Famous Books and their Authors are now part of every exam. Books and authors cover a vast range of genres and periods, but here are some notable examples across various categories. T For the important Government exams, if have come up with important books and their authors. The government exams, like RRB, Bank Exams, UPSC, IBPS, and SSC, are some of the exams in which two or three questions from books and authors are asked in the general awareness section. Check the famous and award-winning books and authors for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018.

Books and authors have played pivotal roles in the evolution of societies. Throughout history, written works have been catalysts for change. They have challenged oppressive systems, championed human rights, and sparked movements for social justice. Authors are the magicians who conjure worlds out of thin air. They craft characters with unique voices, settings with vivid details, and narratives that transport readers to distant realms. Through their creative brilliance, authors enable us to experience the lives, struggles, and triumphs of fictional and historical figures alike. 

Books and Authors 2024


The relationship between books and authors is a fundamental and symbiotic one. Authors are individuals who write and create the content found in books, and books serve as a medium through which authors communicate their ideas, stories, knowledge, and perspectives to readers. Here is the list of Authors who have published their books in the year 2024 and the list will be updated timely. 

Books and Authors 2024
Book NameAuthors Name
“Ek Samandar, Mere Andar”Sanjeev Joshi
“Political History of Assam (1947-1971) – Volume 1”Dr. Rajen Saikia
“Smritivan: An Unparalleled Apotheosis of Commemoration to 2001 Victims of Gujarat Earthquake”Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority
“Assam’s Braveheart – Lachit Barphukan”Arup Kumar Dutta
“Fertilising the Future: Bharat’s March Towards Fertiliser Self-Sufficiency”Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
“An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy”Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns”M.J. Akbar and K Natwar Singh
“Modi: Energising A Green Future”R.K. Pachnanda, Bibek Debroy, Anirban Ganguly, and Uttam Kumar Sinha
"Four Stars of Destiny"General Manoj Mukund Naravane
“Sanskriti ke Ayaam”Manorama Mishra
“Maha Kavithai”Vairamuthu
“Ram Mandir Rashtra Mandir Ek Sajhi Virast”Geeta Singh and Arif Khan Bharti

Books and Authors 2023

The relationship between books and authors is one of profound influence and symbiosis, shaping societies, sparking revolutions, and expanding the horizons of the mind. In the below table, we have explored the names of Books and Authors 2023.

