Books and Authors (Alphabetical List)
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| Author | Book(s) |
|---|---|
| A. L. Basham | The Wonder That Was India |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions; Guiding Souls; Ignited Minds; Wings of Fire; Envisioning an Empowered Nation |
| Abdul Fazl (Abul Fazal) | Ain-i-Akbari; Akbarnama |
| Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf |
| Al-Biruni (Al-Beruni) | Kitab-ul-Hind |
| Albert Einstein | The World as I See It |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | August 1914 |
| Amar Singh | Amar Kosh |
| Amartya Sen | The Argumentative Indian |
| Amish Tripathi | Shiva Trilogy — The Immortals of Meluha; The Secret of the Nagas; The Oath of the Vayuputras |
| Amitabh Bagchi | Above Average |
| Amitav Ghosh | The Glass Palace |
| Amrita Pritam | Death of a City; Kagaz Te Canvas; Forty-Nine Days |
| Anita Desai | Fasting, Feasting |
| Anita Nair | The Better Man |
| Aristotle | Politics |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things; The Algebra of Infinite Justice |
| Arundhati Subramaniam | When God Is a Traveller |
| Ashim Choudhury | The Sergeant’s Son |
| Ashish Roy | One Day Cricket: The Indian Challenge |
| Ashvaghosha | Buddha Charitam |
| B. M. Kaul | Untold Story; Confrontation with Pakistan |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Gita Rahasya |
| Bana Bhatta | Kadambari |
| Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | Anandamath |
| Bhartrihari | Niti Shatak; Shringar Shatak; Vairagya Shatak |
| Bhavabhuti | Malti-Madhav |
| Bhagwati Charan Verma | Chitralekha |
| Bipan Chandra | India’s Struggle for Independence |
| Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man; On the Origin of Species |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; David Copperfield |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre |
| Chetan Bhagat | Half Girlfriend |
| Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code |
| Dandin | Avanti Sundari; Dashakumaracharitam |
| Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy |
| David Baldacci | Absolute Power |
| Debasish Dutta | Sourav Ganguly: The Maharaja of Cricket |
| Deepti Priya Mehrotra | Gulab Bai: The Queen of Nautanki Theatre |
| Dev Anand | Romancing with Life |
| Dev Sukumar | Touch Play (Biography of Prakash Padukone) |
| Devkinandan Khatri | Chandrakanta Santati |
| E. M. Forster | A Passage to India; Maurice |
| Eric Hobsbawm | Fractured Times |
| Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Firdausi (Firdawsi) | Shahnama |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara; Man and Superman; The Apple Cart; Arms and the Man; Pygmalion; Caesar and Cleopatra; Candida |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl |
| Gulbadan Begum | Humayun-Nama |
| Gunnar Myrdal | Against the Stream; Asian Drama |
| Guy Sorman | The Year of the Rooster |
| Harold Evans | Good Times, Bad Times |
| Harold J. Laski | Grammar of Politics; Dilemma of Our Time |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer |
| Homer | Iliad; Odyssey |
| H. R. Bharadwaj | Nehru: Gazing at Tomorrow |
| H. G. Wells | The Shape of Things to Come |
| Indira Gandhi | Eternal India |
| Indu Sundaresan | The Splendor of Silence |
| Isaac Newton | Principia |
| Jaishankar Prasad | Kamayani; Aansu; Skandagupta; Ajatshatru |
| Jainendra Kumar | Sunita; Tyagpatra |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Jaswant Singh | A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India |
| Javier Moro | The Red Sari (Biography of Sonia Gandhi) |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social Contract |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland; Interpreter of Maladies |
| Jimutavahana | Dayabhaga |
| J. K. Galbraith | The Affluent Society; Ambassador’s Journal; The Triumph |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| John Keats | Endymion (poetry) |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Jyotirmay Sharma | Terrifying Visions: Golwalkar, the RSS and India |
| Kabir | Bijak; Ramayani |
| Kalidasa | Raghuvansham; Kumarasambhavam; Meghdootam; Abhigyan Shakuntalam |
