Books and Authors 2024

Books and Authors 2024

Book Name Authors Name
“Ek Samandar, Mere Andar” Sanjeev Joshi
“Political History of Assam (1947-1971) – Dr. Rajen Saikia
Volume 1”
“Smritivan: An Unparalleled Apotheosis of Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority
Commemoration to 2001 Victims of Gujarat
Earthquake”
“Assam’s Braveheart – Lachit Barphukan” Arup Kumar Dutta
“Fertilising the Future: Bharat’s March Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
Towards Fertiliser Self-Sufficiency”
“An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sudha and Narayana Murthy”
“Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns” M.J. Akbar and K Natwar Singh
“Modi: Energising A Green Future” R.K. Pachnanda, Bibek Debroy, Anirban Ganguly, and
Uttam Kumar Sinha
"Four Stars of Destiny" General Manoj Mukund Naravane
“Sanskriti ke Ayaam” Manorama Mishra
“Maha Kavithai” Vairamuthu
“Ram Mandir Rashtra Mandir Ek Sajhi Geeta Singh and Arif Khan Bharti
Virast”

Books and Authors 2023

Book Name Authors Name
"Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies" Shubhra Gupta
"The World: A Family History" British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore
"Breaking Barriers: the Story of a Dalit Kaki Madhava Rao
Chief Secretary"
"Ambedkar: A Life" Shashi Tharoor
"Human Anatomy" Dr. Ashvini Kumar Dwivedi
“Revolutionaries: The Other Story of Sanjeev Sanyal
How India Won Its Freedom”
Himanta Biswa Sarma "Mukhyamantrir Diary 1"
"Njaan Sakshi" Professor K.K. Abdul Gaffar's
"Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking" Tamal Bandyopadhyay
"Spare" J. R. Moehringer
"Braving A Viral Storm: India's Covid-19 Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir
Vaccine Story"
Jadunama Javed Akhtar and Arvind Mandloi
"Come! Let's Run" Ma. Subramanian
"India's Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dr. Ashwin Fernandes
Dawn"
"COACHING BEYOND: My Days with the Kaushik and Ramakrishnan Sridhar
Indian Cricket Team"
"The Poverty of Political Economy: How Meghnad Desai
Economics Abandoned the Poor"
The Last Heroes Palagummi Sainath (P Sainath)
The Best of Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray
Victory City Salman Rushdie
Modi: Shaping a Global order in flux President J.P. Nadda
Pt. Deendayal Upadhaya : Dispersions of R N Ravi
Thought
India’s vaccine Growth story Sajjan singh Dev
Mundaka Upanishad-The Bridge of Jagdeep Dhankar
immortality
As Good As My Word KM Chandrashekhar
Pagalkhana Dr.Gyan Chaturvedi
The Book of Bihari Literature Abhay K
Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway to Dr. Karan Singh
Eternity
India’s Struggle for Independence – P. Jyothimani, former Judge
Gandhian Era
Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform Rachna Biswat Rawat
Women and Men in India 2022 Rao Inderjit Singh
Snakes in the Ganga Shri Rajiv Malhotra and Mrs. Vijaya Viswanathan
A Matter of the Heart: Education in India Anurag Behar
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shrimant Kokate
Pyre Perumal Murugan
Basu Chatterji : And Middle-of-the-Road Aniruddha Bhattacharjee
Cinema
Phoolange Lekhnath Chhetri
Why can’t Elephants be Red Vani Tripathi Tikoo
War & Women Dr MA Hasan
War and Women Dr. MA Hasan
Phoolange Lekhnath Chhetri
The Great book robbery V Pattami Ram and Sabya Sachi Dosh
Saurashtra-Tamil Sangamprashastih’ Shree Somnath Sanskrit University
‘Collective Spirit, Concrete Actions’ Shashi Shekhar Vempati
“Reflections” Narayanan Vaghul
Made In India Amitabh Kant
Sachin @ 50 Boria Majumdar
Cyber Encounters Ashok Kumar and OP Manocha
Just Aspire Ajai Chowdhry
My Life as a Comrade K.K. Shailaja and Manju Sara Rajan
First Lithuanian Travelers in India Lithuanian Embassy
The Golden Years Ruskin Bond
Partitioned Freedom Ram Madhav
RINGSIDE – Up, Close and Personal on Dr Vijay Darda
India and Beyond
NTR-A Political Biography Ramachandra Murthy Kondubhatla
Amrutkaal ki Ore Shivanand Dwivedi and K K Upadhyay
A Life Well Spent: Four Decades in the Satish Chandra
Indian Foreign Service
India’s Finance Ministers A.K. Bhattacharya
Droupadi Murmu Kasturi Ray
Through The Broken Glass T.N. Seshan
As the Wheel Turns Ranjit Pratap
Memories Never Die Dr. Y.S. Rajan, Dr. APJM Nazema Maraikayar, and S
Kargil: Ek Yatri Ki Jubani Shri Rishi Raj
Monsoon Abhay K
Heritage Trees of Goa PS Sreedharan Pillai
Let’s Move Forward” Dr. Dinesh Prasad Saklani
eBook-“People’s G20 Shri Apurva Chandra
Chacha Chaudhary aur Chunavi Dangal' Election Commission of India (ECI)
Nation Calling" IAS officer Sonal Goel
"Introduction to Corporate Finance Stephen Ross and Bradford Jordan
(sixth edition)".
“Ashtadhyayi Bhashya, Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
Ramanandacharya Charitam, Bhagwan
Shri Krishna ki Rashtraleela”
“The Lords of the Wankhede – Tales W.V. Raman and R. Kaushik
Between Two Titles”
“Nilavu Kudicha Simhangal” S. Somanath
“The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Ashok Tandon
Cooperation”
“Igniting Collective Goodness: Mann Ki Team of BlueKraft Digital Foundation
Baat @ 100”
"The Professionals’ Handbook to V Pattabhi Ram and Dungar Chand U Jain
ChatGPT”
“Welcome To Paradise” Twinkle Khanna
“India’s Moment: Changing Power Mohan Kumar
Equations around the World”
“Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee
Remembers”
“Thread by Thread: The S.Kumar’s Sathya Saran
Story”
“Mapping of the Archives in India” Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C. Gaur
“Do Palkon Ki Chhavn Main” Dr. Hema Joshi
“Snakes of Himachal Pradesh” Omesh Kumar Bharti and DD Bisht
“Building Partnerships” Captain Himadri Das
“Nilavu Kudicha Simhangal” S Somnath