Books and Authors 2023
Book NameAuthors Name
"Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies"Shubhra Gupta
"The World: A Family History"British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore
"Breaking Barriers: the Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary"Kaki Madhava Rao
"Ambedkar: A Life"Shashi Tharoor
"Human Anatomy"Dr. Ashvini Kumar Dwivedi
“Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom”Sanjeev Sanyal
Himanta Biswa Sarma"Mukhyamantrir Diary 1"
"Njaan Sakshi"Professor K.K. Abdul Gaffar's
"Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking"Tamal Bandyopadhyay
"Spare"J. R. Moehringer
"Braving A Viral Storm: India's Covid-19 Vaccine Story"Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir
JadunamaJaved Akhtar and Arvind Mandloi
"Come! Let's Run"Ma. Subramanian
"India's Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dawn"Dr. Ashwin Fernandes
"COACHING BEYOND: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team"Kaushik and Ramakrishnan Sridhar
"The Poverty of Political Economy: How Economics Abandoned the Poor"Meghnad Desai
The Last HeroesPalagummi Sainath (P Sainath)
The Best of Satyajit RaySatyajit Ray
Victory CitySalman Rushdie
Modi: Shaping a Global order in fluxPresident J.P. Nadda
Pt. Deendayal Upadhaya : Dispersions of ThoughtR N Ravi
India’s vaccine Growth storySajjan singh Dev
Mundaka Upanishad-The Bridge of immortalityJagdeep Dhankar
As Good As My WordKM Chandrashekhar
PagalkhanaDr.Gyan Chaturvedi
The Book of Bihari LiteratureAbhay K
Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway to EternityDr. Karan Singh
India’s Struggle for Independence – Gandhian EraP. Jyothimani, former Judge
Bipin: The Man Behind the UniformRachna Biswat Rawat
Women and Men in India 2022Rao Inderjit Singh
Snakes in the GangaShri Rajiv Malhotra and Mrs. Vijaya Viswanathan
A Matter of the Heart: Education in IndiaAnurag Behar
Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajShrimant Kokate
PyrePerumal Murugan
Basu Chatterji : And Middle-of-the-Road CinemaAniruddha Bhattacharjee
PhoolangeLekhnath Chhetri
Why can’t Elephants be RedVani Tripathi Tikoo
War & WomenDr MA Hasan
War and WomenDr. MA Hasan
PhoolangeLekhnath Chhetri
The Great book robberyV Pattami Ram and Sabya Sachi Dosh
Saurashtra-Tamil Sangamprashastih’Shree Somnath Sanskrit University 
Collective Spirit, Concrete Actions’Shashi Shekhar Vempati
“Reflections”Narayanan Vaghul
Made In IndiaAmitabh Kant
Sachin @ 50Boria Majumdar
Cyber EncountersAshok Kumar and OP Manocha
Just AspireAjai Chowdhry
My Life as a ComradeK.K. Shailaja and Manju Sara Rajan
First Lithuanian Travelers in IndiaLithuanian Embassy
The Golden YearsRuskin Bond
Partitioned FreedomRam Madhav
RINGSIDE – Up, Close and Personal on India and BeyondDr Vijay Darda
NTR-A Political BiographyRamachandra Murthy Kondubhatla
Amrutkaal ki OreShivanand Dwivedi and K K Upadhyay
A Life Well Spent: Four Decades in the Indian Foreign ServiceSatish Chandra
India’s Finance MinistersA.K. Bhattacharya
Droupadi MurmuKasturi Ray
Through The Broken GlassT.N. Seshan
As the Wheel TurnsRanjit Pratap
Memories Never DieDr. Y.S. Rajan, Dr. APJM Nazema Maraikayar, and Sripriya Srinivasan
Kargil: Ek Yatri Ki JubaniShri Rishi Raj
MonsoonAbhay K
Heritage Trees of GoaPS Sreedharan Pillai
Let’s Move Forward”Dr. Dinesh Prasad Saklani
eBook-“People’s G20Shri Apurva Chandra
Chacha Chaudhary aur Chunavi Dangal'Election Commission of India (ECI)
Nation Calling"IAS officer Sonal Goel
"Introduction to Corporate Finance (sixth edition)".Stephen Ross and Bradford Jordan
“Ashtadhyayi Bhashya, Ramanandacharya Charitam, Bhagwan Shri Krishna ki Rashtraleela”Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
“The Lords of the Wankhede – Tales Between Two Titles”W.V. Raman and R. Kaushik
“Nilavu Kudicha Simhangal”S. Somanath
“The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation”Ashok Tandon
“Igniting Collective Goodness: Mann Ki Baat @ 100”Team of BlueKraft Digital Foundation
"The Professionals’ Handbook to ChatGPT”V Pattabhi Ram and Dungar Chand U Jain
“Welcome To Paradise”Twinkle Khanna
“India’s Moment: Changing Power Equations around the World”Mohan Kumar
“Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers”Sharmistha Mukherjee
“Thread by Thread: The S.Kumar’s Story”Sathya Saran
“Mapping of the Archives in India”Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C. Gaur
“Do Palkon Ki Chhavn Main”Dr. Hema Joshi
“Snakes of Himachal Pradesh”Omesh Kumar Bharti and DD Bisht
“Building Partnerships”Captain Himadri Das
“Nilavu Kudicha Simhangal”S Somnath

Books and Authors 2022

The list of Books and Authors of 2022 has been enlisted below and will be updated with the release of new books. 

