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Important Books and Authors February 2023

Books Name	Author
‘Modi: Shaping a Global order in flux’	BJP national president J P Nadda
The Last Heroes- Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom	Indian Journalist Palagummi Sainath
A Chronicle of Central Command – Savdhaan	Released by Manoj Pande, Chief of Army Staff (CoAS)

Important Books and Authors January 2023

Authors Name	Book Name
British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore	“The World: A Family History”
Kaki Madhava Rao	“Breaking Barriers: the Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary”
Shashi Tharoor	“Ambedkar: A Life”
Dr. Ashvini Kumar Dwivedi	“Human Anatomy”
Sanjeev Sanyal	“Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom”
“Mukhyamantrir Diary 1”	Himanta Biswa Sarma
Professor K.K. Abdul Gaffar’s	“Njaan Sakshi”
Tamal Bandyopadhyay	“Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking”
J. R. Moehringer	“Spare”
Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir	“Braving A Viral Storm: India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Story”
Javed Akhtar by Arvind Mandloi	Jadunama
Ma. Subramanian	“Come! Let’s Run”
Dr. Ashwin Fernandes	“India’s Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dawn”
Kaushik and Ramakrishnan Sridhar	“COACHING BEYOND: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team”
Meghnad Desai	“The Poverty of Political Economy: How Economics Abandoned the Poor”

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Books and Authors 2022 (January to December 2022)

The list of Books and Authors of 2022 has been enlisted below and will be updated with the release of new books. 

Book Name	Authors Name
Forks in the Road: My Days at RBI and Beyond	RBI governor Chakravarthi Rangarajan
The Indian [email protected] Reminiscing the Voyage	Aritra Banerjee and Ranjit B Rai
Fit At Any Age	Air Marshal PV lyer
Miracles of Face Yoga	Mansi Gulati
The Light We Carry	Michelle Obama
Brave Hearts of Bharat, Vignettes from Indian History	Vikram Sampath
Sultan: a memoir (Autobiography of Pakistani Cricketer Washim Akram)	Washim Akram
E. K. Janaki Ammal: Life and Scientific Contributions	Nirmala James
Nalanada – Until we meet again	Gautaam Borah
Monetising Innovation	Gautaam Borah
Engineered in India	Autobiography of B.V.R Mohan Reddy
Delhi University – Celebrating 100 Glorious Years	Hardeep Singh Puri
From Dependence To Self­Reliance	Dr. Bimal Jalan
The Corbett Papers”	Akshay Shah & Stephen Alter
A Confused Mind Story’	Sahil Seth
The Philosophy Of Modern Song	Bob Dylan’s
“The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World”	Launched by S Jaishankar
“Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India”	Saumya Saxena
“Forging Mettle: Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story”	Pavan C Lall
She Is–Women in STEAM”	Elsa Marie D’Silva and Supreet K Singh
“Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay – Jeevan Darshan Aur Samsamyikta”	Released by Jagdeep Dhankhar
“Science Behind Surya Namaskar”	Released by Dr Munjpara Mahendrabhai Kalubhai
Muskurate Chand Lamhe aur Kuchh Khamoshiyan	Manoj Bajpayee
Ambedkar and Modi	–
Rajini’s Mantras	P.C. Balasubramanian
“Will Power: The Inside Story of the Incredible Turnaround in Indian Women’s Hockey”	Sjoerd Marijne
Crimson Spring	Navtej Sarna’s
Forging Mettle : Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story	Pavan C. Lall
Science Behind Surya Namaskar	Dr Kalubhai
The Hero of Tiger Hill	Subedar Major Yadav
Indian Banking in Retrospect – 75 years of Independence	Dr Ashutosh Raravikar
India’s Economy From Nehru To Modi	Pulapre Balakrishnan
Rusty Skies and Golden Winds’	Sannidhya Sharma
M Venkaiah Naidu Launched A Book Titled “A New India: Selected Writings 2014-19	–
Lion of the Skies	Stephen Barker
Dangerous Earth	Marine biologist Ellen Prager
Lockdown Lyrics	Sanjukta Dash
Dilip Kumar: In the Shadow of a Legend	Faisal Farooqui
BEYOND THE MISTY VEIL	Ms Aradhana Johri (Senior IAS)
Getting the Bread: The Gen-Z Way to Success’	Prarthna Batra
“Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life	Anand with author-journalist Susan Ninan
The Life and Times of George Fernandes	Rahul Ramagundam
‘Ashtang Yoga	Dr Sonu Phogat
Gautam Adani: The Man Who Changed India	RN Bhaskar
‘The India Story	Bimal Jalal
‘Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure	Ruskin Bond
‘Business of Sports: The Winning Formula for Success	Vinit Karnik
‘A Place Called Home	Preeti Shenoy
‘Modi @20: Dreams Meeting Delivery’	VP Venkaiah Naidu
‘The Struggle for Police Reforms in India’	Ex-IPS Prakash Singh
‘INDO-PAK WAR 1971- Reminiscences of Air Warriors’	Rajnath Singh
‘Leaders, Politicians, Citizens’	Rasheed Kidwai
‘Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak’	Prof. Alok Chakrawal
Lal Salam	Smriti Irani
Pride, Prejudice and Punditry	Shashi Tharoor
“Crunch Time: Narendra Modi’s National Security Crises”	Dr Sreeram Chauliahas
“Queen of Fire”	Devika Rangachari
“Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak”	Dharmendra Pradhan
“Decoding Indian Babudom”	Ashwini Shrivastava
‘The Maverick Effect’	Harish Mehta
“Tiger of Drass: Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Kargil Hero”	Meena Nayyar & Himmat Singh Shekhawat
‘Hear Yourself’	Indian Author Prem Rawat
‘Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI’	Former CAG Vinod Rai
“The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution ”	Rajesh Talwar
“The Magic of Mangalajodi” & “My Research Works on Sikh History and Philosophy”	Avinash Khemka & Abinash Mahapatra
‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’	Roger Faligot
‘Amit Shah Ani Bhajapachi Vatchal’	Dr Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi
‘The Millennial Yogi: A modern-day parable about reclaiming one’s life’	Former Indian Army Captain, Deepam Chatterjee
‘Udaan Ek Majdoor Bachhe Ki’	Mithilesh Tiwari
Ungalil Oruvan (One Among You)	Chief minister MK Stalin’s
‘The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorised Biography of Usha Uthup’	Vikas Kumar Jha
‘The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal	Amitava Kumar
‘Role of Labour in India’s Development’	Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav
‘Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times’	Abhinav Chandrachud
‘The Queen of Indian Pop’	Usha Uthup
‘On Board: My Years in BCCI’	Ratnakar Shetty’s
‘Tomb of Sand’	Geetanjali Shree’s
‘Monsoon’	Sahitya Akademi
‘More than Just Surgery: Life Lessons Beyond the OT’	Dr Tehemton Erach Udwadia
‘Wrist Assured: An Autobiography’	Former Cricketer G.R. Viswanath
‘Unfilled Barrels India’s oil story’	Richa Mishra
‘The Little Book of Joy’	Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
‘Spoorthi Pradatha Sri Somayya’	K Syam Prasad
‘Fearless Governance’	Dr. Kiran Bedi
‘Operation Khatma’	RC Ganjoo and Ashwini Bhatnagar
‘India, That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution’	J Sai Deepak
‘Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra’	Navdeep Singh Gill
‘Atal Bihari Vajpayee’	Sagarika Ghose
‘India–Africa Relations: Changing Horizons’	Rajiv Bhatia
‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’	Bill Gates
‘Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War’	Samuel Moyn
‘Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us’	Ro Khanna
‘A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction’	Uma Das Gupta
‘A Nation To Protect’	Priyam Gandhi Mody
‘The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley’	Jimmy Soni
‘The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations’	Anirudh Suri
‘Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India.	Dhirendra K. Jha
‘Mamata: Beyond 2021’	Jayanta Ghosal
‘Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’	Dr. Thomas Matthew
‘Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work, and Leadership’	Arundhati Bhattacharya
‘Bose: The untold story of an inconvenient nationalist’	Chandrachur Ghose
‘The Legend of Birsa Munda’	Tuhin A Sinha and Ankita Verma
‘India’s Women Unsung Heroes’	Meenakshi Lekhi
‘A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of Independence’	Ruskin Bond
‘The $10 Trillion Dream’	Subhash Chandra Garg

