Teaching candidates who are preparing for the ongoing or upcoming Government teaching exams must check the following article. Teaching aspirants will find a detailed list of Books and Authors of the last 5 years. books are Authors are a very common topic within the General Awareness section. Candidates often find questions on Books and Authors in the Teaching Exams such as KVS, Rajasthan Grade 3, NVS, and so on. To stay updated in the current affairs and static GK section, the candidates must read topics such as Books and their Authors.
To help the candidates improve their preparedness, Adda247 bring a list of Book and Authors 2023. Read the following article carefully and thoroughly to be able to secure some crucial points in their Teaching Job Exams 2023.
Book and Authors 2023
It is common to witness 2-3 questions on Books and their Authors in any Government Teaching Exam 2023. Therefore, candidates must check out the names of famous Books and Authors of at least 5 years to have a better grip on this topic. In the following article, the candidates will find more than 150 names of Books and Authors that have been published in the last 5 years and the books that have the potential to make a question in the upcoming Teaching Job Exams 2023 such as KVS PRT, TGT and PGT Exam 2023.
Book and Authors 2022
Check out the list of Books and Authors 2022 given in a tabular format for ease of reading and comprehension. The list includes famous writers and personalities such as Ruskin Bond, Preeti Shenoy, Shashi Tharoor, Smriti Irani, and so on along with the books they have published in 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 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 |
Books and Authors 2021
In the following list, candidates will find the names of the significant and influential books of 2021 such as Unfinished, Battle Ready for 21st Century, 7 Lessons from Everest – Expedition Learnings from life and Business, Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux and so on.
| Book Name | Author Name |
| ‘The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Created an Extraordinary Company’ | Narotam Sekhsaria |
| ‘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 Australia | R. Kaushik |
| 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 Rama Rao | Ramesh Kandula |
| 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 Irani’s Triumph | Anant Vijay |
| 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 life and Business | Aditya Gupta |
| 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 Child | Krishna Saksena |
| It’s a Wonderful Life | Ruskin Bond |
| Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story | Sundeep Mishra |
| Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DC | Kaushik Basu |
| Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux | Khemlata Wakhlu |
| Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine | Kavitha Rao |
| The Pregnancy Bible | Kareena Kapoor |
| The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World | Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan |
| The Great Big Lion | Chryseis Knight |
| The India Story | Bimal Jalan |
| The Stranger In The Mirror(Autobiography of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra) | Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and 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 Present in India-China Relations | Nirupama Rao |
| The Battle of Rezang La | Kulpreet Yadav |
Books and Authors 2020
Candidates find some of the most gripping and famous books of 2020 in the following table such as A Song of India by Ruskin Bond, A Promised Land by Barak Obama, Your Best Day is Today! by Anupam Kher, Let us Dream by Pope Francis and many more.
| 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 Parrikar | Sadguru Patil & Mayabhushan Nagvenkar |
| 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 Came Back | Chander Suta Dogra |
| The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump | Mary Jordan |
| Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P V Sindhu | Krishnaswamy V |
| Vijayant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero | Neha Dwivedi |
| Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City | Fang Fang |
| Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains, and Planes | Ruskin Bond |
| 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 India | RC Bhargava |
| 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 Life | Amish Tripathi and Bhavna Roy |
| Oh Mizoram | PS Sreedharan Pillai |
Books and Authors 2019
The following table consists of the names of the Books and Authors of 2019 such as the Braille edition of the book Exam Warriors by Narendra Modi, Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir by Hemant Karkare’s daughter Jui Karkare, “Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar” by Satyarth Nayak and so on.