Book NameAuthors Name
‘The India Story’Bimal Jalal
‘Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure’Ruskin Bond
‘Business of Sports: The Winning Formula for Success’Vinit Karnik
‘A Place Called Home’Preeti Shenoy
‘Modi @20: Dreams Meeting Delivery’VP Venkaiah Naidu
'The Struggle for Police Reforms in India'Ex-IPS Prakash Singh
‘INDO-PAK WAR 1971- Reminiscences of Air Warriors’Rajnath Singh
‘Leaders, Politicians, Citizens’Rasheed Kidwai 
‘Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak’Prof. Alok Chakrawal
Lal SalamSmriti Irani
Pride, Prejudice and PunditryShashi Tharoor
“Crunch Time: Narendra Modi’s National Security Crises”Dr Sreeram Chauliahas
“Queen of Fire”Devika Rangachari
“Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak”Dharmendra Pradhan
“Decoding Indian Babudom”Ashwini Shrivastava
‘The Maverick Effect’Harish Mehta
“Tiger of Drass: Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Kargil Hero”Meena Nayyar & Himmat Singh Shekhawat
‘Hear Yourself’Indian Author Prem Rawat
‘Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI’Former CAG Vinod Rai
“The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution ”Rajesh Talwar
“The Magic of Mangalajodi” & “My Research Works on Sikh History and Philosophy”Avinash Khemka & Abinash Mahapatra
‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’Roger Faligot
'Amit Shah Ani Bhajapachi Vatchal'Dr Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi
‘The Millennial Yogi: A modern-day parable about reclaiming one’s life’Former Indian Army Captain, Deepam Chatterjee
‘Udaan Ek Majdoor Bachhe Ki’Mithilesh Tiwari
Ungalil Oruvan (One Among You)Chief minister MK Stalin’s
‘The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorised Biography of Usha Uthup’Vikas Kumar Jha
‘The Blue Book: A Writer’s JournalAmitava Kumar
‘Role of Labour in India’s Development’Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav
‘Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times’Abhinav Chandrachud
‘The Queen of Indian Pop’Usha Uthup
‘On Board: My Years in BCCI’Ratnakar Shetty’s
'Tomb of Sand'Geetanjali Shree’s
‘Monsoon’Sahitya Akademi
‘More than Just Surgery: Life Lessons Beyond the OT’Dr Tehemton Erach Udwadia
‘Wrist Assured: An Autobiography’Former Cricketer G.R. Viswanath
‘Unfilled Barrels India’s oil story’Richa Mishra
‘The Little Book of Joy’Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
‘Spoorthi Pradatha Sri Somayya’K Syam Prasad
‘Fearless Governance’Dr. Kiran Bedi
‘Operation Khatma’ RC Ganjoo and Ashwini Bhatnagar
‘India, That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution’J Sai Deepak
‘Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra’Navdeep Singh Gill
‘Atal Bihari Vajpayee’Sagarika Ghose
‘India–Africa Relations: Changing Horizons’Rajiv Bhatia
‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’Bill Gates
‘Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War’Samuel Moyn
‘Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us’Ro Khanna
‘A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction’Uma Das Gupta
‘A Nation To Protect’Priyam Gandhi Mody
‘The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley’Jimmy Soni
‘The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations’Anirudh Suri
‘Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India.Dhirendra K. Jha
‘Mamata: Beyond 2021’Jayanta Ghosal
‘Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’Dr. Thomas Matthew
‘Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work, and Leadership’Arundhati Bhattacharya
‘Bose: The untold story of an inconvenient nationalist’Chandrachur Ghose
'The Legend of Birsa Munda'Tuhin A Sinha and Ankita Verma
‘India’s Women Unsung Heroes’Meenakshi Lekhi
‘A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of Independence’Ruskin Bond
‘The $10 Trillion Dream’Subhash Chandra Garg