Books and Authors 2022

Book Name Authors Name
‘The India Story’ Bimal Jalal
‘Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure’ Ruskin Bond
‘Business of Sports: The Winning Formula for Success’ Vinit Karnik
‘A Place Called Home’ Preeti Shenoy
‘Modi @20: Dreams Meeting Delivery’ VP Venkaiah Naidu
'The Struggle for Police Reforms in India' Ex-IPS Prakash Singh
‘INDO-PAK WAR 1971- Reminiscences of Air Warriors’ Rajnath Singh
‘Leaders, Politicians, Citizens’ Rasheed Kidwai
‘Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak’ Prof. Alok Chakrawal
Lal Salam Smriti Irani
Pride, Prejudice and Punditry Shashi Tharoor
“Crunch Time: Narendra Modi’s National Security Dr Sreeram Chauliahas
Crises”
“Queen of Fire” Devika Rangachari
“Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak” Dharmendra Pradhan
“Decoding Indian Babudom” Ashwini Shrivastava
‘The Maverick Effect’ Harish Mehta
“Tiger of Drass: Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Kargil Hero” Meena Nayyar & Himmat Singh Shekhawat
‘Hear Yourself’ Indian Author Prem Rawat
‘Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI’ Former CAG Vinod Rai
“The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution ” Rajesh Talwar
“The Magic of Mangalajodi” & “My Research Works on Avinash Khemka & Abinash Mahapatra
Sikh History and Philosophy”
‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’ Roger Faligot
'Amit Shah Ani Bhajapachi Vatchal' Dr Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi
‘The Millennial Yogi: A modern-day parable about Former Indian Army Captain, Deepam Chatterjee
reclaiming one’s life’
‘Udaan Ek Majdoor Bachhe Ki’ Mithilesh Tiwari
Ungalil Oruvan (One Among You) Chief minister MK Stalin’s
‘The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorised Biography of Vikas Kumar Jha
Usha Uthup’
‘The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal Amitava Kumar
‘Role of Labour in India’s Development’ Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav
‘Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times’ Abhinav Chandrachud
‘The Queen of Indian Pop’ Usha Uthup
‘On Board: My Years in BCCI’ Ratnakar Shetty’s
'Tomb of Sand' Geetanjali Shree’s
‘Monsoon’ Sahitya Akademi
‘More than Just Surgery: Life Lessons Beyond the OT’ Dr Tehemton Erach Udwadia
‘Wrist Assured: An Autobiography’ Former Cricketer G.R. Viswanath
‘Unfilled Barrels India’s oil story’ Richa Mishra
‘The Little Book of Joy’ Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
‘Spoorthi Pradatha Sri Somayya’ K Syam Prasad
‘Fearless Governance’ Dr. Kiran Bedi
‘Operation Khatma’ RC Ganjoo and Ashwini Bhatnagar
‘India, That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, J Sai Deepak
Constitution’
‘Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra’ Navdeep Singh Gill
‘Atal Bihari Vajpayee’ Sagarika Ghose
‘India–Africa Relations: Changing Horizons’ Rajiv Bhatia
‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’ Bill Gates
‘Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Samuel Moyn
Reinvented War’
‘Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Ro Khanna
Us’
‘A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Uma Das Gupta
Pioneering Work in Rural Construction’
‘A Nation To Protect’ Priyam Gandhi Mody
‘The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Jimmy Soni
Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley’
‘The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Anirudh Suri
Destinies of Nations’
‘Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and Dhirendra K. Jha
His Idea of India.
‘Mamata: Beyond 2021’ Jayanta Ghosal
‘Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’ Dr. Thomas Matthew
‘Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work, Arundhati Bhattacharya
and Leadership’
‘Bose: The untold story of an inconvenient nationalist’ Chandrachur Ghose
'The Legend of Birsa Munda' Tuhin A Sinha and Ankita Verma
‘India’s Women Unsung Heroes’ Meenakshi Lekhi
‘A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of Ruskin Bond
Independence’
‘The $10 Trillion Dream’ Subhash Chandra Garg

Books and Authors 2021

Book Name Author
Name
‘The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Narotam Sekhsaria
Created an Extraordinary Company’
‘1971: Charge of the Gorkhas and other stories’ Rachna Bisht Rawat
Vahana Masterclass Alfredo Covelli
India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in R. Kaushik
Australia
Right Under Our Nose R. Giridharan
Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo Lt. Gen. Konsam Himalay Singh
The Commonwealth of Cricket Ramachandra Guha
Manohar Parrikar-Off the Record Waman Subha Prabhu
The Little Book of Encouragement Dalai Lama
Beautiful Things’ A Memoir Hunter Biden
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life Former Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic World Sangeet Paul Choudary
Unfinished Priyanka Chopra Jonas
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News Meghna Pant
ASOCA: A Sutra Irwin Allan Sealy
Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Ramesh Kandula
Rama Rao
Rashtra Pratham - 82 Varshon ki Swarnim Gatha Amit Shah
Stories I Must Tell: The Journey of an Actor Kabir Bedi
Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis Anindya Dutta
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Anant Vijay
Irani’s Triumph
Battle Ready for 21st Century Lt Gen AK Singh and Brig. Narendra Kumar
My Experiments with Silence Samir Soni
Names of the Women Jeet Thayil
Suparipalana Dr. Shailendra Joshi
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life Nitin Gokhale
Odisha Itihaas Utkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab
The Braille edition of the book Exam Warriors PM Narendra Modi
Believe-What Life and Cricket Taught Me Suresh Raina
The Christmas Pig JK Rowling
Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri
The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times Amitav Ghosh
Climate Change Explained—For One and All Aakash Ranison
The Bench Meghan Markle
Elephant in the Womb Kalki Koechlin
Life in the Clock Tower Valley Shakoor Rather
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance Preet Mohan Singh Malik
Nehru, Tibet and China Avtar Singh Bhasin
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present Shivshankar Menon
Sach Kahun Toh Neena Gupta
Stargazing: The Players in my Life Ravi Shastri
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 Salman Rushdie
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-1966) Vikram Sampath
7 Lessons from Everest - Expedition Learnings from Aditya Gupta
life and Business
1232km: The Long Journey Home Vinod Kapri
Home in the World Amartya Sen
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Amitav Ghosh
Beyond Here and Other Poems Bishnupada Sethi
The 7 Sins of Being a Mother Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
Habba Khatoon Kajal Suri
Will Will Smith and Mark Manson
My Joys and Sorrows- as a Mother of a Special Krishna Saksena
Child
It’s a Wonderful Life Ruskin Bond
Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story Sundeep Mishra
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Kaushik Basu
Washington DC
Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux Khemlata Wakhlu
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Kavitha Rao
Women in Medicine
The Pregnancy Bible Kareena Kapoor
The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan
Information Warfare Shapes Your World
The Great Big Lion Chryseis Knight
The India Story Bimal Jalan
The Stranger In The Mirror(Autobiography of Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra)
Palleku Pattabhishekam Yalamanchili Sivaji
Bank With A Soul: Equitas Dr. C K Garyali
An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation Ashok Lavasa
In An Ideal World Kunal Basu
My Own Mazagon Captain Ramesh Babu
Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India Sanjay Gubbi
Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama Manan Bhatt
The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14-Year-Old Brisha Jain
The Earthspinner Anuradha Roy
How the Earth Got Its Beauty Sudha Murty
OPERATION KHUKRI Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia
Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government K J Alphons
Back to the Roots Tamannaah Bhatia
Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine Odyssey Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee
Human Rights and Terrorism in India Subramanian Swamy
Translating Myself and Others Jhumpa Lahiri
Shining Sikh Youth of India Dr. Prabhleen Singh
400 Days Chetan Bhagat
Jungle Nama Amitav Ghosh
The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Nirupama Rao
Present in India-China Relations
The Battle of Rezang La Kulpreet Yadav

