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List of Important Books and Authors

Last Updated : 20 Mar, 2024
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In SSC, Banking, LIC, Railways, and other competitive exams, the General Awareness section plays an important role nowadays since it is a very scoring section. In this article, we will cover one of the topics of this section i.e “List of Important Books and Authors (Indian)”. This is a very easy topic and if students read it comprehensively they will score good marks and the possibility of their selection will increase.

Important facts about Books:

  • 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

 



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