List of Famous Books and their Authors

In this post, I am sharing very important, popular and famous books and authors majorly asked in various competitive exams. Read carefully and learn Famous Books and Authors name in this blog. Popular Books & Authors is one of the most important topics of Basic General Knowledge Questions. Students preparing for competitive exams are advised to read the most repeated Books & their authors thoroughly.

Popular Books and Authors

  • Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night –Salman Rushdie
  • The Red Sari –Javier Moro
  • Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama
  • My Favourite Nature Stories- Ruskin Bond
  • Neither a hawk nor a dove –Khurshid M Kasuari
  • Faces and Places Professor –Deepak Nayyar
  • Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Meira Kumar
  • Farishta –Kapil Isapuari
  • Super Economies –Raghav Bahal
  • China: Confucius in the Shadow –Poonam Surie
  • My country My Life ‐ L.K.Advani
  • Joseph Anton ‐ Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
  • The Sahara Testaments ‐ Tade Ipadeola
  • Narendra Modi: A Political Biography ‐ Andy Marino
  • My Unforgettable Memories ‐ Mamata Banerjee
  • Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri ‐ Dr. R L Bhat
  • Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan ‐ Daman Singh
  • The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership ‐ Pavan Choudary
  • Walking With Giants ‐ G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary )
  • Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths ‐ PC Parakh
  • The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‐ Sanjaya Baru
  • God of Antarctica ‐ Master Yashvardhan Shukla (At the age of 13)
  • My Years with Rajiv and Sonia ‐ R.D.Pradhan
  • Khushwantnama ‐The Lessons of My Life ‐ Khushwant singh
  • Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age ‐ Alexander Bard
  • One Life is Not Enough ‐ Natwar Singh
  • The Lives of Others ‐ Neel Mukherjee
  • My Music My Life ‐ Pt Ravi Shankar
  • I am Malala ‐ Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb
  • A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power ‐ Bette Dam
  • True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
  • Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? ‐ Faraz Ahmad
  • The God of Small Things ‐ Arundhati Roy
  • Interpreter of Maladies ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
  • And then One Day: A Memoir ‐ Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography)
  • Unaccustomed Earth ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Lowland ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Truth Always Prevails ‐ Sadruddin Hashwani
  • Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
  • Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) ‐ Mary Kom
  • Enoch, I am a British Indian ‐ Sarinder Joshua
  • Duroch ModiNomics ‐ Sameer Kochar
  • Public Issues Before Parliament ‐ Vijay Darda
  • Water, Peace, and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis ‐ Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
  • Awakening India’s Social Conscience ‐ Dr. Narendra Jadhav
  • Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav
  • Akbar – The Aesthete ‐ Dr. Indu Anand
  • Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
  • India at Risk ‐ Jaswant Singh
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North ‐ Richard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker)
  • Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector ‐ Dr. UD Choubey
  • Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar ‐ Dilip D’Souza
  • Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace ‐ Leon Panetta and Jim Newton
  • Not Just an Accountant ‐ former CAG Vinod Rai
  • Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann, and Philidor ‐ Parimarjan Negi
  • A Bend in the river ‐ V.S. Naipaul
  • Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna ‐ Gautam Chintamani
  • Half Girlfriend ‐ Chetan Bhagat
  • Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician ‐ Biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Spiritual Father of Pakistan)
  • 50 years of man in space ‐ Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher
  • Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 ‐ Sandeep Unnithan
  • Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India ‐Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Your Dreams Are Mine Now: She Showed him What Love ‐ Ravinder Singh
  • Born Again on the Mountain- Arunima Sinha
  • Flood of Fire –Amitav Ghosh
  • 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai
  • The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath : Ben S. Bernanke
  • To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story :Jairam Ramesh
  • Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice : Dr. Mool Chand Sharma
  • Ramcharitmanas (105-year-old Urdu copy ): Shiv Brat Lal
  • Mrs Funny bones :Twinkle Khanna
  • Making India Awesome : Chetan Bhagat
  • An Autobiography: Jawahar Lal Nehru
  • The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity :Tarun Khanna
  • R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music :Khagesh Dev Burman
  • Ghosts of Calcutta :Sebastian Ortiz
  • Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India :Jairam Ramesh
  • Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji : Abdul Kalam
  • Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination : Teesta Setalvad
  • Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language): Tarun Vijay
  • Education of Muslims : Professor JS Rajput
  • Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy:Saptarshi Sarkar
  • Flood of fire : Amitav Ghosh
  • Super Economies :Raghav Bahl
  • Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise: Pradeep Baijal
  • Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad: Prof Bhim Singh
  • Food for All: Uma Lele
  • Family Life: Akhil Sharma( winner of the Folio Prize 2015)
  • Faces and Places: Prof. Deepak Nayyar
  • Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Speaker’s Perspective: Meira Kumar
  • Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me: Vinod Mehta
  • Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks: SK Rath
  • Why I Assassinated Gandhi: Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse
  • ‘Life On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power: an autobiography of Sharad Pawar
  • What Happened to Netaji? authored by former journalist Anuj Dhar