Books and Authors 2020

Book Name Author Name
Karmayoddha Granth Amit Shah
Relentless Yashwant Sinha
A Child of Destiny K. Ramakrishna Rao
The Thin Mind Map Dharmendra Rai
A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981 Apoorva Kumar Singh
Death – An Inside Story Jaggi Vasudev
An Extraordinary Life: A biography of Manohar Sadguru Patil & Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Parrikar
Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar Parrikar Tarun Vijay
My Encounters in Parliament Bhalchandra Mungekar
Messiah Modi: A Tale of Great Expectations Tavleen Singh
Legacy of Learning Savita Chhabra
Missing in Action: The Prisoners Who Never Chander Suta Dogra
Came Back
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Mary Jordan
Melania Trump
Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P V Sindhu Krishnaswamy V
Vijayant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Neha Dwivedi
Hero
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined Fang Fang
City
Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains, and Ruskin Bond
Planes
The Ickabog J.K Rowling
Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India Amish Tripathi
Future of Higher Education: Nine Mega Trends V Pattabhi Ram
Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver Urjit Patel
Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for RC Bhargava
India
A Song of India Ruskin Bond
If It Bleeds Stephen King
The Endgame Hussain Zaidi
Suraj Kade Marda Nahi (Sun Never Dies) Baldev Singh Sadaknama
Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India Viral V.Acharya
Amazing Ayodhya Neena Rai
Connecting, Communicating, Changing Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World Dalai Lama and Franz Alt
Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020 Arjun Subramaniam
One Arranged Murder Chetan Bhagat
Cricket Drona Jatin Paranjpe
Let us Dream Pope Francis
The Little Book of Encouragement Dalai Lama
My Life in Design Gauri Khan
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction Arundhati Roy
Kitchens of Gratitude Chef Vikas Khanna
A Promised Land Barack Obama
Bapu- the Unforgettable Manish Sisodia
The Battle of Belonging Shashi Tharoor
Bye Bye Corona Dr. Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
Your Best Day is Today! Anupam Kher
I am No Messiah Meena Iyer
40 Years with Abdul Kalam-Untold Stories Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai
Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful Amish Tripathi and Bhavna Roy
Life
Oh Mizoram PS Sreedharan Pillai

Books and Authors 2019

Book Name Authors Name
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 PM Narendra Modi
Exam Warriors
Mind-Master Viswanathan Anand and Susan Ninan
Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Hemant Karkare's daughter Jui Karkare
Memoir
"Courts of India" Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi
Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Karkare's Daughter Jui Karkare
Memoir
Braille Edition of ‘Exam Warriors’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Bridgital Nation Shri N Chandrasekaran
Girl Power: Indian Women Who Neha J Hiranandani
Broke The Rules
From Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Roopa Pai
Explosive Ideas that Made (and
Are Making) Modern Medicine
Fakir Hassen ‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma–the South African Legacy’
Turbulence and Triumph: The Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan
Modi Years
Handbook on Fisheries Statistics - Ministry of fisheries
2018
Savarkar: Echoes from a Vikram Sampath
forgotten past, 1883-1924
Glorious Diaspora-Pride of India Indian Diaspora Club
First They Erased Our Name: A Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel
Rohingya Speaks
Obama: The Call of History Peter Baker
Kashmir’s untold story: Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza
Declassification
“Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar” Satyarth Nayak
Manav Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Persistent Systems
‘The Commonwealth at 70: From St James House and the History of Parliament Trust
Westminster to the World’
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- Sushil Kumar
Memories of a Military Chief"
Vivekadeepini Adi Shankaracharya
“Lessons Life Taught Me Anupam Kher
Unknowingly”.
“Cricket World Cup: The Indian Ashis Ray
Challenge”
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 Brillance: The Many Jairam Ramesh
Lives of V K Krishna Menon’
‘Designing Destiny: The Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji
Heartfulness Way’
‘The Heartfulness way: Heart- Kamlesh Patil & Joshua Pollock
Based Meditations for Spiritual
Transformation’
Darkness to light Lamar Odom
Fire and Fury Corps -- Saga of Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh
Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice',
Quality, Accreditation, and M Venkaiah Naidu
Ranking – A Silent Revolution in
the Offing in Indian Higher
Education
We are Displaced Malala Yousafzai
‘Saffron Swords’ Manoshi Sinha Rawal
“The New Delhi Conspiracy” Meenakshi Lekhi
‘Law, Justice and Judicial Power- Mool Chand Sharma
Justice P N Bhagwati’s Approach’
‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ Mr. Suri
‘Every Vote Counts- The story of Navin Chawla
India’s Elections’
‘Virat: The making of a Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar
Champion’
‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of P. Chidambaram
India’
From Possession to Freedom R Uma Maheswari
The Third Pillar Raghuram Rajan
‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of Ruchir Sharma
India’
Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Saba Naqvi
Handbook
Game Changer Shahid Afridi
‘Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music’ Sharad Dutt
"Chandra Shekhar - The Last Icon Shri Harivansh and Shri Ravi Dutt Bajpai.
of Ideological Politics";
‘Defining India: Through Their Sonia Singh
Eyes’
'Function of Data Sovereignty - Vinit Goenka
The Pursuit of Supremacy'
‘Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Valay Singh
Discord’

