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Important Books & Authors GK (300+)

In several competitive exams it has been noted that few questions are always asked from this section viz. Books & Authors. Keeping in view of this, we are giving you a comprehensive list of more three hundred famous books and their authors in table format for easy revision.

Famous Books and their Authors

Sl Book Author
1The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireEdward Gibbon
2A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
3Friends, Not Masters Ayub Khan
4Bitter Sweet Noel Coward
5Hamlet William Shakespeare
6For whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
7Far from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy
8My experiments with TruthMahatma Gandhi
9Valley of DollsJacqueline Susann
10Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
11Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot
12Idle Hours R.K. Laxman
13Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
14Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo
15Mahabharata Maharshi Ved Vyas
16The Inheritance of Loss Anita Desai
17Geet GovindJaya Dev
18House Divided Pearl S. Buck
19Sursagar Surdas
20The Lady of the Last MinstrelSir Walter Scott
21Essays on Gita Sri Aurbindo Ghosh
22Paradise lostJohn Milton
23Social Contract Rousseau
24Confidential Clerk T.S. Eliot
25Untold Story B.M. Kaul
26Oliver TwistCharles Dickens
27The City of JoyDominique Lapierre
28Every Man a King Swett Marden
29Jean Christopher Romian Rolland
30Black Wednesday Promila Kalhan
31Idylls of the King Lord, Alfred Tennyson
32Diana, The True Story A. Morton
33City of Joy Dominique Lapierre
34Le Contract SocialJean Jacques Rousseau
35A Dangerous placeD.P. Moynihan
36Unhappy India Lajpat Rai
37Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot
38A Woman's LifeGuy de Maupassaut
39Ain-i-AkbariAbul Fazal
40GeetanjaliRabindra Nath Tagore
41GoraR.N. Tagore
42Ben HurLewis Wallace
43OdysseyHomer
44Jurassic Park Michael Chrichton
45Mein KampfAdolf Hitler
46Adventures of Tom SaweyerMark Twain
47The BubbleMulk Raj Anand
48FaustGoethe
49Nana Emile Zola
50Arabian NightsSir Richard Burton
51The Court DancerRabindra Nath Tagore
52Essays of GitaSir Aurobindo Ghosh
53The MastersC.P.Shaw
54Urvashi Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar
55The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
56Lady Chhatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence
57BaburnamaBabur
58An iron Will Swett Marden
59Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde R.L. Stevenson
60Trail of Jesus John Masefield
61Peace has no Alternative Mikhail Gorbachev
62Life DivineShri Aurobindo
63A Suitable BoyVikram Seth
64Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Haraiet Stowe
65The Otherness of Self Feroz Varun Gandhi
66On Contradiction Mao-Tse-Tung
67BisarjanR.N.Tagore
68Agni VeenaKazi Nasrul Islam
69A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare
70UtopiaSir Thomas Moor
71Yashodhara Maithili Sharan Gupta
72Faust Goethe
73Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya
74RaghuvamsaKalidas
75Ramayana Valmiki
76Waiting for God Thomas Becket
77Flames from the Ashes P.D. Tandon
78PrincipiaIssac Newton
79Kumar SambhavKalidas
80A Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru
81Between the Lines Kuldeep Nayyar
82The GodfatherMario Puzo
83Lolita Vladimir Nobokov
84ChandalikaRabindra Nath Tagore
85Buddha Charitam Ashvaghosh
86Avigyan SakuntalamKalidas
87The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
88Decline and Fall of the RomanEdward Gibbon Empire
89ArthashastraKautilya
90Les MiserableVictor Hugo
91Time MachineH.G. Wells
92Kamasutra S.H. Vatsayayan
93Alice in WonderlandLewis Carrol
94A passage to IndiaE.M.Forster
