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Famous Books and Authors 2023

In this article, we will learn about several legendary books and their brilliant authors who had a significant impact on important segments of societies and recorded all the wonders of the world. Books have always been a part of growth, and they are truly a wonder that anyone can acquire. In many competitive examination question has often been asked on famous books and author. We in this article provide complete detail and list of all the Famous Books and Authors.

Books and Authors for Ancient India

Books	Authors
Mudrarakshasa	Visakdatta
Rajtarangini	Kalhana
Kathasaritsagar	Somdeva
Kamasutra	Vatsayana
Prashnottarmalika	Amoghavarsha
Swapanvasdattam	Bhasa
Buddha charita	Asvaghosa
Natyashastra	Bharata
Abhigyan Shakuntala Vikramorvashi Raghuvansan	Kalidasa
Amarkosa	Amarshmha
Panchsidhantika Brihat Samhita	Varharmihara
Surya Sidhanta Aryabhatta	Aryabhatta
Panch tantra	Vishnu Sharma
Nitisara	Kamandaka
Aihole Prasasti	Ravi Kriti
Indica	Megasthanese
Arthasastra	Kautilya
Charaka Samhita	Charaka
Lilawati	Bhaskara II
Harshacharita Kadambari Nagananda Ratnavali	Harsha vardhan
Gathasaptashati	Hala
Nitisara	Kamandaka
Astadhyayi	Panini
Mahabhasya	Patanjli
Naishadhacharitra	Sri Harsha
Mrichhakatika	Sudraka
Gitagovinda	Jayadev
Navratna	Virsena

Books and Authors for Medieval India

Book	Author
Fatuhat-i-Firoz	Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Khamsab	Amir Khusrau
Khazain-ul-Futuh	Amir Khusrau
Kitab-fi-Tahqiq	Alberuni
Nuh-Siphir	Amir Khusrau
Kitab-ul-Raha	Ibn Batuta
Shah Nb ama	Firdausi
Tahquq-i-Hind	Alberuni
Tabaqat-i-Nasiri	Minhaj-us-Siraj
Tughlaq-Nama	Amir Khusrau
Chandayan	Maulana Daud
Himayun Nama	Gulbadan Begum
Bhavartha Dipika	Gyaneshwara
Safarnama or Rihla	Ibn Batuta
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (Autobiography)	Jehangir
Tarikh-i-Shershahi	Abbas Sarwani

Books and Authors for Modern India

Books	Authors
Young India Harijan Navjivan Hindu Swarajya My Experiments With Truth	M.K. Gandhi (Mahattma Gandhi)
Kesri The Maratha Gita Rahasya	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Discovery of India Glimpses of World History Meri Kahani	Jawahar Lal Nehru
Al Hilal India Wins Freedom Gubare Khatir	Maulana Abdul Kalam Aazad
Unhappy India	Lala Lajpat Rai
India Divided	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Hints For Self Culture	Lala Hardayal
Bangali A Nation In Making	Surendra Nath Banarji
War Of Indian Independence	Veer Savarkar
Geetanjali Home and The World Gora Hungry Stones Chandalika Visarjan	Rabindranath Tagore
Abhyuday Hindustan Leader	Madan Mohan Malviya
Nation	Gopal Krishna Gokhle
Indian Mirror Vaam Bodhini	Keshav Chandra Sen
Neel Darpan	Dinbandhu Mitra
Karmyogi Yugantar Savitri Life Divine Essays On Gita Bande Matram	Arvind Ghosh
Tarane Hind Baange Dara	Muhammad Iqbal
Commonweal New India	Annie Besant
Indian Struggle	Subhash Chandra Bose
Kaal	Paranjape
Comred Hamdard	Muhammad Ali
Samvad Kaumudi	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Som Prakash	Ishwarchadra Vidyasagar
Independent	Motilal Nehru
Rust Guftgur Poverty And Un British Rule In India	Dada Bhai Naurauji
Amrit Bazar Patrika	Shishir Kumar Ghosh
Free Hindustan	Tarak Nath Das
The Revolutionary	Shachindra Sanyal
Satyarth Darpan	Dayanand Sarswati
History Of Congress	Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Indian Unrest	Valentine Chirol
India For Indians	Chittaranjan Das
Anand Math Devi Chaudharani	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bharat Durdasha	Bhartendu Harishchandra
Divine Life	Shivanand
A Voice Of Freedom	Nayantara Sahgal

