The list of Famous Books and Authors is an important topic for various competitive exams including SSC, PSC, UPSC, Bank, Defense and other Govt. exams. So candidates preparing for the upcoming exams should memorise the names of famous books and authors to attempt any questions related to this section.
Books are the best companions a man can have. We love good books for many reasons.
A well-written book of history provides information about the life and culture of the past in an interesting way. Books on technology teach us how to develop new devices in order to make life comfortable. Storybooks satisfy our imagination, Poetry deals with emotional truth uttered in a memorable and beautiful way.
Let’s go through some of the most popular books written by some famous authors.
List of Famous Books and Authors
| Books | Authors |
| A China Passage | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| A dangerous place | Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| A farewell to arms | Ernest Hemmingway |
| A midsummer Night dream | Shakespeare |
| A pair of blue eyes | Thomas Hardy |
| A passage to India | E. M. Froster |
| A passage to England | Nirad C. Chowdhury |
| A suitable boy | Vikram Seth |
| A view from Delhi | Chester Bowls |
| A tale of two cities | Charles Dickens |
| A voice for freedom | Nayantara Sehgal |
| A week with Gandhi | Louis Fischer |
| Adhe Adhure | Mohan Rakesh |
| Adventure of Sharlockholmes | Arthur Cannon Doyel |
| Tom Saweyer | Mark Twain |
| Affluent Society | J. K. Galbraith |
| Agni Pariksha | Acharya Tulsi |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nazurul Islam |
| Ain – i – Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| Allice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| All’s well that end well | Shakespeare |
| Amarkosha | Amar Singh |
| Ambassador’s Journal | J. K. Galbraith |
| An Idealist’s view of life | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| Ancient Mariner | S. T. Coleridge |
| Animal farm | George Orwell |
| Anna Karinina | Count Leo Tolostoy |
| Antony & Cleopetra | Shakespeare |
| Apple Cart | G. B. Shaw |
| Area of Darkness | V. S. Naipal |
| Arms & the man | G. B. Shaw |
| Around the world in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| Asian drama | Gunnar Myrdal |
| As you like it | Shakespeare |
| August 1914 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Auto-biography of an Unknown Indian | Nirad C Chowdhury |
| Baburnama | Babur |
| Beloved | Tony Morison |
| Benhoor | Louis Wallace |
| Between the lines | Kuldip Nayer |
| The Gita | Vedvyas |
| Bisarjan | R. N. Tagore |
| The Blind Beauty | Boris Pasternak |
| Born Free | Joy Adamson |
| Broken wing | Sarojini Naidu |
| Buddha Charitam | Ashvaghosha |
| By god’s Decree | Kapil Dev |
| Ceaser & Cleopetra | G. B. Shaw |
| Cauterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| Chandalika | R. N. Tagore |
| Chidambra | Sumitranandan Pant |
| The chinese betvayal | B.N. Mullick |
| Chitra | R.N. Tagore |
| Chittirappasai | P.V. Akilandam |
| Commedy of errors | Shakespeare |
| Communist Manifesto | Marx & Engels |
| Courus | John Milton |
| Confession of a lover | Mulk raj anand |
| Confession of a thug | Taylor |
| Cnfidential clerk | T.S. Eliot |
| A continent of circle | Nirad C chowdhury |
| Coolie | Mulk raj anand |
| Crime and punshment | Dostoevsky |
| The dark room | R. K. Narayanan |
| Das capital | Karl Marx |
| David copperfield | charles dickens |
| Deeline & fall of the roman empire | Edward Gibbon |
| The degeneration of India | T.N. Seshan |
| Descent of man | Chales Darwin |
| Devdas | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhya |
| Discovery of India | J.L. Nehru |
| Diplomacy | Henry Kissinger |
| Divine Commedy | Dante |
| Divine life | Sivananda |
| Life divine | Aurobindo |
| Dr. jekyll & Mr. hyde | John Stevenson |
| Doctor’s dilemma | G.B. Shaw |
| Durgeshnandini | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Emma | Jane Austin |
| Experiment with untruth | Michael Anderson |
| Fairic Queen | Edmond Spencer |
| Faust | Goeth |
| First Circle | Alexander Solzhonitsyn |
| For whom the bell tolls | Ernest Hemmingway |
| Freedom at midnight | Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins |
| Gaudevata | Tarasankar Bandhopadhaya |
| Gardener | R.N. Tagore |
| Gathering storm | Windston Churchill |
| Geet govinda | Joydev |
| Ghasiram kotwal | Vijay Tendulkar |
| Gitanjali | R.N. Tagore |
| Glimpses of world history | J.L. Nehru |
| Godan | Prem Chand Munsi |
| The golden gate | Vikram Seth |
| Good earth | Pearl Buck |
| Gora | R. N. Tagore |
| Great expectation | Chales Dickens |
| Great illusion | Normal Dickens |
| The guide | R.K. Narayanan |
| Gulig archipelago | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Gul-e nagma | Raghupati Sahai Firaq |
| Gulistan | Seikh Saadi |
| Gulliver’s travel | Jonathan Swift |
| Hindu Civilization | J.M. Barrie |
| Hindu view of life | Dr. Radhakrishnan |
| Hinduism | Nirad C Chowdhury |
| Hitopodesh | Narayan Sharma |
| Huckle berry finn | Mark Twain |
| The hunchbuck of notredume | Victor Hugo |
| Hundry stones | R. N. Tagore |
| Idols | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Idles of the king | Tennyson |
| I follow the mahatma | K.M. Munsi |
| India divide | Rajendra Prasad |
| India wins freedom | Maulana Abul kalam Azad |
| Indian philosophy | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| War of independence | V.D. Savarkar |
| Inside asia | John Gunther |
| Inside europe | John Gunther |
| Arae of darkens | V.S. Naipal |
| Invisible man | H.G. Wells |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| Jai somnath | K.M. Munsi |
| Jungle book | Rudyard Kipling |
| Jurassic park | Michael Chirchton |
| Jane ayre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| Kamasutra | Vatsayan |
| kane & asle | Jeffary Archer |
| Kamayuni | Jai Shankar Prssad |
| Kapal kundala | Bankim Chatterjee |
| Kidnapped | R.L. Stevenson |
| Kirataryuniam | Bharavi |
| Kublai khan | S.T. Colridge |
| Kim | Rudyard Kippling |
| Kipps | H.G. Wells |
| lady chatterles lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| Lajja | Taslima Nasrin |
| L’s allegro | John Milton |
| Social contract | Rousseau |
| Les miserable | Victor Hugo |
| Life divine | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Love story | Eric Segal |
| Macbeth | Shakespeare |
| Mahabharata | Vyas |
| Making of a cricketer | Ajit Tendulkar |
| Man & superman | G.B. Shaw |
| Man eater’s of kumayun | Jim Corbett |
| Meghdoot | Kalidas |
| Mein kamp | Hitlar |
| Memory of the second world war | Churchill |
| Merchant of venice | Shakespeare |
| Midnight’s children | Salman Rushdie |
| Moor’s last sigh | Salman Rushdie |
| Mother | Maxim Gorkey |
| Mother India | Kathrina Mayo |
| Mrichhakatikam | Sudarka |
| Much ado about nothing | Shakespeare |
| Mudra rakhhasha | Vishka Dutta |
| Murder in the cathedral | T.S. Eliot |
| My experiment with truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| My life my music | Ravi shankar |
| My presidential years | R Venkataraman |
| Mysterious universe | James Jeans |
| Nana | Emile Zola |
| Netaji dead of alive | Samar Guha |
| Nine days wonder | Arnold Mathew |
| 1984/(Nineteen eighty four) | George Orwell |
| O’s jerrusalem | Larry Collens & Domini |
| Oddyssey | Homer |
| Oliver twist | Charles Dickens |
| Origin of species | Charles Darwin |
| Oscar & Lucinda | Peter Carry |
| Padmavat | Malik Mahammad Jaysi |
| Pakistan: the gathering storm | Benazir Bhutto |
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Paradise lost | John Milton |
| Pather panchali | Bibhuti Bhusan Banerjee |
| Peter pan | J.M. Barrie |
| Pickwick papers | Charles Dickens |
| Pilgrims progress | John bunyan |
| Plague | Albert camus |
| Post office | R.N. tagore |
| Pratham pratisruti | Ashapurna Devi |
| The prince | Machiavelli |
| Prison Diary | Jaypraksh Narayan |
| Pride and prejudice | Jane Austein |
| Principia | Issac Newton |
| Raghubansam | Kalidas |
| Rajtarangini | Kalhan |
| Ramayan | Valmiki |
| Ram charit manas | Tulsidas |
| Ratnabali | King Sri Harsha |
| Red star over china | Edger Snow |
| Republic | Plato |
| Robinson crusoe | Daniel Deffo |
| Romeo & Juliet | Shakespeare |
| Socket | Maithili Saran Gupta |
| Satanic verses | Salman Rushdie |
| Seven lamps of architecture | John Ruskin |
| Shadow from ladakh | Bhabani Bhattacherjee |
| Seven summer | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Shahnama | Firdausi |
| Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| Shame | Salman Rushdie |
| Sohrab & Rustam | Arland Mathew |
| Sunny day | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Waiting for gadot | Thomas Backet |
| Wake up India | Annie Besant |
| War and peace | Tolostoy |
| Waste land | T.S. Eliot |
| Wealth of nations | Adam Smith |
| Wathering heights | Emily Bronte |
| Yashodhara | Maithilisaran Gupta |
| Yayati | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar |
| Dr. zivago | Boris Pasternak |
| Akbarnamah | Abul Fazal |
| The golden breath | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Metaphysics | Aristotle |
| Politics | Aristotle |
| Ethics | Aristotle |
| Sohrab & Rustom | Arnold Mathew |
| Scholar Gipsy | Arnold Mathew |
| Rugby chapel | Arnold Mathew |
| Emma | Jane Austin |
| India wins freedom | Maulana Abul kalam Azad |
| A nation is making | Surendranath banerjee |
| Great hunger | John Bojer |
| The Indian struggle | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Reflection on the french revolution | Edmund Burke |
| The goodearth | Pearl S. Buck |
| The patriot | Pearl S. Buck |
| House Divided | Pearl S. Buck |
| Sons and lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| Savitri | Sarojini Naidu |
| St. john | G.B. Shaw |
| Story of my life | Morarji Desai |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edger Rice Burrowghs |
| Area of darkness | V.S Naipal |
| The tempest | Shakespeare |
| The songs of India | Sarojini Naidu |
| Thank you zeeves | P.G. Wodenhouse |
| Great depression of 1990 | Ravi Batra |
| The struggle in my life | Nelson Mandela |
| The mouse trap | Agatha Christie |
| Three musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| Time machine | H.G. Wells |
| Tom sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Travels with a donkey | R.L. Stevenson |
| Treasure Island | R.L. Stevenson |
| The triumph | J.K. Galbraith |
| Tropic of cancer | Henry Millar |
| Twelfth night | Shakespeare |
| Two leaves & a bud | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Tyagpatra | Jainendra |
| Uncle tom’s cabin | Mrs. Harrie Beacher Stowe |
| Unhappy India | Lala Rajput Rai |
| Universe around us | James Jeans |
| Untold story | B.M. Kaul |
| Child harold | Lord Byron |
| Sitaram | Bankim Chattopadhaya |
| The canterbury tales | Geofrey Chaucer |
| The grand alliance | Sir Winston Churchill |
| Step by step | Sir Winston Churchill |
| Mother of the nile | Agatha Christie |
| Ancient Mariner | S.T. Coleridge |
| The Idiot | Dostoevesky |
| The count of moute christo | Alexander Dumas |
| Three musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| Murder in the cathedral | T.S. Eliot |
| Confidential clerk | T.S. Eliot |
| Indian home rule | M.K. Gandhi |
| Essays on gita | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| The old man & the sea | Earnest Hemmingway |
| A doll’s house | Ibsew |
| Isabela | John Keats |
| The white peacock | D.H. Lawrence |
| Paradise lost,paradise regained | John Milton |
| Golden threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
| Godan | Prem Chand Munsi |
| Adonis | P.B. Shelly |
| A tale of a tub | Jonathan Swift |
| The prelude | William Wordsworth |
| Nana | Germinal |
| Brihat samhita | Arybhatta |
| Baburnama | Babur |
| Jatakas | Buddha |
| Sursagar | Surdas |
| Life & movement in plants | J.C. Bose |
| Himalayan blunder | J.P. Dalvi |
| Inside Europe | John Gunter |
| Area of darkness | V.S. Naipal |
| Agniveena | Kazi Najrul Islam |
| The judgement | Kuldip Nayar |
| Twenty thousand leagues under the sea | jules Verne |
| Mahtma gandhi | Roma Rolla |
| My truth | Indira Gandhi |
| The grapes & the wind | Pablo Neruda |
| Ghasiram kotwal | Vijay Tendulkar |
| Human bondage | W. Sammerset Mom |
| Our films their fims | Satyajit Roy |
| Hinduism | N.C. Chowdhury |
| The satanic versus | Salman Rushdi |
| Ranga bhumi | Prem Chand Munsi |
| Between hope & history | Bill Clinton |
| Such a long journey | Amitabha Ghosh |
| The Godfather | Marrio Pujo |
Top Books: Famous Books and Authors
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Odyssey by Homer
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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