Famous Books and Authors List:
Hello readers, CurrentAffairToday here presenting books and authors list for Competitive Exams. Questions based on Books are asked commonly in Static General Knowledge section of government job exams. Along with Authors, name of newly launched books can also be asked. So it is imperative to keep a close eye on this important GK topic. Normally, there is probability of 2 or 3 Questions from topic of books and authors in many competitive exams. Thus you can’t afford to ignore this vital topic while preparing for competitive exams as a single mark can make a huge difference.
This is well compiled list of all famous books with authors names. As you are preparing for Indian competitive exams, it doesn’t means that you only need to learn about Famous authors and their Books from India, but questions are also asked based on books written by foreign authors. So read this post very carefully as we have covered both.
Famous Books Written By Indian Authors
Autobiographies of Famous persons
| Book Name | Author Name |
| Wings of fire | A P J Abdul Kalam |
| Truth Love and little Malice | Khushwanth Singh |
| My Country My life | L K Advani |
| One life is not enough | K Natwar singh |
| Matters of Discretion | I K Gujral |
| My times | J B Kripalani(acharya kripalani) |
| Autobiography of Yogi | Paramahamsa Yogananda |
| The Z Factor | Subhash Chandra |
| Raga Mala | Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| The Score of My life | Zubin Mehta |
| Then One Day | Naseeruddin Shah |
| Anything But Khamosh | Shatrugan Sinha |
| The Nice Guy who finished first(Rahul Dravid biography) | Prabhu desai |
| The Fall of a Sparrow | Salim Ali(Ornithologist) |
| Wandering in Many worlds | V R K Iyer |
| The bandit Queen of India | Phoolan devi |
| The Substance and the Shadow | Dilip Kumar |
| The Auto biography of An Unknown Indian | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
| Hold My hand | Durjoy datta |
| Ideas of a Nation | Sardar Vallabhai Patel |
| TheLife Divine | Aurobindo |
| A Secular Agenda | Arun Shourie |
| Annihilation of caste | B R Ambedkar |
| Bhajagovindam | C Rajagopalachari |
| Bridge of Rama | Ashok banker |
| Coolie | Mulk raj Anand |
| Cut like Wound | Anita Nair |
| Eternal India | Indira Gandhi |
| Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh |
Famous Books And Their Authors List (Multiple Books)
The list of Authors and Books written by them given below contains those personalities who have written more than one books. This is made a separate section to make easy for readers. Left column contains Author Name and right one lists Boos written by them.
| Author Name | Books |
| Anees Jung | 1. The Song of India |
| 2. Unveiling India Anees | |
| Ramachandra Guha | 1. India After Gandhi |
| 2. The States of Indian Cricket | |
| Chetan Bhaghat | 1. Half Girl Friend |
| 2. Revolution 2020 | |
| 3. One night at the Call centre | |
| R K Narayan | 1. My days |
| 2. Guide | |
| 3. Waiting for the Mahatama | |
| Amrita Pritam | 1. Revenue Stamp:An Autobiography |
| 2. Forty nine days | |
| 3. Pinjar | |
| Anita desai | 1. Fasting Feasting |
| 2. The Peacock garden | |
| Amitav Ghosh | 1. Flood of Fire |
| 2. River of Smoke | |
| 3. Sea of Poppies | |
| 4. The Hungry Tide | |
| 5. The Imam and the Indian | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1. Gitanjali |
| 2. The Post office | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1. An Autobiography |
| 2. Discovery of India | |
| 3. Glimpses of World History | |
| M K Gandhi | 1. My Experiments with Truth |
| 2. Key to Health | |
| 3. My early life | |
| Arundhati Roy | 1. Capitalism: A Ghost story |
| 2. The Algebra of Infinite Justice | |
| 3. The Cost of living | |
| 4. War Talk |
Famous Books Written by Foreign Authors
| Book Name | Author Name |
| TomSawyer | Mark Twain |
| The System of the World | Isaac Newton |
| The war of the worlds | HG Wells |
| The White Tiger | ArvindAdiga |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| Losing My virginity | Richard Branson |
| My Brief History | Stephen Hawking |
| Moon Walk | Michael Jackson |
| The Snowball:Warren buffett and business of life | Alice Schroeder |
| Long walk to freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| The Story of My life | Helen Keller |
| An Auto biographical study | Sigmund Freud |
| The Words | Jean Paul Sartre |
| My story | Marilyne Monroe |
| Auto biographical Notes | Albert Einstein |
| My Life | Bill Clinton |
| Living History | Hillary Clinton |
| An American life | Ronald Reagan(Former America President) |
| My Confession | Leo Tolstoy |
| Songs My mother taught | Marlon Brando |
| My Child hood | Maxim Gorkhy |
| De Profundis | Oscar Wilde |
| Walk this Way | Aero Smith |
| Daughter of the Destiny | Benazir Bhutto |
| It’s not about the bike : My Journey back to life | Lance Armstrong |
| On writing | Stephen King |
| Dreams from my Father | Barack Obama |
| A Farewell to arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| Hamlet | Shakespheare |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
Famous Books Written by Sportspersons : Biographies
| Book Name | Author |
| The race of my life | Milkha singh |
| The test of My life | Yuvraj singh |
| Playing it my way | Sachin Tendulkar |
| A Shot at history | Abhinav Bindra |
| Straight from the heart | Kapildev |
| Open | Andre Agassi |
| Sunny Days:An Auto biography | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Un breakable | Mary Com |
| The Greatest:My Own Story | Muhammad Ali |
| Golden Girl | P T Usha(Athlete) |
| Faster Than Lightening:My autobiography | Usain Bolt(Athlete) |
| KP:The Auto biography | Kevin Pietersen(South Africa Cricketer) |
| My World My side | David Beckham(Foot ball player) |
| Wasim:Auto biography | Wasim Akram(Pakistan Cricketer) |
| Controversially yours | Shoaib Akhtar(Pakistan Fast bowler) |
Other Important Books and Authors List
| Book Name | Author Name |
| Rajatarangini | Kalhana |
| Rutusamhara | Kalidasa |
| Dharma sutra | Kashyapa |
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Yogabhashya | Vyasa |
| Yogamanjari | Vardhamana |
| Mahabharatha | Vyasa |
| Malavikagnimitra | Kalidasa |
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