Famous Books & Authors: India
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This post categorically lists all the famous books and authors of India in recent times.
Famous Books & Authors: India
This post categorically lists all the famous books and authors of India in recent times. We also tried to include some of the previous year psc questions on the topic of famous books and authors of India.
A(20)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul |
| A Life in Diplomacy | Maharajakrishna Rasgotra(Former Indian Diplomat) |
| A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power | Bette Dam |
| A Manifesto For Change | Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam |
| A State in Denial | B.G. Verghese |
| An Autobiography | Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India | Shashi Tharoor |
| An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions | Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze |
| Ace against Odds | Sania Mirza(Autobiography) |
| Advice and Dissent; My Life in Public Service | Y.V. Reddy.(Previous PSC Questions:Assistant Surgeon Health Services 2018) |
| Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity | Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam |
| Age of Anger: A history of the Present | Pankaj Mishra |
| Akbar | The Aesthete – Dr. Indu Anand |
| Alphabet Soup for Lovers | Anita Nair |
| Amuktamalyada | Krishna Devaraya.(Previous PSC Questions:Caretaker Male 2018) |
| And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini |
| And then One Day: A Memoir | Nasiruddin Shah(Autobiography) |
| Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography | Bharathi S Pradhan |
| Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? | Faraz Ahmad |
| Awakening India’s Social Conscience | Dr. Narendra Jadhav |
A Bend in the river
V.S. Naipaul
A Life in Diplomacy
Maharajakrishna Rasgotra(Former Indian Diplomat)
A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
Bette Dam
A Manifesto For Change
Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
A State in Denial
B.G. Verghese
An Autobiography
Jawahar Lal Nehru
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Shashi Tharoor
An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions
Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
Ace against Odds
Sania Mirza(Autobiography)
Advice and Dissent; My Life in Public Service
Y.V. Reddy.(Previous PSC Questions:Assistant Surgeon Health Services 2018)
Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity
Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Age of Anger: A history of the Present
Pankaj Mishra
Akbar
The Aesthete – Dr. Indu Anand
Alphabet Soup for Lovers
Anita Nair
Amuktamalyada
Krishna Devaraya.(Previous PSC Questions:Caretaker Male 2018)
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
And then One Day: A Memoir
Nasiruddin Shah(Autobiography)
Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography
Bharathi S Pradhan
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job?
Faraz Ahmad
Awakening India’s Social Conscience
Dr. Narendra Jadhav
B(6)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India | Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam |
| Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination | Teesta Setalvad |
| Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga | Nitin Gokhale |
| Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 | Sandeep Unnithan |
| Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounter | Kishlay Bhattacharjee |
| Born Again on the Mountain | Arunima Sinha |
Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India
Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination
Teesta Setalvad
Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga
Nitin Gokhale
Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11
Sandeep Unnithan
Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounter
Kishlay Bhattacharjee
Born Again on the Mountain
Arunima Sinha
C(35)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| China: Confucius in the Shadow | Poonam Surie |
| Collective Choice And Social Welfare | Amartya Sen.(Previous PSC Questions: HSST Zoology 2018)Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise – Pradeep Baijal |
| Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography | Margaret Alva |
| Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths | P.C. Parakh.DDark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna – Gautam Chintamani |
| Death under the Deodars | Ruskin Bond |
| Democrats and Dissenters | Ramachandra Guha |
| Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen.(Previous PSC Questions:Assistant Professor in Medical Gastroenterology 2018)Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India – Rajdeep Sardesai |
| Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India | Sam Pitroda.(Autobiography, co-author: David Chanoff)Duroch ModiNomics – Sameer Kochar.EEditor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me – Vinod Mehta |
| Education of Muslims | Prof. J.S. Rajput |
| Enoch, I am a British Indian | Sarinder Joshua.FFamily Life – Akhil Sharma.(Winner of the Folio Prize 2015)Faces and Places Professor – Prof. Deepak Nayyar |
| Farishta | Kapil Isapuari |
| Food for All | Uma Lele |
| Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar | Dilip D’Souza |
| Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket | Shantanu Guha Ray |
| Flood of Fire | Amitav Ghosh |
| Flying in High Winds: A Memoir | K. Mishra |
| Fragrance of Peace | Irom Sharmila.(Previous PSC Questions:HSST Sociology Jr 2018)Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks – S.K. Rath |
| Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My Innocence | Mohammad Aamir Khan |
| Freedom in Exile | Dalai Lama.GGandhi and Anarchy – C. Shankaran Nair.(Previous PSC Questions:HSST Chemistry 2018)Gandhi Before India – Ramachandra Guha |
| Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography | Pramod Kapoor |
| Ghosts of Calcutta | Sebastian Ortiz |
| Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice | Dr. Mool Chand Sharma |
| God of Antarctica | Master Yashvardhan Shukla.(At the age of 13)Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann, and Philidor – Parimarjan Negi |
| Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India | Jairam Ramesh.HHalf Girlfriend – Chetan Bhagat |
| Hindutva or Hind Swaraj | U.R. Ananthamurthy |
| Hit Refresh | Satya Nadella.(Previous PSC Questions:Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics NCA 2018)II Do What I Do – Raghuram Rajan |
| India at Risk | Jaswant Singh |
| India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy | Ramachandra Guha.(Previous PSC Questions:Lecturer in Computer Science 2018)India Wins Freedom – Abdul Kalam Azad.(Previous PSC Questions: Ophthalmic Assistant Gr-II For SC/ST 2018,Plumber Kerala Tourism Development Corporation 2018, )India’s Tryst with Destiny – Jagadish Bhagawati |
| India Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension | Amiya Chandra |
| Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy: Speaker’s Perspective | Meira Kumar |
| Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister | Sagarika Ghose* |
| India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time | Shashi Tharoor |
| Inside Parliament: Views from the front row | Derek O’Brien |
| Interlinking of Indian Rivers | Radha Kant Bharati |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
China: Confucius in the Shadow
Poonam Surie
Collective Choice And Social Welfare
Amartya Sen.(Previous PSC Questions: HSST Zoology 2018)Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise – Pradeep Baijal
Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography
Margaret Alva
Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths
P.C. Parakh.DDark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna – Gautam Chintamani
Death under the Deodars
Ruskin Bond
Democrats and Dissenters
Ramachandra Guha
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen.(Previous PSC Questions:Assistant Professor in Medical Gastroenterology 2018)Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India – Rajdeep Sardesai
Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India
Sam Pitroda.(Autobiography, co-author: David Chanoff)Duroch ModiNomics – Sameer Kochar.EEditor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me – Vinod Mehta
Education of Muslims
Prof. J.S. Rajput
Enoch, I am a British Indian
Sarinder Joshua.FFamily Life – Akhil Sharma.(Winner of the Folio Prize 2015)Faces and Places Professor – Prof. Deepak Nayyar
Farishta
Kapil Isapuari
