List of Famous Books and their Authors for competitive Exams .

List of Famous Books and their Authors for competitive Exams.    

                 

      

• Why I Assassinated Gandhi : Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse
• Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night  –Salman Rushdi 

• The Sahara Testaments ‐ Tade Ipadeola
• Narendra Modi: A Political Biography ‐ Andy Marino
• My Unforgettable Memories ‐ Mamata Banerjee
• Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri ‐ Dr R L Bhat
• Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan ‐ Daman Singh
• The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall
• Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership ‐ Pavan Choudary
• Walking With Giants ‐ G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary )
• Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths ‐ PC Parakh
• The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‐ Sanjaya Baru
• God of Antarctica ‐ 13 year old Yashwardhan Shukla
• My Years with Rajiv and Sonia ‐ R.D.Pradhan
• Khushwantnama ‐The Lessons of My Life ‐ Khushwant singh
• Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age ‐ Alexander Bard
• One Life is Not Enough ‐ Natwar Singh
• The Lives of Others ‐ Neel Mukherjee
• My Music My Life ‐ Pt Ravi Shankar
• I am Malala ‐ Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb
• A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power ‐ Bette Dam
• True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
• Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? ‐ Faraz Ahmad
• The God of Small Things ‐ Arundhati Roy
• Interpreter of Maladies ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
• And then One Day: A Memoir ‐ Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography)
• Unaccustomed Earth ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
• Lowland ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
• Truth Always Prevails ‐ Sadruddin Hashwani
• Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
• Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) ‐ Mary Kom
• Enoch, I am a British Indian ‐ Sarinder Joshua
• Duroch ModiNomics ‐ Sameer Kochar
• Public Issues Before Parliament ‐ Vijay Darda
• Water, Peace and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis ‐ Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
• Awakening India’s Social Conscience ‐ Dr. Narendra Jadhav
• Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav
• Akbar – The Aesthete ‐ Dr. Indu Anand
• Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
• India at Risk ‐ Jaswant Singh
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North ‐ Richard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker)
• Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector ‐ Dr UD Choubey
• Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar ‐ Dilip D’Souza
• Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace ‐ Leon Panetta and Jim Newton
• Not Just an Accountant ‐ former CAG Vinod Rai
• Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann and Philidor ‐ Parimarjan Negi
• A Bend in the river ‐ V.S. Naipaul
• Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna ‐ Gautam Chintamani
• Half Girlfriend ‐ Chetan Bhagat
• Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician ‐ Biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Spiritual Father of Pakistan)
• 50 years of man in space ‐ Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher
• Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 ‐ Sandeep Unnithan
• Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India ‐Rajdeep Sardesai
• Your Dreams Are Mine Now: She Showed him What Love ‐ Ravinder Singh
• Born Again on the Mountain- Arunima Sinha
• Flood of Fire –Amitav Ghosh
• 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai
• The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath : Ben S. Bernanke
• To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story :Jairam Ramesh
• Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice : Dr. Mool Chand Sharma
• Ramcharitmanas (105-year-old Urdu copy ): Shiv Brat Lal
• Mrs Funny  bones :Twinkle Khanna
• Making India Awesome : Chetan Bhagat
• The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity :Tarun Khanna
• R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music :Khagesh Dev Burman
• Ghosts of Calcutta :Sebastian Ortiz
• Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India :Jairam Ramesh
• Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji : Abdul Kalam
• Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination : Teesta Setalvad
• Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language): Tarun Vijay
• Education of Muslims : Professor JS Rajput
• Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy:Saptarshi Sarkar
• Flood of fire : Amitav Ghosh
• Super Economies :Raghav Bahl
• Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise : Pradeep Baijal
• Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad : Prof Bhim Singh
• Food for All:Uma Lele
• Family Life :Akhil Sharma( winner of the Folio Prize 2015)
• Faces and Places :Prof. Deepak Nayyar
• Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Speaker’s Perspective :Meira Kumar
• Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me : Vinod Mehta
• Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks : SK Rath
• The Red Sari –Javier Moro 
• Neither a Hawk nor a dove –Khurshid M Kasuari 
• Faces and Places Professor –Deepak Nayyar 
• Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Meira Kumar 
• Farishta –Kapil Isapuari 
• Super Economies –Raghav Bahal 
• China :Confucius in the Shadow –Poonam Surie 
• My country My Life ‐ L.K.Advani
• Joseph Anton ‐ Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
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•  Abul Kalam Azad (India Wins Freedom)
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• Amar Singh  (Amar Kosh)
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• 3. Amrita Pritam (Death of a city, 49 Days, Kagaz Te Canvas, The Thirteenth Sun, Khamoshi Se Pehle)
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• 4. Amitav Ghosh (Kolkata Chromosome, Dancing in Columbia - At Large in Burma, The Glass Palace, In an Antique Land, The IMAM and the Indian, The Circle of Reason)
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• 5. Anita Desai  (The Village by the sea)
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• 6. Anurag Mathur (The Inscrutable Americans, Making the Minister Smile)
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• 7. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Ignited Minds, India 2020: A vision for the New Millennium, Wings of Fire)
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• 8. Arun Shourie (Worshipping False Gods, Courts and their Judgements,  Falling Over Backwards, The World of Fatwas or the Sharia in Action)