Books and Authors 2021

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Book Name Author Name 
‘The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Created an Extraordinary Company’Narotam Sekhsaria
‘1971: Charge of the Gorkhas and other stories’Rachna Bisht Rawat
Vahana MasterclassAlfredo Covelli
India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in AustraliaR. Kaushik
Right Under Our NoseR. Giridharan
Making of a General-A Himalayan EchoLt. Gen. Konsam Himalay Singh
The Commonwealth of CricketRamachandra Guha
Manohar Parrikar-Off the RecordWaman Subha Prabhu
The Little Book of EncouragementDalai Lama
Beautiful Things’ A MemoirHunter Biden 
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a LifeFormer Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic WorldSangeet Paul Choudary
UnfinishedPriyanka Chopra Jonas
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good NewsMeghna Pant
ASOCA: A SutraIrwin Allan Sealy
Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Rama RaoRamesh Kandula
Rashtra Pratham - 82 Varshon ki Swarnim GathaAmit Shah
Stories I Must Tell: The Journey of an ActorKabir Bedi
Advantage India: The Story of Indian TennisAnindya Dutta
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s TriumphAnant Vijay
Battle Ready for 21st CenturyLt Gen AK Singh and Brig. Narendra Kumar
My Experiments with SilenceSamir Soni
Names of the WomenJeet Thayil
SuparipalanaDr. Shailendra Joshi
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple LifeNitin Gokhale
Odisha ItihaasUtkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab
The Braille edition of the book Exam WarriorsPM Narendra Modi
Believe-What Life and Cricket Taught MeSuresh Raina
The Christmas PigJK Rowling
WhereaboutsJhumpa Lahiri
The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our TimesAmitav Ghosh
Climate Change Explained—For One and AllAakash Ranison
The BenchMeghan Markle
Elephant in the WombKalki Koechlin
Life in the Clock Tower ValleyShakoor Rather
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and AlliancePreet Mohan Singh Malik
Nehru, Tibet and ChinaAvtar Singh Bhasin
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, PresentShivshankar Menon
Sach Kahun TohNeena Gupta
Stargazing: The Players in my LifeRavi Shastri
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020Salman Rushdie
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-1966)Vikram Sampath
7 Lessons from Everest - Expedition Learnings from life and Business Aditya Gupta
1232km: The Long Journey HomeVinod Kapri
Home in the WorldAmartya Sen
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in CrisisAmitav Ghosh
Beyond Here and Other PoemsBishnupada Sethi
The 7 Sins of Being a MotherTahira Kashyap Khurrana
Habba KhatoonKajal Suri
WillWill Smith and Mark Manson
My Joys and Sorrows- as a Mother of a Special ChildKrishna Saksena
It’s a Wonderful LifeRuskin Bond
Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand StorySundeep Mishra
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DCKaushik Basu
Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in FluxKhemlata Wakhlu
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in MedicineKavitha Rao
The Pregnancy BibleKareena Kapoor
The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your WorldShivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan
The Great Big LionChryseis Knight
The India Story Bimal Jalan
The Stranger In The Mirror(Autobiography of  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra)Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Palleku PattabhishekamYalamanchili Sivaji
Bank With A Soul: EquitasDr. C K Garyali
An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian GenerationAshok Lavasa
In An Ideal WorldKunal Basu
My Own MazagonCaptain Ramesh Babu
Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in IndiaSanjay Gubbi
Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged PulwamaManan Bhatt
The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14-Year-OldBrisha Jain
The EarthspinnerAnuradha Roy
How the Earth Got Its BeautySudha Murty
OPERATION KHUKRIRajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia
Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi GovernmentK J Alphons
Back to the RootsTamannaah Bhatia
Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine OdysseyDr. Utpal K. Banerjee
Human Rights and Terrorism in IndiaSubramanian Swamy
Translating Myself and OthersJhumpa Lahiri
Shining Sikh Youth of IndiaDr. Prabhleen Singh
400 DaysChetan Bhagat
Jungle NamaAmitav Ghosh
The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China RelationsNirupama Rao
The Battle of Rezang LaKulpreet Yadav

