Books and Authors 2022
General awareness plays a significant role in government exams. In this article, we'll give you a list of famous books and authors that will be helpful in scoring good marks in exams like the SSC and Railway Exam 2022, and other government exams in 2022.
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Important Books and Authors for Competitive Exams
"List of Important Books and Authors" will be covered here. This is a pretty simple subject, and pupils who read it thoroughly will do well on exams and have a greater chance of being chosen.
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 |
Starstruck: 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 |
Famous Books and Authors
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. Candidates can go through the table given below, this table will help you prepare well for the upcoming SSC & Railways Exams 2022.
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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