Books and Authors 2021

Check the complete list of Books & Authors of 2021 in the below table. 

Book Name	Author Name
‘The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Created an Extraordinary Company’	Narotam Sekhsaria
‘1971: Charge of the Gorkhas and other stories’	Rachna Bisht Rawat
Vahana Masterclass	Alfredo Covelli
India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia	R. Kaushik
Right Under Our Nose	R. Giridharan
Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo	Lt. Gen. Konsam Himalay Singh
The Commonwealth of Cricket	Ramachandra Guha
Manohar Parrikar-Off the Record	Waman Subha Prabhu
The Little Book of Encouragement	Dalai Lama
Beautiful Things’ A Memoir	Hunter Biden
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life	Former Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic World	Sangeet Paul Choudary
Unfinished	Priyanka Chopra Jonas
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News	Meghna Pant
ASOCA: A Sutra	Irwin Allan Sealy
Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Rama Rao	Ramesh Kandula
Rashtra Pratham – 82 Varshon ki Swarnim Gatha	Amit Shah
Stories I Must Tell: The Journey of an Actor	Kabir Bedi
Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis	Anindya Dutta
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph	Anant Vijay
Battle Ready for 21st Century	Lt Gen AK Singh and Brig. Narendra Kumar
My Experiments with Silence	Samir Soni
Names of the Women	Jeet Thayil
Suparipalana	Dr. Shailendra Joshi
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life	Nitin Gokhale
Odisha Itihaas	Utkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab
The Braille edition of the book Exam Warriors	PM Narendra Modi
Believe-What Life and Cricket Taught Me	Suresh Raina
The Christmas Pig	JK Rowling
Whereabouts	Jhumpa Lahiri
The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times	Amitav Ghosh
Climate Change Explained—For One and All	Aakash Ranison
The Bench	Meghan Markle
Elephant in the Womb	Kalki Koechlin
Life in the Clock Tower Valley	Shakoor Rather
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance	Preet Mohan Singh Malik
Nehru, Tibet and China	Avtar Singh Bhasin
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present	Shivshankar Menon
Sach Kahun Toh	Neena Gupta
Stargazing: The Players in my Life	Ravi Shastri
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020	Salman Rushdie
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-1966)	Vikram Sampath
7 Lessons from Everest – Expedition Learnings from life and Business	Aditya Gupta
1232km: The Long Journey Home	Vinod Kapri
Home in the World	Amartya Sen
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis	Amitav Ghosh
Beyond Here and Other Poems	Bishnupada Sethi
The 7 Sins of Being a Mother	Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
Habba Khatoon	Kajal Suri
Will	Will Smith and Mark Manson
My Joys and Sorrows- as a Mother of a Special Child	Krishna Saksena
It’s a Wonderful Life	Ruskin Bond
Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story	Sundeep Mishra
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DC	Kaushik Basu
Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux	Khemlata Wakhlu
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine	Kavitha Rao
The Pregnancy Bible	Kareena Kapoor
The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World	Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan
The Great Big Lion	Chryseis Knight
The India Story	Bimal Jalan
The Stranger In The Mirror(Autobiography of  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra)	Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Palleku Pattabhishekam	Yalamanchili Sivaji
Bank With A Soul: Equitas	Dr. C K Garyali
An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation	Ashok Lavasa
In An Ideal World	Kunal Basu
My Own Mazagon	Captain Ramesh Babu
Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India	Sanjay Gubbi
Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama	Manan Bhatt
The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14-Year-Old	Brisha Jain
The Earthspinner	Anuradha Roy
How the Earth Got Its Beauty	Sudha Murty
OPERATION KHUKRI	Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia
Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government	K J Alphons
Back to the Roots	Tamannaah Bhatia
Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine Odyssey	Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee
Human Rights and Terrorism in India	Subramanian Swamy
Translating Myself and Others	Jhumpa Lahiri
Shining Sikh Youth of India	Dr. Prabhleen Singh
400 Days	Chetan Bhagat
Jungle Nama	Amitav Ghosh
The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations	Nirupama Rao
The Battle of Rezang La	Kulpreet Yadav

