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Important books and authors for competitive exams
| Books | Authors |
|---|---|
| My Indian Years | Lord Harding |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Being and Nothingness | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill |
| Danger in Kashmir | Joseph Korbel |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Caroll |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| The Daughter of the East | Ms. Benazir Bhutto |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Azad |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiaveli |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| king Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Resurrection | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) | George Orwell |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| Lady Susan | Jane Austen |
| The Castle | Franz Kafka |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | JK Rowling |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
| A Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | George Bernard Shaw |
| Das Kapital/Capital | Karl Marx |
| Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| Utopia | Thomas Moore |
| Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes’s |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| The Color Purple | Oprah Winfrey |
| Why Nations Fail | Daron Acemoglu James A. Robinson |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| The Black Sheep | Honoré De Balzac |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey |
| The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama |
| Descent of Man | Charles Darwin |
| The idea of history | R. G. Collingwood |
| Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Chitra | R.N.Tagore |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Le Contract Social | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| Apple Cart | George Bernard Shaw |
| Freedom at Midnight | Larry Collins Dominique Lapierre |
| India Wins Freedom | Abul Kalam Azad |
| Pathway to Greatness | Dr Abdul Kalam |
| Anand Math | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
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