Food for All
Uma Lele
Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar
Dilip D’Souza
Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket
Shantanu Guha Ray
Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh
Flying in High Winds: A Memoir
K. Mishra
Fragrance of Peace
Irom Sharmila.(Previous PSC Questions:HSST Sociology Jr 2018)Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks – S.K. Rath
Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My Innocence
Mohammad Aamir Khan
Freedom in Exile
Dalai Lama.GGandhi and Anarchy – C. Shankaran Nair.(Previous PSC Questions:HSST Chemistry 2018)Gandhi Before India – Ramachandra Guha
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography
Pramod Kapoor
Ghosts of Calcutta
Sebastian Ortiz
Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice
Dr. Mool Chand Sharma
God of Antarctica
Master Yashvardhan Shukla.(At the age of 13)Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann, and Philidor – Parimarjan Negi
Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India
Jairam Ramesh.HHalf Girlfriend – Chetan Bhagat
Hindutva or Hind Swaraj
U.R. Ananthamurthy
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella.(Previous PSC Questions:Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics NCA 2018)II Do What I Do – Raghuram Rajan
India at Risk
Jaswant Singh
India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha.(Previous PSC Questions:Lecturer in Computer Science 2018)India Wins Freedom – Abdul Kalam Azad.(Previous PSC Questions: Ophthalmic Assistant Gr-II For SC/ST 2018,Plumber Kerala Tourism Development Corporation 2018, )India’s Tryst with Destiny – Jagadish Bhagawati
India Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension
Amiya Chandra
Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy: Speaker’s Perspective
Meira Kumar
Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister*
Sagarika Ghose
India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time
Shashi Tharoor
Inside Parliament: Views from the front row
Derek O’Brien
Interlinking of Indian Rivers
Radha Kant Bharati
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
* Time-sensitive data — verify for latest information
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| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Joseph Anton | Salman Rushdie.(Autobiography) |
| KKashmir: The Vajpayee Years | A.S. Dulat & Aditya Sinha |
| Khushwantnama | The Lessons of My Life – Khushwant Singh.LLal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership – Pavan Choudary |
| Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri.MMatoshree – Sumitra Mahajan.(Previous PSC Questions:Secretary, Block Panchayat 2018)Making India Awesome – Chetan Bhagat |
| Modi | Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language) – Tarun Vijay.MS: A life in Music – T.J.S. George |
| Munger through the Ages | Late DP Yadav |
| Mrs Funny bones | Twinkle Khanna.My Country My Life – L.K. Advani.My Favourite Nature Stories – Ruskin Bond.My Music My Life – Pt Ravi Shankar.My Unforgettable Memories – Mamata Banerjee.My Years with Rajiv and Sonia – R.D |
| Pradhan.NNarendra Modi: A Political Biography | Andy Marino |
| Neither a hawk nor a dove | Khurshid M. Kasuari.No Time to Pause – Pavithra Ramesh |
| Not Just an Accountant | Vinod Rai.(Former CAG)OOne Life is Not Enough – Natwar Singh.On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power – Sharad Pawar.(Autobiography)One Part Woman – Perumal Murugan.PParam Vir: A War Diary – Manju Lodha |
| Pathways to Greatness | Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam |
| Planned Economy for India | M. Vishweshar Iyer.(Previous PSC Questions: Vocational Instructor Marketing and Salesmanship 2018)Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar & Boria Mazumder |
| Public Issues Before Parliament | Vijay Darda |
| RRationalized Roman for Kashmiri | Dr. R L Bhat |
| Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations | Nandan Nilekani & Viral Shah |
| Ringside With Vijender | Rudraneil Sengupta |
| Runs in Ruins | Sunil Gavaskar |
Joseph Anton
Salman Rushdie.(Autobiography)
KKashmir: The Vajpayee Years
A.S. Dulat & Aditya Sinha
Khushwantnama
The Lessons of My Life – Khushwant Singh.LLal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership – Pavan Choudary
Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri.MMatoshree – Sumitra Mahajan.(Previous PSC Questions:Secretary, Block Panchayat 2018)Making India Awesome – Chetan Bhagat
Modi
Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language) – Tarun Vijay.MS: A life in Music – T.J.S. George
Munger through the Ages
Late DP Yadav
Mrs Funny bones
Twinkle Khanna.My Country My Life – L.K. Advani.My Favourite Nature Stories – Ruskin Bond.My Music My Life – Pt Ravi Shankar.My Unforgettable Memories – Mamata Banerjee.My Years with Rajiv and Sonia – R.D
Pradhan.NNarendra Modi: A Political Biography
Andy Marino
Neither a hawk nor a dove
Khurshid M. Kasuari.No Time to Pause – Pavithra Ramesh
Not Just an Accountant
Vinod Rai.(Former CAG)OOne Life is Not Enough – Natwar Singh.On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power – Sharad Pawar.(Autobiography)One Part Woman – Perumal Murugan.PParam Vir: A War Diary – Manju Lodha
Pathways to Greatness
Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Planned Economy for India
M. Vishweshar Iyer.(Previous PSC Questions: Vocational Instructor Marketing and Salesmanship 2018)Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar & Boria Mazumder
Public Issues Before Parliament
Vijay Darda
RRationalized Roman for Kashmiri
Dr. R L Bhat
Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations
Nandan Nilekani & Viral Shah
Ringside With Vijender
Rudraneil Sengupta
Runs in Ruins
Sunil Gavaskar
S(39)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Scion of Ikshvaku | Amish |
| Selection day | Aravind Adiga |
| Serpent’s Revenge | Sudha Murthy |
| Shashi Kapoor - the Householder, the Star | Aseem Chhabra |
| Sita: Warrior of Mithila | Amish |
| Sivaji’s Life | Jyothi Rao Phule.(Previous PSC Questions: Assistant Surgeon-Health Services 2018) |
| Son of Thundercloud | Easterine Kire |
| Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy | Saptarshi Sarkar |
| Standing Guard: A year in Opposition& | P. Chidambaram |
| Super Economies | Raghav Bahal |
| Suragi | U.R. Anantha Murthy.(Previous PSC Questions: Lecturer in Journalism 2018) |
| Standing On An Apple Box | Aishwarya Dhanush |
| Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan | Daman Singh |
| Syntheism | Creating God in The Internet Age – Alexander Bard |
| TThat Long Silence | Shashi Deshpande |
| The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh | Sanjaya Baru* |
| The Country of First Boys | Amartya Sen |
| The Courage to Act | A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath – Ben S. Bernanke |
| The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Decade | Pranab Mukherjee |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy.(Previous PSC Questions: Sergeant 2018)The Great Derangement: Climate Change And The Unthinkable – Amitav Ghosh |
| The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee |
| The Ibis Trilogy | Amitav Ghosh |
| The Kiss of Life | Emraan Hashmi |
| The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity | Tarun Khanna |
| The Making of India: The untold story of British Enterprises | Kartar Lalvani |
| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy.(Previous PSC Questions: Assistant Professor-General Surgery 2018, Assistant Town Planner 2019, Scientific Assistant 2018, Liaison Officer cum Assistant Personnel Officer- KELPALM 2018)The Mother I Never Knew – Sudha Murthy |
| The Quest For A World Without Hunger | M.S. Swaminathan.(Previous PSC Questions: Civil Police Officer 2018, Junior Assistant KSFE /KSEB/KSRTC 2018)The Red Sari – Javier Moro |
| The Sahara Testaments | Tade Ipadeola |
| The Story of Kashmir through the Ages | Arjan Nath Chaku |
| The Tiger and the Cellphone | Sashi Tharoor |
| The Turbulent Years: 1980 | 1996 – Pranab Mukherjee |
| The Unseen Indira Gandhi | Dr. K.P. Mathur |
| The Z Factor | Subhash Chandra |
| Thoughts and Reflections | Pranab Mukherjee.To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story – Jairam Ramesh |
| Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji | Abdul Kalam |
| Truth Always Prevails | Sadruddin Hashwani |
| Two Year Eight Months and Twenty | Eight Night – Salman Rushdie.UUnaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Unbelievable | Delhi to Islamabad – Prof Bhim Singh |
