Books and Authors PDF 2020: Introduction
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List of Most Important Books and Authors 2020
| S.No. | Authors Name | Book Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | S Jaishankar | The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World |
| 2. | Viral V.Acharya | Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India |
| 3. | Urjit Patel | Overdraft : Saving the Indian Saver |
| 4. | Ruskin Bond | A Song of India |
| 5. | Ruskin Bond | Hop On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains and Planes |
| 6. | Chetan Bhagat | One Arranged Murder |
| 7. | Dalai Lama | Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World |
| 8. | Amish Tripathi | Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India” |
| 9. | Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun’ |
| 10. | JK Rowling | The lckabog |
| 11. | V. Krishnaswamy | Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P.V. Sindhu |
| 12. | Satyarth Nayak | Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess |
List of Important Books and Authors 2019
| S. No. | Authors Name | Book Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi | “Courts of India” |
| 2. | Karkare’s Daughter Jui Karkare | Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir |
| 3. | Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Braille Edition of ‘Exam Warriors’ |
| 4. | Shri N Chandrasekaran | Bridgital Nation |
| 5. | Neha J Hiranandani | Girl Power: Indian Women Who Broke The Rules |
| 6. | Roopa Pai | From Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Explosive Ideas that Made (and Are Making) Modern Medicine |
| 7. | ‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma–the South African Legacy’ | Fakir Hassen |
| 8. | Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan | Turbulence and Triumph: The Modi Years |
| 9. | Ministry of fisheries | Handbook on Fisheries Statistics – 2018 |
| 10. | Vikram Sampath | Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883-1924 |
| 11. | Indian Diaspora Club | Glorious Diaspora-Pride of India |
| 12. | Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel | First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks |
| 13. | Peter Baker | Obama: The Call of History |
| 14. | Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza | Kashmir’s untold story: Declassification |
| 15. | Satyarth Nayak | “Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar” |
| 16. | Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Persistent Systems | Manav |
| 17. | St James House and the History of Parliament Trust | ‘The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World’ |
| 18. | Adi Shankaracharya | Vivekadeepini |
| 19. | Venkaiah Naidu | Listening, Learning and Leading |
| 20. | Baba Ramdev | ‘My Life, My Mission’ |
| 21. | Meenakshi Lekhi | ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’ |
| 22. | Tridip Suhrud | ‘The Diary of Manu Gandhi’ |
| 23. | Sushil Kumar | “A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief” |
| 24. | Adi Shankaracharya | Vivekadeepini |
| 25. | Anupam Kher | “Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly”. |
| 26. | Ashis Ray | “Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge” |
| 27. | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | My Journey |
| 28. | Dr. Bibek Debroy | Making of New India |
| 29. | Dr. Krishna Saksena | “Whispers of Time” |
| 30. | Dr. Y.V. Reddy | Indian Fiscal Federalism |
| 31. | Jairam Ramesh | ‘Chequered Brillance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon’ |
| 32. | Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji | ‘Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way’ |
| 33. | Kamlesh Patil & Joshua Pollock | ‘The Heartfulness way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformation’ |
| 34. | Lamar Odom | Darkness to light |
| 35. | Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh | Fire and Fury Corps — Saga of Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice’, |
| 36. | M Venkaiah Naidu | Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher Education |
| 37. | Malala Yousafzai | We are Displaced |
| 38. | Manoshi Sinha Rawal | ‘Saffron Swords’ |
| 39. | Meenakshi Lekhi | “The New Delhi Conspiracy” |
| 40. | Mool Chand Sharma | ‘Law, Justice and Judicial Power- Justice P N Bhagwati’s Approach’ |
| 41. | Mr. Suri | ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ |
| 42. | Navin Chawla | ‘Every Vote Counts- The story of India’s Elections’ |
| 43. | Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar | ‘Virat: The making of a Champion’ |
| 44. | P. Chidambaram | ‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’ |
| 45. | R Uma Maheswari | From Possession to Freedom |
| 46. | Raghuram Rajan | The Third Pillar |
| 47. | Ruchir Sharma | ‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’ |
| 48. | Saba Naqvi | Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook |
| 49. | Shahid Afridi | Game Changer |
| 50. | Sharad Dutt | ‘Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music’ |
| 51. | Shri Harivansh and Shri Ravi Dutt Bajpai. | “Chandra Shekhar – The Last Icon of Ideological Politics”; |
| 52. | Sonia Singh | ‘Defining India: Through Their Eyes’ |
| 53. | Vinit Goenka | ‘Function of Data Sovereignty – The Pursuit of Supremacy’ |
| 54. | Valay Singh | ‘Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord’ |
| 55. | BJP MP Varun Gandhi | A Rural Manifesto – Realising India’s Future through her Villages |
| 56. | Dr. Manmohan Singh | Changing India |
| 57. | Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Timeless Laxman |
| 58. | Dr Murali Mohan Chuntharu | Arivu |
| 59. | Karunya Keshav and Sidhanta Pathak | The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Womens Cricket in India |
| 60. | Rima Hooja | Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior |
| 61. | Shashi Tharoor | The Paradoxical Prime Minister |
| 62. | Preeti Shenoy | The Rule Breakers |
| 63. | Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar | Experiential Learning — Gandhiji’s Nai Talim |
| 64. | Tamal Bandyopadhyay | From Lehman to Demonetisation: A Decade of Disruption, Reforms and Misadventures |
| 65. | Perumal Murugan | Poonachi or the Story of a Black Goat |
| 66. | Bindeshwar Pathak | Making of Legend |
| 67. | Anoop Misra | Diabetes with Delight |
| 68. | Donald Anderson with Joshua Mathew | The Last White Hunter |
| 69. | Romila Thapar | Indian Cultures as Heritage |
| 70. | Sanjoy Hazarika | Strangers No More: New Narratives from Northeast |
| 71. | Sumitra Mahajan | Matoshree |
| 72. | Yasser Usman | Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy |
| 73 | Miniya Chatterjee | Indian Instinct |
| 74. | Pranab Mukherjee | The Coalition years |
| 75. | Snigdha Poonam | Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World |
| 76. | Michael Wolff | Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Whitehouse |
| 77. | Sheila Dikshit | Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life |
| 78. | Tarun Vijay | Mere Sapno Ka Bharat |
| 79. | Syeda Saiyidan Hameed | Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| 80. | Dujatha Gidla | Ants Among Elephants |
| 81. | Rajeev Dhavan | The Constitution of India: Miracle, Surrender, Hope |
| 82. | James Lawton | A Ringside Affair |
| 83 | Kanwaljit Singh | The Year of the Hawks |
| 84. | Deepak Singh | How May I Help You |
| 85. | Mohammad Yunus | A World of Three Zeroes: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emission |
| 86. | Mehr Tarar | Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistan |
| 87. | Jayadev Ranade | Xi Jinping’s China |
| 88. | Pradeep Sebastia | The Book Hunters of Katpadi |
| 89. | K Srilata and Fiona Bolger | All the Worlds Between |
| 90. | Satya Nadella | Hit Refresh |
| 91. | Ramin Jahanbegloo | Letters to a Young Philosopher |
| 92. | Sanjay Manjrekar | Imperfect (autobiography) |
| 93. | Amish Tripathi | Immortal India |
| 94. | Rima Hooja | Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior |
| 95. | Sunita Narain | Conflicts of Interest: My Journey Through India’s Green Movement |
| 96. | A Raja | 2G Saga Unfolds |
| 97. | Gulzar | Two |
| 98. | Sreemoyee Piu Kundu | Status Single |
| 99. | Neyaz Farooquee | An Ordinary Mans Guide to Radicalism |
| 100. | Hilary Clinton | What happened |
| 101. | Andy Weir | Artemis |
| 102. | Adam Rothstein | Drone |
| 103. | Shashi Tharoor | Why I am hindu |
| 104. | Shilpa Shetty | A dairy of deomestic diva |
| 105. | Surjit S Bhalla | The New Wealth of Nations |
| 106. | Jairam Ramesh | Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature |
| 107. | Poonam | Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing Their World and Yours |
| 108. | Avinash Paliwal | My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal |
| 109. | Neel Mukerjee | A state of freedom |
| 110. | Ian Black | Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 |
