LIST OF IMPORTANT BOOKS AND AUTHORS FOR EXAMS ( 2021-24) MOCKS/PDF/EXAM MATERIAL

BOOKS

AUTHOR

Lal Salaam”

Union Minister Smriti Irani

The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India

Debashish Mukerji

Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival”

Ajay Chhibber and Salman Anees

FORCE IN STATECRAFT

Dr Ajay Kumar

Sunrise over Ayodhya”

Salman Khurshid

Nehru: The Debates that Defined India”

Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain

The Sage with Two Horns

Sudha Murty

Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman”

Chidanand Rajghatta

Writing for My Life”

Ruskin Bond

The Origin Story of India’s States

Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan

The Stars in My Sky: Those Who Brightened My Film Journey”

Divya Dutta

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion And Nation”

Shafey Kidwai

Economist Gandhi: The Roots and the Relevance of the Political Economy of the Mahatma

Jaithirth Rao, popularly known as Jerry Rao

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Wole Soyinka

The Battle of Rezang La”

Kulpreet Yadav

Balakot airstrikes 2019

Manan Bhatt

Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India’

Sanjay Gubbi

My Own Mazagon

Ramesh Babu

‘In An Ideal World’ in 2022

Kunal Basu

‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation’

Ashok Lavasa

Bank With A Soul: Equitas’

Dr. C K Garyali

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

BOOKS

AUTHOR

‘Modi @20: Dreams Meeting Delivery’

VP Venkaiah Naidu

'The Struggle for Police Reforms in India'

Ex-IPS Prakash Singh

‘INDO-PAK WAR 1971- Reminiscences of Air Warriors’

Rajnath Singh

‘Leaders, Politicians, Citizens’

Rasheed Kidwai

‘Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak’

Prof. Alok Chakrawal

Lal Salam

Smriti Irani

Pride, Prejudice and Punditry

Shashi Tharoor

“Crunch Time: Narendra Modi’s National Security Crises”

Dr Sreeram Chauliahas

“Queen of Fire”

Devika Rangachari

“Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak”

Dharmendra Pradhan

“Decoding Indian Babudom”

Ashwini Shrivastava

‘The Maverick Effect’

Harish Mehta

“Tiger of Drass: Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Kargil Hero”

Meena Nayyar & Himmat Singh Shekhawat

‘Hear Yourself’

Indian Author Prem Rawat

‘Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI’

Former CAG Vinod Rai

“The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution ”

Rajesh Talwar

“The Magic of Mangalajodi” & “My Research Works on Sikh History and Philosophy”

Avinash Khemka & Abinash Mahapatra

‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’

Roger Faligot

'Amit Shah Ani Bhajapachi Vatchal'

Dr Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi

‘The Millennial Yogi: A modern-day parable about reclaiming one’s life’

Former Indian Army Captain, Deepam Chatterjee

‘Udaan Ek Majdoor Bachhe Ki’

Mithilesh Tiwari

Ungalil Oruvan (One Among You)

Chief minister MK Stalin’s

‘The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorised Biography of Usha Uthup’

Vikas Kumar Jha

‘The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal

Amitava Kumar

‘Role of Labour in India’s Development’

Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav

‘Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times’

Abhinav Chandrachud

‘The Queen of Indian Pop’

Usha Uthup

‘On Board: My Years in BCCI’

Ratnakar Shetty’s

'Tomb of Sand'

Geetanjali Shree’s

‘Monsoon’

Sahitya Akademi

‘The India Story’

Bimal Jalal

‘Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure’

Ruskin Bond

‘Business of Sports: The Winning Formula for Success’

Vinit Karnik

‘A Place Called Home’

Preeti Shenoy

‘More than Just Surgery: Life Lessons Beyond the OT’

Dr Tehemton Erach Udwadia

‘Wrist Assured: An Autobiography’

Former Cricketer G.R. Viswanath

‘Unfilled Barrels India’s oil story’

Richa Mishra

‘The Little Book of Joy’

Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu

‘Spoorthi Pradatha Sri Somayya’

K Syam Prasad

‘Fearless Governance’

Dr. Kiran Bedi

‘Operation Khatma’ 

RC Ganjoo and Ashwini Bhatnagar

‘India, That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution’

J Sai Deepak

‘Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra’

Navdeep Singh Gill

‘Atal Bihari Vajpayee’

Sagarika Ghose

‘India–Africa Relations: Changing Horizons’

Rajiv Bhatia

‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’

Bill Gates

‘Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War’

Samuel Moyn

‘Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us’

Ro Khanna

‘A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Construction’

Uma Das Gupta

‘A Nation To Protect’

Priyam Gandhi Mody

‘The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley’

Jimmy Soni

‘The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations’

Anirudh Suri

‘Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India.

