For the aspirants who are preparing for the UPSC, Bank jobs, SSC and other competitive examinations here are the important books and authors from which the questions are asked in the exams. Candidates should memorize at least few well known authors and their books. Following are the important authors and their books.

Important Authors and Books:

1.  My experiments with Truth – Mahatma M.K.Gandhi
2. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
3. Geetanjali – Rabindra Nath Tagore
4.  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
5.  The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
6. The Moon and Six pence – Somerset Maughan
7. Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come – John Bunyan
8. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
9. Utopia – Sir Thomas Moor
10. Origin of species- Charles Darwin
11. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
12.  A passage to India – E.M.Forster
13. Gulliver’s Travels -Jonathan Swift
14. Discovery of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
15. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
16. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
17. The Lady of the Last Minstrel – Sir Walter Scott
18. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
19.  Time Machine- H.G. Wells
20. Arthashastra – Kautilya
21. Le Contract Social – Jean Jacques Rousseau
22. Avigyan Sakuntalam –Kalidas
23.  Anand Math – Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
24. Mein Kampf -Adolf Hitler
25. Ain-i-Akbari- Abul Fazal – Akbar-Nama Abul Fazal
26.  Shakuntala – Kalidas
27. War and peace – Leo Tolstoy
28. A Dangerous place – D.P. Moynihan
29. Raghuvamsa – Kalidas
30. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Adventures of Tom Saweyer – Mark Twain
32.  Agni Veena – Kazi Nazrul Islam
33. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
34. Ancient Mariner – Coleridge
35. Animal Farm – George Orwell
36.  Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
37.  Antony and Cleopatra – Shakespeare
38. Arms and the Man – G.B.Shaw
39. Around the World in eighty days – Jules Verne
40. Baburnama – Babur
41. Ben Hur – Lewis Wallace
42. Bhagwat Gita – Ved Vyas
43. Bisarjan – R.N.Tagore
44. Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
45. Chitra – R.N.Tagore
46. Count of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas
47. Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
48. Das Kapital- Karl Marx
49. Divine Comedy- Dante
50. Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde- Stevenson
51. Don Quixote- Cervantes
52. Dr.Zhivago- Boris Pasternak
53. For whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
54. Forsyte Saga- John Galsworthy
55. Freedom at Midnight – Dominique Lapierre
56. Gathering Storm- Winston Churchill
57. Geet Govind- Jaya Dev
58. Gora- R.N. Tagore
59. Hamlet – Shakespeare
60. Harsha Charit- Bana Bhatt
61. Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo
62. Hungry Stones – R.N.Tagore
63. Illiad- Homer
64. Invisible Man- H.G.Wells
65. Ivanhoe Walter – Scott
66. Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
67. Kadambari- Bana Bhatt
68. Kidnapped- R.L.Stevenson
69. Kumar Sambhav- Kalidas
70. Mahabharata- Vyas
71. Man and Superman – G.B.Shaw
72.  Meghdut – Kalidas
73. Mother – Maxim Gorky
74. Odyssey Homer
75. The Post Office – R.N.Tagore
76. Principia – Issac Newton
77. Ramayana  -Valmiki
78. The Tempest Shakespeare
79. Sunny Days  – Sunil Gavaskar
80. The One Day Wonders – Sunil Gavaskar
81. Bachelor of Arts  – R.K.Narayan
82. Chandalika – Rabindra Nath Tagore
83. Comedy of Errors  – William Shakespeare
84. Glimpses of World History  – Jawaharlal Nehru
85. Guide  – R.K.Narayan
86. Hindu View of Life  – Dr.S.Radha Krishnan
87. Hungry Stones  – Rabindra Nath Tagore
88. India Divided  – Dr.Rajendra Prasad
89. My Truth  – Indira Gandhi
90. Wealth of Nations  – Adam Smith