95Idols Sunil Gavaskar
96ConfessionsJean Jacques Rousseau
97Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare
98Prathma Pratishruti Ashapoorna Devi
99Lajja Tasleem Nasreen
100The Emperor's New Suit Hans Chrishtian Anderson
101Rangbhoomi Premchand
102Prince Machiaveli
103Age of ReasonJean Paul Sartre
104Last Days of PompeiiBulwar Lytton
105Crime and PunishmentDostoevsky
106Origin of speciescharles Darwin
107Of Human Bondage Somerset Maugham
108Hindu View of LifeDr.S.Radha Krishnan
109Ninteen Eighty Four George Orwell
110Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
111Utopia Tomas Moor
112Blind Beauty Boris Pasternak
113Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
114Shape of Things to ComeH.G.Wells
115Bachelor of ArtsR.K.Narayan
116PlagueAlbert Camus
117Glimpses of World HistoryJawaharlal Nehru
118Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh
119Shakuntalam Kalidas
120Men Who Killed Gandhi Manohar Magaonkar
121Godan Premchand
122Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
123Emperor Jones, The Eugene O' Neill
124Bhagwat GitaVed Vyas
125The TempestShakespeare
126King Lear William Shakespeare
127Macbeth Shakespeare
128Death of a CityAmrita Pritam
129KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson
130Freedom at MidnightDominique Lapierre
131Unto The Last John Ruskin
132MotherMaxim Gorky
133Chittirappavai P.V. Akhilandam
134War and peaceLeo Tolstoy
135Uttara Ram Charita Bhav Bhuti
136Akbar-NamaAbul Fazal
137Ancient MarinerColeridge
138Living with Honour Shiv Khera
139Forsyte SagaJohn Galsworthy
140Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to comeJohn Bunyan
141Jurassik ParkMichael Crichton
142Hungry StonesRabindra Nath Tagore
143Less Miserable Victor Hugo
144The One Day WondersSunil Gavaskar
145Judgement, The Kuldip Nayyar
146Deserted Village Goldsmith
147Wings of Fire Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
148Testament of Beauty Robert Bridges
149Discovery of IndiaPandit Jawaharlal Nehru
150Kaya Kulp Premchand
151Guide, The R.K. Narayan
152Ends and Means Aldous Huxley
153Waste LandT.S.Eliot
154Isabela Keats
155French RevolutionThomas Carlyle
156Dr.ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
157Malvikagnimitra Kalidas
158Rajtaringini Kalhan
159GanadevataTara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
160IvanhoeWalter Scott
161Zulfi, My Friend Piloo Mody
162Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar
163Universe Around Us James Jeans
164A Prisoner's Scrapbook L.K. Advani
165Three MusketeersAlexander Dumas
166Degeneration of India T.N. Seshan
167Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
168A Story of History Arnold Toynbee
169Comus John Milton
170A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy
171Canterbury TalesChaucer
172Pakistan, The Gathering Storm Behazir Bhutto
173India Wins Freedom Maulana Azad
174Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
175Communist ManifestoKarl Marx
176Sons and LoversD.H.Lawrence
177Indian War of Independence V.D. Savarkar
178Broken Wings Sarojini Naidu
179Nine Days' Wonder John Mansfield
180Mahatma GandhiRomain Rolland
181Harsha CharitBana Bhatt
182Richard NixonLeaders
183Don QuixoteCervantes
184Ram Charit Manas Tulsidas
185Great Tragedy Z.A. Bhutto
186Merchant of Venice Shakespeare
187Against the Tide Minoo Masani
188Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
189Childe Harold Lord Byron
190Aesop's Fables Aesop
191Madhushala Harivansh Rai Bachchan
192Out of Dust F.D. Karaka
193PanchatantraVishnu Sharma
194Bal Gitayan D.P. Maheshwari
195MeghdutKalidas
196Das KapitalKarl Marx
197Chitralekha Bhagwati Charan Verma
198Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
199The Vicar of WakefieldOliver Goldsmith
200Vanity Fair Thackeray
201Middle March George Eliot