Books and Authors for Miscellaneous

Books	Authors
A passage to India	E.M.Forster
A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
A Week with Gandhi	Louis Fisher
A Woman’s Life	Guy de Maupassaut
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Tom Saweyer	Mark Twain
Agni Veena	Kazi Nasrul Islam
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carrol
Anna Karenina	Tolstoy
Antony and Cleopatra	Shakespeare
Arabian Nights	Sir Richard Burton
Arms and the Man	G.B.Shaw
Around the World in eighty days	Jules Verne
Arthashastra	Kautilya
Avigyan Sakuntalam	Kalidas
Ben Hur	Lewis Wallace
China Passage	John Kenneth Galbraith
Comedy of Errors	William Shakespeare
Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx
Confessions	Jean Jacques Rousseau
Count of Monte Cristo	Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky
Das Kapital	Karl Marx
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
Divine Comedy	Dante
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde	Stevenson
For whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway
Freedom at Midnight	Dominique Lapierre
French Revolution	Thomas Carlyle
Gathering Storm	Winston Churchill
Geetanjali	Rabindra Nath Tagore
Glimpses of World History	Jawaharlal Nehru
Grammar of Politics	Harold T.Laski
Gulliver’s Travels	Jonathan Swift
Hamlet	Shakespeare
Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo
Illiad	Homer
Invisible Man	H.G.Wells
In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust
Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling
Kadambari	Bana Bhatt
King Lear	Shakespeare
Les Miserable	Victor Hugo
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
Man and Superman	G.B.Shaw
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler
Mother	Maxim Gorky
My experiments with Truth	Mahatma M.K.Gandhi
Odyssey	Homer
Old Man and the Sea	Earnest Hemingway
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch	Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Origin of species	Charles Darwin
Othello	Shakespeare
Panchatantra	Vishnu Sharma
Paradise lost	John Milton
Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Principia	Issac Newton
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Shape of Things to Come	H.G.Wells
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
The City of Joy	Dominique Lapierre
The Class	Erich Byron
The Clown	Heinrich Boll
The Godfather	Mario Puzo
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Merchant of venice	William shakespeare
The Other Side of Midnight	Sindye Sheldon
The Post Office	R.N.Tagore
The Tempest	Shakespeare
The Vicar of Wakefield	Oliver Goldsmith
Three Musketeers	Alexander Dumas
Time Machine	H.G. Wells
Treasure Island	R.L.Stevenson
Ulysses	James Joyce
Utopia	Sir Thomas Moor
War and peace	Leo Tolstoy
Waste Land	T.S.Eliot