  • ‘Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations: authored by Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah
  • ‘Interlinking of Indian Rivers authored by Radha Kant Bharati
  • ‘Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India: Sam Pitroda
  • ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights: Salman Rushdie
  • ‘The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath’ authored by Ben S. Bernanke
  • ‘Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India: autobiography of Sam Pitroda written with the help of David Chanoff, an American author.
  • ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights authored by the British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie
  • ‘To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story’ written by former Union Environment & Forest Minister (Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh.
  • ‘Making India Awesome’ written by – Chetan Bhagat
  • ‘Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, Democracy in India’ written by Jairam Ramesh
  • ‘Uniki’ written by – CH Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra.
  • ‘Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy’ written by Saptarshi Sarkar.
  • ‘Flood of fire’ written by Amitav Ghosh.
  • “India Central Asia Relations”: The Economic Dimension authored by Amiya Chandra.
  • “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years” – authored by AS Dulat and Aditya Sinha.
  • “37 Bridges and Other Stories” – authored by noted Pakistani author Aamer Hussein
  • Who Moved My Interest Rate? authored by Duvvuri Subbarao, the former Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
  • “The Unseen Indira Gandhi” authored by Dr. KP Mathur
  • “A Life in Diplomacy” written by former Indian diplomat Maharajakrishna Rasgotra.
  • “Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography by Margaret Alva
  • Book “MS: A life in Music” authored by T.J.S. George
  • “One Part Woman” authored by Perumal Murugan
  • The book “Ace against Odds” is the autobiography of Indian tennis player .Sania Mirza
  • “Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga” authored by Nitin Gokhale
  • “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” authored by Amitav Ghosh
  • “Ringside With Vijender” is authored by Rudraneil Sengupta
  • The making of India: The untold story of British Enterprises authored by Kartar Lalvani
  • ‘Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounter authored by Kishlay Bhattacharjee
  • ‘Shashi Kapoor – the Householder, the Star’ authored by Aseem Chhabra
  • ‘The Kiss of Life’ authored by Emraan Hashmi
  • ‘Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography’ authored by Bharathi S Pradhan
  • ‘A State in Denial’ authored by BG Verghese
  • ‘No Time to Pause’ authored by – Pavithra Ramesh
  • ‘Param Vir: A War Diary’ authored by – Manju Lodha
  • ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj’ authored by – U.R. Ananthamurthy
  • “Flying in High Winds: A Memoir” authored by – K. Mishra
  • ‘Alphabet Soup for Lovers” authored by – Anita Nair
  • ‘The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler’ authored by – James Cross Giblin
  • ‘The Story of Kashmir through the Ages” authored by – Arjan Nath Chaku
  • “Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My Innocence” authored by – Mohammad Aamir Khan
  • “Standing Guard— A year in Opposition”? authored by – P Chidambaram
  • “Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography” authored by – Pramod Kapoor
  • “That Long Silence” authored by – Shashi Deshpande
  • Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket” authored by – Shantanu Guha Ray”
  • “Standing On An Apple Box” authored by – Aishwarya Dhanush
  • “Who was Shivaji?” authored by – Govind Pansare
  • ‘The Z Factor,” a book written by Subhash Chandra
  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
  • The Birds of Banni Grassland – Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology – Released by Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi
  • Age of Anger: A history of the Present – Pankaj Mishra
  • Son of Thundercloud – Easterine Kire
  • Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders – 2017 Booker
  • Inside Parliament: Views from the front row – Derek O’Brien
  • The Sellout – Paul Beatty – 2016 Booker
  • A brief history of Seven killings – Marlon James – 2015 Booker
  • A horse walks into a bar – David Grossman – the Man Booker International Prize
  • The Ibis Trilogy – Amitav Ghosh
  • Selection day – Aravind Adiga
  • Death under the Deodars – Ruskin Bond
  • An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India – Shashi Tharoor
  • India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time – Shashi Tharoor
  • The Great Derangement: Climate Change And The Unthinkable – Amitav Ghosh
  • Democrats and Dissenters – Ramachandra Guha
  • I Do What I Do – Raghuram Rajan
  • The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Decade – Pranab Mukherjee
  • The Turbulent Years: 1980 – 1996 – Pranab Mukherjee
  • Thoughts and Reflections – Pranab Mukherjee
  • Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister – Sagarika Ghose
  • Why Growth Matters – Jagadish Bhagawati
  • India’s Tryst with Destiny – Jagadish Bhagawati
  • An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions – Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
  • The Country of First Boys – Amartya Sen
  • Gandhi before India – Ramachandra Guha
  • Scion of Ikshvaku – Amish
  • Sita: Warrior of Mithila – Amish
  • Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie
  • A Manifesto For Change – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
  • Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
  • Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
  • Pathways to Greatness – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
  • The Mother I Never Knew – Sudha Murthy
  • Serpent’s Revenge – Sudha Murthy
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series – Rick Riordan
  • The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
  • Fifty Shades Series – E.L. James
  • And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
  • War & Peace – Leo Tolstoy

Today I am providing the list of Famous Books and their authors for preparing competitive exams. The entire list consists of fiction, non-fiction, biographies, novels, award-winning novels, critically acclaimed books, etc.

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