| Unbreakable | Mary Kom.(Autobiography)Uniki – C.H. Vidyasagar Rao.(Governor of Maharashtra)Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector – Dr. U.D. Choubey |
Scion of Ikshvaku
Amish
Selection day
Aravind Adiga
Serpent’s Revenge
Sudha Murthy
Shashi Kapoor - the Householder, the Star
Aseem Chhabra
Sita: Warrior of Mithila
Amish
Sivaji’s Life
Jyothi Rao Phule.(Previous PSC Questions: Assistant Surgeon-Health Services 2018)
Son of Thundercloud
Easterine Kire
Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy
Saptarshi Sarkar
Standing Guard: A year in Opposition&
P. Chidambaram
Super Economies
Raghav Bahal
Suragi
U.R. Anantha Murthy.(Previous PSC Questions: Lecturer in Journalism 2018)
Standing On An Apple Box
Aishwarya Dhanush
Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan
Daman Singh
Syntheism
Creating God in The Internet Age – Alexander Bard
TThat Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande
The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh*
Sanjaya Baru
The Country of First Boys
Amartya Sen
The Courage to Act
A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath – Ben S. Bernanke
The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Decade
Pranab Mukherjee
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy.(Previous PSC Questions: Sergeant 2018)The Great Derangement: Climate Change And The Unthinkable – Amitav Ghosh
The Lives of Others
Neel Mukherjee
The Ibis Trilogy
Amitav Ghosh
The Kiss of Life
Emraan Hashmi
The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity
Tarun Khanna
The Making of India: The untold story of British Enterprises
Kartar Lalvani
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy.(Previous PSC Questions: Assistant Professor-General Surgery 2018, Assistant Town Planner 2019, Scientific Assistant 2018, Liaison Officer cum Assistant Personnel Officer- KELPALM 2018)The Mother I Never Knew – Sudha Murthy
The Quest For A World Without Hunger
M.S. Swaminathan.(Previous PSC Questions: Civil Police Officer 2018, Junior Assistant KSFE /KSEB/KSRTC 2018)The Red Sari – Javier Moro
The Sahara Testaments
Tade Ipadeola
The Story of Kashmir through the Ages
Arjan Nath Chaku
The Tiger and the Cellphone
Sashi Tharoor
The Turbulent Years: 1980
1996 – Pranab Mukherjee
The Unseen Indira Gandhi
Dr. K.P. Mathur
The Z Factor
Subhash Chandra
Thoughts and Reflections
Pranab Mukherjee.To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story – Jairam Ramesh
Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji
Abdul Kalam
Truth Always Prevails
Sadruddin Hashwani
Two Year Eight Months and Twenty
Eight Night – Salman Rushdie.UUnaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
Unbelievable
Delhi to Islamabad – Prof Bhim Singh
Unbreakable
Mary Kom.(Autobiography)Uniki – C.H. Vidyasagar Rao.(Governor of Maharashtra)Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector – Dr. U.D. Choubey
* Time-sensitive data — verify for latest information
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| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Walking With Giants | G. Ramachandran.(Former Finance Secretary) |
| Water, Peace, and War | Confronting the Global Water Crisis – Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar |
| We the People | Nani Palkhivala.(Previous PSC Questions: HSST Hindi 2018) |
| What Happened to Netaji? | Anuj Dhar. (former journalist) |
| Who Moved My Interest Rate? | Duvvuri Subbarao..(Former Governor of RBI) |
| Why Growth Matters | Jagadish Bhagawati |
| Who was Shivaji? | Govind Pansare |
| Why I Assassinated Gandhi | Nathuram Godse & Gopal Godse |
| Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace | Leon Panetta & Jim Newton |
Walking With Giants
G. Ramachandran.(Former Finance Secretary)
Water, Peace, and War
Confronting the Global Water Crisis – Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
We the People
Nani Palkhivala.(Previous PSC Questions: HSST Hindi 2018)
What Happened to Netaji?
Anuj Dhar. (former journalist)
Who Moved My Interest Rate?
Duvvuri Subbarao..(Former Governor of RBI)
Why Growth Matters
Jagadish Bhagawati
Who was Shivaji?
Govind Pansare
Why I Assassinated Gandhi
Nathuram Godse & Gopal Godse
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Leon Panetta & Jim Newton
Y
- You Got Magic – Neel Madhav.(Previous PSC Questions: Plumber Kerala Tourism Development Corporation 2018)