Books and Authors

Books and Authors

Famous Books and their Author are part now every exam. For the important Government exams, if have come up with important books and their authors. The government exams, like RRB, Bank Exams, UPSC, IBPS, SSC, are some of the exam in which two or three question from books and authors are asked in the general awareness section. Check the famous and award winning books and authors for 2020, 2019 and 2018.

Books and Authors 2020

Check the important books and its authors of 2020 in the table below.

Authors Name	Book Name
Apoorva Kumar Singh	A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981
Abhay K.	The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems
Amit Shah	Karmayoddha Granth

Books and Authors 2019

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

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

Books and Authors 2018

Check the important books and its authors of 2018 in the table below.

Book Name	Authors Name
A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s Future through her Villages	BJP MP Varun Gandhi
Changing India	Dr. Manmohan Singh
Timeless Laxman	Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Arivu	Dr Murali Mohan Chuntharu
The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Womens Cricket in India	Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Pathak
Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior	Rima Hooja
The Paradoxical Prime Minister	Shashi Tharoor
The Rule Breakers	Preeti Shenoy
Experiential Learning -- Gandhiji's Nai Talim	Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar
From Lehman to Demonetisation: A Decade of Disruption, Reforms and Misadventures	Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Poonachi or the Story of a Black Goat	Perumal Murugan
Making of Legend	Bindeshwar Pathak
Diabetes with Delight	Anoop Misra
The Last White Hunter	Donald Anderson with Joshua Mathew
Indian Cultures as Heritage	Romila Thapar
Strangers No More: New Narratives from Northeast	Sanjoy Hazarika
Matoshree	Sumitra Mahajan
Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy	Yasser Usman
Indian Instinct	Miniya Chatterjee
The Coalition years	Pranab Mukherjee
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World	Snigdha Poonam
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Whitehouse	Michael Wolff
Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life	Sheila Dikshit
Mere Sapno Ka Bharat	Tarun Vijay
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	Syeda Saiyidan Hameed
Ants Among Elephants	Dujatha Gidla
The Constitution of India: Miracle, Surrender, Hope	Rajeev Dhavan
A Ringside Affair	James Lawton
The Year of the Hawks	Kanwaljit Singh
How May I Help You	Deepak Singh
A World of Three Zeroes: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emission	Mohammad Yunus
Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistan	Mehr Tarar
Xi Jinping's China	Jayadev Ranade
The Book Hunters of Katpadi	Pradeep Sebastia
All the Worlds Between	K Srilata and Fiona Bolger
Hit Refresh	Satya Nadella
Letters to a Young Philosopher	Ramin Jahanbegloo
Imperfect (autobiography)	Sanjay Manjrekar
Immortal India	Amish Tripathi
Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior	Rima Hooja
Conflicts of Interest: My Journey Through India’s Green Movement	Sunita Narain
2G Saga Unfolds	A Raja
Two	Gulzar
Status Single	Sreemoyee Piu Kundu
An Ordinary Mans Guide to Radicalism	Neyaz Farooquee
What happened	Hilary Clinton
Artemis	Andy Weir
Drone	Adam Rothstein
Why I am hindu	Shashi Tharoor
A dairy of deomestic diva	Shilpa Shetty
The New Wealth of Nations	Surjit S Bhalla
Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature	Jairam Ramesh
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World and Yours	Poonam
My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal	Avinash Paliwal
A state of freedom	Neel Mukerjee
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017	Ian Black
I do what I do	Raghuram Rajan
Indian Political Theory: Laying the Ground work for Swaraj	Aakash Singh Rathore
Hisaab Kitaab	Anjana Sukani
Songs of a Coward	Perumal Murugan
An unsuitable boy	Karan johar
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1928-1941	Stephen Kotkin
281 and Beyond	V V S Laksman
4321	Paul Auster
History of Wolves	Emily Fridlund
Exit West	Mohsin Hamid
Elmet	Fiona Mozley
Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders
Autumn	Ali Smith
Writing Pakistan: Conversations on ldentity, Nationhood and Fiction	Mushtaq Bilal
The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community	Sudeep Chakravarti
Moments ofTruth: My Life with Acting	Roshan Taneja
The Goat Thief	Perumal Murugan
The Widow of Malabar Hills	Sujata Massey
The Vanishing	Prerna Singh Bindra
Where India Goes	Diane Coffey and Dean Spears
The Nationalist	Minhaz Merchant
Political Violence in Ancient India	Upinder Singh
The tall man biju patnaik	Sundar Ganesan
A Tale of Two Victoria Crosses	Lt Gen Baljit Singh
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy	Tim Harford
New Wealth of Nations	Surjit Bhalla
The Emergency: Indian Democracy's Darkest Hour	A Surya Prakash
No Room for Small Dreams	Shimon Peres
A Horse Walks Into a Bar	David Grossman
An Ordinary Life: A Memoir	Nawazuddin Siddiqui with Rituparna Chatterjee
Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story	Rajdeep Sardesai
A Republic in the Making: India in the 1950s	Gyanesh Kudaisya
Durand's Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart	Rajiv Dogra
Origin	Dan Brown
The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India	GN Denvy