| 111. | Raghuram Rajan | I do what I do |
| 112. | Aakash Singh Rathore | Indian Political Theory: Laying the Ground work for Swaraj |
| 113. | Anjana Sukani | Hisaab Kitaab |
| 114. | Perumal Murugan | Songs of a Coward |
| 115. | Karan johar | An unsuitable boy |
| 116. | Stephen Kotkin | Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1928-1941 |
| 117. | V V S Laksman | 281 and Beyond |
| 118. | Paul Auster | 4321 |
| 119. | Emily Fridlund | History of Wolves |
| 120. | Mohsin Hamid | Exit West |
| 121. | Fiona Mozley | Elmet |
| 122. | George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 123. | Ali Smith | Autumn |
| 124. | Mushtaq Bilal | Writing Pakistan: Conversations on ldentity, Nationhood and Fiction |
| 125. | Sudeep Chakravarti | The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community |
| 126. | Roshan Taneja | Moments ofTruth: My Life with Acting |
| 127. | Perumal Murugan | The Goat Thief |
| 128. | Sujata Massey | The Widow of Malabar Hills |
| 129. | Prerna Singh Bindra | The Vanishing |
| 130. | Diane Coffey and Dean Spears | Where India Goes |
| 131. | Minhaz Merchant | The Nationalist |
| 132. | Upinder Singh | Political Violence in Ancient India |
| 133. | Sundar Ganesan | The tall man biju patnaik |
| 134. | Lt Gen Baljit Singh | A Tale of Two Victoria Crosses |
| 135. | Tim Harford | Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy |
| 136. | Surjit Bhalla | New Wealth of Nations |
| 137. | A Surya Prakash | The Emergency: Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour |
| 138. | Shimon Peres | No Room for Small Dreams |
| 139. | David Grossman | A Horse Walks Into a Bar |
| 140. | Nawazuddin Siddiqui with Rituparna Chatterjee | An Ordinary Life: A Memoir |
| 141. | Rajdeep Sardesai | Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story |
| 142. | Gyanesh Kudaisya | A Republic in the Making: India in the 1950s |
| 143. | Rajiv Dogra | Durand’s Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart |
| 144. | Dan Brown | Origin |
| 145. | GN Denvy | The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India |
| 146. | Derek O’Brien | Inside Parliament: Views From the Front Row |
| 147. | Fredrick Grare | India Turns East: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry |
| 148. | R K Singh | Weather Information Portal for Indian Power System |
| 189. | Arundhati Roy | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
| 150. | Bertil Lintner | China & India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World |
| 151. | Jayadeva Ranade | Cadres ofTibet |
| 152. | Maria Sharapova | Unstoppable: My Life So Far |
| 153. | Jeet Thayil | The Book of Chocolate Saints |
| 154. | Sunita Narain | Conflict of Interest |
| 155. | Birendra Rehi | Atal Ji Ne kaha |
| 156. | Kiren Rijiju and Haulianlal Guite | Confessions of a dying mind: the blind faith of atheism |
| 157. | CP Surendran | Available Light |
| 158. | Ashok K Banker | Ashoka: Satrap of Taxila |
| 160. | Khaled Hosseini | Sea Prayer |
| 161. | Chhimi Tenduf La | Loyal Stalkers |
| 162. | Shane Warne | No Spin |
| 163. | TCA Raghvan | Attendant Lords |
| 164. | Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever | The Driver in the Driverless Car |
| 165. | Jaya Jaitely | Life Among the Scorpions: Memoir of a Woman in Indian Politics |
| 166. | William Taubman | Gorbachev: His Life and Times |
| 167. | Raja Shekhar Vundru | Ambedkar Gandhi and Patel: The Making of India’s Electoral System |
| 168. | Emmanuel Macron | Evolution |
| 169. | Narendra Modi | Exam Warriors |
| 170. | Meena Arora Nayak | Evil in the Mahabharata |
| 171. | Jia Pingwa | Happy Dreams |
| 172. | N N Vohra | 6 TIMES THINNER |
| 173. | Azeem Ibrahim | Rohingya Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide |
| 174. | Francis Wade | Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence |
| 175. | Husain Haggani | Reimagining Pakistan |
| 176. | Syeda Hameed | Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| 177. | Meena Menon | Reporting Pakistan |
| 178. | David Reich | Who We Are and How We Got Here |
| 179. | Sourav Ganguly | A Century ls Not Enough |
| 180. | Abhirup Bhattacharya | Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly |
| 181. | Soha Ali Khan | The Perils of Being Moderately Famous |
| 182. | Steye Coll | Directorate S: The CLA and Americas Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| 183. | Jean Tirole | Economics for the Common Good |
| 184. | Amy Chua | Political Tribes |