| 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 Exam Warriors | PM Narendra Modi |
| Mind-Master | Viswanathan Anand and Susan Ninan |
| Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir | Hemant Karkare’s daughter Jui Karkare |
| “Courts of India” | Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi |
| Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir | Karkare’s Daughter Jui Karkare |
| Braille Edition of ‘Exam Warriors’ | Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
| Bridgital Nation | Shri N Chandrasekaran |
| Girl Power: Indian Women Who Broke The Rules | Neha J Hiranandani |
| From Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Explosive Ideas that Made (and Are Making) Modern Medicine | Roopa Pai |
| Fakir Hassen | ‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma–the South African Legacy’ |
| Turbulence and Triumph: The Modi Years | Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan |
| Handbook on Fisheries Statistics – 2018 | Ministry of fisheries |
| Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883-1924 | Vikram Sampath |
| Glorious Diaspora-Pride of India | Indian Diaspora Club |
| First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks | Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel |
| Obama: The Call of History | Peter Baker |
| Kashmir’s untold story: Declassification | Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza |
| “Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar” | Satyarth Nayak |
| Manav | Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Persistent Systems |
| ‘The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World’ | St James House and the History of Parliament Trust |
| 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- Memories of a Military Chief” | Sushil Kumar |
| Vivekadeepini | Adi Shankaracharya |
| “Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly”. | Anupam Kher |
| “Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge” | Ashis Ray |
| 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 Lives of V K Krishna Menon’ | Jairam Ramesh |
| ‘Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way’ | Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji |
| ‘The Heartfulness way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformation’ | Kamlesh Patil & Joshua Pollock |
| Darkness to light | Lamar Odom |
| Fire and Fury Corps — Saga of Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice’, | Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh |
| Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher Education | M Venkaiah Naidu |
| We are Displaced | Malala Yousafzai |
| ‘Saffron Swords’ | Manoshi Sinha Rawal |
| “The New Delhi Conspiracy” | Meenakshi Lekhi |
| ‘Law, Justice and Judicial Power- Justice P N Bhagwati’s Approach’ | Mool Chand Sharma |
| ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ | Mr. Suri |
| ‘Every Vote Counts- The story of India’s Elections’ | Navin Chawla |
| ‘Virat: The making of a Champion’ | Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar |
| ‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’ | P. Chidambaram |
| From Possession to Freedom | R Uma Maheswari |
| The Third Pillar | Raghuram Rajan |
| ‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’ | Ruchir Sharma |
| Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook | Saba Naqvi |
| Game Changer | Shahid Afridi |
| ‘Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music’ | Sharad Dutt |
| “Chandra Shekhar – The Last Icon of Ideological Politics”; | Shri Harivansh and Shri Ravi Dutt Bajpai. |
| ‘Defining India: Through Their Eyes’ | Sonia Singh |
| ‘Function of Data Sovereignty – The Pursuit of Supremacy’ | Vinit Goenka |
| ‘Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord’ | Valay Singh |
Books and Authors 2018
In the following table, the candidates will find the name of the Books and Authors from the year 2018 such as Timeless Laxman by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Changing India by Dr. Manmohan Singh, The Paradoxical Prime Minister by Shashi Tharoor and so on.
| Book Name | Authors Name |
| A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s Future through her Villages | BJP MP Varun Gandhi |
| Changing India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| Timeless Laxman | Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
| Arivu | Dr Murali Mohan Chuntharu |
| The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Womens Cricket in India | Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Pathak |
| Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior | Rima Hooja |
| The Paradoxical Prime Minister | Shashi Tharoor |
| The Rule Breakers | Preeti Shenoy |
| Experiential Learning — Gandhiji’s Nai Talim | Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar |
| From Lehman to Demonetisation: A Decade of Disruption, Reforms and Misadventures | Tamal Bandyopadhyay |
| 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 Northeast | Sanjoy Hazarika |
| Matoshree | Sumitra Mahajan |
| Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy | Yasser Usman |
| Indian Instinct | Miniya Chatterjee |
| The Coalition years | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World | Snigdha Poonam |
| Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Whitehouse | Michael Wolff |
| Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life | Sheila Dikshit |
| Mere Sapno Ka Bharat | Tarun Vijay |
| Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Syeda Saiyidan Hameed |
| Ants Among Elephants | Dujatha Gidla |
| The Constitution of India: Miracle, Surrender, Hope | Rajeev Dhavan |
| 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 Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emission | Mohammad Yunus |
| Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistan | Mehr Tarar |
| 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 India’s Green Movement | Sunita Narain |
| 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 Changing Their World and Yours | Poonam |