Books and Authors 2018

Book Name Authors Name
A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s BJP MP Varun Gandhi
Future through her Villages
Changing India Dr. Manmohan Singh
Timeless Laxman Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Arivu Dr Murali Mohan Chuntharu
The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Pathak
Womens Cricket in India
Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior Rima Hooja
The Paradoxical Prime Minister Shashi Tharoor
The Rule Breakers Preeti Shenoy
Experiential Learning -- Gandhiji's Nai Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar
Talim
From Lehman to Demonetisation: A Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Decade of Disruption, Reforms and
Misadventures
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 Sanjoy Hazarika
Northeast
Matoshree Sumitra Mahajan
Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Yasser Usman
Bollywood’s Bad Boy
Indian Instinct Miniya Chatterjee
The Coalition years Pranab Mukherjee
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Snigdha Poonam
Changing Their World
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Michael Wolff
Whitehouse
Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life Sheila Dikshit
Mere Sapno Ka Bharat Tarun Vijay
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Syeda Saiyidan Hameed
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Ants Among Elephants Dujatha Gidla
The Constitution of India: Miracle, Rajeev Dhavan
Surrender, Hope
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 Mohammad Yunus
Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero
Unemployment, and Zero Carbon
Emission
Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st- Mehr Tarar
Century Pakistan
Xi Jinping's China Jayadev Ranade
The Book Hunters of Katpadi Pradeep Sebastia
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 Sunita Narain
India’s Green Movement
2G Saga Unfolds A Raja
Two Gulzar
Status Single Sreemoyee Piu Kundu
An Ordinary Mans Guide to Radicalism Neyaz Farooquee
What happened Hilary Clinton
Artemis Andy Weir
Drone Adam Rothstein
Why I am hindu Shashi Tharoor
A dairy of deomestic diva Shilpa Shetty
The New Wealth of Nations Surjit S Bhalla
Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature Jairam Ramesh
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Poonam
Changing Their World and Yours
My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan Avinash Paliwal
from the Soviet Invasion to the US
Withdrawal
A state of freedom Neel Mukerjee
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews Ian Black
in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
I do what I do Raghuram Rajan
Indian Political Theory: Laying the Aakash Singh Rathore
Ground work for Swaraj
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 Mushtaq Bilal
ldentity, Nationhood and Fiction
The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community Sudeep Chakravarti
Moments ofTruth: 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 Tim Harford
Economy
New Wealth of Nations Surjit Bhalla
The Emergency: Indian Democracy's A Surya Prakash
Darkest Hour
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 Rajdeep Sardesai
Story
A Republic in the Making: India in the Gyanesh Kudaisya
1950s
Durand's Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Rajiv Dogra
Heart
Origin Dan Brown
The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and GN Denvy
Education in India
Inside Parliament: Views From the Front Derek O'Brien
Row
India Turns East: International Fredrick Grare
Engagement and US-China Rivalry
Weather Information Portal for Indian R K Singh
Power System
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy
China & India War: Collision Course on Bertil Lintner
the Roof of the World
Cadres ofTibet 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 Kiren Rijiju and Haulianlal Guite
faith of atheism
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 Jaya Jaitely
Woman in Indian Politics
Gorbachev: His Life and Times William Taubman
Ambedkar Gandhi and Patel: The Making Raja Shekhar Vundru
of India’s Electoral System
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 Azeem Ibrahim
Genocide
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Francis Wade
Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence
Reimagining Pakistan Husain Haggani
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Syeda Hameed
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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 Abhirup Bhattacharya
Like Ganguly
The Perils of Being Moderately Famous Soha Ali Khan
Directorate S: The CLA and Americas Steye Coll
Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Economics for the Common Good Jean Tirole
Political Tribes Amy Chua
Dividing Lines: Contours of the India- KN Raghavan
China Discord
My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to CH Hanumantha Rao
Nehruvian Socialism
Triple Talaq: Examining Faith Salman Khurshid
Kashmir: Exploring the Myth Behind the Khalid Bashir
Narrative
The Only Story Julian Barnes
She Goes to War Women Militants of Rashmi Saksena
India
The Future of Humanity Michio Kaku
Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Ishrat Husain
Reforms for Democratic Governance
The Unseeing ldol of Light KR Meera
Across the Universe Ajoy Bose
Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Arun Shourie
Doing? Whal Should We Do About Them?
Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians Borta Majumdar
Indian Railway- The weaving of a National Bibek Debroy
Tapestry
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
Contradiction
Lethal White Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
In a Free State VS 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
Indian Cultures as Heritage: Romila Thapar
Contemporary Pasts
Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017 Ankur Bhardwaj, Seema Chishti and Sushant Singh
Vedvigyan Alok (Maharishi Aitareya Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik
Mahidas Praneet - Aitareya Brahmina ki
Vaigyanik Vyakhya)
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through James Crabtree
India's New Guided Age
India Moving: A History of Migration Chinmay Tumbe
Blessings from Beijing: Inside China's Greg Bruno
Softpower War on Tibet
The Unending Game: Insights into Vikram Sood
Espionage
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 Asdulat, Aditya Sinha, Asad Durrani
Illusion of Peace
The Zero Cost Mission/The Wily Agent Amar Bhushan
The Most Dangerous Place: A History of Srinath Raghavan
the United States in South Asia
Eleven Gods and a Billion lndians Boria Majumdar
Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Life and Times Tathagata Roy
Republic of Caste Anand Teltumbde
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the Ramachandra Guha
World (1914-1948)
The Way I See It Gauri Lankesh, edited by writer and sociologist Chandan Gowda
Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Manu Pillai
Shivaji
From Kargil to Coup: Events That Shook Nasim Sehra
Pakistan
Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Saifuddin Soz
Story of Struggle
President’s Lady Sangeeta Ghosh
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in Anand Teltumbde
the Time of Neo-liberal Hindutva
Missing Sumana Roy
God Save the Hon'ble Supreme Court Fali S Nariman
Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Asad Durrani
Waters
Ten ldeologies: The Great Asymmetry S Jaipal Reddy
Between Agrariansm and Industrialism
Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Devendra Fadnavis
Radio

List of Important Books and Authors

 The Japanese novel The Tale of Genji, written by a woman in the early 11th century, is
considered the first modern novel.

 The largest paper book is the giant tome called This the Prophet Muhammad about the
prophet of monotheistic teachings and founder of Islamic ideology. This book was produced
 by Mshahed International Group and published in February 2012. It has a size of 5 x 8.06
meters and has 429 pages. The weight is around 3,000 pounds. He is now in Dubai, United
Arab Emirates.

