A full list of famous books and authors for competitive exams 2021 in India. Books and authors is one of the important part of general knowledge in all exam including UPSC and SSC CGL.
Famous Books and Authors in India
| Books List | Author Names |
|---|---|
| Arthashastra | Chanakya |
| Ain-i-Akbari: | Abul Fazal |
| Anand Math | Bankim Chandra |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| Baburnama | Babur |
| Bisarjan | R.N.Tagore |
| Chitra | R.N.Tagore |
| Farishta | Kapil Isapuari |
| Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Gita Rahasya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Gora | Rabindranath Tagore |
| My Country My Life | L.K. Advani |
| Hindu View of Life | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| India Divided | Rajendra Prasad |
| India Wins Freedom | Abul Kalama Azad |
| Indian Home Rule | M. K. Gandhi |
| Satya ke Prayog | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Faces and Places Professor – | Deepak Nayyar |
| Freedom in Exile | Dalai Lama |
| Post Office | Rabindranath Tagore |
| The Red Sari – | Javier Moro |
| Super Economies | Raghav Bahal |
| Playing it My Way | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Unbreakable | Mary Kom Dina Serto |
| Khushwatnama – The Lesson of My life | khushwant Singh |
| And Then One Day | Nasiruddin Shah |
| Run in Ruins | Sunil Gavaskar |
| India at Risk | Jaswant Singh |
| The Accidental Prime Minister | Sanjaya Baru |
| A Voice for Freedom | Nayantara Sahgal |
| Reminiscences of the Nehru Age | M.O.Mathai |
| Making India Awesome | Chetab Bhagat |
| Toward Freedom/ An Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Mrs. Funny bones | Twinkle Khanna |
| Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy | Meira Kumar |
| Swamy and Friends | R. K. Narayan |
| We Indians | Khushwant Singh |
| India of our Dreams | M.V. Kamath |
| Gita Govinda | Jaya Dev |
| The Future of Freedom | Fareed Zakaria |
| Betrayal of the Defence Forces | Vishnu Bhagwat |
| The Unseen Indira Gandhi | Dr. KP Mathur |
| Ace Against Odds | Sania Mirza |
| The Kiss of Life | Emran Hashmi |
| Param Vir | Manju Lodha |
| An Era of Darkness | Shasi Tharoor |
| India Shastra | Shasi Tharoor |
| The Z Factor | Subhash Chandra |
| Who was Shivaji ? | Govind Pansare |
| Enoch, I am a British Indian | Sarinder Joshua |
| My Unforgettable Memories | Mamata Banerjee |
| Education of Muslims | J S Rajput |
| My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji | Abdul Kalam |
| Wake up India | Annie Besant |
| We the people | Nanabhoy Palkhivala |
| To Live or Not Live | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
| Family Life | Akhil Sharma |
| The Making of India | Kartar Lalvani |
| My Years with Rajiv and Sonia | R D Pradhan |
| Walking With Giants | G. Ramachandran |
| Flood of Fire | Amitav Ghosh |
| Akbar – The Aesthete | Dr Indu Anand |
| God of Antarctica | Yashwardhan Shukla |
| Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography | Pramod Kapoor |
| China: Confucius in the Shadow | Poonam Surie |
| One Life is Not Enough | Natwar Singh |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee |
| Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi | Faraz Ahmad |
| Why I Assassinated Gandhi | Nathuram Godse Gopal Godse |
| My Music My Life | Ravi Shankar |
| Kaise Bani Top Cop | Kiran Bedi |
| Turbulence And Triumph The Modi Years | Rahul Agarwal Bharathi Pradhan |
| My Life, My Mission | Baba Ramdev |
| Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly | Anupam Kher |
| Savarka | Vikram Sampath |
| Making of New India | Bibek Debroy |
| Changing India | Manmohan Singh |
| Timeless Laxman | Narendra Modi |
| Why I am Hindu | Shashi Tharoor |
| A Century Is Not Enough | Sourav Ganguly |
| Wings of Fire | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| What Young India Wants | Chetan Bhagat |
| Half Girlfriend | Chetan Bhagat |
| The New Delhi Conspiracy | Meenakshi Lekhi |
| Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature | Jairam Ramesh |
| Virat: The making of a Champion | Neeraj Jha Vidhanshu Kumar |
| Defining India: Through Their Eyes | Sonia Singh |
| Exam Warriors | Narendra Modi |
| Straight from the Heart | Kapil Dev |
| A Vision for the New Millennium | Abdul Kalam |
| The Girl in Room 105 | Chetan Bhagat |
| Target 3 Billion | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| The Coalition Years | Pranab Mukherjee |
| The Bandit Queen Of India | Phoolan Devi |
| The Calcutta Chromosome | Amitav Ghosh |
Important books and authors for competitive exams