List of Important Books and their Authors for SSC Exams 2022
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 |
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