 The longest book in history is believed to be In Search of Lost Time or also known as
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. It consists of more than 9,600,000
characters. He became famous through the translations of C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence
Kilmartin; However, the world also knows the version of The Search for Lost Time translated
by DJ Enright in 1992.

List of Important Indian Books and Authors :

Book Author

Making India Awesome Chetan Bhagat

One Indian Girl Chetan Bhagat

Half Girlfriend Chetan Bhagat

Revolution 2020 Chetan Bhagat

Naked Triangle Balwant Gargi

A Million Mutinies Now V.S. Naipaul

A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul

A Brush with Life Satish Gujral

A Passage to England Nirad C. Chaudhuri

A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul

A Prisoner’s Scrapbook L.K. Advani

A River Sutra Gita Mehta

A Call to Honour Jaswant Singh

Book Author

A Sense of Time H.S. Vatsyayan

A Strange and Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri

A Bunch of Old Letter Jawaharlal Nehru

A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth

A Village by the Sea Anita Desai

Agnibeena Kazi Nazrul Islam

Afternoon Raag Amit Chaudhuri

Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazl

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Deepak Chopra

Akbarnama Abul Fazl

Amar Kosh Amar Singh

An Equal Music Vikram Seth

All the Prime Minister’s Men Janardan Thakur

Arthashastra Kautilya

An Idealist View of Life Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Devi Chaudhurani Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Anandmath Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru

Autobiography of an Unknown India Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Book Author

Bandicoot Run Manohar Malgonkar

Beginning of the Beginning Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh

Beyond Modernization, Beyond Self Sisir Kumar Ghosh

Bhagavad Gita S. Radhakrishnan

Border and Boundaries; women in India’s Partition Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin

Bharat Bharati Maithili Saran Gupt

Bride and the Sahib and the Other Stories Khushwant Singh

Broken Wings Sarojini Naidu

Bubble Mulk Raj Anand

The Bread, Beauty and Revolution Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

By God’s Decree Kapil Dev

Chemmeen Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Chitra Rabindranath Tagore

Circle of Reason Amitav Ghosh

Circle of Silence Preeti Singh

Clear Light of Day Anita Desai

Confessions of a Lover Mulk Raj Anand

Conquest of Self Mahatma Gandhi

Coolie Mulk Raj Anand

Book Author

Court Dancer Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore

Days of My Years H.P. Nanda

Death of a City Amrita Pritam

Devdas Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru

Divine Life Swami Sivananda

Durgesh Nandini Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Dynamics of Social Change Chandra Shekhar

Eight Lives Rajmohan Gandhi

Essays on Gita Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

Eternal Himalayas Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia

Faces of Everest Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia

Foreign Policy of India I.K. Gujral

Forty-Nine Days Amrita Pritam

From Rajpath to Lokpath Vijaya Raje Schindhia

Ganadevata Tara Sankar Bandyopadhyay

Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar

Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore

Book Author

Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru

Godan Prem Chand

Geet Govinda Jayadeva

Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu

Guide R.K. Narayan

Harsha Charita Bana Bhatta

Harvest Manjula Padmanabhan

Heir Apparent Dr. Karan Singh

Himalayan Blunder Brigadier J.P. Dalvi

Hind Swaraj M.K. Gandhi

Hindu View of Life Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Hinduism Nirad C. Chaudhuri

History of India Romila Thapar

Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard Kiran Desai

Hungary Stones Rabindranath Tagore

I follow the Mahatma K.M. Munshi

Idols Sunil Gavaskar

India Divided Rajendra Prasad

Book Author

India Unbound Gurucharan Das

India of Our Dreams M.V. Kamath

India wins Freedom Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

India’s Priceless Heritage N.A. Palkhivala

Indian Philosophy Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Inscrutable Americans Anurag Mathur

Ignited Minds A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri

It’s Always Possible Kiran Bedi

Jai Somnath K.M. Munshi

Junglee Girl Ginu Kamani

Kagaz Te Canwas Amrita Pritam

Kamasutra S.H. Vatsayayan

Kanthapura Raja Rao

Kapala Kundala Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Kashmir: A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh

Kashmir: A Tragedy of Errors Tavleen Singh

Kamayani Jai Shankar Prasad

Kulliyat Ghalib
Book Author

Kumar Sambhava Kalidas

Last Burden Upamanyu Chatterjee

Lipika Rabindranath Tagore

Life Divine Sri Aurbindo Ghosh

Lost Child Mulk Raj Anand

My Days R.K. Narayan

My India S. Nihal Singh

My Life and Times V.V. Giri

My Music, My Life Pt. Ravi Shankar

My Presidential Years R. Venkatraman

My Truth Indira Gandhi

New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy A.B. Vajpayee

Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi

Operation Bluestar: The True Story Lt. Gen K.S. Brar

Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray

Painter of Signs R.K. Narayan

Panchatantra Vishnu Sharma

Past Forward G.R. Narayanan

Pather Panchali Bibhuti Bhushan

Book Author

Plain Speaking N. Chandrababu Naidu

Portrait of India Ved Mehta

Post Office Rabindranath Tagore

Prem Pachisi Munshi Prem Chand

Rajtarangini Kalhana

Ram Charita Manas Tulsidas

Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki

Raghuvamsa Kalidas

Ranghbhoomi Prem Chand

Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan

Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) Gulzar

Red Earth and Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra

Ritu Samhara Kalidas

Saket Maithili Sharan Gupt

Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand

Shadow from Ladakh Bhabani Bhattacharya

Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India Gita Mehta

Social Change in Modern India M.N. Srinivas

Sultry Days Shobha De

Book Author

Sunny Days Sunny Days

The Bride’s Book of Beauty Mulk Raj Anand

The Cat and Shakespeare Raja Rao

The Dark Room R.K. Narayan

The Degeneration of India T.N. Seshan

The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

The Golden Gate Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth Kuldeep Nayar

The Man who killed Gandhi Manohar Malgonkar

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Deepak Chopra

The Songs of India Sarojini Naidu

The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi

The Strange and Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri

The Sword and the Sickle Mulk Raj Anand

The Vendor of Sweets R.K. Narayan

The Way of the Wizard Deepak Chopra

The Girmitiya Saga Girraj Kishore

Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh

 Book Author

Two Leaves and a Bud Mulk Raj Anand

Victoria and Abdul Shrabani Basu

Waiting for the Mahatma R.K. Narayan

Wake Up India Annie Besant

We, Indians Khushwant Singh

Yama Mahadevi Verma

Yashodhara Maithili Sharan Gupt

Years of Pilgrimage Dr. Raja Ramanna

The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation Pranab Mukherjee

The Dramatic Decade The Indira Gandhi Year’s Pranab Mukherjee

Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru

Letters from a Father to her Daughter Jawaharlal Nehru

MCQ on Important Books and Authors

MCQ on Important Books and Authors :

Que 1. Who is the author of the book “India After Gandhi The History of the World’s Largest
Democracy”?
(a) Madhav Gandhi
(b) Ramachandra Guha
(c) Romila Thapar
(d) Sujit Mukherjee

Ans.(b) Ramachandra Guha

Explanation– Ramachandra Guha is the author of the book “India After Gandhi The History of the
World’s Largest Democracy”.

