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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