In almost every competitive exams, one or two questions are always asked from books and authors.
Some of the important books and authors are given below :-
Books |
Authors |
| Ashtadhyayi | Panini |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| Prithviraj Raso | Chand Bardai |
| My experiments with truth | M.K. Gandhi |
| Priyadarshika | Harshavardhana |
| Naganand | Harshavardhana |
| Ratnavali | Harshavardhana |
| Ain-i-akbari | Abul Fazal |
| Akbar-nama | Abul Fazal |
| Baburnama | Babur |
| Humayunama | Gulbadan Begum |
| Anand Math | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| Geetanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Discovery of India | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
| God of small things | Arundhati Roy |
| Midnight’s children | Salman Rushdie |
| Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh |
| The Guide | R.K. Narayan |
| Malgudi days | R.K. Narayan |
| Hind Swaraj | M.K. Gandhi |
| Glimpses of World History | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| The Indian Struggle 1920-42 | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| The Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare |
| Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Adventure of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| A tale of two cities | Charles Dickens |
| Das Capital | Karl Marx |
| Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
| My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
| Eternal India | Indira Gandhi |
| India Divided | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| India Wins Freedom | Abul Kalam Azad |
| Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
| Poverty and Un-British rule in India | Dada Bhai Naroji |
| Indian war of Independence of 1857 | V.D.Savarkar |
| Wings of Fire | Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam |
| India 2020 | Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam |
| Ignited Minds | Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam |
| Geeta Rahashya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| My Country My Life | Lal Krishan Advani |
| Prison Diary | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| The Arctic Home in the Vedas | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Indian Philosophy | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| My Presidential Years | R. Venkataraman |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| Brief Answers to the Big Questions | Stephen Hawking |
| Playing it my way | Sachin Tendulkar & Boria Majumdar |
| Unguarded | Mithali Raj |
| Hitting across the line | Vivian Richards |
| Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar |
| A Shot at History | Abhinav Bindra |
| The Test of My life | Yuvraj Singh |
| Gora | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Kadambari | Banbhatta |
| Rajtarangani | Kalhana |
| Kamasutra | Vatsayana |
| Buddha Charita | Asvaghosa |
| Abhigyan Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| Raghuvansan | Kalidas |
| Vikramorvashi | Kalidas |
| Mudrarakshasa | Vishakhadatta |
| Natyashastra | Bharat Muni |
| Gitagovinda | Jayadev |
| Mahabhasya | Patanjali |
| Nitisara | Kamandaka |
| Charak Samhita | Charak |
| Indica | Megasthanese |
| Panch Tantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Aryabhatiya or Aryabhatiyam | Aryabhatta |
| Surya Siddhanta | Aryabhatta |
| Tujuk-i-Jahangiri (autobiography) | Jehangir |
| Shahnama | Firdausi |
| Rehla | Ibn Batuta |
| Futuhat-e-Firojshahi | Firoj Shah Tughlaq |
| Sirr-e-Akbar | Dara Shikoh |
| Bijak | Kabir |
| Sur Sagar | Surdas |
| Nuh-Siphir | Amir Khusrau |
| Tughlaq Nama | Amir Khusrau |
| Kitab-ul-Hind | Alberuni |
| Tabaqat-i-Nashiri | Minhaj-us-Siraj |
| Nil Darpan | Dinbandhu Mitra |
| Satyarth Prakash | Swami Dayanand Saraswati |
| Ramayan | Valmiki |
| Ramcharita Manas | Tulsidas |
| Mahabharat | Ved Vyas |
| Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| I am Malala | Malala Yousafzai |
| Meghdoot | Kalidasa |
| Padmavat | Malik Mohammad Jayasi |
| Godan | Munsi Premchand |
| Coolie | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Devdas | Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| Mrichchhakatika | Shudraka |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
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