Books and Authors 2020

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Book NameAuthor Name
Karmayoddha GranthAmit Shah
RelentlessYashwant Sinha
A Child of DestinyK. Ramakrishna Rao
The Thin Mind MapDharmendra Rai
A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981Apoorva Kumar Singh
Death – An Inside StoryJaggi Vasudev
An Extraordinary Life: A biography of Manohar ParrikarSadguru Patil & Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar ParrikarTarun Vijay
My Encounters in ParliamentBhalchandra Mungekar
Messiah Modi: A Tale of Great ExpectationsTavleen Singh
Legacy of LearningSavita Chhabra
Missing in Action: The Prisoners Who Never Came BackChander Suta Dogra
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania TrumpMary Jordan
Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P V SindhuKrishnaswamy V
Vijayant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War HeroNeha Dwivedi
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined CityFang Fang
Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains, and PlanesRuskin Bond
The IckabogJ.K Rowling
Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved IndiaAmish Tripathi
Future of Higher Education: Nine Mega TrendsV Pattabhi Ram
Overdraft: Saving the Indian SaverUrjit Patel
Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for IndiaRC Bhargava
A Song of IndiaRuskin Bond
If It BleedsStephen King
The EndgameHussain Zaidi
Suraj Kade Marda Nahi (Sun Never Dies)Baldev Singh Sadaknama
Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in IndiaViral V.Acharya
Amazing AyodhyaNeena Rai
Connecting, Communicating, ChangingRaksha Mantri Rajnath Singh
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the WorldDalai Lama and Franz Alt
Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020Arjun Subramaniam
One Arranged MurderChetan Bhagat
Cricket DronaJatin Paranjpe
Let us DreamPope Francis
The Little Book of EncouragementDalai Lama
My Life in DesignGauri Khan
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. FictionArundhati Roy
Kitchens of GratitudeChef Vikas Khanna
A Promised LandBarack Obama
Bapu- the UnforgettableManish Sisodia
The Battle of BelongingShashi Tharoor
Bye Bye CoronaDr. Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
Your Best Day is Today!Anupam Kher
I am No MessiahMeena Iyer
40 Years with Abdul Kalam-Untold StoriesDr. A. Sivathanu Pillai
Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful LifeAmish Tripathi and Bhavna Roy
Oh MizoramPS Sreedharan Pillai

Books and Authors 2019

Check the important books and its authors of 2019 in the table below.

Book NameAuthors Name
Politics of OpportunismR P N Singh
Malayalam poetryAkkitham Achuthan Namboodri
The TestamentsMargaret Atwood
Celestial BodiesJokha Alharthi
Cheque bookVasdev Mohi
The OverstoryRichard Powers
The Braille edition of the book Exam WarriorsPM Narendra Modi
Mind-MasterViswanathan Anand and Susan Ninan
Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s MemoirHemant Karkare's daughter Jui Karkare
"Courts of India"Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi
Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s MemoirKarkare's Daughter Jui Karkare
Braille Edition of ‘Exam Warriors’Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Bridgital NationShri N Chandrasekaran
Girl Power: Indian Women Who Broke The RulesNeha J Hiranandani
From Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Explosive Ideas that Made (and Are Making) Modern MedicineRoopa Pai
Fakir Hassen‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma–the South African Legacy’
Turbulence and Triumph: The Modi YearsRahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan
Handbook on Fisheries Statistics - 2018Ministry of fisheries
 Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883-1924Vikram Sampath
Glorious Diaspora-Pride of IndiaIndian Diaspora Club
First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya SpeaksHabiburahman, Sophie Ansel
Obama: The Call of HistoryPeter Baker
Kashmir’s untold story: DeclassificationIqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza
“Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar”Satyarth Nayak
ManavDepartment of Biotechnology (DBT) and Persistent Systems
‘The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World’St James House and the History of Parliament Trust
VivekadeepiniAdi Shankaracharya
Listening, Learning and LeadingVenkaiah Naidu
'My Life, My Mission'Baba Ramdev
'The New Delhi Conspiracy'Meenakshi Lekhi
‘The Diary of Manu Gandhi’Tridip Suhrud
"A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief"Sushil Kumar
VivekadeepiniAdi Shankaracharya
“Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly”.Anupam Kher
“Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge”Ashis Ray
My JourneyDr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Making of New IndiaDr. Bibek Debroy
"Whispers of Time"Dr. Krishna Saksena
Indian Fiscal FederalismDr. Y.V. Reddy
‘Chequered Brillance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon’Jairam Ramesh
‘Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way’Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji
‘The Heartfulness way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformation’Kamlesh Patil & Joshua Pollock
Darkness to lightLamar Odom
Fire and Fury Corps -- Saga of Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice',Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh
Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher EducationM Venkaiah Naidu
We are DisplacedMalala Yousafzai
‘Saffron Swords’Manoshi Sinha Rawal
“The New Delhi Conspiracy”Meenakshi Lekhi
‘Law, Justice and Judicial Power- Justice P N Bhagwati’s Approach’Mool Chand Sharma
‘Khooni Vaisakhi’Mr. Suri
‘Every Vote Counts- The story of India’s Elections’Navin Chawla
‘Virat: The making of a Champion’Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar
‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’P. Chidambaram
From Possession to FreedomR Uma Maheswari
The Third PillarRaghuram Rajan
‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’Ruchir Sharma
Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition HandbookSaba Naqvi
Game ChangerShahid Afridi
‘Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music’Sharad Dutt
"Chandra Shekhar - The Last Icon of Ideological Politics";Shri Harivansh and Shri Ravi Dutt Bajpai.
‘Defining India: Through Their Eyes’Sonia Singh
'Function of Data Sovereignty - The Pursuit of Supremacy'Vinit Goenka
‘Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord’Valay Singh

