella |
| Letters to a Young Philosopher | Ramin Jahanbegloo |
| Imperfect (autobiography) | Sanjay Manjrekar |
| Immortal India | Amish Tripathi |
| Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior | Rima Hooja |
| Conflicts of Interest: My Journey Through India’s Green Movement | Sunita Narain |
| 2G Saga Unfolds | A Raja |
| Two | Gulzar |
| Status Single | Sreemoyee Piu Kundu |
| An Ordinary Man’s Guide to Radicalism | Neyaz Farooquee |
| What happened | Hilary Clinton |
| Artemis | Andy Weir |
| Drone | Adam Rothstein |
| Why I am Hindu | Shashi Tharoor |
| A diary of domestic diva | Shilpa Shetty |
| The New Wealth of Nations | Surjit S Bhalla |
| Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature | Jairam Ramesh |
| Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World and Yours | Poonam |
| My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal | Avinash Paliwal |
| A state of freedom | Neel Mukerjee |
| Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 | Ian Black |
| I do what I do | Raghuram Rajan |
| Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Swaraj | Aakash Singh Rathore |
| Hisaab Kitaab | Anjana Sukani |
| Songs of a Coward | Perumal Murugan |
| An unsuitable boy | Karan johar |
| Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1928-1941 | Stephen Kotkin |
| 281 and Beyond | V V S Laksman |
| 4321 | Paul Auster |
| History of Wolves | Emily Fridlund |
| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid |
| Elmet | Fiona Mozley |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
| Autumn | Ali Smith |
| Writing Pakistan: Conversations on Identity, Nationhood and Fiction | Mushtaq Bilal |
| The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community | Sudeep Chakravarti |
| Moments of Truth: My Life with Acting | Roshan Taneja |
| The Goat Thief | Perumal Murugan |
| The Widow of Malabar Hills | Sujata Massey |
| The Vanishing | Prerna Singh Bindra |
| Where India Goes | Diane Coffey and Dean Spears |
| The Nationalist | Minhaz Merchant |
| Political Violence in Ancient India | Upinder Singh |
| The tall man biju patnaik | Sundar Ganesan |
| A Tale of Two Victoria Crosses | Lt Gen Baljit Singh |
| Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy | Tim Harford |
| New Wealth of Nations | Surjit Bhalla |
| The Emergency: Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour | A Surya Prakash |
| No Room for Small Dreams | Shimon Peres |
| A Horse Walks Into a Bar | David Grossman |
| An Ordinary Life: A Memoir | Nawazuddin Siddiqui with Rituparna Chatterjee |
| Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story | Rajdeep Sardesai |
| A Republic in the Making: India in the 1950s | Gyanesh Kudaisya |
| Durand’s Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart | Rajiv Dogra |
| Origin | Dan Brown |
| The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India | GN Denvy |
| Inside Parliament: Views From the Front Row | Derek O’Brien |
| India Turns East: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry | Fredrick Grare |
| Weather Information Portal for Indian Power System | R K Singh |
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy |
| China & India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World | Bertil Lintner |
| Cadres of Tibet | Jayadeva Ranade |
| Unstoppable: My Life So Far | Maria Sharapova |
| The Book of Chocolate Saints | Jeet Thayil |
| Conflict of Interest | Sunita Narain |
| Atal Ji Ne kaha | Birendra Rehi |
| Confessions of a dying mind: the blind faith of atheism | Kiren Rijiju and Haulianlal Guite |
| Available Light | CP Surendran |
| Ashoka: Satrap of Taxila | Ashok K Banker |
| Sea Prayer | Khaled Hosseini |
| Loyal Stalkers | Chhimi Tenduf La |
| No Spin | Shane Warne |
| Attendant Lords | TCA Raghvan |
| The Driver in the Driverless Car | Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever |
| Life Among the Scorpions: Memoir of a Woman in Indian Politics | Jaya Jaitely |
| Gorbachev: His Life and Times | William Taubman |
| Ambedkar Gandhi and Patel: The Making of India’s Electoral System | Raja Shekhar Vundru |
| Evolution | Emmanuel Macron |
| Exam Warriors | Narendra Modi |
| Evil in the Mahabharata | Meena Arora Nayak |
| Happy Dreams | Jia Pingwa |
| 6 TIMES THINNER | N N Vohra |
| Rohingya Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide | Azeem Ibrahim |
| Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence | Francis Wade |