Que 2. Which one of the below is not a novel written by R.K Narayan?
(a) Such a long journey
(b) Swami and friends
(c) The Bachelor of arts
(d) The English teacher

Ans. (a) Such a long journey

Explanation-Such a long journey is written by Rohinton Mistry.

Que 3. Who is the author of the novel “2 states: The story of my marriage”?
(a) Chetan Bhagat
(b) Ravindra Singh
(c) Sudeep Nagarkar
(d) None of these

Ans. (a) Chetan Bhagat

Explanation– Chetan Bhagat is the author of the book “2 states: The story of my marriage”.

Que 4. Which is the autobiography of A.P.J Abdul Kalam?

(a) My truth
(b) Wings of fire
(c) The story of my life
(d) None of these

Ans. (b) Wings of fire

Explanation– Wings of fire is the autobiography of A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.

Que 5. Who is the author of the novel “The Serpent and the Rope”?
(a) Raja Rao
(b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Vikram Singh

Ans. (a) Raja Rao

Explanation– Raja Rao is the author of the novel “The Serpent and the Rope”.

Que 6. For which novel Nayantara Sahgal was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for English?
(a) A Time to be Happy
(b) The Day in Shadow
(c) Rich Like Us
(d) None of these

Ans. (c) Rich Like Us

Explanation– Rich Like Us novel Nayantara Sahgal was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for English.

Que 7. Which is the First novel written by Ruskin Bond?

(a) Angry River
(b) Delhi is not Far
(c) The Room on the Roof
(d) The blue umbrella

Ans. (c) The Room on the Roof

Explanation– The Room on the Roof is the first novel written by Ruskin Bond.
Que 8. Who is the author of the novel “A Bend in the Ganges”?
(a) Manohar Malgonkar
(b)Amitav Ghosh
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) None of these

Ans.(a) Manohar Malgonkar

Explanation– Manohar Malgonkar is the author of the novel “A Bend in the Ganges”.

Que 9. Which one of the given books is written by Sunetra Gupta?

(a) Scholar Extraordinary
(b) Memories of Rain
(c) An Artist in Life
(d) All of these

Ans. (b) Memories of Rain

Explanation– Sunetra Gupta is the author of Memories of Rain.

Que 10. Who is the author of the novel “Train to Pakistan”?

(a) Manohar Malgonkar
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Khushwant Singh
(d) Amrita Pritam

Ans. (c) Khushwant Singh

Explanation– Khushwant Singh is the author of the novel “Train to Pakistan”.

Que 11. Who is the author of the novel “Em and the Big Hoom”?
(a) Keshava Guha
(b) Jerry Pinto
(c) Manu Joseph
(d) None of these

Ans. (b) Jerry Pinto

Explanation– Jerry Pinto is the author of the novel “Em and the Big Hoom”.

Que 12. Which book was written by Kalhana?

(a) Harshacharita
(b) Arthashastra
(c) Indika
(d) Rajatarangini

Ans. (d) Rajatarangini

Explanation-Rajatarangini was written by Kalhana.

Que 13. Who is the author of the novel “Sea of Poppies”?

(a) Sudipta Kaviraj
(b) Aravind Adiga
(c) Sunil Khilnani
(d) Amitav Ghosh

Ans. (d) Amitav Ghosh

Explanation– Amitav Ghosh is the author of the novel “Sea of Poppies”.
Que 14. Who is the author of the book “Midnight’s Children”?
(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) Amitav Ghosh
(c) Kiran Desai
(d) None of these

Ans. (a) Salman Rushdie

Explanation– Salman Rushdie is the author of the book “Midnight’s Children”.

Que 15. Who is the author of the novel “The White Tiger”?
(a) Cyrus Mistry
(b) Aravind Adiga
(c) Manju Kapur
(d) None of these

Ans. (b) Aravind Adiga

Explanation– Aravind Adiga is the author of the novel “The White Tiger”.

Que 16. Who is the author of “Mahabharata”?

(a) Valmiki
(b) Vyasa
(c) Vasishtha
(d) Vishnu Sharma

Ans. (b) Vyasa

Explanation– Vyasa is the author of “Mahabharata”.

Que 17. Who is the author of the novel “Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer”?
(a) Cyrus Mistry
(b) Manju Kapur
(c) Shashi Tharoor
(d) None of these

Ans. (a) Cyrus Mistry

Explanation– Cyrus Mistry is the author of the novel “Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer”.

Que 18. Which one of the below is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore?

(a) Jagir
(b) Durgeshnandini
(c) Gora
(d) Ganadevata

Ans. (c) Gora

Explanation– Gora is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore.

Que 19. Who is the author of the book “The Idea of India”?
(a) Sunil Khilnani
(b) Kiran Nagarkar
(c) Shiv K Kumar
(d) None of these

Ans. (a) Sunil Khilnani

Explanation– Sunil Khilnani is the author of the book “ The Idea of India”.
Que 20. Who is the author of the book “The Last Mughal: The Fail of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857”?
(a) Katherine Mayo
(b) Gregory David Roberts
(c) William Dalrymple
(d) E.M.Forster

Ans. (c) William Dalrymple

Explanation– William Dalrymple is the author of the book “The Last Mughal: The Fail of a Dynasty,
Delhi 1857”.

Some Important Foreign Writers and their Books

Some Important Facts about Books and their Authors:

 Jane Austen, one of England’s greatest writers, nearly died at the age of seven. Both Jane
and her sister Cassandra contracted diphtheria in Oxford. Luckily, Jane’s cousin, Jane Cooper,
sent a letter to Jane’s mother, who rushed to her two daughters with a herbal remedy.

 Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll was in dire financial straits. Despite paying his
debts on time, he often overran by more than £7,500. This is even more ironic considering
that Carroll was a mathematics student at Oxford.

 Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus at the age of 18. It was
released just two years later.