Books and Authors 2018

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Book NameAuthors Name
A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s Future through her VillagesBJP MP Varun Gandhi
Changing IndiaDr. Manmohan Singh
Timeless LaxmanPrime Minister Narendra Modi
ArivuDr Murali Mohan Chuntharu
The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Womens Cricket in IndiaKarunya Keshav and Sidhanta Pathak
Maharana Pratap: The Invincible WarriorRima Hooja
The Paradoxical Prime MinisterShashi Tharoor
The Rule BreakersPreeti Shenoy
Experiential Learning -- Gandhiji's Nai TalimUnion Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar
From Lehman to Demonetisation: A Decade of Disruption, Reforms and MisadventuresTamal Bandyopadhyay
Poonachi or the Story of a Black GoatPerumal Murugan
Making of LegendBindeshwar Pathak
Diabetes with DelightAnoop Misra
The Last White HunterDonald Anderson with Joshua Mathew
Indian Cultures as HeritageRomila Thapar
Strangers No More: New Narratives from NortheastSanjoy Hazarika
MatoshreeSumitra Mahajan
Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad BoyYasser Usman
Indian InstinctMiniya Chatterjee
The Coalition yearsPranab Mukherjee
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their WorldSnigdha Poonam
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump WhitehouseMichael Wolff
Citizen Delhi: My Times, My LifeSheila Dikshit
Mere Sapno Ka BharatTarun Vijay
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali BhuttoSyeda Saiyidan Hameed
Ants Among ElephantsDujatha Gidla
The Constitution of India: Miracle, Surrender, HopeRajeev Dhavan
A Ringside AffairJames Lawton
The Year of the HawksKanwaljit Singh
How May I Help YouDeepak Singh
A World of Three Zeroes: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon EmissionMohammad Yunus
Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century PakistanMehr Tarar
Xi Jinping's ChinaJayadev Ranade
The Book Hunters of KatpadiPradeep Sebastia
All the Worlds BetweenK Srilata and Fiona Bolger
Hit RefreshSatya Nadella
Letters to a Young PhilosopherRamin Jahanbegloo
Imperfect (autobiography)Sanjay Manjrekar
Immortal IndiaAmish Tripathi
Maharana Pratap: The Invincible WarriorRima Hooja
Conflicts of Interest: My Journey Through India’s Green MovementSunita Narain
2G Saga UnfoldsA Raja
TwoGulzar
Status SingleSreemoyee Piu Kundu
An Ordinary Mans Guide to RadicalismNeyaz Farooquee
What happenedHilary Clinton
ArtemisAndy Weir
DroneAdam Rothstein
Why I am hinduShashi Tharoor
A dairy of deomestic divaShilpa Shetty
The New Wealth of NationsSurjit S Bhalla
Indira Gandhi: A Life in NatureJairam Ramesh
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World and YoursPoonam
My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US WithdrawalAvinash Paliwal
A state of freedomNeel Mukerjee
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017Ian Black
I do what I doRaghuram Rajan
Indian Political Theory: Laying the Ground work for SwarajAakash Singh Rathore
Hisaab KitaabAnjana Sukani
Songs of a CowardPerumal Murugan
An unsuitable boyKaran johar
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1928-1941Stephen Kotkin
281 and BeyondV V S Laksman
4321Paul Auster
History of WolvesEmily Fridlund
Exit WestMohsin Hamid
ElmetFiona Mozley
Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders
AutumnAli Smith
Writing Pakistan: Conversations on ldentity, Nationhood and FictionMushtaq Bilal
