Books and Authors
"So many books, so little time."
This is the main reason we avoid books and authors when it comes to GK section. Here's a list of most asked authors and their books, a rapid look would be useful too.
|
Books
|
Authors
|
|
A Bend in the River
|
V.
S. Naipaul
|
|
A House for Mr. Biswas
|
|
|
A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories
|
Khushwant
Singh
|
|
Train To Pakistan
|
|
|
The Portrait of a Lady
|
|
|
A History of the Sikhs
|
|
|
We Indians
|
|
|
Patriots and Partisans
|
Ramchandra
Guha
|
|
India after Gandhi
|
|
|
Gandhi before India
|
|
|
Breakout Nations
|
Ruchir
Sharma
|
|
A Brief History of Time
|
Stephen
Hawking
|
|
A Bunch of Old Letters
|
Jawaharlal
Nehru
|
|
Glimpses of World History
|
|
|
The Discovery of India
|
|
|
A Farewell to Arms
|
Ernest
Hemingway
|
|
The Old Man and the Sea
|
|
|
To Have and Have Not
|
|
|
Life of Pi
|
Yann
Martel
|
|
Self
|
|
|
Shantaram
|
Gregory
David Roberts
|
|
The Mountain Shadow
|
|
|
The White Tiger
|
Arvind
Adiga
|
|
Between the Assassinations
|
|
|
Last Man in Tower
|
|
|
The God of Small Things
|
Arundhati
Roy
|
|
Algebra of Infinite Justice
|
|
|
The Cost of Living
|
|
|
The Fountainhead
|
Ayn
Rand
|
|
Atlas Shrugged
|
|
|
We the Living
|
|
|
Outliers
|
Malcolm
Gladwell
|
|
The Tipping Point
|
|
|
Blink
|
|
|
P.S. I Love You
|
Cecelia
Ahern
|
|
Where Rainbows End
|
|
|
The Inheritance of Loss
|
Kiran
Desai
|
|
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
|
|
|
Fasting, Feasting
|
Anita
Desai
|
|
In Custody
|
|
|
Fire on the Mountain
|
|
|
The Kite Runner
|
Khaled
Hosseini
|
|
A Thousand Splendid Suns
|
|
|
And the Mountains Echoed
|
|
|
The Alchemist
|
Paulo
Coelho
|
|
The Winner Stands Alone
|
|
|
Eleven Minutes
|
|
|
The Namesake
|
Jhumpa
Lahiri
|
|
Interpreter of Maladies
|
|
|
Unaccustomed Earth
|
|
|
Freakonomics
|
Stephen
J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
|
|
Superfreakonomics
|
|
|
Purple Cow
|
Seth
Godin
|
|
The Dip
|
|
|
Animal Farm
|
George
Orwell
|
|
1984
|
|
|
The World is Flat
|
Thomas
L. Friedman
|
|
The Notebook
|
Nicholas
Sparks
|
|
A Walk to Remember
|
|
|
A Fine Balance
|
Rohinton
Mistry
|
|
Family Matters
|
|
|
Narcopolis
|
Jeet
Thayil
|
|
Animal’s People
|
Indra
Sinha
|
|
Gitanjali
|
Rabindranath
Tagore
|
|
The Home and the World
|
|
|
The Argumentative Indian
|
Amartya
Sen
|
|
The Idea of Justice
|
|
|
A Long Way
|
P.
V. Narasimha Rao
|
|
The Communist Manifesto
|
Karl
Marx
|
|
Capital
|
|
|
Mein Kampf
|
Adolf
Hitler
|
|
A Prisoner’s Scrapbook
|
L.
K. Advani
|
|
A Revolutionary Life
|
Laxmi
Sehgal
|
|
Pax Indica
|
Shashi
Tharoor
|
|
India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
|
|
|
A Spaniard in the Works
|
John
Lennon
|
|
Steve Jobs
|
Walter
Issacson
|
|
Einstein: His Life and Universe
|
|
|
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
|
|
|
A Tryst With Destiny
|
Stanley
Wolfer
|
|
The Tunnel of Time
|
R
K Laxman
|
|
Servants of India
|
|
|
Malgudi Days
|
R
K Narayan
|
|
The Guide
|
|
|
How to Win Friends and Influence People
|
Dale
Carnegie
|
|
Alice In Wonderland
|
Lewis
Carroll
|
|
Alice Through the Looking Glass
|
|
|
The Black Swan
|
Nicholas
Nassim Taleb
|
|
Fooled by Randomness
|
|
|
A Suitable Boy
|
Vikram
Seth
|
|
The Golden Gate
|
|
|
Two Lives
|
|
|
Anandmath
|
Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee
|
|
War and Peace
|
Leo
Tolstoy
|
|
Anna Karenina
|
|
|
Arabian Nights
|
Sir
Richard Burton
|
|
Arms and the Man
|
George
Bernard Shaw
|
|
An Unsocial Socialist
|
|
|
As I See
|
Kiran
Bedi
|
|
It’s always Possible
|
|
|
Bin Laden
|
Yossef
Bodansky
|
|
Chechen Jihad
|
|
|
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
|
Joseph
Campbell
|
|
The Art of War
|
Sun
Tzu
|
|
A Stamp is Born
|
C.
R. Pakrashi
|
|
Les Miserables
|
Victor
Hugo
|
|
Pride and Prejudice
|
Jane
Austen
|
|
Emma
|
|
|
The Count of Monte Cristo
|
Alexandre
Dumas
|
|
The Three Musketeers
|
|
|
The Godfather
|
Mario
Puzo
|
|
The Great Gatsby
|
F.
Scott Fitzgerald
|
|
The Importance of Being Earnest
|
Oscar
Wilde
|
|
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Harper
Lee
|
|
Crime and Punishment
|
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
|
|
Wuthering Heights
|
Emily
Bronte
|
|
The Story of my Life
|
Hellen
Keller
|
|
I know why the Caged Bird sings
|
Maya
Angelou
|
|
My Land and My People
|
Dalai
Lama
|
|
Indira: The Life of Indira Gandhi
|
Katherine
Frank
|
|
A Game of Thrones
|
George
R. R. Martin
|
|
Lord of the Rings
|
J.
R. R. Tolkien
|
|
The Chronicles of Narnia
|
C.
S. Lewis
|
|
Stuart Little
|
E.
B. White
|
|
The Bourne Series
|
Robert
Ludlum
|
|
Shutter Island
|
Dennis
Lehane
|
|
Broken Wings
|
Sarojini
Naidu
|
|
The Golden Threshold
|
|
|
The Shadow Lines
|
Amitav
Ghosh
|
|
Sea of Poppies
|
|
|
Flood of Fire
|
|
|
Made in Japan
|
Akio
Morito
|
|
Built to Last
|
Tom
Peters and Water Man
|
|
Uncommon Wisdom
|
Fritjof
Capra
|
|
The Tao Physics
|
|
|
Doctors
|
Erich
Segal
|
|
Love Story
|
|
|
The Naked Ape
|
Desmond
Morris
|
|
The Prince
|
Nicolo
Machiavelli
|
|
Midnight’s Children
|
Salman
Rushdie
|
|
The Satanic Verses
|
|
|
Shame
|
|
|
Lajja
|
Taslima
Nasrin
|
|
French Lover
|
|
|
India Unbound
|
Gurcharan
Das
|
|
Liar’s Poker
|
Michael
Lewis
|
|
Rich Dad Poor Dad
|
Robert
Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
|
|
Think and Grow Rich
|
Napoleon
Hill
|
|
The Lean Startup
|
Eric
Ries
|
|
The Innovator’s Dilemma
|
Clayton
M. Christensen
|
|
Who Moved My Cheese ?
|
Spencer
Johnson
|
|
Losing my Virginity
|
Richard
Branson
|
|
7
Habits of Highly effective people
|
Stephen
Covey
|
|
Good
to Great
|
James
C. Collins
|
|
Transcendence:
My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji
|
Dr.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
|
|
Beyond
Doubt
|
Teesta
Setalvad
|
|
To
the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story
|
Jairam
Ramesh
|
|
Smita
Patil – A Brief Incandescence
|
Maithili
Rao
|
