One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
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Famous Books and Authors
Books have always been a part of growth, the books are indeed a wonder that anyone can possess, books shape characters, ideologies, thoughts and what not, today in this article we will learn about some immortal books and their genius authors which impacted major portions of societies and documented all the marvels of World.
Books and Authors is a very important part of Static Gk, every defence exam carries question related to books and authors, we are enlisting all major books important from the examination point of view so you don’t have to waste your time looking for them.
Famous Books and Authors from Ancient India
| Books | Authors |
| Mudrarakshasa | Visakdatta |
| Rajtarangini | Kalhana |
| Kathasaritsagar | Somdeva |
| Kamasutra | Vatsayana |
| Prashnottarmalika | Amoghavarsha |
| Swapanvasdattam | Bhasa |
| Buddha charita | Asvaghosa |
| Natyashastra | Bharata |
| Abhigyan Shakuntala Vikramorvashi Raghuvansan |
Kalidasa |
| Amarkosa | Amarshmha |
| Panchsidhantika Brihat Samhita |
Varharmihara |
| Surya Sidhanta Aryabhatta |
Aryabhatta |
| Panch tantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Nitisara | Kamandaka |
| Aihole Prasasti | Ravi Kriti |
| Indica | Megasthanese |
| Arthasastra | Kautilya |
| Charaka Samhita | Charaka |
| Lilawati | Bhaskara II |
| Harshacharita Kadambari Nagananda Ratnavali |
Harsha vardhan |
| Gathasaptashati | Hala |
| Nitisara | Kamandaka |
| Astadhyayi | Panini |
| Mahabhasya | Patanjli |
| Naishadhacharitra | Sri Harsha |
| Mrichhakatika | Sudraka |
| Gitagovinda | Jayadev |
| Navratna | Virsena |
Famous Books and Authors from Medieval India
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Fatuhat-i-Firoz | Firoz Shah Tughlaq |
| Khamsab | Amir Khusrau |
| Khazain-ul-Futuh | Amir Khusrau |
| Kitab-fi-Tahqiq | Alberuni |
| Nuh-Siphir | Amir Khusrau |
| Kitab-ul-Raha | Ibn Batuta |
| Shah Nb ama | Firdausi |
| Tahquq-i-Hind | Alberuni |
| Tabaqat-i-Nasiri | Minhaj-us-Siraj |
| Tughlaq-Nama | Amir Khusrau |
| Chandayan | Maulana Daud |
| Himayun Nama | Gulbadan Begum |
| Bhavartha Dipika | Gyaneshwara |
| Safarnama or Rihla | Ibn Batuta |
| Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (Autobiography) | Jehangir |
| Tarikh-i-Shershahi | Abbas Sarwani |
Famous Books and Authors from Modern India
| Books | Authors |
| Young India Harijan Navjivan Hindu Swarajya My Experiments With Truth |
M.K. Gandhi (Mahattma Gandhi) |
| Kesri The Maratha Gita Rahasya |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Discovery of India Glimpses of World History Meri Kahani |
Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| Al Hilal India Wins Freedom Gubare Khatir |
Maulana Abdul Kalam Aazad |
| Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| India Divided | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Hints For Self Culture | Lala Hardayal |
| Bangali A Nation In Making |
Surendra Nath Banarji |
| War Of Indian Independence | Veer Savarkar |
| Geetanjali Home and The World Gora Hungry Stones Chandalika Visarjan |
RavindraNath Tagore |
| Abhyuday Hindustan Leader |
Madan Mohan Malviya |
| Nation | Gopal Krishna Gokhle |
| Indian Mirror Vaam Bodhini |
Keshav Chandra Sen |
| Neel Darpan | Dinbandhu Mitra |
| Karmyogi Yugantar Savitri Life Divine Essays On Gita Bande Matram |
Arvind Ghosh |
| Tarane Hind Baange Dara |
Muhammad Iqbal |
| Commonweal New India |
Annie Besant |
| Indian Struggle | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Kaal | Paranjape |
| Comred Hamdard |
Muhammad Ali |
| Samvad Kaumudi | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Som Prakash | Ishwarchadra Vidyasagar |
| Independent | Motilal Nehru |
| Rust Guftgur Poverty And Un British Rule In India |
Dada Bhai Naurauji |
| Amrit Bazar Patrika | Shishir Kumar Ghosh |
| Free Hindustan | Tarak Nath Das |
| The Revolutionary | Shachindra Sanyal |
| Satyarth Darpan | Dayanand Sarswati |
| History Of Congress | Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya |
| Indian Unrest | Valentine Chirol |
| India For Indians | Chittaranjan Das |
| Anand Math Devi Chaudharani |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| Bharat Durdasha | Bhartendu Harishchandra |
| Divine Life | Shivanand |
| A Voice Of Freedom | Nayantara Sahgal |
Famous Books and Authors Miscellaneous
| Books | Authors |
| A passage to India | E.M.Forster |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A Week with Gandhi | Louis Fisher |
| A Woman’s Life | Guy de Maupassaut |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Adventures of Tom Saweyer | Mark Twain |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Shakespeare |
| Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| Around the World in eighty days | Jules Verne |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| Avigyan Sakuntalam | Kalidas |
| Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| China Passage | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| Confessions | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Divine Comedy | Dante |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde | Stevenson |
| For whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Freedom at Midnight | Dominique Lapierre |
| French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle |
| Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
| Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Grammar of Politics | Harold T.Laski |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Illiad | Homer |
| Invisible Man | H.G.Wells |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| King Lear | Shakespeare |
| Les Miserable | Victor Hugo |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Man and Superman | G.B.Shaw |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| My experiments with Truth | Mahatma M.K.Gandhi |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| Old Man and the Sea | Earnest Hemingway |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Origin of species | Charles Darwin |
| Othello | Shakespeare |
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Paradise lost | John Milton |
| Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Principia | Issac Newton |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Shape of Things to Come | H.G.Wells |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
| The Class | Erich Byron |
| The Clown | Heinrich Boll |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Merchant of venice | William shakespeare |
| The Other Side of Midnight | Sindye Sheldon |
| The Post Office | R.N.Tagore |
| The Tempest | Shakespeare |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Utopia | Sir Thomas Moor |
| War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Waste Land | T.S.Eliot |
Famous Books and Authors 2021
| Book | Authors |
|---|---|
| “Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947 | Ayaz Memon |
| India-Pakistan War 1971 | MM Naravane |
| Conversations’ | Brijinder Nath Goswamy |
| Cooking to Save your Life | Abhijit Banerjeepens |
| Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World” | Autobiography of Ban Ki-moon |
| India Vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win- | Syed Akbaruddin |
| Lal Salaam” | Union Minister Smriti Irani |
| The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India | Debashish Mukerji |
| Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival” | Ajay Chhibber and Salman Anees |
| FORCE IN STATECRAFT | Dr Ajay Kumar |
| Sunrise over Ayodhya” | Salman Khurshid |
| Nehru: The Debates that Defined India” | Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain |
| The Sage with Two Horns | Sudha Murty |
| Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman” | Chidanand Rajghatta |
| Writing for My Life” | Ruskin Bond |
| The Origin Story of India’s States | Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan |
| The Stars in My Sky: Those Who Brightened My Film Journey” | Divya Dutta |
| Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion And Nation” | Shafey Kidwai |
| Economist Gandhi: The Roots and the Relevance of the Political Economy of the Mahatma | Jaithirth Rao, popularly known as Jerry Rao |
| Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth | Wole Soyinka |
| The Battle of Rezang La” | Kulpreet Yadav |
| The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations | Nirupama Rao |
| The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India | Vijay Gokhale |
| Jungle Nama” | Amitav Ghosh’s |
| 400 Days | Chetan Bhagat |
| The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India” | Kaveree Bamzai |
| Translating Myself and Others’ | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Shining Sikh Youth of India’ | Dr. Prabhleen Singh |
| Human Rights and Terrorism in India’ | BJP MP Subramanian Swamy. |
| Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster | Uday Bhatia |
| Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine Odyssey” | Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee. |
| A Rude Life: The Memoir | Vir Sanghvi |
| Back to the Roots’ | Luke Coutinho |
| Know Your Rights and Claim Them: A Guide for Youth” | Angelina Jolie & Geraldine Van Bueren QC. |
| ‘Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government | K J Alphons |
| ‘Battlefield’ | Vishram Bedekar |
| “Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest” | Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar |
| ‘Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID’ | Ritu Menon |
| “OPERATION KHUKRI” | Major General Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia |
| “The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan” | Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad |
| The Earthspinner | Anuradha Roy |
| How the Earth Got Its Beauty | Sudha Murty |
| The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14-Year-Old | Brisha Jain |
| Balakot airstrikes 2019 | Manan Bhatt |
| Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India’ | Sanjay Gubbi |
