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Important Books and Authors for competitive exams:

Books and Authors is the most important part of Static GK. Today, I will provide the list of Important Books and Authors for all competitive exams like PSC, SSC, RRB NTPC, SSC Group C and Group D exams, WBCS, UPSC, CGL, CHSL, WBSSC SLST PT, WBPSC exam, etc. 

In this section, you will also get a list of autobiographies of famous persons.

Hopefully, You will see some questions from this list of famous Books and Authors in the upcoming exams.

Famous Books and Authors | Indian Writers

Books	Authors
Allahabad Prasasti	Harisen
Traveling through the conflicts	Hamid Ansari
Godan	Munshi Prem Chand
Straight from the Heart	Kapil Dev
The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation	Edited by Pranab Mukherjee
My Truth	Indira Gandhi
Conventional Action: Gujrat's Response to Climate Change	Narendra Modi
All the Prime Minister's men	Janardan Thakur
Wake up India	Annie Besant
Ghulam Giri and other Stories	Jyotiba Phule
Life Devine	Aurobindo Ghosh
Jinnah-India, Partition Independence	Jaswant Singh
Subarnalata	Asha Purna Devi
I Witness- Partial Observation	Kapil Sibal
India Wins Freedom	Abul Kalam Azad
One life is not enough 'My China Diary'	K Natwar Singh
The Folded Earth	Anuradha Roy
The Namo Story: A Political Life	Kingshuk Nag
Neel Darpan	Din Bandhu Mitra
I Follow the Mahatma	K.M. Munshi
The Rediscovery of India	Meghnath Desai
Unhappy India	Lala Lajpat Ray
Jhara Palak	Jibanananda Das
The Judgement	Kuldip Nayar
Netaji Dead or Alive	Samar Guha
Pakhtoon	Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
My Country My Life	Lal Krishna Advani
Poverty and Un-British rule in India	Dadabhai Naoroji
Nehru: The Making of India	M.J. Akbar
Pratham Pratisruti	Ashapurna Devi
Gita Rahasya	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Palli Samaj	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
India Divided	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Pather Panchali	Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay
A Minister and His Responsibilities	Morarji Desai
Putul Nacher Itikatha	Manik Bandopadhyay
Indian War of Independence	V.D. Savarkar
What Congress and Gandhi have done to the untouchables	B.R. Ambedkar
Ramcharit	S.K. Nandi
Rajtarangini	Kalhan
Mitakshara	Vijnaneswara
Jalsaghar	Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Hero of Nymph	Aurobindo Ghosh
Gaurdbaho	Bakpatiraj
Economic History of India	Ramesh Chandra Dutta
Bandit Queen	Mala Sen
Bela Obela Kalbela	Jibanananda Das
Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power within India	Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
You Are Born to Blossom	Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
My Journey	Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
India 2020-A vision for the new millennium	Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Wings of Fire	Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
The Village	Mulk Raj Anand
Seven Summers	Mulk Raj Anand
Two Leaves and a Bud	Mulk Raj Anand
Coolie	Mulk Raj Anand
Kora Kagaj	Amrita Pritam
Death of a City	Amrita Pritam
The Revenue Stamp	Amrita Pritam
Makers of Modern India	Ramchandra Guha
The states of Indian Cricket	Ramchandra Guha
Bunch of old letters	Jawaharlal Nehru
Letters from a father to his daughter	Jawaharlal Nehru
The Discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
Glimpses of World History	Jawaharlal Nehru
The sunset club	Khushwant Singh
Guide	RK Narayan
Dark Room	RK Narayan
The Vendor of Sweets	RK Narayan
One night at the rate of call center	Chetan Bhagat
Half Girlfriend	Chetan Bhagat
Devi Choudharani	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Anand Math	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Prison Diary	JP Narayan
Devdas	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Parineeta	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
The bird of time	Sarojini Naidu
The golden threshold	Sarojini Naidu
Percepts of Jesus	Ram Mohan Roy
A gift to monotheists	Ram Mohan Roy
My Experiments With truth	Mahatma Gandhi
Hind Swaraj	Mahatma Gandhi
Development as freedom	Amartya Sen
The idea of justice	Amartya Sen
The Immortals	Amit Choudhary
The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai
The Namesake	Jhumpa Lahiri
The Unaccustomed Earth	Jhumpa Lahiri
Two Lives	Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth
The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth
An Equal Music	Vikram Seth
The Indian Struggle	Subhas Chandra Bose
An Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Choudhary
The Elephant, The Tiger and the cell Phone	Shashi Tharoor
To The Last Bullet	Vinita Kamte
An Area of Darkness	VS Naipaul
The Masque of Africa	VD Naipaul
A Bend in the River	VS Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswaas	VS Naipaul
India: a Wounded Civilization	VS Naipaul
Cause of Indian Mutiny	Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan
Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable	Shobha De
Sunny Days	Sunil Gavaskar
Satyarth Prakash	Swami Dayananda
The Hungry Tide	Amitabh Ghosh
Shadow Line	Amitabh Ghosh
Flood of Fire	Amitabh Ghosh
The Calcutta Chromosome	Amitabh Ghosh
River of Smoke	Amitabh Ghosh
Chitra	Rabindranath Tagore
Midnight Children	Salman Rushdie
Fury	Salman Rushdie
Shame	Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie

Important Books and Authors | Foreign  Writers

Books	Authors
A Passage of India	E.M. Foster
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
Adventure of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain
Paradise Lost	John Milton
Paradise Regained	John Milton
The conversation with myself	Nelson Mandela
Problems of the East	Lord Curzon
The Prince	Machiavelli
The Tales of Beedle the Barol	J.K. Rowling
Unto the Past	John Ruskin
Das Capital	Karl Marks
She Stoops to Conquer	Oliver Goldsmith
Mother India	Katherine Mayo
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde
Mother	Maxim Gorky
A Journey	Tony Blair
Gathering Strom	Winston Churchill
Notes from a Small Room	Ruskin Bond
The Republic	Plato
Utopia	Thomas Moor
The Rainbow	Pearl S Buck
The Pregnant Widow	Martin Amis
Night of the Republic	Alan Shapiro
Reconciliation: Islam Democracy and the West	Benazir Bhutto
Descent of Man	Charles Darwin
Origin of Species	Charles Darwin
Adventure of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
Resurrection	Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
Odyssey	Homer
Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith
Apple Cart	GB Shaw
Murder in the Cathedral	T.S. Eliot
The Wasteland	T.S. Eliot
The Time Machine	H.G. Wells
Invisible Man	H.G. Wells
Principia Mathematica	Isaac Newton
Man of Destiny	George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man	George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman	George Bernard Shaw
Othello	William Shakespeare
King Liar	William Shakespeare
Comedy of Errors	William Shakespeare
Macbeth	William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare
All's well that ends well	William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra	William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
Through the looking glass	Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of Shark	Lewis Carroll
The Audacity of Hope	Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance	Barack Obama
Jungle book	Rudyard Kipling
Gandhi at First Sight	Thomas Weber
The Prince	Machiavelli
Indica	Megasthenis
Historica	Herodotus
Decameron	Bokachio
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer
Kidnapped	RL Stevenson
The City of Joy	Dominique Lapierre
The Harry Potter Series	J.K. Rowling
Theory of Relativity	Albert Einstein
The Three Musketeers	Alexander Dumas

Famous Autobiographies

An autobiography is a first-hand experiences of the authors written by the authors.

Autobiographies are mainly written by famous persons. They teach us different stories, the authors’ struggles in life, and their emotions, making the autobiographers more human. Read carefully the latest and important autobiography of famous persons from the following list for competitive exams.

Books	Authors
To The Point	Herschelle Gibbs
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Chaudhuri
My Music, My Life	Pt. Ravi Shankar
The Fall of Sparrow	Salim Ali
By God's Decree	Kapil Dev
My Days	R.K. Narayan
An Autobiography	Jawaharlal Nehru
My Life and Times	V.V. Giri
My Own Boswell	M. Hidayatullah
In the Afternoon of Time	H.R. Bachchan
In the Footsteps of the Mahatma	G.D. Birla
Freedom in Exile	Dalai Lama
Cricket Crusaders	Sir Gary Sobers
Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler
My Life and the Beautiful Game	Pele
Daughter of the East	Benazir Bhutto
Friends and Foes	Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
My Experiments With Truth	Mahatma Gandhi
My Reminiscences	Rabindranath Tagore
The Insider	P.V. Narasimha Rao
Sunny Days	Sunil Gavaskar
Golden Girl	P.T. Usha
A Nation in Making	Surendranath Banerjee
The Indian Struggle	Subhas Chandra Bose
An Autobiography	Rajendra Prasad
India Wins Freedom	Maulana Azad
A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold and Beyond	Abhinav Bindra,
My World, My Side	David Beckham
Unbreakable	Mary Kom
The Race of My Life	Milka Singh
The Greatest: My Own Story	Muhammad Ali
Playing it My Way	Sachin Tendulkar
Faster Than Lightning: My Autobiography	Usain Bolt
The Test of My Life	Yuvraj Singh
Six Machine	Chris Gayle
Ace against Odds	Sania Mirza
Playing to win	Saina Nehwal
Baburnama	Babar
My Autobiography	Charlie Chaplin
My Childhood	Maxim Gorky
My Confession	Leo Tolstoy
Annie Besant: An Autobiography	Annie Besant
Memoirs of the Second World War	Winston Churchill
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking
Athma Katha	Rajendra Prasad
I’m Malala	Malala Yousafzai
My Country My Life	Lal Krishna Advani
Alone Walk To Freedom	Nelson Mandela
The Bandit Queen of India	Phoolan Devi

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