| My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal | Avinash Paliwal |
| A state of freedom | Neel Mukerjee |
| Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 | Ian Black |
| I do what I do | Raghuram Rajan |
| Indian Political Theory: Laying the Ground work for Swaraj | Aakash Singh Rathore |
| 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 ldentity, Nationhood and Fiction | Mushtaq Bilal |
| 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 Economy | Tim Harford |
| New Wealth of Nations | Surjit Bhalla |
| The Emergency: Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour | A Surya Prakash |
| 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 Story | Rajdeep Sardesai |
| A Republic in the Making: India in the 1950s | Gyanesh Kudaisya |
| Durand’s Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart | Rajiv Dogra |
| Origin | Dan Brown |
| The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India | GN Denvy |
| Inside Parliament: Views From the Front Row | Derek O’Brien |
| India Turns East: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry | Fredrick Grare |
| Weather Information Portal for Indian Power System | R K Singh |
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy |
| China & India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World | Bertil Lintner |
| 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 faith of atheism | Kiren Rijiju and Haulianlal Guite |
| 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 Woman in Indian Politics | Jaya Jaitely |
| Gorbachev: His Life and Times | William Taubman |
| Ambedkar Gandhi and Patel: The Making of India’s Electoral System | Raja Shekhar Vundru |
| 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 Genocide | Azeem Ibrahim |
| Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence | Francis Wade |
| Reimagining Pakistan | Husain Haggani |
| Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Syeda Hameed |
| 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 Like Ganguly | Abhirup Bhattacharya |
| The Perils of Being Moderately Famous | Soha Ali Khan |
| Directorate S: The CLA and Americas Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Steye Coll |
| Economics for the Common Good | Jean Tirole |
| Political Tribes | Amy Chua |
| Dividing Lines: Contours of the India-China Discord | KN Raghavan |
| My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism | CH Hanumantha Rao |
| Triple Talaq: Examining Faith | Salman Khurshid |
| Kashmir: Exploring the Myth Behind the Narrative | Khalid Bashir |
| The Only Story | Julian Barnes |
| She Goes to War Women Militants of India | Rashmi Saksena |
| The Future of Humanity | Michio Kaku |
| Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic Governance | Ishrat Husain |
| The Unseeing ldol of Light | KR Meera |
| Across the Universe | Ajoy Bose |
| Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? Whal Should We Do About Them? | Arun Shourie |
| Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians | Borta Majumdar |
| Indian Railway- The weaving of a National Tapestry | Bibek Debroy |
| An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradiction | Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze |
| 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: Contemporary Pasts | Romila Thapar |
| Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017 | Ankur Bhardwaj, Seema Chishti and Sushant Singh |
| Vedvigyan Alok (Maharishi Aitareya Mahidas Praneet – Aitareya Brahmina ki Vaigyanik Vyakhya) | Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik |
| The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Guided Age | James Crabtree |
| India Moving: A History of Migration | Chinmay Tumbe |
| Blessings from Beijing: Inside China’s Softpower War on Tibet | Greg Bruno |
| The Unending Game: Insights into Espionage | Vikram Sood |
| 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 Illusion of Peace | Asdulat, Aditya Sinha, Asad Durrani |
| The Zero Cost Mission/The Wily Agent | Amar Bhushan |
| The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia | Srinath Raghavan |
| 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 World (1914-1948) | Ramachandra Guha |
| The Way I See It | Gauri Lankesh, edited by writer and sociologist Chandan Gowda |
| Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji | Manu Pillai |
| From Kargil to Coup: Events That Shook Pakistan | Nasim Sehra |
| Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle | Saifuddin Soz |
| President’s Lady | Sangeeta Ghosh |
| Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neo-liberal Hindutva | Anand Teltumbde |
| Missing | Sumana Roy |
| God Save the Hon’ble Supreme Court | Fali S Nariman |
| Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters | Asad Durrani |
| Ten ldeologies: The Great Asymmetry Between Agrarianism and Industrialism | S Jaipal Reddy |
| Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio | Devendra Fadnavis |
Why Read about Books and Authors
Government exam aspirants should prioritize reading about famous books and authors of recent times for several compelling reasons. Firstly, these exams often include questions on literature, and having knowledge about renowned books and authors can significantly enhance one’s performance. Familiarity with notable literary works not only demonstrates a well-rounded education but also showcases a deeper understanding of cultural and societal influences.
Furthermore, studying recent books and authors allows aspirants to stay updated on contemporary themes and perspectives, enabling them to connect their knowledge with current affairs. By delving into the works of prominent authors, candidates can sharpen their analytical skills, improve their language proficiency, and gain a nuanced understanding of diverse narratives. Ultimately, such comprehensive reading cultivates intellectual curiosity and broadens one’s outlook, making government exam aspirants better equipped to tackle questions from various fields and excel in their chosen careers.
