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.
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