For all competitive government exams, RRB, Bank Exams, UPSC, KPSC, SSC, the general awareness section comes up with two-three questions from the part, “Famous Books, and Authors”. So, it is relevant to have an idea of this. This article will discuss Books and their authors.
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Famous Books And Authors
| SI.No | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Turbulence And Triumph The Modi Years | Rahul Agarwal, Bharathi S Pradhan |
| 2. | Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past | Vikram Sampath |
| 3. | Obama-The Call of History | Peter Baker |
| 4. | Kashmiri’s Untold Story: Declassification | Maroof Raza, Iqbal Chand Malhotra |
| 5. | Sridevi: Girl Women Superstar | Satyarth Nayak |
| 6. | Listening, Learning And Leading | Venkaih Naidu( Vice-President-India) |
| 7. | Darkness to Light | Lamar Odam |
| 8. | Undaunted-Saving the Idea of India | P.Chidambharam |
| 9. | We Are Displaced | Malala Yousafzai |
| 10. | I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb |
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| SI.No | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | My Life, My Mission | Baba Ramdev |
| 2. | Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher Education | Venkaih Naidu |
| 3. | The New Delhi Conspiracy | Meenakshi Lekhi |
| 4. | A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief | Sushil Kumar |
| 5. | The Diary of Manu Gandhi | Tridip Suhrud |
| 6. | Vivekadeepini | Adi Sankaracharya |
| 7. | Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly | Anupam Kher |
| 8. | Laid to Rest: The Controversy Over Subhas Chandra Bose’s Death | Ashis Ray |
| 9. | Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge | Ashis Ray |
| 10. | Making of New India | Dr. Bibek Debroy |
| 11. | Saffron Swords | Manoshi Sinha Rawal |
| 12. | Chequered Brillance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon | Jairam Ramesh |
| 13. | Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature | Jairam Ramesh |
| 14. | Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way | Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji |
| 15. | Fire and Fury Corps — Saga of Valour, Fortitude, and Sacrifice | Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh |
| 16. | Whispers of Time | Dr. Krishna Saksena |
| 17. | Khooni Vaisakhi | Suri |
| 18. | Virat: The making of a Champion | Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar |
| 19. | Game Changer | Shahid Afridi |
| 20. | Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music | Sharad Dutt |
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| SI.No | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Defining India: Through Their Eyes | Sonia Singh |
| 2. | From Possession to Freedom | R Uma Maheswari |
| 3. | Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord | Valay Singh |
| 4. | Changing India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| 5. | Timeless Laxman | Narendra Modi |
| 6. | Exam Warriors | Narendra Modi |
| 7. | A Journey towards self-reliance | Nirmala Sitharaman |
| 8. | A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s Future through her Villages | Varun Gandhi |
| 9. | The Paradoxical Prime Minister | Shashi Tharoor |
| 10. | Why I am Hindu | Shashi Tharoor |
| 11. | Nehru: The Invention of India | Shashi Tharoor |
| 12. | An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India | Shashi Tharoor |
| 13. | Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century |
Shashi Tharoor |
| 14. | Bookless in Baghdad | Shashi Tharoor |
| 15. | Narendra Modi: A Political Biography | Andy Marino |
| 16. | Milkman | Anna Burns |
| 17. | The Rule Breakers | Preeti Shenoy |
| 18. | Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy | Arvind Subramanian |
| 19. | India Unmade | Yashwant Sinha |
| 20. | Becoming | Michelle Obama |
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| SI.No | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | The Audacity Of hope | Barack Obama |
| 2. | What Happened | Hillary Clinton |
| 3. | Feisty at Fifty | Sudha Menon |
| 4. | The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | Robin Sharma |
| 5. | Triple Talaq: Examining Faith | Salman Khurshid |
| 6. | A Century Is Not Enough | Sourav Ganguly |
| 7. | Playing It My Way | Sachin Tendulkar |
| 8. | 281 and Beyond | VVS Laxman |
| 9. | Straight from the Heart: An Autobiography | Kapil Dev |
| 10. | Bebak Baat | Vijay Goel |
| 11. | Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life | Sheila Dikshit |
| 12. | Unbreakable | Mary Kom |
| 13. | Unstoppable: My Life So Far | Maria Sharapova |
| 14. | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| 15. | No Spin: My Autobiography | Shane Warne |
| 16. | An Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 17. | The Discovery Of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 18. | The Red Sari | Sonia Gandhi |
| 19. | Pyjamas are Forgiving | Twinkle Khanna |
| 20. | Imperfect | Sanjay Manjrekar |
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| SI.No | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | The Bandit Queen Of India | Phoolan Devi |
| 2. | The Coalition Years | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 3. | Two Lives | Vikram Seth |
| 4. | India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 5. | Wings of Fire: An Autobiography | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 6. | Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 7. | Target 3 Billion | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 8. | Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 9. | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| 10. | Kashmir: The Case for Freedom | Arundhati Roy |
| 11. | Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy |
Arundhati Roy |
| 12. | The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy |
Arundhati Roy |
| 13. | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
Arundhati Roy |
| 14. | The Calcutta Chromosome | Amitav Ghosh |
| 15. | Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh |
| 16. | Flood of Fire | Amitav Ghosh |
| 17. | Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| 18. | The Girl in Room 105 | Chetan Bhagat |
| 19. | Making India Awesome | Chetan Bhagat |
| 20. | One Indian Girl | Chetan Bhagat |
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| SI.No | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Half Girlfriend | Chetan Bhagat |
| 2. | Revolution 2020 | Chetan Bhagat |
| 3. | What Young India Wants | Chetan Bhagat |
| 4. | Trilogy on Malgudi- Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The English Teacher | R. K. Narayan |
| 5. | Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 6. | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 7. | Shiva Trilogy- The Immortals of Meluha, Scion of Ikshvaku, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras | Amish Tripathi |
| 8. | Ram Chandra Series- Scion of Ikshvaku, Sita: Warrior of Mithila, Raavan: Orphan of Aryavarta | Amish Tripathi |
| 9. | Immortal India | Amish Tripathi |
| 10. | Matoshree | Sumitra Mahajan |
| 11. | A Horse Walks Into a Bar | David Grossman |
| 12. | India 2017 Yearbook | Rajiv Mehrishi |
| 13. | The Constitution of India: Miracle, Surrender, Hope | Rajeev Dhavan |
| 14. | Shades of Truth | Kapil Sibal |
| 15. | Vanara The Legend of Baali,Sugreeva | Anand Neelakantan |
| 16. | Lethal White | J.K. Rowling |
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