Famous Books and Authors 2021

Book	Authors
“Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947	Ayaz Memon
India-Pakistan War 1971	MM Naravane
Conversations’	Brijinder Nath Goswamy
Cooking to Save your Life	Abhijit Banerjeepens
Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World”	Autobiography of Ban Ki-moon
India Vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win-	Syed Akbaruddin
Lal Salaam”	Union Minister Smriti Irani
The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India	Debashish Mukerji
Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival”	Ajay Chhibber and Salman Anees
FORCE IN STATECRAFT	Dr Ajay Kumar
Sunrise over Ayodhya”	Salman Khurshid
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India”	Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain
The Sage with Two Horns	Sudha Murty
Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman”	Chidanand Rajghatta
Writing for My Life”	Ruskin Bond
The Origin Story of India’s States	Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan
The Stars in My Sky: Those Who Brightened My Film Journey”	Divya Dutta
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion And Nation”	Shafey Kidwai
Economist Gandhi: The Roots and the Relevance of the Political Economy of the Mahatma	Jaithirth Rao, popularly known as Jerry Rao
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth	Wole Soyinka
The Battle of Rezang La”	Kulpreet Yadav
The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations	Nirupama Rao
The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India	Vijay Gokhale
Jungle Nama”	Amitav Ghosh’s
400 Days	Chetan Bhagat
The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India”	Kaveree Bamzai
Translating Myself and Others’	Jhumpa Lahiri
Shining Sikh Youth of India’	Dr. Prabhleen Singh
Human Rights and Terrorism in India’	BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.
Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster	Uday Bhatia
Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine Odyssey”	Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee.
A Rude Life: The Memoir	Vir Sanghvi
Back to the Roots’	Luke Coutinho
Know Your Rights and Claim Them: A Guide for Youth”	Angelina Jolie & Geraldine Van Bueren QC.
‘Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government	K J Alphons
‘Battlefield’	Vishram Bedekar
“Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest”	Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar
‘Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID’	Ritu Menon
“OPERATION KHUKRI”	Major General Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia
“The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan”	Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad
The Earthspinner	Anuradha Roy
How the Earth Got Its Beauty	Sudha Murty
The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14-Year-Old	Brisha Jain
Balakot airstrikes 2019	Manan Bhatt
Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India’	Sanjay Gubbi
My Own Mazagon	Ramesh Babu
‘In An Ideal World’ in 2022	Kunal Basu
‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation’	Ashok Lavasa
Bank With A Soul: Equitas’	Dr. C K Garyali
The India Story	Bimal Jalan
The Struggle Within A Memoir of the Emergency	Ashok Chakravarti
The Ramayana Of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji	Late Baljit Kaur Tulsi
The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined The Buddha	Jairam Ramesh
Lady Doctors’	Kavitha Rao’s
Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin”	Dhaval Kulkarni
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington D.C”	Kaushik Basu
Fiercely Female: Story of Dutee Chand”	Sundeep Misra
It’s a Wonderful Life”	Ruskin Bond
Will’	Smith has co-written the book with self-help author Mark Manson
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis’	Amitav Ghosh
Home in the World: A Memoir”	Amartya Sen
Languages of Truth	Salman Rushdie
Stargazing: The Players in My Life’	Ravi Shastri’s
Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924-1966)	Vikram Sampath
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present’	Shivshankar Menon.
Nehru, Tibet and China”	Avtar Singh Bhasin.
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance	Preet Mohan Singh Malik
“Life in the Clock Tower Valley”	Shakoor Rather
‘Elephant In The Womb’	Kalki Koechlin
The Bench	Meghan Markle
“Whereabouts”.	Jhumpa Lahiri
“The Living Mountain”	Amitav Ghosh
“Climate Change Explained – for one and all”,	Aakash Ranison
‘The Christmas Pig	JK Rowling
‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’	Co-authored by Raina and sports author Bharat Sundaresan,
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’	Nitin Gokhale
Suparipalana	Dr Shailendra Joshi
Names of the Women”	Jeet Thayil
My Experiments with Silence’	Samir Soni
Dawn Under The Dome.	Swati Pandey in collaboration with Orchida Mukherjee.
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph”,	Anant Vijay’s
“The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle”	Pashto and published in 1983.
Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis”,	Anindya Dutta
“Stories I Must Tell An Actor’s Emotional Journey,”	Kabir Bedi
“Maveric Messiah”	Ramesh Kandula
‘ASOCA: A Sutra’	Irwin Allan Sealy’s
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News”.	Meghna Pant
Starstruck: Confessions of a TV executive’.	Peter Mukerjea
Unfinished: A Memoir”,	Priyanka Chopra Jonas
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life’	M Hamid Ansari
Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World	Sangeet Paul Choudhary
Beautiful Things’	Hunter Biden
The Little Book of Encouragement	Dalai Lama
‘Manohar Parrikar- Off the Record’	Waman Subha Prabhu.
‘The Commonwealth of Cricket’	Ramchandra Guha’s
“Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo”	Lt General Konsam Himalaya Singh
“The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India”.	S Y Quraishi
”Right Under our Nose”	R Giridharan
‘India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia	R. Kaushik,
Vahana Masterclass	Alfredo Covelli,

Famous Books and Authors 2023 FAQs

Q) What is the most read book?

Ans. The most read book in the world is the Bible. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years.

Q) Who is the Author of Famous book Kadambari?

Ans. Banbhatta is the Author of Kadambari.

Q) Who has written the famous book Arthashastra?

Ans. The author of the famous book Arthashastra is Kautilya.

Q) Who is the Author of 400 Days?

Ans. Chetan Bhagat wrote the book 400 Days.

Q) Who is the Author of Anandmath?

Ans. Anandmath was written by Bankim Chandra Chatarjee.

Major Incidents in Indian History

Famous Personalities Biography

Mangal Pandey	Maharana Pratap	Rabindranath Tagore	Bhagat Singh
Jyotiba Phule	Satyendra Nath Bose	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Subhash Chandra Bose