| Kamalini Sengupta | The Top of the Raintree |
| Katherine Mayo | Mother India |
| Kautilya | Arthashastra |
| Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri | Neither a Hawk nor a Dove |
| Khushwant Singh | Indira Gandhi Returns; Indira Gandhi: Badhate Kadam; The Company of Women |
| Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| Kuldip Nayar | The Judgment; Distant Neighbours; India: The Critical Years; In Jail; India After Nehru; Between the Lines |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Unhappy India |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Maithilisharan Gupt | Bharat Bharati |
| Mahadevi Verma | Yama; Niharika; Neerja |
| Malik Muhammad Jayasi | Padmavat |
| Mani Shankar Aiyar | A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st Century |
| Mao Zedong | On Contradiction |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| M. K. Gandhi | Gokhale: My Political Guru; The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Munshi Premchand | Godan; Gaban; Karmabhumi; Rangbhumi |
| Mulk Raj Anand | Coolie; Confession of a Lover; Two Leaves and a Bud |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Naseeruddin Shah | And Then One Day |
| Nayantara Sahgal | A Voice of Freedom |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri | Hinduism; Autobiography of an Unknown Indian; A Passage to England; Culture in the Vanity Bag; Continent of Circe |
| Panini | Ashtadhyayi |
| Plato | Republic |
| Pliny the Elder | Natural History |
| P. Chidambaram | A View from Outside |
| Pranab Mukherjee | The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years |
| Pt. Vishnu Sharma | Panchatantra |
| R. K. Narayan | The Dark Room; Malgudi Days; The Guide; My Days; Swami and Friends |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Chitrangada; Gitanjali; Gora; Chandalika; Visarjan; Hungry Stones |
| Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Kurukshetra; Urvashi |
| Ramesh Chandra Majumdar | Ancient India |
| Raskhan | Prem Vatika |
| Robert Galbraith | The Cuckoo’s Calling |
| Romila Thapar | A History of India |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | The Social Contract |
| Ruskin Bond | The Blue Umbrella |
| S. Radhakrishnan | Indian Philosophy |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Playing It My Way |
| Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay | Devdas; Charitraheen; Shrikant; Parineeta |
| Sarojini Naidu | The Golden Threshold; The Broken Wings |
| Shashi Tharoor | Bookless in Baghdad |
| Shudraka | Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart) |
| Shyama Charan Dube | Indian Society |
| Sri Aurobindo | The Life Divine; Essays on the Gita |
| Steve Waugh | Out of My Comfort Zone: The Autobiography |
| Sukhdeo Thorat | Dalits in India: A Profile |
| Sumitranandan Pant | Jyotsna; Yugwan; Chidambara |
| Surdas | Sahityalahari; Sursagar |
| Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ | Anamika; Parimal; Gunjan; Juhi Ki Kali |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | The Indian Struggle |
| Sudha Murty | Wise and Otherwise |
| Tariq Ali | The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani Tragedy |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d’Urbervilles |
| T. S. Eliot | The Waste Land |
| Tushar Gandhi | Let’s Kill Gandhi |
| V. S. Naipaul | An Area of Darkness; A House for Mr. Biswas; India: A Million Mutinies Now; A Bend in the River |
| Vatsyayana | Kama Sutra |
| Ved Vyas | Bhagavad Gita; Mahabharata |
| Vigyaneshwara | Mitakshara |
| Vikram Seth | Two Lives |
| Vishakhadatta | Mudra-Rakshasa |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita |
| Vikram Chandra | Sacred Games |
| William Shakespeare | Comedy of Errors; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello |
| William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads (with S. T. Coleridge) |
| Winston Churchill | The Gathering Storm |
| Yann Martel | Life of Pi |
| Yashpal | Jhootha Sach |
| Yashwardhan Shukla | The Gods of Antarctica |
| Z. A. Bhutto | The Great Tragedy |
| Zahid Hussain | Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam |
| Zudith Lenox | All My Sisters |