| My Own Mazagon | Ramesh Babu |
| ‘In An Ideal World’ in 2022 | Kunal Basu |
| ‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation’ | Ashok Lavasa |
| Bank With A Soul: Equitas’ | Dr. C K Garyali |
| The India Story | Bimal Jalan |
| The Struggle Within A Memoir of the Emergency | Ashok Chakravarti |
| The Ramayana Of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji | Late Baljit Kaur Tulsi |
| The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined The Buddha | Jairam Ramesh |
| Lady Doctors’ | Kavitha Rao’s |
| Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin” | Dhaval Kulkarni |
| Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington D.C” | Kaushik Basu |
| Fiercely Female: Story of Dutee Chand” | Sundeep Misra |
| It’s a Wonderful Life” | Ruskin Bond |
| Will’ | Smith has co-written the book with self-help author Mark Manson |
| The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis’ | Amitav Ghosh |
| Home in the World: A Memoir” | Amartya Sen |
| Languages of Truth | Salman Rushdie |
| Stargazing: The Players in My Life’ | Ravi Shastri’s |
| Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924-1966) | Vikram Sampath |
| India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present’ | Shivshankar Menon. |
| Nehru, Tibet and China” | Avtar Singh Bhasin. |
| Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance | Preet Mohan Singh Malik |
| “Life in the Clock Tower Valley” | Shakoor Rather |
| ‘Elephant In The Womb’ | Kalki Koechlin |
| The Bench | Meghan Markle |
| “Whereabouts”. | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| “The Living Mountain” | Amitav Ghosh |
| “Climate Change Explained – for one and all”, | Aakash Ranison |
| ‘The Christmas Pig | JK Rowling |
| ‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’ | Co-authored by Raina and sports author Bharat Sundaresan, |
| Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’ | Nitin Gokhale |
| Suparipalana | Dr Shailendra Joshi |
| Names of the Women” | Jeet Thayil |
| My Experiments with Silence’ | Samir Soni |
| Dawn Under The Dome. | Swati Pandey in collaboration with Orchida Mukherjee. |
| Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph”, | Anant Vijay’s |
| “The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle” | Pashto and published in 1983. |
| Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis”, | Anindya Dutta |
| “Stories I Must Tell An Actor’s Emotional Journey,” | Kabir Bedi |
| “Maveric Messiah” | Ramesh Kandula |
| ‘ASOCA: A Sutra’ | Irwin Allan Sealy’s |
| The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News”. | Meghna Pant |
| Starstruck: Confessions of a TV executive’. | Peter Mukerjea |
| Unfinished: A Memoir”, | Priyanka Chopra Jonas |
| By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life’ | M Hamid Ansari |
| Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World | Sangeet Paul Choudhary |
| Beautiful Things’ | Hunter Biden |
| The Little Book of Encouragement | Dalai Lama |
| ‘Manohar Parrikar- Off the Record’ | Waman Subha Prabhu. |
| ‘The Commonwealth of Cricket’ | Ramchandra Guha’s |
| “Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo” | Lt General Konsam Himalaya Singh |
| “The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India”. | S Y Quraishi |
| ”Right Under our Nose” | R Giridharan |
| ‘India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia | R. Kaushik, |
| Vahana Masterclass | Alfredo Covelli, |
Famous Books and Authors 2022
Make sure that you go through this latest released Books and Authors list beofre going for any defence exam as it is going to be very useful –
| 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 Crises” | Dr Sreeram Chauliahas |
| “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 Sikh History and Philosophy” | Avinash Khemka & Abinash Mahapatra |
| ‘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 reclaiming one’s life’ | Former Indian Army Captain, Deepam Chatterjee |
| ‘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 Usha Uthup’ | Vikas Kumar Jha |
| ‘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, Constitution’ | J Sai Deepak |
| ‘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 Reinvented War’ | Samuel Moyn |
| ‘Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us’ | Ro Khanna |
| ‘A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction’ | Uma Das Gupta |
| ‘A Nation To Protect’ | Priyam Gandhi Mody |
| ‘The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley’ | Jimmy Soni |
| ‘The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations’ | Anirudh Suri |
| ‘Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India. | Dhirendra K. Jha |
| ‘Mamata: Beyond 2021’ | Jayanta Ghosal |
| ‘Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’ | Dr. Thomas Matthew |
| ‘Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work, and Leadership’ | Arundhati Bhattacharya |
| ‘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 Independence’ | Ruskin Bond |
| ‘The $10 Trillion Dream’ | Subhash Chandra Garg |
