Famous Books and their Authors

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List of Famous Books and their Authors

• A Manifesto For Change – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
• And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
• An Autobiography - Jawahar Lal Nehru
• A Bend in the river ‐ V.S.Naipaul
• Akbar – The Aesthete ‐ Dr. Indu Anand
• A State in Denial - BG Verghese
• Alphabet Soup for Lovers - Anita Nair
• A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon - Jairam Ramesh
• Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity - Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
• An Era of Darkness (एन एरा ऑफ़ डार्कनेस): The British Empire in India – Shashi Tharoor
• An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions – Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
• Age of Anger (ऐज ऑफ़ एंगर): A history of the Present – Pankaj Mishra
• A brief history of Seven killings – Marlon James – 2015 Booker
• A Life in Diplomacy - former Indian diplomat Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
• Anything But Khamosh (एनीथिंग बट खामोश): The Shatrughan Sinha Biography - Bharathi S Pradhan
• Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? ‐ Faraz Ahmad
• Ace against Odds is the autobiography of Indian tennis player Sania Mirza - Sania Mirza
• A Man and A Motorcycle (ए मैन एंड ए मोटरसाइकिल): How Hamid Karzai Came to Power ‐ Bette Dam
• Awakening India’s Social Conscience ‐ Dr. Narendra Jadhav
• Beyond 2020 (बियोंड 2020): A Vision for Tomorrow’s India - Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
• Beyond NJ 9842 (बियोंड एनजे 9842): The Siachen Saga - Nitin Gokhale
• Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination - Teesta Setalvad
• Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 ‐ Sandeep Unnithan
• Courage & Commitment (करेज एंड कमिटमेंट): An Autobiography - Margaret Alva
• China: Confucius in the Shadow – Poonam Surie
• Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths ‐ Prakash Chandra Parakh
• Complete Story of Indian Reforms (कम्पलीट स्टोरी ऑफ़ इंडियन रिफॉर्म्स): 2G, Power & Private Enterprise - Pradeep Baijal
• Duroch ModiNomics ‐ Sameer Kochar
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (डायरी ऑफ़ अ विम्पी किड) – Jeff Kinney
• Dreaming Big (ड्रीमिंग बिग): My Journey to Connect India - Sam Pitroda
• Dreaming Big (ड्रीमिंग बिग): My Journey to Connect India - autobiography of Sam Pitroda written with the help of David Chanoff, an American author.
• Death under the Deodars – Ruskin Bond
• Democrats and Dissenters – Ramachandra Guha
• Dark Star (डार्क स्टार): The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna ‐ Gautam Chintamani
• Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India ‐ Rajdeep Sardesai
• Education of Muslims - Professor JS Rajput
• Enoch, I am a British Indian (एनोच, आई ऍम अ ब्रिटिश इंडियन) ‐ Sarinder Joshua
• Editor Unplugged (एडिटर अनप्लग्ड): Media, Magnates, Netas and Me - Vinod Mehta
• Faces and Places - Professor Deepak Nayyar
• Fifty Shades Series – E.L. James
• Final Test (फाइनल टेस्ट): Exit Sachin Tendulkar ‐ Dilip D’Souza
• Flood of Fire - Amitav Ghosh
• Farishta – Kapil Isapuari
• Food for All - Uma Lele
• Flying in High Winds (फ्लाइंग इन हाई विंड्स): A Memoir - K. Mishra
• Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket (फिक्स्ड! कैश एंड करप्शन इन क्रिकेट) - Shantanu Guha Ray
• Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My Innocence - Mohammad Aamir Khan
• Family Life - Akhil Sharma (winner of the Folio Prize 2015)
• Faces and Places - Prof. Deepak Nayyar
• Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks - SK Rath
• Ghosts of Calcutta - Sebastian Ortiz
• Gandhi before India – Ramachandra Guha
• Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography – Pramod Kapoor
• Green Signals (ग्रीन सिग्नल्स): Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India - Jairam Ramesh
• Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice - Dr. Mool Chand Sharma
• God of Antarctica (गॉड ऑफ़ अंटार्टिका) ‐ Master Yashvardhan Shukla (At the age of 13)
• Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann, and Philidor ‐ Parimarjan Negi
• Half Girlfriend ‐ Chetan Bhagat
• I Do What I Do (आई डू व्हॉट आई डू) – Raghuram Rajan
• India’s Tryst with Destiny – Jagadish Bhagawati
• Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister – Sagarika Ghose
• India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time – Shashi Tharoor
• Hindutva or Hind Swaraj - U.R. Ananthamurthy
• Inside Parliament (इनसाइड पार्लियामेंट): Views from the front row – Derek O’Brien
• India Central Asia Relations (इंडिया सेंट्रल एशिया रिलेशन्स): The Economic Dimension - Amiya Chandra.
• Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy (इंडियन पार्लियामेंट्री डिप्लोमेसी) - Meira Kumar
• Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy (इंडियन पार्लियामेंट्री डिप्लोमेसी) - Speaker’s Perspective - Meira Kumar
• India at Risk ‐ Jaswant Singh
• Interlinking of Indian Rivers - Radha Kant Bharati
• I am Malala ‐ Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb
• Iqbal (इक़बाल): The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician ‐ Zafar Anjum
• Joseph Anton ‐ Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
• Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years –  AS Dulat and Aditya Sinha
• Khushwantnama (खुशवंतनामा) ‐The Lessons of My Life ‐ Khushwant singh
• Lowland ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
• Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders – 2017 Booker
• Life On My Terms (लाइफ ऑन माय टर्म्स): From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power - Sharad Pawar
• Lal Bahadur Shastri (लाल बहादुर शास्त्री): Lessons in Leadership ‐ Pavan Choudary
• My Years with Rajiv and Sonia (माय इयर्स विथ राजीव एंड सोनिया) ‐ R.D.Pradhan
• Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav
• My Music My Life ‐ Pt Ravi Shankar
• My country My Life ‐ L.K.Advani
• Mrs Funny bones - Twinkle Khanna
• MS: A life in Music (एमएस: अ लाइफ इन म्यूजिक) - T.J.S. George
• Making India Awesome - Chetan Bhagat
• My Unforgettable Memories ‐ Mamata Banerjee
• Mind Master (माइंड मास्टर): Winning Lessons from a Champion's Life - Viswanathan Anand
• Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language) - Tarun Vijay
• No Time to Pause - Pavithra Ramesh
• Not Just an Accountant (नॉट जस्ट एन अकाउंटेंट) ‐ former CAG Vinod Rai
• Narendra Modi: A Political Biography (नरेंद्र मोदी: अ पॉलिटिकल बायोग्राफी) ‐ Andy Marino
• Pathways to Greatness (पाथवेज़ टू ग्रेटनेस) - Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (पर्सी जैक्सन एंड द ओलम्पियन्स सीरीज) – Rick Riordan
• Param Vir: A War Diary (परमवीर: अ वॉर डायरी)- Manju Lodha
• Public Issues Before Parliament ‐ Vijay Darda
• Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
• One Part Woman - Perumal Murugan
• One Life is Not Enough ‐ Natwar Singh
• Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
• Ringside With Vijender - Rudraneil Sengupta
• R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music (द प्रिंस ऑफ़ म्यूजिक) - Khagesh Dev Burman
• Ramcharitmanas (रामचरितमानस) (105-year-old Urdu copy ) - Shiv Brat Lal
• Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri ‐ Dr. R L Bhat
• Scion of Ikshvaku – Amish Tripathi
• Sita: Warrior of Mithila – Amish Tripathi
• Serpent’s Revenge – Sudha Murthy
• Sourav Ganguly : Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy - Saptarshi Sarkar
• Shashi Kapoor - the Householder, the Star - Aseem Chhabra
• Standing Guard— A year in Opposition - P Chidambaram
• Standing On An Apple Box – Aishwarya Dhanush
• Son of Thundercloud – Easterine Kire
• Super Economies - Raghav Bahl
• Syntheism (सिन्थेस्म) – Creating God in The Internet Age ‐ Alexander Bard
• Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan (स्ट्रिक्टली पर्सनल, मनमोहन एंड गुरशरण) ‐ Daman Singh
• The Country of First Boys (द कंट्री ऑफ़ फर्स्ट बॉयज) – Amartya Sen
• The Girl on the Train (द गर्ल ऑन द ट्रैन) – Paula Hawkins
• The Mother I Never Knew (द मदर आई नेवर न्यू)– Sudha Murthy
• The Great Derangement (द ग्रेट दीरेंज्मेंट): Climate Change And The Unthinkable – Amitav Ghosh
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie
• The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Decade – Pranab Mukherjee
• The Turbulent Years : 1980 – 1996 – Pranab Mukherjee
• Thoughts and Reflections – Pranab Mukherjee
• Two Year Eight Months and Twenty – Eight Night – Salman Rushdie
• The Red Sari – Javier Moro
• That Long Silence – Shashi Deshpande
• True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
• The Unseen Indira Gandhi - Dr. KP Mathur
• Truth Always Prevails ‐ Sadruddin Hashwani
• The God of Small Things (द गॉड ऑफ़ स्माल थिंग्स) ‐ Arundhati Roy
• The Lives of Others ‐ Neel Mukherjee
• The Sahara Testaments ‐ Tade Ipadeola
• The Kiss of Life - Emraan Hashmi
• The Z Factor -  Subhash Chandra
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
• The Birds of Banni Grassland – Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology – Released by Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi
• The Sellout – Paul Beatty – 2016 Booker
• The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler - James Cross Giblin
• The Story of Kashmir through the Ages - Arjan Nath Chaku
• The Great Derangement (द ग्रेट दीरेंज्मेंट): Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh
• Transcendence (ट्रांसेंडेंस): My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji - Abdul Kalam
• The Kumbh Mela (द कुम्भ मेला): Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity - Tarun Khanna
• To the Brink and Back : India’s 1991 Story - Jairam Ramesh
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights (टू ईयर्स एट मंथ्स एंड ट्वेंटी एट नाइट्स) - Salman Rushdie
• The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath' authored by Ben S. Bernanke
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights (टू ईयर्स एट मंथ्स एंड ट्वेंटी एट नाइट्स) authored by the British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie
• To the Brink and Back (टू द ब्रिंक एंड बेक): India’s 1991 Story' written by former Union Environment & Forest Minister (Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
• The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath - Ben S. Bernanke
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North ‐ Richard Flanagan (Australian) (Man Booker)
• The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall
• The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‐ Sanjaya Baru
• Uniki – CH Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra
• Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector ‐ Dr. UD Choubey
• Unbelievable (आनवेलिएबले) – Delhi to Islamabad - Prof Bhim Singh
• Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) {अनब्रेकेबल (ऑटोबायोग्राफी ऑफ मैरी कॉम)} ‐ Mary Kom
• Why Growth Matters – Jagadish Bhagawati
• Who was Shivaji? - Govind Pansare
• Why I Assassinated Gandhi (व्हाई आई अस्सासइनटेड गाँधी) - Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse
• Who Moved My Interest Rate? - Duvvuri Subbarao, the former Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
• Walking With Giants ‐ G. Ramachandran (former Finance Secretary)
• Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace ‐ Leon Panetta and Jim Newton
• Water, Peace, and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis ‐ Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
• 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai
• 37 Bridges and Other Stories – authored by noted Pakistani author Aamer Hussein
• 50 years of man in space ‐ Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher

Famous Books and their Authors

Last Update - 01/04/2020