Dhirendra K. Jha

‘Mamata: Beyond 2021’

Jayanta Ghosal

‘Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’

Dr. Thomas Matthew

‘Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work, and Leadership’

Arundhati Bhattacharya

‘Bose: The untold story of an inconvenient nationalist’

Chandrachur Ghose

'The Legend of Birsa Munda'

Tuhin A Sinha and Ankita Verma

‘India’s Women Unsung Heroes’

Meenakshi Lekhi

‘A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of Independence’

Ruskin Bond

‘The $10 Trillion Dream’

Subhash Chandra Garg

BOOKS

AUTHOR

"Ambedkar: A Life"

Shashi Tharoor

"Human Anatomy"

Dr. Ashvini Kumar Dwivedi

“Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom”

Sanjeev Sanyal

Himanta Biswa Sarma

"Mukhyamantrir Diary 1"

"Njaan Sakshi"

Professor K.K. Abdul Gaffar's

"Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking"

Tamal Bandyopadhyay

"Spare"

J. R. Moehringer

"Braving A Viral Storm: India's Covid-19 Vaccine Story"

Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir

Jadunama

Javed Akhtar and Arvind Mandloi

"Come! Let's Run"

Ma. Subramanian

"India's Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dawn"

Dr. Ashwin Fernandes

"COACHING BEYOND: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team"

Kaushik and Ramakrishnan Sridhar

"The Poverty of Political Economy: How Economics Abandoned the Poor"

Meghnad Desai

The Last Heroes

Palagummi Sainath (P Sainath)

The Best of Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Victory City

Salman Rushdie

Modi: Shaping a Global order in flux

President J.P. Nadda

Pt. Deendayal Upadhaya : Dispersions of Thought

R N Ravi

India’s vaccine Growth story

Sajjan singh Dev

Mundaka Upanishad-The Bridge of immortality

Jagdeep Dhankar

As Good As My Word

KM Chandrashekhar

Pagalkhana

Dr.Gyan Chaturvedi

The Book of Bihari Literature

Abhay K

Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway to Eternity

Dr. Karan Singh

India’s Struggle for Independence – Gandhian Era

P. Jyothimani, former Judge

Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform

Rachna Biswat Rawat

Women and Men in India 2022

Rao Inderjit Singh

Snakes in the Ganga

Shri Rajiv Malhotra and Mrs. Vijaya Viswanathan

A Matter of the Heart: Education in India

Anurag Behar

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Shrimant Kokate

‘Collective Spirit, Concrete Actions’

Shashi Shekhar Vempati

“Reflections”

Narayanan Vaghul

Made In India

Amitabh Kant

Sachin @ 50

Boria Majumdar

Cyber Encounters

Ashok Kumar and OP Manocha

Just Aspire

Ajai Chowdhry

My Life as a Comrade

K.K. Shailaja and Manju Sara Rajan

First Lithuanian Travelers in India

Lithuanian Embassy

The Golden Years

Ruskin Bond

Partitioned Freedom

Ram Madhav

“The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation”

Ashok Tandon

“Igniting Collective Goodness: Mann Ki Baat @ 100”

Team of BlueKraft Digital Foundation

"The Professionals’ Handbook to ChatGPT”

V Pattabhi Ram and Dungar Chand U Jain

“Welcome To Paradise”

Twinkle Khanna

“India’s Moment: Changing Power Equations around the World”

Mohan Kumar

“Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers”

Sharmistha Mukherjee

“Thread by Thread: The S.Kumar’s Story”

Sathya Saran

“Mapping of the Archives in India”

Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C. Gaur

“Do Palkon Ki Chhavn Main”

Dr. Hema Joshi

“Snakes of Himachal Pradesh”

Omesh Kumar Bharti and DD Bisht

BOOKS

AUTHOR

Parshottam Rupala

Sagar Parikrama

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik

‘FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023’

Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri

Swallowing the Sun

Ashwin Prabhu

Sculpted Stones

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Maha Swaapnikudu

Jagdeep Dhankhar

9 Incredible Years of Haryana Government

Amit Shah

Assam Braveheart Lachit Barphukan

Sudha and Narayana Murthy

An Uncommon Love

General VK Singh

Sanskriti ke Ayaam

Gen MM Naravane

Four Stars of Destiny

Madhav Godbole

Babri Masjid Ram Mandir Dilemma

Ram Nath Kovind

Naye Bharat Ka Samveda

Pushkar Dhami

RESILIENT INDIA

Sharmishtha Mukherjee

Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers

Prasoon Joshi

Do Palkon Ki Chhavn Main

“Ek Samandar, Mere Andar”

Sanjeev Joshi

“Political History of Assam (1947-1971) – Volume 1”

Dr. Rajen Saikia

“Smritivan: An Unparalleled Apotheosis of Commemoration to 2001 Victims of Gujarat Earthquake”

Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority

“Assam’s Braveheart – Lachit Barphukan”

Arup Kumar Dutta

“Fertilising the Future: Bharat’s March Towards Fertiliser Self-Sufficiency”

Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

“An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns”

M.J. Akbar and K Natwar Singh

“Modi: Energising A Green Future”

R.K. Pachnanda, Bibek Debroy, Anirban Ganguly, and Uttam Kumar Sinha

"Four Stars of Destiny"

General Manoj Mukund Naravane

“Sanskriti ke Ayaam”

Manorama Mishra

“Maha Kavithai”

Vairamuthu

“Ram Mandir Rashtra Mandir Ek Sajhi Virast”

Geeta Singh and Arif Khan Bharti