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• 9. Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness)
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•  Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Anandamath, Durgesh Nandini, Kapalkundala)
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• B.M. Kaul (Untold Story)
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• 12. B.N. Mullik (Chinese Betrayal)
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• 13. David Davidar (House of Blue Mangoes)
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• 14. Dr Amartya Sen (Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Development as Freedom, Choice of Techniques)
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• 15. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Riddles in Hinduism)
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• 16. Deepak Chopra  (Ageless Body - Timeless Mind, The ways of the Wizard)
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• 17. Dr S. Radhakrishnan (An Idealist View of Life, Bhagavad Gita, Hindu View of Life, Indian Philosophy)
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• 18. Gulzar ( Autumn Moon)
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• 19. Girish Karnad (The Fire and the Rain)
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• 20. H.P.S. Ahluwalia  (Faces of Everest)
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• 21. Indira Gandhi (My Truth)
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• 22. J. Krishnamurti (The Awakening of Intelligence)
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• 23. Javed Akhtar (Quiver)
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• 24. Jawaharlal Nehru (An Autobiography, Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, Bunch of old letters)
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• 25. Jayaprakash Narayan (Prison Diary)
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• 26. Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies)
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• 27. K.A. Abbas (Bread, Beauty, and Revolution)
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• 28. Kapil Dev (By God’s Decree (Autobiography))
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• 29. Khuswant Singh (Love, Truth and a Little Malice, Train to Pakistan, The Company of Women, Notes on the Great Indian Circus, Delhi, A Brush with Life, Lights and Sounds of World, Bride for the Sahibs) 
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• 30. Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
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• 30. K.P.S. Menon (Many Worlds, Yesterday and Today)
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• 31. Kuldip Nayar  (India: The Critical Years, The Judgement) 
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• 32. L.K. Advani (A prisoner’s Scrapbook) 
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• 33. Mahatma Gandhi - (The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Conquest of Self, The Way to Communal Harmony, Non-violence in Peace and War, Self-Restraint versus Self Indulgence)
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• 34. Maithili Sharan Gupta - (Bharat Bharati, Saket) 
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• 35. Manohar Malgoankar - (Bandicoot Run, Bend in the Ganges)
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• 36. Mulk Raj Anand - (Two Leaves And A Bud, The Village, The Lord, The Bride’s Book of Beauty, The Coolie, The Bubble, The Untouchable, Confessions of a Lover)
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• 37. Nayantara Sehgal - (Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style, A Voice of Freedom)
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• 38. Nirad C. Choudhury - (A Passage to England, An Unknown Indian, Continent of Circe Scholar Extraordinary, Hinduism, To Hire or not to Hire, The Horseman and the New Apocalypse)
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• 39. Prem Chand - (Godaan, Rangbhoomi)
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• 40. Promilla Kalhan - (Black Wednesday)
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• 41. Pt. Ravi Shankar - (My Music, My Life)
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• 42. Rabindra Nath Tagore - (Chandalika, Chitrangada, Crescent Moon, The Court Dancer, Gardener, Gitanjali, King of Dark Chamber, The Post Office, Bisarjan)
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• 43. Raj Kamal Jha - (The Blue Bedspread, If you are Afraid of Heights)
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• 44. Rajendra Prasad - (India Divided)
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• 45. R.K. Narayan - (A Town Called Malgudi, Malgudi Days, Indian Thought: A Miscellany, My Days: Autobiography, Mr Sampath, The Guide, The Vendor of Sweets, The Bachelor of Arts)
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• 46. Ruth Prawer Jhabwala - (Heat and Dust)  
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• 47. Rohinton Mistry - (A Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey)
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• 48. Romila Thapar - (History of Early India)
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• 49. Salman Rushdie - (Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Fury, The Moor’s last Singh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
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• 50. Sarojini Naidu - (Golden Threshold, The Songs of India)
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• 51. Satyajit Ray - (Our Films Their Films, The Mystery of the Pink Pearl, Danger in Darjeeling, Robertson’s Ruby)
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• 52. Sharat Chandra Chatterjee - (Devdas)
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• 53. Sir Aurobindo Ghosh - (Essays on Gita, Life Divine)
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• 54. Sisir Kumar Ghosh - (Beyond Modernization, Beyond Self)
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• 55. Sunil Gavaskar - ( Sunny Days)
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• 56. Ved Mehta - (Portrait of India)
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• 57. Vikram Seth - (A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate)
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• 58. V.S. Naipaul - (A Loss of El Dorado, An Area of Darkness, Miguel Street, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, Finding the Centre in a Free State, A Bend in the River)
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• 59. V.V. Giri - (My Life and Times)