The Bengalis: A Portrait of a CommunitySudeep Chakravarti
Moments ofTruth: My Life with ActingRoshan Taneja
The Goat ThiefPerumal Murugan
The Widow of Malabar HillsSujata Massey
The VanishingPrerna Singh Bindra
Where India GoesDiane Coffey and Dean Spears
The NationalistMinhaz Merchant
Political Violence in Ancient IndiaUpinder Singh
The tall man biju patnaikSundar Ganesan
A Tale of Two Victoria CrossesLt Gen Baljit Singh
Fifty Things that Made the Modern EconomyTim Harford
New Wealth of NationsSurjit Bhalla
The Emergency: Indian Democracy's Darkest HourA Surya Prakash
No Room for Small DreamsShimon Peres
A Horse Walks Into a BarDavid Grossman
An Ordinary Life: A MemoirNawazuddin Siddiqui with Rituparna Chatterjee
Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket StoryRajdeep Sardesai
A Republic in the Making: India in the 1950sGyanesh Kudaisya
Durand's Curse: A Line Across the Pathan HeartRajiv Dogra
OriginDan Brown
The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in IndiaGN Denvy
Inside Parliament: Views From the Front RowDerek O'Brien
India Turns East: International Engagement and US-China RivalryFredrick Grare
Weather Information Portal for Indian Power SystemR K Singh
The Ministry of Utmost HappinessArundhati Roy
China & India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the WorldBertil Lintner
Cadres ofTibetJayadeva Ranade
Unstoppable: My Life So FarMaria Sharapova
The Book of Chocolate SaintsJeet Thayil
Conflict of InterestSunita Narain
Atal Ji Ne kahaBirendra Rehi
Confessions of a dying mind: the blind faith of atheismKiren Rijiju and Haulianlal Guite
Available LightCP Surendran
Ashoka: Satrap of TaxilaAshok K Banker
Sea PrayerKhaled Hosseini
Loyal StalkersChhimi Tenduf La
No SpinShane Warne
Attendant LordsTCA Raghvan
The Driver in the Driverless CarVivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever
Life Among the Scorpions: Memoir of a Woman in Indian PoliticsJaya Jaitely
Gorbachev: His Life and TimesWilliam Taubman
Ambedkar Gandhi and Patel: The Making of India’s Electoral SystemRaja Shekhar Vundru
EvolutionEmmanuel Macron
Exam WarriorsNarendra Modi
Evil in the MahabharataMeena Arora Nayak
Happy DreamsJia Pingwa
6 TIMES THINNERN N Vohra
Rohingya Inside Myanmar's Hidden GenocideAzeem Ibrahim
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Nationalism and Anti-Muslim ViolenceFrancis Wade
Reimagining PakistanHusain Haggani
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali BhuttoSyeda Hameed
Reporting PakistanMeena Menon
Who We Are and How We Got HereDavid Reich
A Century ls Not EnoughSourav Ganguly
Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like GangulyAbhirup Bhattacharya
The Perils of Being Moderately FamousSoha Ali Khan
Directorate S: The CLA and Americas Secret Wars in Afghanistan and PakistanSteye Coll
Economics for the Common GoodJean Tirole
Political TribesAmy Chua
Dividing Lines: Contours of the India-China DiscordKN Raghavan
My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian SocialismCH Hanumantha Rao
Triple Talaq: Examining FaithSalman Khurshid
Kashmir: Exploring the Myth Behind the NarrativeKhalid Bashir
The Only StoryJulian Barnes
She Goes to War Women Militants of IndiaRashmi Saksena
The Future of HumanityMichio Kaku
Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic GovernanceIshrat Husain
The Unseeing ldol of LightKR Meera