Books and Authors 2020

Check the important books and its authors of 2020 in the table below.

Book Name	Author Name
Karmayoddha Granth	Amit Shah
Relentless	Yashwant Sinha
A Child of Destiny	K. Ramakrishna Rao
The Thin Mind Map	Dharmendra Rai
A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981	Apoorva Kumar Singh
Death – An Inside Story	Jaggi Vasudev
An Extraordinary Life: A biography of Manohar Parrikar	Sadguru Patil & Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar Parrikar	Tarun Vijay
My Encounters in Parliament	Bhalchandra Mungekar
Messiah Modi: A Tale of Great Expectations	Tavleen Singh
Legacy of Learning	Savita Chhabra
Missing in Action: The Prisoners Who Never Came Back	Chander Suta Dogra
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump	Mary Jordan
Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P V Sindhu	Krishnaswamy V
Vijayant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero	Neha Dwivedi
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City	Fang Fang
Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains, and Planes	Ruskin Bond
The Ickabog	J.K Rowling
Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India	Amish Tripathi
Future of Higher Education: Nine Mega Trends	V Pattabhi Ram
Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver	Urjit Patel
Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India	RC Bhargava
A Song of India	Ruskin Bond
If It Bleeds	Stephen King
The Endgame	Hussain Zaidi
Suraj Kade Marda Nahi (Sun Never Dies)	Baldev Singh Sadaknama
Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India	Viral V.Acharya
Amazing Ayodhya	Neena Rai
Connecting, Communicating, Changing	Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World	Dalai Lama and Franz Alt
Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020	Arjun Subramaniam
One Arranged Murder	Chetan Bhagat
Cricket Drona	Jatin Paranjpe
Let us Dream	Pope Francis
The Little Book of Encouragement	Dalai Lama
My Life in Design	Gauri Khan
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction	Arundhati Roy
Kitchens of Gratitude	Chef Vikas Khanna
A Promised Land	Barack Obama
Bapu- the Unforgettable	Manish Sisodia
The Battle of Belonging	Shashi Tharoor
Bye Bye Corona	Dr. Pradeep Kumar Srivastava
Your Best Day is Today!	Anupam Kher
I am No Messiah	Meena Iyer
40 Years with Abdul Kalam-Untold Stories	Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai
Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful Life	Amish Tripathi and Bhavna Roy
Oh Mizoram	PS Sreedharan Pillai

List of Important Books and Authors

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	GameChanger
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 Women’s 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 Sebastian	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 Farooqui	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 domestic 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 Mukherjee	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 Groundwork for Swaraj
113.	Anjana Sukhani	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 Laxman	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 identity, Nationhood, and Fiction
125.	Sudeep Chakravarti	The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community
126.	Roshan Taneja	Moments of truth: 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 of Tibet
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 is 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 Idol of Light
194.	Ajoy Bose	Across the Universe
195.	Arun Shourie	Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? What 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

• 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

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 2023 PDF: FAQs

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