Inside Parliament: Views From the Front Row	Derek O'Brien
India Turns East: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry	Fredrick Grare
Weather Information Portal for Indian Power System	R K Singh
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness	Arundhati Roy
China & India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World	Bertil Lintner
Cadres ofTibet	Jayadeva Ranade
Unstoppable: My Life So Far	Maria Sharapova
The Book of Chocolate Saints	Jeet Thayil
Conflict of Interest	Sunita Narain
Atal Ji Ne kaha	Birendra Rehi
Confessions of a dying mind: the blind faith of atheism	Kiren Rijiju and Haulianlal Guite
Available Light	CP Surendran
Ashoka: Satrap of Taxila	Ashok K Banker
Sea Prayer	Khaled Hosseini
Loyal Stalkers	Chhimi Tenduf La
No Spin	Shane Warne
Attendant Lords	TCA Raghvan
The Driver in the Driverless Car	Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever
Life Among the Scorpions: Memoir of a Woman in Indian Politics	Jaya Jaitely
Gorbachev: His Life and Times	William Taubman
Ambedkar Gandhi and Patel: The Making of India’s Electoral System	Raja Shekhar Vundru
Evolution	Emmanuel Macron
Exam Warriors	Narendra Modi
Evil in the Mahabharata	Meena Arora Nayak
Happy Dreams	Jia Pingwa
6 TIMES THINNER	N N Vohra
Rohingya Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide	Azeem Ibrahim
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence	Francis Wade
Reimagining Pakistan	Husain Haggani
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	Syeda Hameed
Reporting Pakistan	Meena Menon
Who We Are and How We Got Here	David Reich
A Century ls Not Enough	Sourav Ganguly
Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly	Abhirup Bhattacharya
The Perils of Being Moderately Famous	Soha Ali Khan
Directorate S: The CLA and Americas Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan	Steye Coll
Economics for the Common Good	Jean Tirole
Political Tribes	Amy Chua
Dividing Lines: Contours of the India-China Discord	KN Raghavan
My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism	CH Hanumantha Rao
Triple Talaq: Examining Faith	Salman Khurshid
Kashmir: Exploring the Myth Behind the Narrative	Khalid Bashir
The Only Story	Julian Barnes
She Goes to War Women Militants of India	Rashmi Saksena
The Future of Humanity	Michio Kaku
Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic Governance	Ishrat Husain
The Unseeing ldol of Light	KR Meera
Across the Universe	Ajoy Bose
Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? Whal Should We Do About Them?	Arun Shourie
Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians	Borta Majumdar
Indian Railway- The weaving of a National Tapestry	Bibek Debroy
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradiction	Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
Lethal White	Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje
In a Free State	VS Naipaul
Michael Ondaatje	Warlight
Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal Ji	Ramesh Pokhriyal
Moon Tiger	Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel
Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders
The Only Story	Julian Barnes
Like a Psalm	Perumbadavam Sreedharan
Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts	Romila Thapar
Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017	Ankur 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 Age	James Crabtree
India Moving: A History of Migration	Chinmay Tumbe
Blessings from Beijing: Inside China's Softpower War on Tibet	Greg Bruno
The Unending Game: Insights into Espionage	Vikram Sood
Straight Talk	Abhishek Manu Singhvi
The President Is Missing	Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Vernon Subutex	Virginie Despentes
The White Book	Han Kang
The World Goes On	Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Like a Fading Shadow	Antonio Munoz Molina
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Flights	Olga Tokarczuk
Travails with the Alien	Satyajit Ray
The Spy Chronicles: RAW ISI and the Illusion of Peace	Asdulat, Aditya Sinha, Asad Durrani
The Zero Cost Mission/The Wily Agent	Amar Bhushan
The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia	Srinath Raghavan
Eleven Gods and a Billion lndians	Boria Majumdar
Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Life and Times	Tathagata Roy
Republic of Caste	Anand Teltumbde
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (1914-1948)	Ramachandra Guha
The Way I See It	Gauri Lankesh, edited by writer and sociologist Chandan Gowda
Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji	Manu Pillai
From Kargil to Coup: Events That Shook Pakistan	Nasim Sehra
Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle	Saifuddin Soz
President’s Lady	Sangeeta Ghosh
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neo-liberal Hindutva	Anand Teltumbde
Missing	Sumana Roy
God Save the Hon'ble Supreme Court	Fali S Nariman
Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters	Asad Durrani
Ten ldeologies: The Great Asymmetry Between Agrariansm and Industrialism	S Jaipal Reddy
Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio	Devendra Fadnavis

Books and Authors: FAQs

Q 1. Who won the Jnanpith Award 2019?

Ans. Akkitham Achuthan Namboodri won the Jnanpith Award 2019.

Q 2. Won won the Man Booker Prize 2019?

Ans. Margaret Atwood won the Man Booker Prize 2019.

Q 3. Who won the Man Booker International Prize 2019?

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

Q 4. Who won the Saraswati Samaan 2019?

Ans. Vasdev Mohi won the Saraswati Samaan 2019.

Q 5. Who won the Pulitzer prize for fiction 2019?

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