Books & Authors


Books & Authors will cover 2 - 3 marks in General Awareness Section in all Competitive Exams . Here we are providing the list of some Books & Authors which were asked frequently in the previous examinations. We hope it will be helpful for your upcoming Bank Exams - IBPS, SSC, UPSC and all Competitive Exams.

List of Famous Books and their Authors for competitive Exams

  1. Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night – Salman Rushdi
  2. The Red Sari –Javier Moro
  3. Neither a Hawk nor a dove – Khurshid M Kasuari
  4. Faces and Places Professor – Deepak Nayyar
  5. Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy - Meira Kumar
  6. Farishta – Kapil Isapuari
  7. Super Economies – Raghav Bahal
  8. China :Confucius in the Shadow – Poonam Surie
  9. My country My Life - L.K.Advani
  10. Joseph Anton - Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
  11. The Sahara Testaments - Tade Ipadeola
  12. Narendra Modi: A Political Biography - Andy Marino
  13. My Unforgettable Memories - Mamata Banerjee
  14. Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri - Dr R L Bhat
  15. Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan - Daman Singh
  16. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001- 2014 - Carlotta Gall
  17. Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership - Pavan Choudary
  18. Walking With Giants - G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary )
  19. Crusader or Conspirator - Coalgate and other Truths - PC Parakh
  20. The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh - Sanjaya Baru
  21. God of Antarctica - 13 year old Yashwardhan Shukla
  22. My Years with Rajiv and Sonia - R.D.Pradhan
  23. Khushwantnama - The Lessons of My Life - Khushwant singh
  24. Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age - Alexander Bard
  25. One Life is Not Enough - Natwar Singh
  26. The Lives of Others - Neel Mukherjee
  27. My Music My Life - Pt Ravi Shankar
  28. I am Malala - Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb
  29. A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power - Bette Dam
  30. True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
  31. Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job - Faraz Ahmad
  32. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  33. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  34. And then One Day: A Memoir - Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography)
  35. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
  36. Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
  37. Truth Always Prevails - Sadruddin Hashwani
  38. Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
  39. Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) - Mary Kom
  40. Enoch, I am a British Indian - Sarinder Joshua
  41. Duroch ModiNomics - Sameer Kochar
  42. Public Issues Before Parliament - Vijay Darda
  43. Water, Peace and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis - Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
  44. Awakening India’s Social Conscience - Dr. Narendra Jadhav
  45. Munger through the Ages - Late DP Yadav
  46. Akbar – The Aesthete - Dr. Indu Anand
  47. Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
  48. India at Risk - Jaswant Singh
  49. The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker)
  50. Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector - Dr UD Choubey
  51. Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar - Dilip D’Souza
  52. Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace - Leon Panetta and Jim Newton
  53. Not Just an Accountant - former CAG Vinod Rai
  54. Grandmaster Repertoire - 1.e4 vs The French, Caro?Kann and Philidor - Parimarjan Negi
  55. A Bend in the river - V.S. Naipaul
  56. Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna - Gautam Chintamani
  57. Half Girlfriend - Chetan Bhagat
  58. Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician - Biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Spiritual Father of Pakistan)
  59. 50 years of man in space - Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher
  60. Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 - Sandeep Unnithan
  61. Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years -Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India - Rajdeep Sardesai
  62. Your Dreams Are Mine Now: She Showed him What Love -  Ravinder Singh
  63. Born Again on the Mountain - Arunima Sinha
  64. Flood of Fire – Amitav Ghosh
  65. 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories - Naina Lal Kidwai
  66. The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath - Ben S. Bernanke
  67. To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story - Jairam Ramesh
  68. Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice -  Dr. Mool Chand Sharma
  69. Ramcharitmanas (105-year-old Urdu copy ) - Shiv Brat Lal
  70. Mrs Funny bones - Twinkle Khanna
  71. Making India Awesome - Chetan Bhagat
  72. The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity - Tarun Khanna
  73. R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music - Khagesh Dev Burman
  74. Ghosts of Calcutta - Sebastian Ortiz
  75. Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India -Jairam Ramesh
  76. Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji - Abdul Kalam
  77. Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination - Teesta Setalvad
  78. Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language) - Tarun Vijay
  79. Education of Muslims - Professor JS Rajput
  80. Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy - Saptarshi Sarkar
  81. Flood of fire - Amitav Ghosh
  82. Super Economies - Raghav Bahl
  83. Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise - Pradeep Baijal
  84. Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad - Prof Bhim Singh
  85. Food for All - Uma Lele
  86. Family Life - Akhil Sharma( winner of the Folio Prize 2015)
  87. Faces and Places - Prof. Deepak Nayyar
  88. Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Speaker’s Perspective - Meira Kumar
  89. Editor Unplugged : Media, Magnates, Netas and Me - Vinod Mehta
  90. Fragile Frontiers : The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks - SK Rath
  91. Why I Assassinated Gandhi - Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse

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