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Famous Books and Authors List – Important for Competitive Exams

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
Z.A. BhuAssassinated, 
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
  1. S. Dulat, Aditya Sinha, Asad Durrani
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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