List of Famous Books and Authors for Defence Exams

Hello aspirants, in this article you will find the list of famous books and their authors, this list is based on the questions asked in different competitive exams in India. If you are preparing for CDS, NDA and AFCAT exams, you must go through this list, also if you have a hobby of reading, you must check out these famous books and start reading as you like them. By remembering these books and authors you can easily score few marks in your competitive exams.

Famous Books and Authors

My experiments with Truth: Mahatma M.K.Gandhi
Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy
Geetanjali: Rabindra Nath Tagore
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare
The Moon and Six pence: Somerset Maughan
Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come: John Bunyan
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
Utopia: Sir Thomas Moor
Origin of species: Charles Darwin
David Copperfield: Charles Dickens
A passage to India: E.M.Forster
Gulliver’s Travels: Jonathan Swift
Discovery of India: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
The Vicar of Wakefield: Oliver Goldsmith
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon
The Lady of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
Time Machine: H.G. Wells
Arthashastra: Kautilya
Le Contract Social: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Avigyan Sakuntalam: Kalidas
Anand Math: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler
Ain-i-Akbari: Abul Fazal
Akbar-Nama: Abul Fazal
Shakuntala: Kalidas
War and peace: Leo Tolstoy
A Dangerous place: D.P. Moynihan
Raghuvamsa: Kalidas
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Tom Saweyer: Mark Twain
Agni Veena: Kazi Nasrul Islam
Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carrol
Ancient Mariner: Coleridge
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy
Antony and Cleopatra: Shakespeare
Arms and the Man: G.B.Shaw
Around the World in eighty days: Jules Verne
Baburnama: Babur
Ben Hur: Lewis Wallace
Bhagwat Gita: Ved Vyas
Bisarjan: R.N.Tagore
Canterbury Tales: Chaucer
Chitra: R.N.Tagore
Count of Monte Cristo: Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky
Das Kapital : Karl Marx
Divine Comedy: Dante
Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night –Salman Rushdi
The Red Sari –Javier Moro
Neither a Hawk nor a dove –Khurshid M Kasuari
Faces and Places Professor –Deepak Nayyar
Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Meira Kumar
Farishta –Kapil Isapuari
Super Economies –Raghav Bahal
China :Confucius in the Shadow –Poonam Surie
My country My Life ‐ L.K.Advani
Joseph Anton ‐ Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
The Sahara Testaments ‐ Tade Ipadeola
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography ‐ Andy Marino
My Unforgettable Memories ‐ Mamata Banerjee
Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri ‐ Dr R L Bhat
Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan ‐ Daman Singh
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall
Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership ‐ Pavan Choudary
Walking With Giants ‐ G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary )
Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths ‐ PC Parakh
The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‐ Sanjaya Baru
God of Antarctica ‐ 13 year old Yashwardhan Shukla
My Years with Rajiv and Sonia ‐ R.D.Pradhan
Khushwantnama ‐The Lessons of My Life ‐ Khushwant singh
Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age ‐ Alexander Bard
One Life is Not Enough ‐ Natwar Singh
The Lives of Others ‐ Neel Mukherjee
My Music My Life ‐ Pt Ravi Shankar
I am Malala ‐ Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb
A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power ‐ Bette Dam
True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? ‐ Faraz Ahmad
The God of Small Things ‐ Arundhati Roy
Interpreter of Maladies ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
And then One Day: A Memoir ‐ Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography)
Unaccustomed Earth ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
Lowland ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri
Truth Always Prevails ‐ Sadruddin Hashwani
Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) ‐ Mary Kom
Enoch, I am a British Indian ‐ Sarinder Joshua
Duroch ModiNomics ‐ Sameer Kochar
Public Issues Before Parliament ‐ Vijay Darda
Water, Peace and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis ‐ Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar
Awakening India’s Social Conscience ‐ Dr. Narendra Jadhav
Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav
Akbar – The Aesthete ‐ Dr. Indu Anand
Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
India at Risk ‐ Jaswant Singh
The Narrow Road to the Deep North ‐ Richard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker)
Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector ‐ Dr UD Choubey
Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar ‐ Dilip D’Souza
Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace ‐ Leon Panetta and Jim Newton
Not Just an Accountant ‐ former CAG Vinod Rai
Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann and Philidor ‐ Parimarjan Negi
A Bend in the river ‐ V.S. Naipaul
Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna ‐ Gautam Chintamani
Half Girlfriend ‐ Chetan Bhagat
Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician ‐ Biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Spiritual Father of Pakistan)
50 years of man in space ‐ Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher
Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 ‐ Sandeep Unnithan
Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India ‐Rajdeep Sardesai
Your Dreams Are Mine Now: She Showed him What Love ‐ Ravinder Singh
Born Again on the Mountain- Arunima Sinha
Flood of Fire –Amitav Ghosh
30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai
The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath : Ben S. Bernanke
To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story :Jairam Ramesh
Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice : Dr. Mool Chand Sharma
Ramcharitmanas (105-year-old Urdu copy ): Shiv Brat Lal
Mrs Funny bones :Twinkle Khanna
Making India Awesome : Chetan Bhagat
The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity :Tarun Khanna
R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music :Khagesh Dev Burman
Ghosts of Calcutta :Sebastian Ortiz
Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India :Jairam Ramesh
Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji : Abdul Kalam
Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination : Teesta Setalvad
Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language): Tarun Vijay
Education of Muslims : Professor JS Rajput
Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy:Saptarshi Sarkar
Flood of fire : Amitav Ghosh
Super Economies :Raghav Bahl
Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise : Pradeep Baijal
Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad : Prof Bhim Singh
Food for All:Uma Lele
Family Life :Akhil Sharma( winner of the Folio Prize 2015)
Faces and Places :Prof. Deepak Nayyar
Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Speaker’s Perspective :Meira Kumar
Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me : Vinod Mehta
Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks : SK Rath
Why I Assassinated Gandhi : Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse

Other famous books and their authors

Book	Author
Non-stop India	Mark Tully
The Mad Tibetan: Stories from then and now	Deepti Naval
Nirbasan	Taslima Nasreen
The Best Thing About You is You	Anupam Kher
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World	Dalai Lama
I Witness: Partial Observations	Kapil Sibal
The Art of Living – A Guide to Contentment, Joy and Fulfilment	Dalai Lama
Origins of Love	Kishwar Desai
Pax Indica: India and the world of the 21st Century	Dr. Shashi Tharoor
The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk	Sudha Murthy
A Better India: A Better World	NR Narayana Murthy
India – My Beloved	Dominique Lapierre
Dare to Do: For the New Generation	Kiran Bedi
Kashmir: The Unwritten History	Christopher Snedden
Walking with Lions : Tales from a Diplomatic Past	K Natwar Singh
The Hanging of Afzal Guru	Arundhati Roy
The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon	Fatima Bhutto
The Oath of the Vayuputras	Amish Tripathi
The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerald
India: The Future is Now	Shashi Tharoor
Go Set a Watchman	Harper Lee
And Then One Day	Naseeruddin Shah
Getting India Back on Track	Ratan Tata
One Life is Not Enough	Natwar Singh
Not Just an Accountant: The diary of the nation’s conscience keeper	Vinod Rai (Former CAG)
Half Lion: How PV Narsimha Rao transformed India	Vinay Satpati
Who Moved my Interest Rate	D. Subba Rao (Former RBI governor)
One Indian Girl	Chetan Bhagat
Rebooting India – Realizing a Billion Aspirations	Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah
Mrs. Funnybones	Twinkle Khanna
The Case that Shook India	Prashant Bhushan
Lone Fox Dancing	Ruskin Bond
Guns and Thighs	Ram Gopal Varma
An Unsuitable Boy	Karan Johar with Poonam Saxena