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List of Most Important Books and Authors 2021 (Updated)

Books Name	Authors Name
The India Story	Bimal Jalan
The Struggle Within A Memoir of the Emergency	Ashok Chakravarti
The Ramayana Of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji	Late Baljit Kaur Tulsi
The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined The Buddha	Jairam Ramesh
Lady Doctors’	Kavitha Rao’s
Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin”	Dhaval Kulkarni
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington D.C”	Kaushik Basu
Fiercely Female: Story of Dutee Chand”	Sundeep Misra
It’s a Wonderful Life”	Ruskin Bond
Will’	Smith has co-written the book with self-help author Mark Manson
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis’	Amitav Ghosh
Home in the World: A Memoir”	Amartya Sen
Languages of Truth	Salman Rushdie
Stargazing: The Players in My Life’	Ravi Shastri’s
Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924-1966)	Vikram Sampath
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present’	Shivshankar Menon.
Nehru, Tibet and China”	Avtar Singh Bhasin.
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance	Preet Mohan Singh Malik
“Life in the Clock Tower Valley”	Shakoor Rather
‘Elephant In The Womb’	Kalki Koechlin
The Bench	Meghan Markle
“Whereabouts”.	Jhumpa Lahiri
“The Living Mountain”	Amitav Ghosh
“Climate Change Explained – for one and all”,	Aakash Ranison
‘The Christmas Pig	JK Rowling
‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’	Co-authored by Raina and sports author Bharat Sundaresan,
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’	Nitin Gokhale
Suparipalana	Dr Shailendra Joshi
Names of the Women”	Jeet Thayil
My Experiments with Silence’	Samir Soni
Dawn Under The Dome.	Swati Pandey in collaboration with Orchida Mukherjee.
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph”,	Anant Vijay’s
“The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle”	Pashto and published in 1983.
Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis”,	Anindya Dutta
“Stories I Must Tell An Actor’s Emotional Journey,”	Kabir Bedi
“Maveric Messiah”	Ramesh Kandula
‘ASOCA: A Sutra’	Irwin Allan Sealy’s
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News”.	Meghna Pant
Starstruck: Confessions of a TV executive’.	Peter Mukerjea
Unfinished: A Memoir”,	Priyanka Chopra Jonas
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life’	M Hamid Ansari
Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World	Sangeet Paul Choudhary
Beautiful Things’	Hunter Biden
The Little Book of Encouragement	Dalai Lama
‘Manohar Parrikar- Off the Record’	Waman Subha Prabhu.
‘The Commonwealth of Cricket’	Ramchandra Guha’s
“Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo”	Lt General Konsam Himalaya Singh
“The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India”.	S Y Quraishi
”Right Under our Nose”	R Giridharan
‘India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia	R. Kaushik,
Vahana Masterclass	Alfredo Covelli,

List of Most Important Books and Authors 2020

Books Name	Authors Name
“In Pursuit Of Justice: An Autobiography”	Justice Rajindar Sachar.
“Sutranivednachi sutra- ek anbav”,	Dr. Roopa Chari
‘Oh Mizoram’	Shri P S Sreedharan Pillai.
Ayodhya’	Madhav Bhandari
“40 Years with Abdul Kalam- Untold Stories”,	Dr A.Sivathanu Pillai.
‘Dharma’	Amish Tripathi & Co-authored by his sister Bhavana Roy
‘Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific’	Asian Development Bank (ADB)
“Boskiyana”	Radhakrishna Prakashan
‘I Am No Messiah’	Meena Iyer
‘Your Best Day Is Today!’	Actor Anupam Kher’s
“Rasaathi”	Sasindran Kallinkeel’s
‘Till We Win’	Randeep Guleria
“Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy”	Bandyopadhyay
“Bye Bye Corona”	Anandiben Patel
“Night of the Restless Spirits”	Sarbpreet Singh
‘The Battle of Belonging’,	Shashi Tharoor
Portraits of Power’, the autobiography of NK Singh, Chairman of 15th Finance Commission	NK Singh
“The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World”	S Jaishankar
“Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India”  :	Viral V.Acharya
“Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver” :	Urjit Patel
“A Song of India” :	Ruskin Bond
“Hop On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains, and Planes”–	Ruskin Bond
“One Arranged Murder”:	Chetan Bhagat
“Burnt Sugar”:	Avni Doshi
“Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World” :	Dalai Lama
“Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India”  –	Amish Tripathi
‘Klara and the Sun’ –	Kazuo Ishiguro
“The lckabog” –	JK Rowling
“Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P.V. Sindhu ” –	V. Krishnaswamy
“Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess”–	Satyarth Nayak
“The Big Boss of tittle Luv”:	Karan Johar
“Voices of Dissent”:	Romila Thapar
“Kitchens of Gratitude”:	Vikas Khanna
“10 Rules of Successful Nations”:	Ruchir Sharma
“A promised land” :	Barack Obama
“The Commonwealth of Cricket”	Ramachandra Guha
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction Authored	Arundhati Roy
“Judiciary, Judges and the Administration of Justice” :	R. Banumathi
“Breaking The Cocoon @ 40” :	Radha Nair
“Let Us Dream”  :	Pope Francis
“A bouquet of flowers”:	Krishna SaksenaLaunched By Rajnath Singh
“Sach Kahun Toh”:	Neena Gupta
“The Little Book of Green Nudges” Launched By :	UNEP
“My Life In Design”:	Gauri Khan

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 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 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

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