202Coolie Mulk Raj Anand
203The ClownHeinrich Boll
204The Legacy of Nehru K. Natwar Singh
205Ratnavali Harshavardhan
206ChitraR.N.Tagore
207UlyssesJames Joyce
208Midnight Children Salman Rushdie
209Satyarth Prakash Swami Dayanand
210Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
211My TruthIndira Gandhi
212A Village by the Sea Anita Desai
213Saket Maithili Sharan Gupta
214Bubble Mulk Raj Anand
215A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
216Odyssey Homer
217Count of Monte CristoAlexander Dumas
218The ClassErich Byron
219Nineteen Eighty-fourGeorge Orwell
220A Season of Ghosts Ruskin Bond
221Kamayani Jay Shankar Prasad
222We Indians Khushwant Singh
223KadambariBana Bhatt
224Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar
225Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton
226Antony and CleopatraShakespeare
227Amar Kosha Amar Singh
228Mudra Rakshasa Vishakha Datt
229The Other Side of MidnightSindye Sheldon
230Old Man and the SeaEarnest Hemingway
231The Merchant of veniceWilliam shakespeare
232Dark Room, The R.K. Narayan
233Price and Prejudice Jane Austin
234Victim, The Saul Bellow
235The CastleFranz Kalka
236Treasure IslandR.L.Stevenson
237Himalayan Blunders Brig. J.P. Dalvi
238Aenied Virgil
239Uncle Tom's CabinMrs.Harriet Stowe
240GuideR.K.Narayan
241Raghuvansha Kalidasa
242Robaiyat Omar Khayyam
243Malti Madhav Bhavbhuti
244Debacle Emile Zola
245The Moon and Six penseSomerset Maughan
246Bhagwad Gita Maharshi Ved Vyas
247David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
248If I am Assassinated Z.A. Bhutto
249Sunny DaysSunil Gavaskar
250The Post OfficeR.N.Tagore
251Mother Maxim Gorky
252Confessions of a Lover Mulk Raj Anand
253Arms and the ManG.B.Shaw
254Anna KareninaTolstoy
255Yama Mahadevi Verma
256A China Passage J.K. Galbraith
257Dash Kumar Charitam Dandi
258A Haunted House Virginia Woolf
259Avanti Sundari Dandi
260The Elephant Paradigm Gurcharan Das
261Invisible ManH.G.Wells
262Major Barbara G.B. Shaw
263Grammar of PoliticsHarold T.Laski
264Heat and Dust Ruth Prawar Jhabwala
265Netaji Dead or Alive Samar Guha
266Meghdoot Kalidas
267IlliadHomer
268Zhivago, Dr. Boris Pasternak
269Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift
270A Week with Gandhi Louis Fischer
271ShakuntalaKalidas
272India DividedDr.Rajendra Prasad
273Vinay Patrika Tulsidas
274Asian DramaGunnar Myrdal
275Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
276Essays of Elia Charles Lamb
277Shah NamaFirdausi
278Inside the C.B.I. Joginder Singh
279The Affluent Society J.K. Galbraith
280Rugby Chapel Mathew Arnold
281Devdas Sharat Chandra
282Father and Sons Ivan Turganev
283Kagaz Te Kanwas Amrita Pritam
284Dr.Jekyll and Mr.HydeStevenson
285Distant Drums Manohar Malgaonkar
286As You Like It W. Shakespeare
287Shahnama Firdausi
288A Voice For FreedomNayantara Saigal
289Emma Jane Austen
290Village, The Mulk Raj Anand
291Gitanjali R.N. Tagore
292One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovitchAlexander Solzhenitsyn
293Our India Minoo Masani
294China PassageJohn Kenneth Galbraith
295God Father, The Mario Puzo
296Divine ComedyDante
297O' Jeruselam L. Collins and D. Lapierre
298Anand MathBankimchandra Chattopadhyay
299Voskresenia Leo Tolstoy
300Natya Shastra Bharat Muni
301Wealth of NationsAdam Smith
302A Million Mutinies, Now V.S. Naipal
303Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
304Don Ouixote Cervantes
305Tom SawyerMark Twain
306Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
307Chidambara Sumitra Nandan Pant
308Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens
309OthelloShakespeare
310Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru
311Tom Jones Henry Fielding
312Man and SupermanG.B.Shaw
313Around the World in eighty daysJules Verne
314Gathering StormWinston Churchill