List of Important Books and their Authors
Eric Segal – Love Story
Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot
GB Shaw – Apple Cart
Gabrielle Hamilton – Blood, Bones and Butter
George Co Bush – Decision Point (Autobiography)
George Orwell – Ninteen Eighty Four
Goethe – Faust
HB Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Herschele Gibbs – To the Point (Autobiography)
Herta Muller – The Appointment
Homer – Odyssey
Isaac Newton – Principia Mathematica
Jasper F Forde – Shades of Grey
Jean Paul Sartre – Iron in the Soul
Jeffrey Archer – First Among Equals
JK Rowling – The Tales of Beedle the Barol
John Masefield – Nine Days Wonder
John Ruskin – Unto this Last
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Joy Adamson – Born Free
Jules Verne – Around the World in 80 days
Karl Marx – Das Kapital
Katherine Mayo – Mother India
Kim Edwards – Lake of Dreams
L Fischer – A Week with Gandhi
Lapierre and Collins – Freedom at Midnight
Larry Collins Sdomininique lapierre – Mountbatten and Independent India
Lord Byron – Don Juan
Lord Curzon – Problems of The East
M Veerappa Moily – “Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam’’
Machiavelli – The Prince
Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind
Mark Twain – Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Martin Amis – The Pregnant Widow
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay – Devdas Parineeta
Sarojini Naidu – The Golden Threshold; The Bird of Time
Munshi Prem Chand – Rang Bhoomi Godan
Rammohan Roy – Precept of Jesus; A Gift to Monotheists
Mahatma Gandhi – My Experiments with Truth; Hind Swaraj
Amartya Sen – Development as Freedom; The Idea of Justice
Abul Kalam Azad – India Wins Freedom
AL Basham – Wonder That was India
Amit Chaudhuri – The Immortals
Annie Besant – Wake up India
Anuradha Roy – The Folded Earth
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things; The ministry of Utmost Happiness
Asha Purna Devi – Subarnalata
Aurobindo Ghosh – Life Divine
Balwant Gargi – Naked Triangle
BG Tilak – Gita Rahasya
BR Ambedkar – What Congress and Gandhi have done to Untouchables
Brig John Dalvi – Himalayan Blunder
Dadabhai Naoroji – Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India
Daisy Hason – The To-Let House
Dr Radha Krishnan – Hindu View of Life
Dr Rajendra Prasad – India Divided
VD Savarkar – Indian War of Independence
Edited by Pranab Mukherjee – The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation
Gen Ayub Khan – Friends not Master
Gopal Krishna Gandhi – of a Certain Age : Twenty Life Sketches
GopinathMohanty – Moti Mahal
Hamid Ansari – Travelling Through Conflict
IK Gujral – Matters of Discretion (Autobiography)
Imran Hashmi – The Kiss of Life
Indira Gandhi – My Truth
Janardan Thakur – All the Prime Minister’s Men
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam – Ignited Minds : Unleashing the Power within India,; You Are Born to Blossom, My Journey,; India 2020-A vision for the New Millennium,; Wings of Fire
Amitabh Ghosh – The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Mulk Raj Anand – The Village,; Seven Summers,; Two Leaves and a Bud,; Coolie
Amrita Pritam – Kora Kagaz,; Death of a City,; Kagaz Te Kanwas, The Revenue Stamp
Ramachandra Guha – Makers of Modern India India after Gandhi : The History of the World’s Largest Democracy,; Environmentalism : A Global History,; The States of Indian Cricket
Khushwant Singh – The Sunset Club,; Sahibs Who Loved India,; Why I Supported the Emergency, Truth, Love and A Little Malice,; We Indians,; A Bride for the Sahib, Maharaja in Denims
RK Narayan – Guide, Dark Room,; The Vendor of Sweets
Chetan Bhagat – One Night the Call Centre,; Revolution 2020, What young India Wants Making India Awesome,; Half Girlfriend,; One Indian Girl
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – Devi Chaudharani Anand Math
Maithili Sharan Gupt – Saket Yashodhara
JP Narayan – Prison Diary; To all Fighters of Freedom, Why Socialism?
Javier Moro – A Dramatised Biography of, Sonia Gandhi; The Red Sari
Salman Khurshid – The Other Side of the Mountain.
Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations
AG Noorani – “India—China Boundary Problems, 1846 to 1947’’
Al Gore (former US Vice President) – “An Inconvenient Truth’’
Andy Marino : – Narendra Modi : A Political Biography
Arthur Conan Doyle – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur I Miller – Empire of the Stars
Arthur Stanley Eddington – Expanding Universe
Anna Jeon Mayhew – The Dry Glass of August
Alan Shapiro – Night of the Republic
Benazir Bhutto – Reconciliation : Islam Democracy and the West
Catherin O’ Flynn – The News Where you are
Charles Darwin – Descent of Man, Origin of Species
Cherie Blair – Speaking for Myself
Chester Bowles – A View from Delhi
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
David Loshak – Pakistan Crisis
Desmond Tutu – No Future Without Forgiveness
DH Lawrence – Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Dominque Lapierre – “A Rainbow in the Night-Nelson Mandela and the Tumultuous Birth of South Africa’’
Domingo Martinez – Thy Boy Kings of Taxas
Dould Maraniss – Barack Obama: The Making of the Man
Doniel Silva – Moscow Rules
E M Forster – A Passage to India
Edited by Michele Kelley, Deepika D´Souza – “The World Bank in India—Undermining Sovereignty, Distorting Development’’
Edward Gibbon – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empires
William Shakespeare – King Lear All’s Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet; Antony and Cleopatra; The Tempest; Macbeth; Julius Caesar; Othello
Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; Great Expectations
George Bernard Shaw – Back to Methuselah Man of Destiny; Arms and the Man; Man and Superman
Leo Tolstoy – Resurrection; War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Barack Obama – Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
TS Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral; The Wasteland, and other poem
HG Wells – The War of the Worlds; The Time Machine; Invisible Man
George Eliot – Mill on the Floss; Middle March
John Milton – Paradise Regained; Paradise Lost
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass; The Hunting of Snark
Rober Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped Treasure Island
Abdul Salam Zaeef – “My Life With the Taliban’’
Mathew Arnold – Sohrab and Rustum
Maxim Gorky – Mother
Malala Yousafzai – We are Displaced
Michael Jackson – Moon Walk (Autobiography)
Michael Phelps – No Limits : The Will to Succeed
Nandan Nilekani – Imaging India : Ideas for a New Century
Nelson Mandela – The Conversations with Myself
Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer
Oscar Wilde – Importance of Being Earnest
Pallava Bagla – ‘‘Destination Moon-India’s quest for the Moon, Mars and Beyond’’
Parvez Musharraf – “In the Line of Fire’’
Pearl S Buck – The Rainbow
Philip Pullmen – The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ
Plato – The Republic
Robert TS Mickles Sr – Blood Kin, A Savannah Story
Rudyard Kipling – Jungle Book
Ruskin Bond – Notes from a Small Room
R M Lala – For the Love of India : The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata
Shoaib Akhtar – Controversially Yours (Autobiography)
Sydney Sheldon – The Naked Face
Syyed Amir Ali – The Spirit of Islam
TC Boyle – Wild Child
Thomas Moor – Utopia
Toni Morrison – What Moves at the Margin : Selected Non-Fiction
Thomos Weber – Gandhi at First Sight
Tony Blair – A Journey
U Thant – View from the UN
Willam Alexander – Goblin Secrets
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
Winston Churchill – Gathering Storm
Mathew Arnold – Sohrab and Rustum
Maxim Gorky – Mother
Malala Yousafzai – We are Displaced
Michael Jackson – Moon Walk (Autobiography)
Michael Phelps – No Limits : The Will to Succeed
Nandan Nilekani – Imaging India : Ideas for a New Century
Nelson Mandela – The Conversations with Myself
Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer
Oscar Wilde – Importance of Being Earnest
Pallava Bagla – ‘‘Destination Moon-India’s quest for the Moon, Mars and Beyond’’
Parvez Musharraf – “In the Line of Fire’’
Pearl S Buck – The Rainbow
Philip Pullmen – The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ
Plato – The Republic
Robert TS Mickles Sr – Blood Kin, A Savannah Story
Rudyard Kipling – Jungle Book
Ruskin Bond – Notes from a Small Room
R M Lala – For the Love of India : The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata
Shoaib Akhtar – Controversially Yours (Autobiography)
Sydney Sheldon – The Naked Face
Syyed Amir Ali – The Spirit of Islam
TC Boyle – Wild Child
Thomas Moor – Utopia
Toni Morrison – What Moves at the Margin : Selected Non-Fiction
Thomos Weber – Gandhi at First Sight
Tony Blair – A Journey
U Thant – View from the UN
