List of Important Books and Authors
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 |