 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo was not only popular with Parisians in the 19th century. This
powerful novel was one of the most read books among American soldiers in the Civil War.
The Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud once attended a lecture by the American icon
Mark Twain. The subject of Twain’s lecture, however, had nothing to do with the complexity
of the human psyche. Mark Twain was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s neighbour in Hartford,
Connecticut.

 George Eliot was a woman. Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pseudonym because women
authors were not as highly regarded as men. Like George Eliot, Evans wrote several novels
that rank among the best of all time.

 Vladimir Nabokov was not only a world-famous author, but also a serious lepidopterist, or
butterfly researcher. He was a comparative zoology researcher at Harvard, where much of
his butterfly collection survives today.

 Before he found success as a writer, Salman Rushdie wrote for Ogilvy and Mather. He has
dreamed up several famous campaigns, including ‘cheeky but nice’ and ‘irresistible!”
  William Shakespeare’s legacy lives on not only in his many works but also in his contributions
to the English language.

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the Sherlock Holmes series, had a very public
friendship with master illusionist Harry Houdini. However, when Houdini heard that Doyle
believed in spiritualism and thought that Houdini had real magical powers, the friendship
quickly ended.

 American author William Faulkner wrote the draft of one of his novels on the walls of his
office in Oxford, Mississippi. Visitors to Faulkner’s Rowan Oak can still see the author’s
handwritten notes for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Fable on these walls. Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, helped establish a significant commune near
Boston in 1841. However, Hawthorne left that commune a few months later after finding it
difficult to write with all the blisters he got from cutting straw and shovelling manure. His
lesser-known novel, The Blithedale Romance, tells of this experience.

 The French writer Stendhal has a clinically recognized disease named after him: Stendhal
Syndrome. Symptoms of this disease include fainting, shortness of breath, and palpitations
when viewing exquisite works of art. Stendhal’s name was chosen for this illness because he
nearly fainted after seeing the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.

List of Important Foreign Writers and Their Books:

Writer Books

Adam Smith Wealth of Nations

Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf

Albert Einstein The World as I See it

Alexander
August 1914
Solzhenitsyn

A.L.Basham The Wonder that was India

Anton Chekhov Cherry Orchard

Arthur Hailey Airport

Aristotle Politics

Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago

David Baldacci Absolute Power

Dante Divine Comedy

E. M. Foster A passage to India

Homer Odyssey, Iliad

H. G. Wells shape of Things to Come

Harold Evans Good Times, Bad Times

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer

Issac Newton Principia

Katherine Mayo Mother India

Machiavelli The Prince

Maxim Gorky Mother

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,

Charles Darwin Origin of Species

William Shakespeare Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare as you like it

William Shakespeare A Mid Summer Night Dream

William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare Hamlet

William Shakespeare King Lear

William Shakespeare Othello

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

George Bernard Shaw Apple Carte

George Bernard Shaw Arms and The Man

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw Candida

Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens David Copperfield

J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society

J. K. Galbraith Ambassador Journal

J. K. Galbraith The Triumph

Harold J. Laski Grammar of Politics

Harold J. Laski The dilemma of Our Time

J. M. Barrie Hindu Civilization

J. M. Barrie Peter Pan

Gunnar Myrdal Against the Stream

Gunnar Myrdal Asian Drama

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God is Within You

Z. A. Bhutto Great Tragedy

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita

Mao-Tse Tung On Contradiction

Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea

Gunter Grass The Tin Drum

William Goldings The Lord of the Files

J. K. Rowling Harry Potter

Yann Martel Life of Pi

List of Important Modern Indian History Books and their Writer

Writer Books

Raja Ram Mohan Roy Tuhfatul Muwahhidin, A Gift to the Monotheists

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Aasbabe Baghawate Hind, The College of the Indian Revolt
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Geeta Rahasya, The Arctic Home of the Vedas

Dinabandhu Mitra Neel Darpan

Home and the World, Gitanjali, Gora, The Home Coming, The
Rabindra Nath Tagore Crescent Moon

Unhappy India, History of the Arya Samaj, Young India, Hindu Muslim
Lala Lajpat Rai Unity, Message of Bhagavad Gita

Gopalkrishna Gokhale Political Testament of Gokhale

Mahatma Gandhi Hind Swaraj, Experimental with the Truth Sarvodaya,

Dayanand Saraswati Satyarth Prakash

Romesh Chunder Dutt Economic History of India

Surendra Nath Banerjee A Nation in Making, Thought of India,

Dadabhai Naoroji Poverty and un-British Rule in India

Bankim Chandra
Chatterjee Anandamath, Dharma Tattva

M. G. Ranade Social Reforms and Rise of Maratha Power, Lecture on Religion

How India fought for Freedom, India a Nation, India Bount and Free,
Annie Besant The Future of the Indian Politics

Chittaranjan Das India for Indians, Builders of Modern India

Sarojini Naidu Broken Wing, Songs of India, World of Time, The Golden Threshold

Sri Aurobindo Life Divine, Essence on Geeta, Vande Mataram

Muhammad Iqbal Tarana Hind, Musafir,

Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar The War of Indian Independence, Hindutva

Dr Rajendra Prasad India Divided,

Abul Kalam Azad India Wings Freedom, Gabbar-e-Khatir

Dr S Radhakrishnan Religions and Culture, Indian Philosophy

Discovery of India, A Glimpse of World History, Indian Foreign Policy,

Jawaharlal Nehru
Panchsheel

Dr. Sampoornanand Socialism

Pakistan and Partition India, What Congress and Gandhi Have, Into
Dr B R Ambedkar
The Untouchable

Firaq Gorakhpuri Gulenagma

Subhas Chandra Bose Indian Struggle, An Indian Pilgrims

Yashpal Dada comrade

Valentine Chirol Indian Unrest

Jyotiba Phule Gulamgiri

Vijayalakshmi Pandit Scope of Happiness

Jayaprakash
Why only socialism, Congress Socialist Party towards the struggle
Narayana

Barindra Ghosh Bhavani Temple

Economic Conquest of India, Gandhi and Gandhism, History of

Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Congress

Prem Chandra Saje Watan

M l Malviya Abbhuday

Rajani Palme Dutt India Today

Bhagat Singh Why I am an atheist

M N Roy Planning in India, The Communist International

Sachchidananda
His Message
Sinha

Rahmat Ali The Millat and the Mission, New and Never

Keshub Chandra Sen Vam Vodhini

E D Vacha Speeches and Writings

Sivanath Shastri History of the Brahma Samaj

Max Muller Life of Ramakrishna

Muhammad Ali Time and Tide

Jinnah

V P Menon The Transfer of the Power of India

Motilal Nehru The Voice of Freedom

Swami Vivekananda Dharma Tattva, Dharma Mystery

C F Andrews The Renaissance in India

The Aga Khan India in Transition

Henry Cotton New India

M R Jayakar The Story of My Life

B C Pal Responsible Government

List Of Important Medieval History Books And Their Writer

 Akbarnama

 Ain-i-Akbari

 Five Diwans

 Khamsa

 Aijaze Khusravi

 Faljalul Vaid

Writer Books

Nasiruddin Chach nama (Translated it into Farsi by Muhammed Ali Bin Abu Bakar
Quabacha Kufi in 1600)

