Important books and their authors are very important from exam point of view. It’s also very important for your general awareness as well. You should know who wrote famous books. You must have read excerpts or chapters in your school time from some of these books. Normally you will either find very old famous books or recently released book from some popular personality in competition exams.
Although you will find only 1 question from this topic but you already know how much difference that 1 marks can make in your final selection to any government job. Exams like IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, SBI PO and Clerk, Insurance exams, SSC CGL and CHSL and every other RRB & state level exams will have atleast 1 question from this topic. You can easily get this one mark if you read all important and latest books and their authors.
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| Book Name | Author Name – Award Name |
| A monument to suffering and courage in our time | Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) – Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 |
| For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation | Patrick Modiano (France) – Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 Winner |
| master of the contemporary short story | Alice Munro (Canada) – Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 Winner |
| A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James (Jamaica) – Man Booker prize 2015 Winner |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan (Australia) – Man Booker prize 2014 Winner |
| The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton (New Zealand) – Man Booker prize 2013 Winner |
| List of Latest Books | List of Authors Name |
| A well-known author of children’s books | Kamala Laxman, passed away in Pune |
| What Happened to Netaji? | Anuj Dhar (former journalist) |
| Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations | Nandan Nilekani & Viral Shah |
| Interlinking of Indian Rivers | Radha Kant Bharati |
| Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India | Sam Pitroda (Auto biography) |
| Smita Patil: A Brief Incandescence | Maithili Rao |
| Ruled or Misruled: Story and Destiny of Bihar | Santosh Singh |
| The Clintons’ War on Women | Roger Stone & Robert Morrow |
| Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights | Salman Rushdie |
| To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story | Jairam Ramesh (Forest Minister – Independent Charge) |
| 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories | Naina Lal Kidwai |
| S.No | Book Title | Author | |||
| 1 | Das Kapital | Karl Marx | |||
| 2 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | |||
| 3 | My Truth | Indira Gandhi | |||
| 4 | A bend in the River | V.S. Naipal | |||
| 5 | Between the Lines | Kuldeep Nayyar | |||
| 6 | Envisioning an Empowered Nation | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | |||
| 7 | Indira Gandhi Returns | Khushwant Singh | |||
| 8 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | |||
| 9 | My President Years | R. Venkataraman | |||
| 10 | Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths | PC Parakh | |||
| S.No | Book Title | Author | |||
| 11 | The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh | Sanjaya Baru | |||
| 12 | One Life is Not Enough | Natwar Singh | |||
| 13 | The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee | |||
| 14 | Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri | |||
| 15 | Playing It My Way | Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder | |||
| 16 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker) | |||
| 17 | Half Girlfriend | Chetan Bhagat | |||
| 18 | My Name is Abu Salem | Hussain Zaidi | |||
| 19 | Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years | Pranab Mukherjee | |||
| 20 | Letters for a Nation | Jawaharlal Nehru & Madhav Khosla | |||
| S.No | Book Title | Author | |||
| 21 | Born Again on the Mountain | Arunima Sinha | |||
| 22 | The Red Sari(Unofficial and Controversial Autobiography of Sonia Gandhi) | Javier Moro | |||
| 23 | Flood of Fire | Amitav Ghosh | |||
| 24 | Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) | Mary Kom | |||
| 25 | India at Risk | Jaswant Singh | |||
| 26 | My country My Life | L.K.Advani | |||
| 27 | Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan | Daman Singh | |||
| 28 | 12 Years A Slave | Solomon Northup Pirates | |||
| 29 | A House For Mr. Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | |||
| 30 | Five Point Someone | Chetan Bhagat | |||
Best of luck for your upcoming examinations.