| Reimagining Pakistan | Husain Haggani |
| Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Syeda Hameed |
| Reporting Pakistan | Meena Menon |
| Who We Are and How We Got Here | David Reich |
| A Century ls Not Enough | Sourav Ganguly |
| Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly | Abhirup Bhattacharya |
| The Perils of Being Moderately Famous | Soha Ali Khan |
| Directorate S: The CLA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Steye Coll |
| Economics for the Common Good | Jean Tirole |
| Political Tribes | Amy Chua |
| Dividing Lines: Contours of the India-China Discord | KN Raghavan |
| My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism | CH Hanumantha Rao |
| Triple Talaq: Examining Faith | Salman Khurshid |
| Kashmir: Exploring the Myth Behind the Narrative | Khalid Bashir |
| She Goes to War Women Militants of India | Rashmi Saksena |
| The Future of Humanity | Michio Kaku |
| Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic Governance | Ishrat Husain |
| The Unseeing Idol of Light | K. R. Meera |
| Across the Universe | Ajoy Bose |
| Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? What Should We Do About Them? | Arun Shourie |
| Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians | Borta Majumdar |
| Indian Railway- The weaving of a National Tapestry | Bibek Debroy |
| An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradiction | Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze |
| Lethal White | Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) |
| The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul |
| Michael Ondaatje | Warlight |
| Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal Ji | Ramesh Pokhriyal |
| Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
| The Only Story | Julian Barnes |
| Like a Psalm | Perumbadavam Sreedharan |
| Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017 | Ankur Bhardwaj, Seema Chishti and Sushant Singh |
| “Vedvigyan Alok” (Maharishi Aitareya Mahidas Praneet – Aitareya Brahmina ki Vaigyanik Vyakhya) | Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik |
| The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age | James Crabtree |
| India Moving: A History of Migration | Chinmay Tumbe |
| Blessings from Beijing: Inside China’s Softpower War on Tibet | Greg Bruno |
| The Unending Game: Insights into Espionage | Vikram Sood |
| Straight Talk | Abhishek Manu Singhvi |
| The President Is Missing | Bill Clinton and James Patterson |
| Vernon Subutex | Virginie Despentes |
| The White Book | Han Kang |
| The World Goes On | Laszlo Krasznahorkai |
| Like a Fading Shadow | Antonio Munoz Molina |
| Frankenstein in Baghdad | Ahmed Saadawi |
| Flights | Olga Tokarczuk |
| Travails with the Alien | Satyajit Ray |
| The Spy Chronicles: RAW ISI and the Illusion of Peace |
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| The Zero Cost Mission/The Wily Agent | Amar Bhushan |
| The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia | Srinath Raghavan |
| Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians | Boria Majumdar |
| Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Life and Times | Tathagata Roy |
| Republic of Caste | Anand Teltumbde |
| Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (1914-1948) | Ramachandra Guha |
| The Way I See It | Gauri Lankesh, edited by writer and sociologist Chandan Gowda |
| Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji | Manu Pillai |
| From Kargil to Coup: Events That Shook Pakistan | Nasim Sehra |
| Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle | Saifuddin Soz |
| President’s Lady | Sangeeta Ghosh |
| Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neo-liberal Hindutva | Anand Teltumbde |
| Missing | Sumana Roy |
| God Save the Hon’ble Supreme Court | Fali S Nariman |
| Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters | Asad Durrani |
| Ten ideologies: The Great Asymmetry Between Agrarianism and Industrialism | S Jaipal Reddy |
| Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio | Devendra Fadnavis |
Conclusion
This was all about books and authors. There are many prestigious awards in the sector of writing books. They have always been about bringing revolutionary ideas and to provoke the minds of the youth. However, in today’s world, books have lost their importance and social media has taken its course.
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