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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| 2 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| 3 | Friends, Not Masters | Ayub Khan |
| 4 | Bitter Sweet | Noel Coward |
| 5 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| 6 | For whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| 7 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| 8 | My experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 9 | Valley of Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
| 10 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 11 | Murder in the Cathedral | T.S. Eliot |
| 12 | Idle Hours | R.K. Laxman |
| 13 | Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
| 14 | Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| 15 | Mahabharata | Maharshi Ved Vyas |
| 16 | The Inheritance of Loss | Anita Desai |
| 17 | Geet Govind | Jaya Dev |
| 18 | House Divided | Pearl S. Buck |
| 19 | Sursagar | Surdas |
| 20 | The Lady of the Last Minstrel | Sir Walter Scott |
| 21 | Essays on Gita | Sri Aurbindo Ghosh |
| 22 | Paradise lost | John Milton |
| 23 | Social Contract | Rousseau |
| 24 | Confidential Clerk | T.S. Eliot |
| 25 | Untold Story | B.M. Kaul |
| 26 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| 27 | The City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
| 28 | Every Man a King | Swett Marden |
| 29 | Jean Christopher | Romian Rolland |
| 30 | Black Wednesday | Promila Kalhan |
| 31 | Idylls of the King | Lord, Alfred Tennyson |
| 32 | Diana, The True Story | A. Morton |
| 33 | City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
| 34 | Le Contract Social | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 35 | A Dangerous place | D.P. Moynihan |
| 36 | Unhappy India | Lajpat Rai |
| 37 | Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| 38 | A Woman's Life | Guy de Maupassaut |
| 39 | Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| 40 | Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 41 | Gora | R.N. Tagore |
| 42 | Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| 43 | Odyssey | Homer |
| 44 | Jurassic Park | Michael Chrichton |
| 45 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 46 | Adventures of Tom Saweyer | Mark Twain |
| 47 | The Bubble | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 48 | Faust | Goethe |
| 49 | Nana | Emile Zola |
| 50 | Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| 51 | The Court Dancer | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 52 | Essays of Gita | Sir Aurobindo Ghosh |
| 53 | The Masters | C.P.Shaw |
| 54 | Urvashi | Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar |
| 55 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 56 | Lady Chhatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| 57 | Baburnama | Babur |
| 58 | An iron Will | Swett Marden |
| 59 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | R.L. Stevenson |
| 60 | Trail of Jesus | John Masefield |
| 61 | Peace has no Alternative | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 62 | Life Divine | Shri Aurobindo |
| 63 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| 64 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Mrs. Haraiet Stowe |
| 65 | The Otherness of Self | Feroz Varun Gandhi |
| 66 | On Contradiction | Mao-Tse-Tung |
| 67 | Bisarjan | R.N.Tagore |
| 68 | Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| 69 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| 70 | Utopia | Sir Thomas Moor |
| 71 | Yashodhara | Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| 72 | Faust | Goethe |
| 73 | Pather Panchali | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya |
| 74 | Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
| 75 | Ramayana | Valmiki |
| 76 | Waiting for God | Thomas Becket |
| 77 | Flames from the Ashes | P.D. Tandon |
| 78 | Principia | Issac Newton |
| 79 | Kumar Sambhav | Kalidas |
| 80 | A Bunch of Old Letters | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 81 | Between the Lines | Kuldeep Nayyar |
| 82 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| 83 | Lolita | Vladimir Nobokov |
| 84 | Chandalika | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 85 | Buddha Charitam | Ashvaghosh |
| 86 | Avigyan Sakuntalam | Kalidas |
| 87 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| 88 | Decline and Fall of the Roman | Edward Gibbon Empire |
| 89 | Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| 90 | Les Miserable | Victor Hugo |
| 91 | Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| 92 | Kamasutra | S.H. Vatsayayan |
| 93 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| 94 | A passage to India | E.M.Forster |
| 95 | Idols | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 96 | Confessions | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 97 | Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| 98 | Prathma Pratishruti | Ashapoorna Devi |
| 99 | Lajja | Tasleem Nasreen |
| 100 | The Emperor's New Suit | Hans Chrishtian Anderson |