Hassan Nizami Taj-ul Masir

Writer Books

Minhaj Us Siraj Tabakate Nasiri

Chand Bardoi Prthviraj Raso

 Tarikh-i-Firozshahi
Ziauddin Barani
 Fatwa-e-Jahandari

 Tuzuk-i-Babri

Babur  Diwan

 Risal-i-Usaj

Gulbadan Begum Humayunnama

Abul Fazl

Jahangir Tuzuk-i- Jahangir

Amir Khusrau

Kiranusain, Mifataulfatuh, Devalrani Khizr Khan, NuheSipehar, Khazain

Amir Khusrau
Ul Fatuh, Tughlaqnama

Alberuni Tehqeeq-e-Hind

Ibn Battuta
Rehla

Firoz Shah Tughlaq Futuhat-e – Firoz Shahi

Isami Futuh-us-Salatin
Writer Books

Yahya bin Sirhindi Tarikh-e-Mubarakshahi

Abbas Khan
Tarikh e Shershahi
Shekhani

Ishwardasnagar Futuhat e Alamgiri

Ahmad Yadgar Tarikh e Salatin e Afghan

Abdullah Tarikh e Dawoodi

Mir Muhammad
Tarikh-e-Sindh
Masoom

Al Utbi Tarikh-e-Yamini

Taimur Malfuzat-e-Taimuri

Ali Yazdi Zafarnama

Muhammad Ali Kufi Chachnama

Firdausi Shahnama

Mir Hasan Dehlavi Fawaid-ul-Fawad

Mirza Haider Tarikh-e-Rashidi

Writer Books

Jauhar Aftabchi Tajkirat-ul-Waqiyat

Nizamuddin Ahmad Tabaqat-e-Akbari

Khafi Khan Muntakhab-ul-Lubaab

Bhimsen Nuskha-e-Dilkhusa

Faizi Nal-Damayanti

Majal-ul-Bahrain, Bhagavad Gita, Sirr-e-Akbar,Yogavasistha, Safinat-al-

Darashikoh
Auliya, Shakinat-al-Auliya

Abul Fazl Bahar-e-Damish, Kalila and Dimna, Razmanama,

Mutamid Khan Iqbalnama

Ganga Devi Madurai Victory

Madhvacharya Narkasurvijay

Krishnadevaraya Amuktamalyada, Jambati Kalyanam

Lakshmidhara Saundarya Lahari

Tenliramakrishna Pandurang Mahatmya

Srinatha Shringar Naishadha, Haravilasamu

Writer Books

Devaraya II Mahanatak Sudhanidhi, Brahmasutra Commentary

Aalha Sani Peddana Manucharitra

Jagannath Pandit Gangaalhari

Maharana Kumbha Sangeet Ratnakar, Sangeet Mimamsa

Bhanudutt Rastarangini

Jai Singh Suri Hammir Mardan

Vinaya Patrika, Ramcharitmanas, Barvai Ramayana, Parvati Mangal,

Tulsidas
Ramlala Nahchu

Surdas Sur Sagar, Nal – Damayanti

Kabir Sakhi, Bijak, Rekhta, Gyan sagar

Malik Muhammad
Akhravat, Akhiri Kalam , Padmavat
Jayasi

Malukdas Chitravali

Jagnik Alhakhand

Narpati Nalh Bisaldevraso

Sant Dnyaneshwar Dnyaneshwari

Writer Books

Samarth Ramdas Dasbodh

Eknath Rukmini Swayamvar

Important Ancient Indian History Books and their Writer

Writer Books

Valmiki Ramayan

Ved Vyasa Mahabharat

Panini Astadhyayi

Bhasa Urbana, Charudatta, Pratigya Yaugandharayana, Swapnavasavadatta

Yaska Nirukta

Kapila Maharishi Samkhya Darshana

Manu Manu Smriti

Raja Hala Gatha Saptasati

Maharishi Charak Charak Samhita

Abhigyan Shakuntalam, Kumarasambhava, Vikramorvasiyam,

Kalidasa
Ritusamhara, Meghdoot, Malavikagnimitra, Raghuvansh
Writer Books

Visakhadatta Mudrarakshasa, Devichandraguptam

Shudraka Mrichhakatikam

Bharavi Kiratarjunya

Magha Shishupala Slaughter

Bhartrihari Vakyapradeep

kanada Vaisheshik

Gautam Nyayasutra

Kautilya(Chanakya) Arthashastra

Sushruta Sushruta Samhita

Vishnu Sharma Panchatantra

Patanjali Mahabhashya

Subandhu Vasavadatta

Varahamihira Panchasiddhantika, Vritasamhita

Rishi Jaimini Mimamsa

Bhagbata Astangaheart
Writer Books

Bharatmuni Natyashastra

Rajashekhara Kavya Mimansa, Bal Ramayan, Prachanda Pandava, Bhuvankosh

Bhritarhari Shrangaar Shatak

Harshavardhana Nagananda, Ratnavali, Priyadarsika

Shavvarman Katantra

Lakshmidhar Krtyakalpataru

Vatsyayana Kamasutra

Harisena Brhatkathakosa

Bilhana Vikramankadev charitra

Amoghavarsha Kaviraj Marg

Someshvara III Manasollasa

Narayana Bhatt Hitopadesha

Gunadhya Brihat katha manjari

Haribhadra Suri Kathakosh

Mahendravarman I- Matavilasprahasan
Writer Books

Banabhatta Kadambari, Harsh charitra

Bhaskaracharya – II Lilavati

jimutavahana Daybhag

Kalhana Rajatarangini

Jayadeva Gita Govinda

Vasubandhu Abhidharma Kosha

Vijnaneshwara Mitakshara

Pravarasena II Setubandhu

Bhaskaracharya II Algebra, Siddhant Shiromani

Hemachandra Parishistaparvan

Chand Bardai Prithviraj Raso

Jayanaka Prithviraj Vijay

Malik Mohammad
Padmavat
Jayasi