List of Famous Books and their Authors

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No:4. Candidates preparing for any of the government exams must by heart the names of famous books and authors as 2 to 3 questions related to important books and authors are asked in these examinations.
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No:6. In this article, candidates will get the list of famous books and authors, also they will be able to download Famous Books and Author PDF which enlists more than 200 names of important books and authors.
No:7. The PDF of Famous books and Authors list given contains both Indian and International books and authors.

List of Famous Books for 2021

Name of the Book	Author’s Name
Life in the Clock Tower Valley	Shakoor Rather
Suparipalana	Dr Shailendra Joshi
Elephant in the Womb	Kalki Koechlin
Names of the Women	Jeet Thayil
The Bench	Meghan Markle
My Experiments with Silence	Samir Soni
Whereabouts	Jhumpa Lahiri
Dawn Under the Dome	Swati Pandy in Collaboration with Orchida Mukherjee
The Living Mountain	Amitav Ghosh
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph	Anant Vijay’s
Climate Change Explained – For One and All	Aakash Ranison
The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle	Pashto and Published in 1983
The Christmas Pig	JK Rowling
Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis	Anindya Dutta
Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me	Bharat Sundaresan, co-author Suresh Raina
Stories I Must Tell: An Actor’s Emotional Journey	Kabir Bedi
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life	Nitin Gokhale
Maveric Messiah	Ramesh Kandula
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News	Meghna Pant
ASOCA: A Sutra	Irwin Allan Sealy’s
Startstruck: Confessions of a TV Executive	Peter Mukherjea
Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo	Lt. General Konsam Himalaya Singh
Unfinished: A Memoir	Priyanka Chopra Jonas
The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India	S Y Quraishi
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life	M Hamid Ansari
Right Under our Nose	R Giridharan
Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World	Sangeet Paul Choudhary
India’s 71 Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia	R. Kaushik
Beautiful Things	Hunter Biden
Vahana Masterclass	Alfredo Covelli
The Little Book of Encouragement	Dalai Lama
Manohar Parrikar – Off the Record	Waman Subha Prabhu
The Commonwealth of Cricket	Ramchandra Guha’s

List of Famous Books and Authors

Name of the Book	Author’s Name
Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night	Salman Rushdie
The Red Sari	Javier Moro
Freedom in Exile	Dalai Lama
My Favourite Nature Stories	Ruskin Bond
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)
The Sahara Testaments	Tade Ipadeola
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography	Andy Marino
My Unforgettable Memories	Mamata Banerjee
Rationalized 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	Master Yashvardhan Shukla (At the age of 13)
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 Funnybones	Twinkle Khanna
Making India Awesome	Chetan Bhagat
An Autobiography	Jawahar Lal Nehru
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 the 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
Why I Assassinated Gandhi	Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse
Life on My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power	Sharad Pawar (Autobiography)
What Happened to Netaji	Anuj Dhar (Former Journalist)
‘Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations	Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah
‘Interlinking of Indian Rivers	Radha Kant Bharati
Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India	Sam Pitroda
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights	Salman Rushdie
The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath	Ben S. Bernanke
Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India	Sam Pitroda, David Chanoff, an American author
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights	Salman Rushdie
To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story	Former Union Environment & Forest Minister (Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
Making India Awesome	Chetan Bhagat
Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, Democracy in India	Jairam Ramesh
Uniki	CH Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra
Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy	Saptarshi Sarkar
Flood of fire	Amitav Ghosh
“India Central Asia Relations”: The Economic Dimension	Amiya Chandra
Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years	AS Dulat and Aditya Sinha
37 Bridges and Other Stories	Aamer Hussein
Who Moved My Interest Rate	Duvvuri Subbarao, the former Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
The Unseen Indira Gandhi	Dr. KP Mathur
A Life in Diplomacy	Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
Courage & Commitment	Margaret Alva
MS: A life in Music	T.J.S. George
One Part Woman	Perumal Murugan
Ace against Odds	Sania Mirza
Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga	Nitin Gokhale
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable	Amitav Ghosh
Ringside with Vijender	Rudraneil Sengupta
The making of India	Kartar Lalvani
Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounter	Kishlay Bhattacharjee
Shashi Kapoor	Aseem Chhabra
The Kiss of Life	Emraan Hashmi
Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography	Bharathi S Pradhan
A State in Denial	BG Verghese
No Time to Pause	Pavithra Ramesh
Param Vir: A War Diary	Manju Lodha
Hindutva or Hind Swaraj	U.R. Ananthamurthy
Flying in High Winds: A Memoir	K. Mishra
Alphabet Soup for Lovers	Anita Nair
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler	James Cross Giblin
The Story of Kashmir through the Ages	Arjan Nath Chaku
Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My Innocence	Mohammad Aamir Khan
Standing Guard— A year in Opposition	P Chidambaram
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography	Pramod Kapoor
That Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande
Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket	Shantanu Guha Ray
Standing on An Apple Box	Aishwarya Dhanush
Who was Shivaji	Govind Pansare
The Z Factor	Subhash Chandra
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness	Arundhati Roy
The Birds of Banni Grassland – Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology	Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi
Age of Anger: A history of the Present	Pankaj Mishra
Son of Thundercloud	Easterine Kire
Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders
Inside Parliament: Views from the front row	Derek O’Brien
The Sellout	Paul Beatty
A brief history of Seven killings	Marlon James
A horse walks into a bar	David Grossman
The Ibis Trilogy	Amitav Ghosh
Selection day	Aravind Adiga
Death under the Deodars	Ruskin Bond
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India	Shashi Tharoor
India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time	Shashi Tharoor
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and The Unthinkable	Amitav Ghosh
Democrats and Dissenters	Ramachandra Guha
I Do What I Do	Raghuram Rajan
The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Decade	Pranab Mukherjee
The Turbulent Years: 1980 – 1996	Pranab Mukherjee
Thoughts and Reflections	Pranab Mukherjee
Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister	Sagarika Ghose
Why Growth Matters	Jagadish Bhagawati
India’s Tryst with Destiny	Jagadish Bhagawati
An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions	Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
The Country of First Boys	Amartya Sen
Gandhi before India	Ramachandra Guha
Scion of Ikshvaku	Amish
Sita: Warrior of Mithila	Amish
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights	Salman Rushdie
A Manifesto for Change	Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity	Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India	Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Pathways to Greatness	Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
The Mother I Never Knew	Sudha Murthy
Serpent’s Revenge	Sudha Murthy
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series	Rick Riordan
The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney
Fifty Shades Series	E.L. James
And the Mountains Echoed	Khaled Hosseini
War & Peace	Leo Tolstoy