Willam Alexander – Goblin Secrets
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
Winston Churchill – Gathering Storm
Mathew Arnold – Sohrab and Rustum
Maxim Gorky – Mother
Malala Yousafzai – We are Displaced
Michael Jackson – Moon Walk (Autobiography)
Michael Phelps – No Limits : The Will to Succeed
Nandan Nilekani – Imaging India : Ideas for a New Century
Nelson Mandela – The Conversations with Myself
Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer
Oscar Wilde – Importance of Being Earnest
Pallava Bagla – ‘‘Destination Moon-India’s quest for the Moon, Mars and Beyond’’
Parvez Musharraf – “In the Line of Fire’’
Pearl S Buck – The Rainbow
Philip Pullmen – The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ
Plato – The Republic
Robert TS Mickles Sr – Blood Kin, A Savannah Story
Rudyard Kipling – Jungle Book
Ruskin Bond – Notes from a Small Room
R M Lala – For the Love of India : The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata
Shoaib Akhtar – Controversially Yours (Autobiography)
Sydney Sheldon – The Naked Face
Syyed Amir Ali – The Spirit of Islam
TC Boyle – Wild Child
Thomas Moor – Utopia
Toni Morrison – What Moves at the Margin : Selected Non-Fiction
Thomos Weber – Gandhi at First Sight
Tony Blair – A Journey
U Thant – View from the UN
Willam Alexander – Goblin Secrets
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
Winston Churchill – Gathering Storm
Jaswant Singh – Jinnah—India, Partition, Independence
Jyotiba Phule – Ghulam Giri and other Stories
K Natwar Singh – One life is not enough ‘My China Diary’
Kapil Dev – Straight from the Heart
Kapil Sibal – I Witness–Partial Observation
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – Pakhtoon
Kingshuk Nag – The Namo Story : A Political Life
KM Munshi – I Follow the Mahatama
Kuldip Nayar – The Judgement
Kailash Sathyarthi – Azad Bachpan Ki Or
KP Mathur – The Unseen Indira Gandhi
Kishalay Bhattacharya – Blood or My Hands; Confession of stated Encounters
Kartar Lahani – The Making of India
Lal Krishna Advani – My Country My Life
Lala Lajpat Rai – Unhappy India
Mahadevi Verma – Yama
Maj HPS Ahluwalia – Face of Everest
Manohar Malgaonkar – A Bend in the Ganges
Meghnad Desai – The Rediscovery of India
MJ Akbar – Nehru: The Making of India
Morarji Desai – A Minister and his Responsibilities
Narayan Lakshman – Patrons of the Poor : Caste Politics and Policy Making in India
Narayan Shehgal – A Voice of Freedom
Shri Narendra Modi – “Convenient Action : Gujarat’s Response to Climate Change’’; Exam warriors
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay – Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times
Nirad C Choudhary – An Unknown Indian
NR Narayan Murthy – A Better India A Better World
PM Nayar – The Kalam Effect: My Years with the President
PVR Rao – Defence Without Drift
Rabindranath Tagore – Chitra
Raghunath ▸ Mashelkar – “Timeless Inspirator— Reliving Gandhi’’
Rajmohan Gandhi – The Good Boat Man : A Portrait of Gandhi
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar – Rashmirathi
Rashika Chaube and Chhaya Mahajan – An Inspirational Journey: Pratibha Devi Singh Patil; The First Women President of India
Ramesh Chandra Dutta – Economic History of India
Ram Chandra Guha – Gandhi
Ravi Shankar – My Music, My Life
Ronald Segal – Crisis of India
Saniya Mirza – Ace Against Odse
Ruskin Bond – A little book of Happiness
S Nihal Singh – My India
SC Bose – The Indian Struggle
Shashi Tharoor – The Elephant, Cell Phone: Reflections on India in the 21st century India Shastra’, Pax Indica, The Paradoxical Prime Minister
Shashi Tharoor and Shaharyar Khan – Shadows Across the Playing Field: 60 years of India-Pak Cricket
Shobha De – Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable
Shyam Bhatia – Good-Bye Shahzadi (A Biography of Benazir Bhutto)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan – Causes of the Indian Mutiny
SK Nandi – Ramacharit
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh – Savitri
Subramanian Swamy – “Electronic Voting Machines—Unconstitutional and Tamperable’’
Sunil Gavaskar – Sunny Days
Surjit Singh Barnala – My Other Two Daughters
Swami Dayanand – Satyarth Prakash
TS Krishnamurthy – The Miracle of Democracy: India’s Amazing Journey
Upinder Singh – A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India from Stone Age to the 12th Century
V V Giri – Voice of Conscience
V V S Laxman R – 281 and Beyond
Veerappa Moily – Unleashing India
Vinita Kamte – To the Last Bullet
Vinod Mehta – Lucknow Boy (Autobiography)
Virat Kohli – Driven
YV Reddy – Global Crisis Recession and Uneven Recovery
Jairam Ramesh – Indira Gandhi : A Life in Nature
DG Tendulkar – Gandhi in Champaran
Award-Winning Authors of Indian Origin and their Writings