| 185. | KN Raghavan | Dividing Lines: Contours of the India-China Discord |
| 186. | CH Hanumantha Rao | My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism |
| 187. | Salman Khurshid | Triple Talaq: Examining Faith |
| 188. | Khalid Bashir | Kashmir: Exploring the Myth Behind the Narrative |
| 189. | Julian Barnes | The Only Story |
| 190. | Rashmi Saksena | She Goes to War Women Militants of India |
| 191. | Michio Kaku | The Future of Humanity |
| 192. | Ishrat Husain | Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic Governance |
| 193. | KR Meera | The Unseeing ldol of Light |
| 194. | Ajoy Bose | Across the Universe |
| 195. | Arun Shourie | Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? Whal Should We Do About Them? |
| 196. | Borta Majumdar | Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians |
| 197. | Bibek Debroy | Indian Railway- The weaving of a National Tapestry |
| 198. | Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze | An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradiction |
| 199. | Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) | Lethal White |
| 200. | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
One Liner Notes Based on Books and Authors 2020
A new publication “The Little Book of Green Nudges” has been launched by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Pope Francis is set to release the book “Let Us Dream” in December 2020. In the book, Pope Francis explains how a crisis can teach an individual to deal with problems they face in their lives
Indian Army Chief, General Manoj Mukund Naravane has released a book titled “National Security Challenges
A book title ‘Cricket Drona’ on renowned coach Vasudev Jagannath Paranjpe or Vasoo Paranjape released on September 2, 2020
Interior designer, Gauri Khan has authored her first book titled “My Life In Design”, which will be published by Penguin Random House India in 2021.
A book titled “Who painted my lust red?” has been authored by Sree Iyer. The book is something about when Bollywood meets Cricket meets Politicians.
Union Minister, Jitendra Singh has released a book on cancer named “Gastric Cancer” edited by Dr Ashok K. Vaid.
Important GK Questions Based on Books and Authors 2020
Q.Who is the author of the book ‘The One and Only Sparkella‘?
A) Channing Tatum
B) Ruth Rendell
C) Kate Atkinson
D) Ruth Ware
Answer : A
Q.Who is the author of the book “Let Us Dream”?
A) Pope Francis
B) Zadie Smith
C) David Mitchell
D) Hilary Mantel
Answer : A
Q.Who is the author of the book “The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind’’?
A) Ramachandra Guha
B) Chetan Bhagat
C) Sudha Murty
D) S. Jaishankar
Answer : A
Q.Who is the author of the book “Samvad Upanishad’ & ‘Akshar Yatra”?
A) Gulab Kothari
B) Sudha Murty
C) Kazuo Ishiguro
D) Chetan Bhagat
Answer : A
Q.Who is the author of the book Breaking The Cocoon @ 40?
Sudha Murty
Chetan Bhagat
Radha Nair
Karan Johar
Answer : C
Q.Who is the author of the book “Azaadi”
A) Chetan Bhagat
B) Sudha Murty
C) Shashi Tharoor
D) Arundhati Roy
Answer : B
Important Books and Authors 2020 : FAQs
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What are the best books by Indian authors?
Ans: Here are the Some best books by Indian authors
1. White Tiger
2. The Great Indian Novel
3. Train to Pakistan
4.The Guide -
What are the 10 best Indian Books that one must read?
Ans: Malgudi Days, The Talkative Man, The Guide – R. K. NarayanJaya, Sita – Devdutt Patnaik
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Feluda Series, Professor Shonku Series – Satyajit Ray
Everything written by Rabindranath Tagore
Mere bachpan ke din & Gillu – Mahadevi Varma
Grandfather’s private zoo, Adventures of Toto – Ruskin Bond
Collected Stories – Khushwant Singh
The God of small things – Arundhati Roy
The collector’s wife – Mitra Phukan -
Which is the Best Selling Book by Indian authors.?
Ans: The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin by Manu S. Pillai is one of the Best Selling Book by Indian authors
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Where can I download the books and authors’ PDF?
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Who are the top 10 authors of all time?
Ans: 1. Leo Tolstoy, 2. William Shakespeare, 3. James Joyce, 4. Vladimir Nabokov, 5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 6. William Faulkner, 7. Charles Dickens, 8. Anton Checkhov, 9. Gustave Flaubert, 10. Jane Austen
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