50 Most Important Books and their Authors for Competitive Exams

Dear Aspirants you know quite well that Important Books and Authors constitute a very important portion of the static GK. And undoubtedly you need to have sound general knowledge background to cope up with the competition in recent times. Hence, keeping in mind your preparation for the same here is a list of 50 most important books with their authors.


    1. Accidental Death of an Anarchist >> Dario Fo
    2. A China Passage >> John K. Galbraith
    3. A Farewell to Arms >> Ernest Hemingway
    4. A Million Mutinies Now >> V S Naipal
    5. A Midsummer Night's Dream >> Shakespeare
    6. A Passage to England >> Nirad C. Choudhuri
    7. A Passage to India >> E M Forster
    8. A Prisoner's Scrapbook >> L K Adbani
    9. A Suitable Boy >> Vikram Seth
    10. A Tale of Two Cities >> Charles Dickens
    11. A Village by the Sea >> Anitha Desai
    12. Akbarnama >> Abul Fazl
    13. Alice in Wonderland >> Lewis Carroll
    14. A New World >> Amit Chaudhuri
    15. Animal Farm >> George Orwell
    16. Anna Karenina >> Leo Tolstoy
    17. Ben-hur >> Lewis Wallace
    18. Broken Bangles >> Hanifa Deen
    19. Bubble >> Mulk Raj Anand
    20. Chitra >> R N Tagore
    21. City of Joy >> Dominique Lapierre
    22. Communist Manifesto >> Karl Marx
    23. Conquest of Self >> Mahatma Gandhi
    24. Coolie >> Mulk Raj Anand
    25. Crescent Moon >> R N Tagore
    26. Das Capital >> Karl Marx
    27. Devdas >> Sharat Ch. Chatterjee
    28. Durgesh Nandini >> Bankim Ch. Chatterjee
    29. Emma >> Jane Austen
    30. Friends and Foes >> Sk. Mujibar Rahman
    31. Ganadevata >> Tara Shankar Banerjee
    32. God of Small Things >> Arundhati Roy
    33. Golden Threshold >> Sarojini Naidu
    34. Great Tragedy >> Z A Bhutto
    35. Gulliver's Travels >> Jonathan Swift
    36. Idols >> Sunil Gavaskar
    37. In Memoriam >> Alfred Tennyson
    38. India Divided >> Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    39. Jungle Book >> Rudyard Kipling
    40. Lajja >> Taslima Nasreen
    41. Life Divine >> Sri Aurobindo
    42. Long Walk to Freedom >> Nelson Mandela
    43. Midnight's Children >> Salman Rushdie
    44. Mother India >> Katherine Mayo
    45. Nirbasan >> Taslima Nasreen
    46. Speed Post >> Shobha De
    47. The Rape of the Lock >> Alexander Pope
    48. A Train to Pakistan >> Khushwant Singh
    49. The Road Ahead >> Bill Gates
    50. The Struggle in my Life >> Nelson Mandela