Thursday 10 August 2017

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)

  •  Abul Kalam Azad (India Wins Freedom)

  • Amar Singh  (Amar Kosh)

  • 3. Amrita Pritam (Death of a city, 49 Days, Kagaz Te Canvas, The Thirteenth Sun, Khamoshi Se Pehle)

  • 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)

  • 5. Anita Desai  (The Village by the sea)

  • 6. Anurag Mathur (The Inscrutable Americans, Making the Minister Smile)

  • 7. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Ignited Minds, India 2020: A vision for the New Millennium, Wings of Fire)

  • 8. Arun Shourie (Worshipping False Gods, Courts and their Judgements,  Falling Over Backwards, The World of Fatwas or the Sharia in Action)

  • 9. Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness)

  •  Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Anandamath, Durgesh Nandini, Kapalkundala)

  • B.M. Kaul (Untold Story)

  • 12. B.N. Mullik (Chinese Betrayal)

  • 13. David Davidar (House of Blue Mangoes)

  • 14. Dr Amartya Sen (Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Development as Freedom, Choice of Techniques)

  • 15. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Riddles in Hinduism)

  • 16. Deepak Chopra  (Ageless Body - Timeless Mind, The ways of the Wizard)

  • 17. Dr S. Radhakrishnan (An Idealist View of Life, Bhagavad Gita, Hindu View of Life, Indian Philosophy)

  • 18. Gulzar ( Autumn Moon)

  • 19. Girish Karnad (The Fire and the Rain)

  • 20. H.P.S. Ahluwalia  (Faces of Everest)

  • 21. Indira Gandhi (My Truth)

  • 22. J. Krishnamurti (The Awakening of Intelligence)

  • 23. Javed Akhtar (Quiver)

  • 24. Jawaharlal Nehru (An Autobiography, Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, Bunch of old letters)

  • 25. Jayaprakash Narayan (Prison Diary)

  • 26. Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies)

  • 27. K.A. Abbas (Bread, Beauty, and Revolution)

  • 28. Kapil Dev (By God’s Decree (Autobiography))

  • 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) 

  • 30. Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)

  • 30. K.P.S. Menon (Many Worlds, Yesterday and Today)

  • 31. Kuldip Nayar  (India: The Critical Years, The Judgement) 

  • 32. L.K. Advani (A prisoner’s Scrapbook) 

  • 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)

  • 34. Maithili Sharan Gupta - (Bharat Bharati, Saket) 

  • 35. Manohar Malgoankar - (Bandicoot Run, Bend in the Ganges)

  • 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)

  • 37. Nayantara Sehgal - (Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style, A Voice of Freedom)

  • 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)

  • 39. Prem Chand - (Godaan, Rangbhoomi)

  • 40. Promilla Kalhan - (Black Wednesday)

  • 41. Pt. Ravi Shankar - (My Music, My Life)

  • 42. Rabindra Nath Tagore - (Chandalika, Chitrangada, Crescent Moon, The Court Dancer, Gardener, Gitanjali, King of Dark Chamber, The Post Office, Bisarjan)

  • 43. Raj Kamal Jha - (The Blue Bedspread, If you are Afraid of Heights)

  • 44. Rajendra Prasad - (India Divided)

  • 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)

  • 46. Ruth Prawer Jhabwala - (Heat and Dust)  

  • 47. Rohinton Mistry - (A Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey)

  • 48. Romila Thapar - (History of Early India)

  • 49. Salman Rushdie - (Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Fury, The Moor’s last Singh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet)

  • 50. Sarojini Naidu - (Golden Threshold, The Songs of India)

  • 51. Satyajit Ray - (Our Films Their Films, The Mystery of the Pink Pearl, Danger in Darjeeling, Robertson’s Ruby)

  • 52. Sharat Chandra Chatterjee - (Devdas)

  • 53. Sir Aurobindo Ghosh - (Essays on Gita, Life Divine)

  • 54. Sisir Kumar Ghosh - (Beyond Modernization, Beyond Self)

  • 55. Sunil Gavaskar - ( Sunny Days)

  • 56. Ved Mehta - (Portrait of India)

  • 57. Vikram Seth - (A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate)

  • 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)

  • 59. V.V. Giri - (My Life and Times)

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