Important and Famous Books and Authors for Competitive Exams

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In this post, I am sharing very important and famous books and authors asked in competitive exams. Read carefully this blog and learn Famous Books and Authors name.

Important Books and Authors 

Today I am providing the list of important books and authors for competitive exams competitive exam. You can easily get 2-3 marks with the help of below list in SSC & Railway Exam. This post of important books and authors for competitive exams is very important also related to Basic GK Questions.


Here’s a list of important Books and Authors for competitive exams. We have divided the entire list into fiction, non-fiction, biographies, novels, award-winning novels, critically acclaimed books, etc. 

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Name of the Book

Author

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The

Mark Twain

Ain-i-Akbari

Abul Fazal

Alchemist, The

Paulo Coelho

Alice in the Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

All’s Well that Ends well

William Shakespeare

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

An idealist view of life

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Anand Math

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Androcles and the Lion

George Bernard Shaw

Ape and Essence

A. Huxley

Apple Cart

George Bernard Shaw

Arabian Nights

Sir Richard Burton

Area of Darkness

V.S. Naipaul

Arthashastra

Kautilya

Arms and the man

George Bernard Shaw

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

As you like it

William Shakespeare

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Nirad C. Choudhury

 

Name of the Book

Author

Babur-nama

Babur

Between the Lines

Kuldip Nayar

Bharat Bharati

Maithili Sharan Gupt

Bitter Sweet

Noel Coward

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Broken Wing

Sarojini Naidu

Bunch of Old Letters, A

Jawaharlal Nehru

 

 

 


Important Books and their Author's Name



Name of the book

Author

Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Chitra

Rabindranath Tagore

Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

Coolie

Mulk Raj Anand

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Das Capital

Karl Marx

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

Dilemma of Our Time

Harold Joseph Laski

Discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

Divine Life

Swami Siv Ananda

Doctor’s Dilemma

George Bernard Shaw

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Don Juan

Lord Byron

Ends and Means

Aldous Huxley

Farewell to Arms, A

Ernest Hemingway

First Among Equal

Jeffrey Archer

For whom the Bell Tolls

Emest Hemingway

Freedom at Midnight

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Future Shock

Alvin Toffler

 

 

If I am Assassinated,

Name of the Book

Author

Geet Govind

Jaya Dev

Gitanjali

Rabindranath Tagore

Gita Rahasya

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Glimpses of World History

Jawaharlal Nehru

Godan

Munshi Prem Chand

Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu

Golden Gate, The

Vikram Seth

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Gora

Rabindranath Tagore

Grammar of Politics

Harold Laski

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Guide, The

R. K. Narayan

Gul-e-Naghma

Raghupati Sahai Firaq

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Harsha Charita

Bana Bhatt

Heat and Dust

Ruth P. Jhabwala

Hindu View of Life

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Z.A. BhuAssassinated,

Iliad

Homer

Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

India Divided

Rajendra Prasad

India Wins Freedom

Maulana Abul Kalama Azad

Indian Home Rule

M. K. Gandhi

Indian Philosophy

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Invisible man

H. G. Wells

Iron in the Soul

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

 

 

Selective Books and their Author's Name



Name of the Books

Author

Natya Shastra

Bharat Muni

Nine Days Wonder

John Masefield

Odyssey

Homer

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Othello

William Shakespeare

Panchatantra

Vishnu Sharma

Passage to England, A

Nirad C. Choudhary

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Passage to India, A

E. M. Forster

Patriot, The

Pearl S. Buck

Post Office

Rabindranath Tagore

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Raghuvamsa

Kalidas

Ram Charita Manas

Tulsidas

Ramayan

Valmiki

Ratnavali

Harsha Vardhan

Ritu Samhara

Kalidas

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Rubaiyat

Omar Khayyam

Sadar-i-Riyasat

Karan Singh

Satyartha Prakash

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Savitri

Sri Aurobindo Ghose

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Satanic Verses, The

Salman Rushdie

Shahnama

Firdausi

Shakuntala

 Kalidas

H. G. Wells

Shame

SCome,Rushdie

Sohrab and Rustam

Mathew Ahold

Sunny Days

Sunil Gavaskar

 

 

Name of Books

Author

Tale of Two Cities, A

Charles Dickens

Tempest, The

William Shakespeare

Three Musketeers

Alexander Dumas

Time Machine

H. G. Wells

To Live or Not to Live

Nirad C. Choudhary

Triumph

John Kenneth Galbraith

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

Twenty Years After

Alexander Dumas

Two Leaves and Bud

Mulk Raj Anand

Ulysses

James Joyce

Unto This Last

John Ruskin

Utopia

Thomas Moore

Uttar Ramcharit

Bhavbhuti

Valley Dolls

Jacqueline Susann

Vanity Fair

William Thackeray

Vinay Patrika

Tulsidas

Virginians, The

William Thackeray

Vish Vriksha

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Voice of Conscience

V. V. Giri

Wake up India

Annie Besant

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Wonder what was India

A.  L. Basham

Yam

Mahadevi Verma


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