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Important Authors and Books: General Awareness

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