| 101 | Rangbhoomi | Premchand |
| 102 | Prince | Machiaveli |
| 103 | Age of Reason | Jean Paul Sartre |
| 104 | Last Days of Pompeii | Bulwar Lytton |
| 105 | Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky |
| 106 | Origin of species | charles Darwin |
| 107 | Of Human Bondage | Somerset Maugham |
| 108 | Hindu View of Life | Dr.S.Radha Krishnan |
| 109 | Ninteen Eighty Four | George Orwell |
| 110 | Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| 111 | Utopia | Tomas Moor |
| 112 | Blind Beauty | Boris Pasternak |
| 113 | Gita Rahasya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| 114 | Shape of Things to Come | H.G.Wells |
| 115 | Bachelor of Arts | R.K.Narayan |
| 116 | Plague | Albert Camus |
| 117 | Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 118 | Adhe Adhure | Mohan Rakesh |
| 119 | Shakuntalam | Kalidas |
| 120 | Men Who Killed Gandhi | Manohar Magaonkar |
| 121 | Godan | Premchand |
| 122 | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 123 | Emperor Jones, The | Eugene O' Neill |
| 124 | Bhagwat Gita | Ved Vyas |
| 125 | The Tempest | Shakespeare |
| 126 | King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| 127 | Macbeth | Shakespeare |
| 128 | Death of a City | Amrita Pritam |
| 129 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 130 | Freedom at Midnight | Dominique Lapierre |
| 131 | Unto The Last | John Ruskin |
| 132 | Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| 133 | Chittirappavai | P.V. Akhilandam |
| 134 | War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 135 | Uttara Ram Charita | Bhav Bhuti |
| 136 | Akbar-Nama | Abul Fazal |
| 137 | Ancient Mariner | Coleridge |
| 138 | Living with Honour | Shiv Khera |
| 139 | Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
| 140 | Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come | John Bunyan |
| 141 | Jurassik Park | Michael Crichton |
| 142 | Hungry Stones | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 143 | Less Miserable | Victor Hugo |
| 144 | The One Day Wonders | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 145 | Judgement, The | Kuldip Nayyar |
| 146 | Deserted Village | Goldsmith |
| 147 | Wings of Fire | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| 148 | Testament of Beauty | Robert Bridges |
| 149 | Discovery of India | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 150 | Kaya Kulp | Premchand |
| 151 | Guide, The | R.K. Narayan |
| 152 | Ends and Means | Aldous Huxley |
| 153 | Waste Land | T.S.Eliot |
| 154 | Isabela | Keats |
| 155 | French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle |
| 156 | Dr.Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| 157 | Malvikagnimitra | Kalidas |
| 158 | Rajtaringini | Kalhan |
| 159 | Ganadevata | Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya |
| 160 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| 161 | Zulfi, My Friend | Piloo Mody |
| 162 | Ghasiram Kotwal | Vijay Tendulkar |
| 163 | Universe Around Us | James Jeans |
| 164 | A Prisoner's Scrapbook | L.K. Advani |
| 165 | Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| 166 | Degeneration of India | T.N. Seshan |
| 167 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 168 | A Story of History | Arnold Toynbee |
| 169 | Comus | John Milton |
| 170 | A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomas Hardy |
| 171 | Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| 172 | Pakistan, The Gathering Storm | Behazir Bhutto |
| 173 | India Wins Freedom | Maulana Azad |
| 174 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 175 | Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| 176 | Sons and Lovers | D.H.Lawrence |
| 177 | Indian War of Independence | V.D. Savarkar |
| 178 | Broken Wings | Sarojini Naidu |
| 179 | Nine Days' Wonder | John Mansfield |
| 180 | Mahatma Gandhi | Romain Rolland |
| 181 | Harsha Charit | Bana Bhatt |
| 182 | Richard Nixon | Leaders |
| 183 | Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| 184 | Ram Charit Manas | Tulsidas |
| 185 | Great Tragedy | Z.A. Bhutto |
| 186 | Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare |
| 187 | Against the Tide | Minoo Masani |
| 188 | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie |
| 189 | Childe Harold | Lord Byron |
| 190 | Aesop's Fables | Aesop |
| 191 | Madhushala | Harivansh Rai Bachchan |
| 192 | Out of Dust | F.D. Karaka |
| 193 | Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| 194 | Bal Gitayan | D.P. Maheshwari |
| 195 | Meghdut | Kalidas |
| 196 | Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| 197 | Chitralekha | Bhagwati Charan Verma |
| 198 | Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| 199 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| 200 | Vanity Fair | Thackeray |
| 201 | Middle March | George Eliot |
| 202 | Coolie | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 203 | The Clown | Heinrich Boll |
| 204 | The Legacy of Nehru | K. Natwar Singh |
| 205 | Ratnavali | Harshavardhan |
| 206 | Chitra | R.N.Tagore |