Across the UniverseAjoy Bose
Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? Whal Should We Do About Them?Arun Shourie
Eleven Gods and a Billion IndiansBorta Majumdar
Indian Railway- The weaving of a National TapestryBibek Debroy
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its ContradictionAmartya Sen and Jean Dreze
Lethal WhiteRobert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
The English PatientMichael Ondaatje
In a Free StateVS Naipaul
Michael OndaatjeWarlight
Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal JiRamesh Pokhriyal
Moon TigerPenelope Lively
Wolf HallHilary Mantel
Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders
The Only StoryJulian Barnes
Like a PsalmPerumbadavam Sreedharan
Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary PastsRomila Thapar
Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017Ankur Bhardwaj, Seema Chishti and Sushant Singh
Vedvigyan Alok (Maharishi Aitareya Mahidas Praneet - Aitareya Brahmina ki Vaigyanik Vyakhya)Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Guided AgeJames Crabtree
India Moving: A History of MigrationChinmay Tumbe
Blessings from Beijing: Inside China's Softpower War on TibetGreg Bruno
The Unending Game: Insights into EspionageVikram Sood
Straight TalkAbhishek Manu Singhvi
The President Is MissingBill Clinton and James Patterson
Vernon SubutexVirginie Despentes
The White BookHan Kang
The World Goes OnLaszlo Krasznahorkai
Like a Fading ShadowAntonio Munoz Molina
Frankenstein in BaghdadAhmed Saadawi
FlightsOlga Tokarczuk
Travails with the AlienSatyajit Ray
The Spy Chronicles: RAW ISI and the Illusion of PeaceAsdulat, Aditya Sinha, Asad Durrani
The Zero Cost Mission/The Wily AgentAmar Bhushan
The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South AsiaSrinath Raghavan
Eleven Gods and a Billion lndiansBoria Majumdar
Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Life and TimesTathagata Roy
Republic of CasteAnand Teltumbde
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (1914-1948)Ramachandra Guha
The Way I See ItGauri Lankesh, edited by writer and sociologist Chandan Gowda
Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to ShivajiManu Pillai
From Kargil to Coup: Events That Shook PakistanNasim Sehra
Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of StruggleSaifuddin Soz
President’s LadySangeeta Ghosh
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neo-liberal HindutvaAnand Teltumbde
MissingSumana Roy
God Save the Hon'ble Supreme CourtFali S Nariman
Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled WatersAsad Durrani
Ten ldeologies: The Great Asymmetry Between Agrariansm and IndustrialismS Jaipal Reddy
Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on RadioDevendra Fadnavis
Books and Authors: FAQs

Ans. Writer Damodar Mauzo received the Jnanpith Award 2023.

Ans. Margaret Atwood won the Man Booker Prize 2019.

Ans. Jokha Alharthi won the Man Booker International Prize 2019.

Ans. Vasdev Mohi won the Saraswati Samaan 2019.

Ans. Richard Powers won the Pulitzer prize for fiction 2019.

Ans. Chandrachur Ghose is the author of ‘Bose: The untold story of an inconvenient nationalist’

Ans. The novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, authored by Geetanjali Shree is the first Hindi novel to get shortlisted for International Booker Prize

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