| 207 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 208 | Midnight Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 209 | Satyarth Prakash | Swami Dayanand |
| 210 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 211 | My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
| 212 | A Village by the Sea | Anita Desai |
| 213 | Saket | Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| 214 | Bubble | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 215 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| 216 | Odyssey | Homer |
| 217 | Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| 218 | The Class | Erich Byron |
| 219 | Nineteen Eighty-four | George Orwell |
| 220 | A Season of Ghosts | Ruskin Bond |
| 221 | Kamayani | Jay Shankar Prasad |
| 222 | We Indians | Khushwant Singh |
| 223 | Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| 224 | Sakharam Binder | Vijay Tendulkar |
| 225 | Living History | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| 226 | Antony and Cleopatra | Shakespeare |
| 227 | Amar Kosha | Amar Singh |
| 228 | Mudra Rakshasa | Vishakha Datt |
| 229 | The Other Side of Midnight | Sindye Sheldon |
| 230 | Old Man and the Sea | Earnest Hemingway |
| 231 | The Merchant of venice | William shakespeare |
| 232 | Dark Room, The | R.K. Narayan |
| 233 | Price and Prejudice | Jane Austin |
| 234 | Victim, The | Saul Bellow |
| 235 | The Castle | Franz Kalka |
| 236 | Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| 237 | Himalayan Blunders | Brig. J.P. Dalvi |
| 238 | Aenied | Virgil |
| 239 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Mrs.Harriet Stowe |
| 240 | Guide | R.K.Narayan |
| 241 | Raghuvansha | Kalidasa |
| 242 | Robaiyat | Omar Khayyam |
| 243 | Malti Madhav | Bhavbhuti |
| 244 | Debacle | Emile Zola |
| 245 | The Moon and Six pense | Somerset Maughan |
| 246 | Bhagwad Gita | Maharshi Ved Vyas |
| 247 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 248 | If I am Assassinated | Z.A. Bhutto |
| 249 | Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 250 | The Post Office | R.N.Tagore |
| 251 | Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| 252 | Confessions of a Lover | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 253 | Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| 254 | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| 255 | Yama | Mahadevi Verma |
| 256 | A China Passage | J.K. Galbraith |
| 257 | Dash Kumar Charitam | Dandi |
| 258 | A Haunted House | Virginia Woolf |
| 259 | Avanti Sundari | Dandi |
| 260 | The Elephant Paradigm | Gurcharan Das |
| 261 | Invisible Man | H.G.Wells |
| 262 | Major Barbara | G.B. Shaw |
| 263 | Grammar of Politics | Harold T.Laski |
| 264 | Heat and Dust | Ruth Prawar Jhabwala |
| 265 | Netaji Dead or Alive | Samar Guha |
| 266 | Meghdoot | Kalidas |
| 267 | Illiad | Homer |
| 268 | Zhivago, Dr. | Boris Pasternak |
| 269 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| 270 | A Week with Gandhi | Louis Fischer |
| 271 | Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| 272 | India Divided | Dr.Rajendra Prasad |
| 273 | Vinay Patrika | Tulsidas |
| 274 | Asian Drama | Gunnar Myrdal |
| 275 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| 276 | Essays of Elia | Charles Lamb |
| 277 | Shah Nama | Firdausi |
| 278 | Inside the C.B.I. | Joginder Singh |
| 279 | The Affluent Society | J.K. Galbraith |
| 280 | Rugby Chapel | Mathew Arnold |
| 281 | Devdas | Sharat Chandra |
| 282 | Father and Sons | Ivan Turganev |
| 283 | Kagaz Te Kanwas | Amrita Pritam |
| 284 | Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde | Stevenson |
| 285 | Distant Drums | Manohar Malgaonkar |
| 286 | As You Like It | W. Shakespeare |
| 287 | Shahnama | Firdausi |
| 288 | A Voice For Freedom | Nayantara Saigal |
| 289 | Emma | Jane Austen |
| 290 | Village, The | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 291 | Gitanjali | R.N. Tagore |
| 292 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| 293 | Our India | Minoo Masani |
| 294 | China Passage | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 295 | God Father, The | Mario Puzo |
| 296 | Divine Comedy | Dante |
| 297 | O' Jeruselam | L. Collins and D. Lapierre |
| 298 | Anand Math | Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay |
| 299 | Voskresenia | Leo Tolstoy |
| 300 | Natya Shastra | Bharat Muni |
| 301 | Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| 302 | A Million Mutinies, Now | V.S. Naipal |
| 303 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
| 304 | Don Ouixote | Cervantes |
| 305 | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| 306 | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| 307 | Chidambara | Sumitra Nandan Pant |
| 308 | Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| 309 | Othello | Shakespeare |
| 310 | Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 311 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| 312 | Man and Superman | G.B.Shaw |
| 313 | Around the World in eighty days | Jules Verne |
| 314 | Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |