Major Books and their Authors - Important for All Gov. Exams

A Bend in the River: V.S Naipaul (Ind-Br)
A Brief history of time: Stephen Hawking (Br)
A Bright Shining Lie: Neil Sheehan (US)
A Case of Exploding Mangoes: Mohammed Hanif (Pak)
A China Passage: John Kenneth Galbraith (US)
Accidental Death of an Anarchist: Dario Fo (It)
A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess (Br)
A Corner of a Foreign Field: Ramachandra Guha (Ind)
A critique of pure reason: Immanuel Kant (Ger)
A Death in the Family: Karl Ove Knausgaard (Nor)
A Doll’s House: Ibsen (Nor)
A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway (US)
A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry (Ind-Can)
Against Interpretation: Susan Sontag (US)
A Grammar of Politics: Harold Joseph Laski (Br)
A Grief Observed: CS Lewis (Br)t
A Hero Ain’t nothin' but a Sandwich: Alice Childress (US)
A Handful of Dust: Evelyn Waugh (Br)
A heartbreaking work of staggering: Genius Dave Eggers (US)
A House for Mr Biswas: V.S.Naipaul (Ind-Br)
A Mathematician’s Apology: G.H Hardy (Br)
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories: Vandana Singh (Ind)
A Million Mutinies Now: V.S.Naipaul (Ind-Br)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: William Shakespeare (Br)
A Modest Proposal: Jonathan Swift (lr)
Ammi-Letter to a Democratic Mother: Saeed Mirza (Ind)
Amongst women: John McGahern (lr)
A Passage to England: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (Ind-Br)
A Passage to India: E.M. Forster (Br)
Areopagitica: John Milton (Br)
Ariel: Sylvia Plath (US)
A Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf (Br)
A Sense of Time: H.S. Vatsyayan (Ind)
A Sentimental Education: Gustav Flaubert (Fr)
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson (US)
A Strange and Sublime Address: Amit Chaudhary (Ind)
A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennesse Williams (US)
A Study of History: Arnold J. Toynbee (Br)
A Suitable Boy: Vikram Seth (Ind-US)
A Suitable Girl: Vikram Seth (Ind-US)
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens (Br)
A Theory of Justice: John Rawls (US)
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini (Afg-US)
A Thousand Days: Arthur M. Schlesinger (US)
A Thousand Suns: Dominique Lapierre (Fr)
A Town Like Alice: Nevil Shute (Br)
A Treatise of Human Nature: David Hume (Scot)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith (US)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft (Br)
A Village by the Sea: Anita Desai (Ind-US)
A Visit from the Goon Squad: Jennifer Egan (US)
A Voice for Freedom: Nayantara Sehgal (Ind)
A Week with Gandhi: Louis Fischer (Fr)
A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami (Jap)
A Woman’s Life: Guy de Maupassant (Fr)
A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L’Engle (US)
About a Boy: Nick Hornby (Br)
Absolute Friends: John le Carre (Br)
Absolute Power: David Baldacci (US)
Ada of Ardor: Vladimir Nabakov (Rus-US)
Adam Bede: George Eliot (Br)
Adonis: P.B Shelley (Br)
Adults in the Room: Yanis Varoufakis (GK)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain (US)
Afternoon Raag: Amit Chaudhari (Ind)
Agni Veena: Kazi Nazrul Islam (Ind)
Akbarnama: Abdul Fazal (Ind)
Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll (Br)
All Quiet on the Western Front: Erick Maria Remarque (Ger-Swi-US)
All Things Bright and Beautiful: James Herriot (Br)
All’s Well That Ends Well: William Shakespeare (Br)
Amar Kosh: Amar Singh (Ind)
American Pastoral: Philip Roth (US)
An American Dilemma: Gunnar Myrdal (Swe)
An American Tragedy: Theodore Dreiser (US)
An Area of Darkness: V.S. Naipaul (Ind-Br)
An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro (Br)
An Autobiography: Jawaharlal Nehru (Ind)
An Equal Music: Vikram Seth (Ind-US)
An Idealist View of Life: Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (Ind)
An Uncertain Glory- India and its Contradictions: Amartya Sen & Jean Dreze Anandmath: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Ind)
And Quiet Flows the Don: Mikhail Sholokhov (Rus)
And The Mountains Echoed: Khaled Hosseini (Afg-US)
Angels & Demons: Dan Brown (US)
Angels in America: Tony Kushner (US)
Animal Farm: George Orwell (Br)
Animal’s People: Indra Sinha (Ind)
Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy (Rus)
Anne of Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery (Can)
Antony and Cleopatra: William Shakespeare (Br)
Ape and Essence: Aldous Huxley (Br)
Are you There, God? It’s me, Margaret: Judy Blume (US)
Around the World in Eighty Days: Jules Verne (Fr)
Arrowsmith: Sinclair Lewis (US)
As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner (US)
As You Like It: W. Shakespeare (Br)
Asian Drama: Gunnar Myrdal (Swe)
Asoka and the Decline of the Maurayas: Romila Thapar (Ind)
Atonement: lan Mcewan (Br)
A True Story of a Man, his People and an Empire: Mohandas Rajmohan Gandhi (Ind)
August 1914: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Rus)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Austerlitz: WG Sebald (Ger)
Autobiography: William Butler Yeats (lr)
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (Ind-Br)
Autumn: Ali Smith (Scot)
Babbit: Sinclair Lewis (US)
Back to Methuselah: George Bernard Shaw (Br)
Bad Science: Ben Goldacre (Br)
Bandicoot Run: Manohar Malgonkar (Ind)
Beloved: Toni Morrison (US)
Bad Science: Ben Goldacre (Br)
Bandicoot Run: Manohar Malgonkar (Ind)
Beloved: Toni Morrison (US)
Ben Hur: Lewis Wallace (US)
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Alfred Doblin (Ger)
Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates (US)
Beyond the Horizon: Eugene O’Neill (US)
Bharat Bharati: Maithili Saran Gupta (Ind)
Billy Lynne’s Long Halftime Walk: Ben Fountain (US)
Biographia Literaria: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Br)
Birthday Letters: Ted Hughes (Br)
Black Boy: Richard Wright (US)
Bleeding Edge: Thomas Pynchon (US)
Blindness: Jose Saramago (Pro)
Bliss was it in that Dawn: Minoo Masani (Ind)
Blink: Malcolm Gladwell (Br-Can)
Blood, Brain of Disquiet: Fernando Pessoa (Pro)
Brave New World: Aldous Huxley (Br)
Bread, Beauty and Revolution: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (Ind)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Truman Capote (US)
Breakfast of Champions- A Novel: Kurt Vonnegut (US)
Breakthrough: Gen. Moshe Dayan (Isr)
Breathing lessons: Anne Tyler (US)
Brick Lane: Monica Ali (Ban-Br)
Bridget Jones Diary: Helen Fielding (Br)
Brief Lives: John Aubrey (Br)
Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice: George Monbiot (Br)
Bubble, The Mulk: Raj Anand (Ind)
Business, Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street: John Brooks (US)
Buddha: Deepak Chopra (Ind-US)
Buddenbrooks: Thomas Mann (Ger)
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Bill Gates (US)
By God’s Decree: Kapil Dev (Ind)
Byzantium: W.B. Yeats (Ir)
Cadillac Desert: Marc Reisner (US)
Caesar and Cleopatra: George Bernard Shaw (Ir)
Candida: George Bernard Shaw (Ir)
Candide: Voltaire (Fr)
Capital in the Twenty-first Century: Thomas Piketty(Fr)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin: Louis de Bernieres (Br)
Cash: The Autobiography: Johnny Cash Catch-22: Joseph Heller (US)
Centennial: James A. Michener (US)
Charlotte’s Web: E B White (US)
Checkmate: Malorie Blackman (UK)
Chemmeen: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Ind)
Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekov (Rus)
Chidambaram: Sumitranandan Pant (Ind)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Lord Byron (Br)
Children of Gebelawi: Naguib Mahfouz (Egy)
Chithirappaacai: P.V. Akilandam (Ind)
Chitra: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
Choma’s Drum: K. Shivaram Karanth (Ind)
Chronicle: Bob Dylan (US)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Col)
Chronicles of Wasted Time: Malcolm Muggeridge (Br)
Circle of Reason: Amitav Ghosh (Ind)
Circles of Silence: Preeti Singh (Ind)
City of Joy: Dominique Lapierre (Fr)
City of Djinns: William Dalrymple (Scot)
Clarissa: Samuel Richardson (Br)
Clear Light of Day: Anita Desai (Ind-US)
Climbing the Mango Trees: Madhur Jaffrey (Ind)
Comedy of Errors: William Shakespeare (Br)
Coming of Age in Samoa: Margaret Mead (US)
Common Sense: Thomas Paine (Br-US)
Communalism in Modern India: Bipan Chandra (Ind)
Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx (Ger)
Confessions: J.J. Rousseau (Swi-Fr)
Confessions of a Lover: Mulk Raj Anand (Ind)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Thomas De Quincey (Br)
Confessions of Zeno: Italo Stevo (lta)
Confidential Clerk: T.S. Eliot (US-Br)
Conquest of Self: Mahatma Gandhi (Ind)
Coolie: Mulk Raj Anand (Ind)
Count of Monte Cristo: Alexander Dumas (Fr)
Country Driving: Peter Hessler (US)
Coverly Papers: Joseph Addison (Br)
Creation: Gore Vidal (US)
Crescent Moon: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
Crime and Punishment: Feodor Dostoyevsky (Rus)
Crisis into Chaos: E.M.S. Namboodiripad (Ind)
Crusader or Conspirator: Coalgate and other Truth: P.C. Parikh (Ind)
Cuckold: Kiran Nagarkar (Ind)
Cry, the Beloved Country: Alan Paton (SA)
Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Amold (Br)
Curfewed Night: Basharat Peer (Ind)
Cyrano de Bergerac: Edmond Rostand (Fr)
Darkness at Noon: Arthur Koestler (Hun-Br)
Darkness Visible: William Styron (US)
Das Kapital: Karl Marx (Ger)
Daughter of the East: Benazir Bhutto (Pak)
David Copperfield: Charles Dickens (Bri)
Days of Grace: Arthur Ashe (US) &Amold Rampersad (Tri-US)
Days Without End: Sebastian Barry (Ir)
Dead Souls: Nikolai Gogol (Rus)
Death in Venice: Thomas Mann (Ger)
Death of a City: Amrita Pritam (Ind)
Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller (US)
The Debacle: Emile Zole (Fr)
Decameron: Giovanni Boccaccio (Ita)
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon (Bri)
Democrats and Dissenters: Ramachandra Guha (Ind)
De Profundis: Oscar Wilde (Ir)
Descent of Man: Charles Darwin (Br)
Deserted Village: Oliver Goldsmith (Ir-Br)
Devdas: Sharat Chandra Chatterjee (Ind)
Diamond Dust: Anita Desai (Ind-US)
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories: Luxun (Ch)
Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger (US)
Discovery of India: Jawaharlal Nehru (Ind)
Dispatches: Michael Herr (US)
Distant Drums: Manohar Malgonkar (Ind)
Divine Comedy: Dante Alighieri (It)
Divine Life: Swami Sivananda (Ind)
Doctor Zhivago: Boris Pasternak (Rus)
Doctor’s Dilemma: George Bernard Shaw (lr)
Don Juan: Lord Byron (Br)
Don Quixote: Miguel de Cervantes (Spa)
Down Under: Bill Bryson (US)
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance: Barack Obama (US)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)
Dune: Frank Herbert (US)
Durgesh Nandini: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Ind)
Dust to Dust: Tami Hoag (US)
Earth: Emile Zola (Fr)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Lynne Truss (Br)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: Thomas Gray (Br)
Em and the Big Hoom: Jerry Pinto (Ind)
Eminent Victorians: Lytton Strachey (Br)
Emma: Jane Austen (Br)
Enchantress of Florence: Salman Rushdie (Ind-Br)
Ends and Means: Aldous Huxley (Br)
Enemies of Promise: Cyril Connolly (Br)
English, August: Upamanyu Chatterjee (Ind)
Essays on Gita: Sir Aurobindo Ghosh (Ind)
Eternal Himalayas: Major H.P.S Ahluwalia (Ind)
Ethics for the New Millennium: the Dalai Lama (Tib)
Everybody Loves a Good Drought: P. Sainath (Ind)
Experience: Martin Amis (Br)
Family Matters: Rohinton Mistry (Ind-Can)
Family Reunion: T.S Elito (US-Br)
Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy (Br)
Farewell the Trumpets: Jan Morris (Br)
Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser (US)
Fathers and Sons: Ivan Turgenev (Rus)
Fault Lines: Raghuram G Rajan (Ind-US)
Faust: J.W. Von Goethe (Ger)
Fifty Shades of Gery: E L James (Br)
Fingersmith: Sarah Waters (Br)
First Circle: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Rus)
First Sight: Danielle Steel (US)
Folktales From India: A.K. Ramanujan (Ind)
Forever: Judy Blume (US)
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway (US)
Forsyth Saga: John Galsworthy (Br)
Fortynine Days: Amrita Pritam (Ind)
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley (Br)
Freedom at Midnight: Larry Collins (US) & Dominque Lapierre (Fr)
Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama (Tib)
French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle (Scot)
Friends and Foes: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Ban)
Friends Not Masters: Ayub Khan (Pak)
From Here to Eternity: James Jones (US)
Ganadevata: Tara Shankar Bandyopadhyay (Ind)
Gandhi and Stalin: Louis Fisher (Fr)
Gardener: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
Gargantua and Pantagruel: Francois Rabelais (Fr)
The Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill (Br)
Gentleman Prefer Blondes: Anita Loos (US)
Ghasiram Kotwal: Vijay Tendulkar (Ind)
Gifted: Nikita Lalwani (Ind-Br)
Gilead: Marilynne Robinson (US)
Gitanjali: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
Glimpses of World History: Jawaharlal Nehru (Ind)
Godan: Prem Chand (Ind)
Godel, Escher, Bach: Douglas Hofstadter (US)
Golden Girl: P.T. Usha (Ind)
Golden Threshold: Sarojini Naidu (Ind)
Gone With The Wind: Margaret Mitchell (US)
Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck (US)
Good Times, Bad Times: Harold Evans (Br)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips: James Hilton (Br)
Goodbye to Gandhi? Travels in the New India: Bernard Imhasly (Swi)
Goodnight Mister Tom: Michelle Magorian (Br)
Tell on the Mountain: James Baldwin (US)
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens (Br)
Growth of the Soil: Knut Hamsun (Nor)
Gulag Archipelago: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Rus)
Gulliver’s Travels: Jonathan Swift (Ir)
Gypsy Ballads: Federico Garcia Lorca (Spa)
Half a Life: VS Naipaul (Ind-Br)
Half of a Yellow sun: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nig)
Hamlet: William Shakespeare (Br)
Harvest: Manjula Padmanabhan (Ind)
Harvest: Jim Crace (Br)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: J.K. Rowling (Br)
Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad (Pol-Br)
Heat and Dust: Ruth Prawer Jhabwala (Ger-Br)
Heir Apparent: Dr Karna Singh (Ind)
Heritage: Anthony West (US)
Heroes and Hero Worship: Thomas Carlyle (Scot)
Herzog: Saul Bellow (US)
Himalayan Blunder: Brigadier J.P. Dalvi (Ind)
Hindu View of Life: Dr S Radhakrishhan (Ind)
Hinduism: Nirad C Choudhuri (Ind-Br)
Hiroshima: John Hersey (US)
History: Elsa Morante (It)
Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell (Br)
Homegoing: Yaa Gyasi (Gha-US)
Home Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow: Yuval Noah Harari (Isr)
Hope against Hope: Anna Akhmatova (Ukr)
Household Education: Harriet Martineau (Br)
Housekeeping: Marilynne Robinson (US)
How to Cook A Wolf: MFK Fisher (US)
How To Know God: Deepak Chopra (Ind-US)
How to Win Friends And Influence People: Dale Carnegie (US)
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Kiran Desai (Ind)
Human Chain: Seamus Heaney (Ir)
Hunchback of Notre Dame: Victor Hugo (Fr)
Hunger: Knut Hamsun (Nor)
Hungry Stones: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
Iacocca: Lee Iacocca (US)
I am My Model: B.D. Jatti (Ind)
Ideas and Opinions: Albert Einstein (Ger-Swi-US)
I follow the Mahatma: K.M. Munshi (Ind)
Idols: Sunil Gavaskar (Ind)
If I am Assassinated: Z.A. Bhutto (Pak)
If Only: Geri Halliwell (Br)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller: Italo Calvino (It)
Ignited Minds: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Ind)
Implosion: India’s Tryst with Reality: John Elliott (Br)
In Defenses of Globalisation: Jagdish Bhagwati (Ind-US)
In Diamond Square: Merce Rodoredaa (Spa)
In Evil Hour: Gabriel Garcia Marques (Col)
In Memoriam: Alfred Lord Tennyson (Br)
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Mcnamara (US)
In Search of Gandhi: Richard Attenborough (Br)
Independent People: Halldor K Laxness (Ice)
India After Gandhi: The World’s Largest Democracy: Ramachandra Guha (Ind)
India: A Million Mutinies Now: VS Naipaul (Ind-Br)
India Changes: Taya Zinkin (Fr)
India Discovered: John Keay (Br)
India Divided: Rajendra Prasad (Ind)
India: Emerging power: Stephen Philip Cohen (US)
India-Another Millennium: Romila Thapar (Ind)
India Unbound: Gurcharan Das (Ind)
India Wins Freedom: Abul Kalam Azad (Ind)
India’s Priceless Heritage: N.A. Palkhivala (Ind)
Indian Food: A Historical Companion: K.T. Acharya (Ind)
Indian Philosophy: Dr S Radhakrishanan (Ind)
Indian War of Independence: V.D. Savarkar (Ind)
Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent: Pranay Lal (Ind)
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi: Katherine Frank (US)
Infidel: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Du-US)
IQ84: Haruki Murakami (Jap)
Inscrutable Americans: Anurag Mathur (Ind)
Inside Asia, Inside Europe, Inside Africa, etc: John Gunther (US)
Despite the Gods The Strange Rice of Modern India: Edward Luce (US)
Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri (Ind-US)
Intimacy: Jean-Paul Sartre (Fr)
Invisible Man: H.G. Wells (Br)
Iran Awakening: Shirin Ebadi (Ira)
Is Indian Civilization a Myth: Sanjay Subramanyam (Ind)
Is New York Burning? Larry Collins (US) & Dominique Lapierre (Fr)
Is Paris Burning? Larry Collins (US)& Dominique Lapierre (Fr)
Isabella: John Keats (Br)
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master: Denis Diderot (Fr)
Jai Somnath: K.M. Munshi (Ind)
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte (Br)
Jean Christophe: Romain Rolland (Fr)
Jejuri: Arun Kolatkar (Ind)
Journalism and Politics: Chalapathi Raum. (Ind)
Journey to the End of the Night: Louis Ferdinand Celine (Fr)
Joy in the Morning: PG Wodehouse (Br)
Julius Caesar: William Shakespeare (Br)
July’s People: Nadine Gordimer (SA)
Jungle Book: Rudyard Kipling (Ind)
Junglee Girl: Ginu Kamani (Ind)
Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton (US)
Kafka on the Shore: Haruki Murakami (Jap)
Kamasutra: Vatsyayana (Ind)
Kane and Abel: Jeffrey Archer (Br)
Kanthapura: Raja Rao (Ind)
Kashmir: A Tragedy of Errors: Tavleen Singh (Ind)
Kayar: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Ind)
Kenilworth: Sir Walter Scott (Scot)
Kidnapped: Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)
Kim: Rudyard Kipling (Br)
King :Lear: William Shakespeare (Br)
Kubla Khan: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Br)
Ladies Coups: Anita Nair (Ind)
La Peste: Albert Camus (Alg-Fr)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: D.H. Lawrence (Br)
Lajja: Taslima Nasreen (Ban)
Last Burden: Upamanyu Chatterjee (Ind)
Last Things: C.P. Snow (Br)
Le Contract (Social Contract): J.J. Rousseau (Fr.)
Lead Kindly Light: Vincent Sheean (US)
Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman (US)
Les Miserables: Victor Hugo (Fr.)
Levels of Life: Julian Barnes (Br)
Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes (Br)
Life Divine: Sri Aurobindo (Ind)
Life After Life: Kate Atkinson (Br)
Life is Elsewhere: Milan Kundera (Cze-Fr)
Life of Pi: Yann Martel (Can)
Life of Samuel Johnson: James Boswell (Scot)
Life on the Mississippi: Mark Twain (US)
Life Women: Louisa M Alcott (US)
Living to Tell the Tale: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Col)
Lolita: Vladimir Nabakov (Rus-US)
London Labour and the London Poor: Henry Mayhew (Br)
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Allan Sillitoe (Br)
Long Day’s Journey into Night: Eugene O’Neill (US)
Long Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela (SA)
Look Back in Anger: John Osborne (Br)
Love Story: Erich Segal (US)
Macbeth: W. Shakespeare (Br)
Mahatma Gandhi: Romain Rolland (Fr)
Main Street: Sinclair Lewis (US)
Malgudi Days: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
Malone Dies: Samuel Beckett (Fr)
Man and Superman: George Bernard Shaw (Ir)
Man of Property: John Galsworthy (Br)
Man, Beast and Virtue: Luigi Pirandello (Br-Ita)
Man-eaters of Kumaon: Jim Corbett (Br)
Mankind and Mother Earth: Amold Toynbee (Br)
Many Worlds: K.P.S Menon (Ind)
Mao The Unknown Story: Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Br)
Matterhorn: Karl Marlantes (US)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found: Suketu Mehta (Ind-US)
Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy (Br)
Medea: Euripides (GK)
Meena Kumari: Vinod Mehta (Ind)
Mein Kamfa: Adolf Hitler (Ger)
Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (US)
Memoirs of Hope: Gen. Charles de Gaulle (Fr)
Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus: John Gray (US)
Metamorphoses: Ovid (It)
Middle March: George Eliot (Bri)
Middle Sex: Jeffrey Eugenides (US)
Midnight’s in the Garden of Good and Evil: John Berendt (US)
Midnight’s Children: Salman Rushdie (Ind-Br)
Mill on the Floss: George Eliot (Br)
Minorities in a democracy: Humayun Kabir (Ind)
Mistaken Modernity: India Between World: Dipankar Gupta (Ind)
Moby Dick: Hermann Melville (US)
Mohandas: A True Story of A Man, his People and an Empire: Rajmohan Gandhi (Ind)
Money: A Suicide Note: Martin Amis (Br)
Moneyball: Michael M. Lewis (US)
Moonglow: Michael Chabon (US)
Moonwalk: Michael Jackson (US)
Mother India: Katherine Mayo (US)
Mother: Maxim Gorky (Rus)
Mrs. Dalloway: Virginia Woolf (Br)
Much Ado About Nothing: William Shakespeare (Br)
Murder in the Cathedral: T.S. Eliot (US-Br)
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain: Oliver Sacks (US)
My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante (It)
My Country, My Life: L.K. Advani (Ind)
My Days: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
My Early Life: A Roving Commission: Winston Churchill (Br)
My India: S. Nihal Singh (Ind)
My Life: Bill Clinton (US)
My Life in France: Julia Child (US)
My Life and Times: V.V. Giri (Ind)
My Life, My Way: Cliff Richard (Br)
My Music, My Life: Pt. Ravi Shankar (Ind)
My Name is Red: Orhan Pamuk (Turk)
My Own Boswell: M. Hidayatullah (Ind)
My Presidential Years: R. Venkataramann (Ind)
My Reminiscences: R.N. Tagore (Ind)
My Stic River: Dennis Lehane (US)
My Son’s Father: Dom Moraes (Ind)
My Story: Kamala Das (Ind)
My Story: Jackie Chan (Ch)
My Truth: Indira Gandhi (Ind)
Nana: Emile Zola (Fr)
Never At Home: Dom Moraes (Ind)
Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro (Jap)
New Grub Street: George Gissing (Br)
Nice Guys Finish Second: B.K. Nehru (Ind)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell (Br)
Nisheeth: Uma Shankar Joshi (Ind)
No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy (US)
No Full Stops in India: Mark Tully (Br)
No Logo: Naomi Klein (Can)
Nonsense Songs: Edward Lear (Br)
North: Seamus Heaney (lr)
Northern Lights: Philip Pullman (Br)
Nostradamus and his Prophecies: Edgar Leoni (Fr)
Nostromo: Joseph Conrad (Pol-Br)
Notes of A Native Son: James Baldwin (US)
Jerusalem: Larry Collins (US) & Dominique Lapierre (Fr)
Odakkuzhal: G. Shankara Kurup (Ind)
Of Human Bondage: W. Somerset Maugham (Br)
Old Man Goriot: Honore de Balzac (Fr)
Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens (Br)
On Chesil Beach: Lan McEwan (Br)
On Liberty: John Stuart Mill (Br)
On The Threshold of Hope: Pope John Paull (Pol)
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Col)
One World and India: Arnold Toynbee (Br)
One World: Wendell Wilkie (US)
Operation Shylock: Philip Roth (US)
Orientalism: Edward Said (US)
Oryx and Crake: Margaret Atwood (Can)
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra: Ruskin Bond (Ind)
Oscar and Lucinda: Peter Carey (Austral)
Othello: William Shakespeare (Br)
Our Films, Their Films: Satyajit Ray (Ind)
Out of Africa: Isak Dinesen (Dan)
Out of My Life and Thought: Albert Schweitzer (Fr-Ger)
Painter of Signs: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
Pakistan Cut to Size: D.R. Mankekar (Ind)
Pakistan: The Gathering Storm: Benazir Bhutto (Pak)
Pale Blue Dot: Carl Sagan (US)
Pale Fire: Vladimir Nabokov (Rus-US)
Panchatantra: Vishnu Sharma (Ind)
Paradise: A History of the Idea that Rules the World: Kevin Rushby (Br)
Paradise Lost: John Milton (Br)
Pather Panchali: Bibhuti Bhushan (Ind)
Patriotic Gore: Edmund Wilson (US)
Pedro Paramo: Juan Rulfo (Mex)
People Like Us: Pavan Varma (Ind)
Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S Grant (US)
Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi (Fr)
Peter Pan: J.M. Barrie (Br)
Pippi Longstocking: Astrid Lindgren (Swe)
Plain Speaking: N. Chandrababu Naidu (Ind)
Plan of Attack: Bob Woodward (US)
Pleading Guilty: Scott Turow (US)
Pond: Claire-Louise Bennett (Ir)
Portrait of India: Ved Mehta (Ind-US)
Post office: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
Prelude: William Wordsworth (Br)
Preoccupations: Seamus Heaney (Ir)
Present at the Creation: Dean Acheson (US)
Prey: Michael Crichton (US)
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen (Br)
Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli (It)
Principia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell (Br)
Prison Diary: Jayaprakash Narayan (Ind)
Private Lives: Noel Coward (Br)
Profiles in Courage: John F. Kennedy (US)
Pygmalion: George Bernard Shaw (Ir)
Rabbit, Run: John Updike (US)
Rangbhoomi: Prem Chand (Ind)
Rapture: Carol Ann Duffy (Br)
Ravan & Eddie: Kiran Nagarkar (Ind)
Rebecca: Daphne du Maurier (Fr)
Rebel, The: Albert Camus (Alg-Fr)
Red Badge of Courage: Stephen Crane (US)
Red Earth and Pouring Rain: Vikram Chandra (Ind)
Red Star Over China: Edgar Snow (US)
Reflections on the French Revolution: Edmund Burke (Br)
Remembering Babylon: David Malouf (Austral)
Rendezvous with Rama: Arthur C. Clark (Br)
Revolution from Within: Gloria Steinem (US)
Riding the Storm: Harold MacMillan (Br)
Riot: A Novel: Shashi Tharoor (Ind)
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: William L. Shirer (US)
River of Stories: Orijit Sen (Ind)
Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Defoe (Br)
Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare (Br)
Room at the Top: John Braine (Br)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: Tom Stoppard (Br)
Rubaiyat-I Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald (Br)
Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra (Ind)
Saket: Maithili Sharan Gupta (Ind)
Sanctuary: William Faulkner (US)
Sapiens- A Brief History of Humankind: Yuval Noah Harari (Isr)
Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (US)
Scoop: Evelyn Waugh (Br)
Sea of Poppies: Amitav Ghosh (Ind)
Season of Migration to the North: Tayeb Salih (Sub)
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets: Svetlana Alexievich (Rus)
Secrets and Lies: Dilip Hiro (Ind-Br)
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli (It)
Seven Lamps of Architecture: John Ruskin (Br)
Seven Summers: Mulk Raj Anand (Ind)
Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male: Alfred Kinsey (US)
Shadow and Act: Ralph Ellison (US)
Shadow from Ladakh: Bhabani Bhattacharya (Ind)
Shalimar the Clown: Salman Rushdie (Ind-Br)
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: Sudhir Kakar (Ind)
Shantaram: Gregory David Roberts (Ind-Br)
Shape of Things to Come: H.G. Wells (Br)
She Stoops to Conquer: Oliver Goldsmith (Ir-Br)
Siddharta: Hermann Hesse (Ger)
Silent Spring: Rachel Carson (US)
Six Characters in Search of an Author: Luigi Pirandello (It)
Six Easy Pieces: Richard P. Feynman (US)
Skinny Dip: Carl Hiaasen (US)
The sky is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered: Easterine hire (Ind)
Slaughter House Five: Kurt Vonnegut (US)
Slow Man: J.M. Coetzee (Aus)
Small is Beautiful: A study of Economics as if People Mattered: Ernst Schumacher (Ger-Br)
Small Island: Andrea Levy (Br)
Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India: Gita Mehta (Ind-US)
Snow Country: Yasuari Kawabata (Jap)
Sofie’s World: Jostein Gaarder (Nor)
Sohrab and Rustam: Matthew Arnold (Br)
So Many Cinemas: The Motion Picture in India: B.D. Garga (Ind)
Song of Solomon: Toni Morrison (US)
Sons and Lovers: D. H. Lawrence (Br)
Sophie’s Choice: William Styron (US)
Soul and Structure of Governance in India: Jagnohan: (Ind)
Speak, Memory: Vladimir Nabokov (Rus-US)
S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome: Mary Beard (Br)
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development: Vandana Shiva (Ind)
Steppenwolf: Hermann Hesse Story of My Life: Moshe Dayan (Isr)
Strangers and Brothers: C.P. Snow (Br)
Strangers In the Land: John Higham (US)
Storage: John Galsworthy (Br)
Stupid White Men: Michael Moore (US)
Sun Stone: Octavio Paz (Mex)
Sunny Days: Sunil Gavaskar (Ind)
Swami and Friends: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
Sweetbitter: Stephanie Danler (US)
Sybil: Benjamin Disraeli (Br)
Talisman: Sir Walter Scott (Scot)
Tarzan of the Apes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (US)
Teacher Man: Frank McCourt Tempest: William Shakespeare (Br)
Ten Days that Shook the World: John Reed (US)
Tender is the Night: F. Scott Fitzgerald (US)
Tenth of December: George Saunders (US)
Tenth Insight: James Redfield (US)
Testament of Youth: Vera Brittain (Br)
Thank You, Jeeves: P.G. Wodehouse (Br-US)
The True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Sherman Alexie (US)
The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Hansda Sowwendra Shekhar (Ind)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle (Br)
The Affluent Society: John Kenneth Galbraith (US)
The Age of Reason: Jean-Paul Sartre (Fr)
The Age of Siva: Manil Suri (Ind)
The Agenda: Bob Woodward (US)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Irving Stone (US)
The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho (Bra)
The Algebra of Infinite Justice: Arundhati Roy (Ind)
The Ambassadors: Henry James (US-Br)
The Amber Spyglass: Philip Pullman (Br)
The American Language: HL Mencken (US)
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Robert Burton (Br)
The Applecart: George Bernard Shaw (Ir)
The Argumentative Indian: Amartya Sen (Ind)
The Arrangement: Elia Kazan (US)
The Art of Happiness: Dalai Lama (Tib) & Howard C. Cutler (US)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, As told to Alex Haley: Malcolm X (US)
The Banyan Tree: Hugh Tinker (Br)
The Awakening: Kate Chopin (US)
The Best and the Brightest: David Halberstam (US)
The Better Man: Anita Nair (Ind)
The Big Fisherman: Lloyd Douglas (US)
The Big Short: Michael Lewis (US)
The Black Hole: Richard Preston (US)
The Bind Assassin: Margaret Atwood (Can)
The Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe (US)
The Book of Common Prayer: Thomas Cranmer (Br)
The Bride’s Book of Beauty: Mulk Raj Anand (Ind)
The Bridges of Madison County: R.J. Waller (US)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Junot Diaz (Dom-US)
The Broken Wings: Kahlil Gibran (Leb)
The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Rus)
The Bully Pulpit: Doris Kearns Goodwin (US)
The Cancer Ward: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Rus)
The Call of the Wild: Jack London (US)
The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer (Br)
The Cardinal: Henry Morton Robinson (US)
The Caretaker: Harold Pinter (Br)
The Castle: Franz Kafka (Cze)
The Cat and Shakespeare: Raja Rao (Ind)
The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger (US)
The Circle: Dave Eggers (US)
The City in History: Lewis Mumford (US)
The Civil War: Shelby Foote (US)
The Clown: Heinrich Boll (Ger)
The Collaborator: Mirza Waheed (Ind)
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care: Dr Benjamin Spock (US)
The Country without a Post Office: Agha Shahid Ali (Ind-US)
The Coup: John Updike (US)
The Court Dancer: Rabindra Nath Tagore (Ind)
The Cuckoo’s Calling: J.K. Rowling (Br)
The Crucible: Arthur Miller (US)
The Curse of Cash: Kenneth Rogoff (US)
The Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown (US)
The Dark Holds No Terrors: Shashi Deshpande (Ind)
The Day of the Locust: Nathaniel West (US)
The Death of Vishnu: Manil Suri (Ind)
The Decameron: Giovanni Boccaccio (It)
The Degeneration of India: T.N. Seshan (Ind)
The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank (Ger)
The Diary of Fanny Burney: Fanny Burney (Br)
The Difficulty of Being Good: Gurcharan Das (Ind)
The Double Helix: James D. Watson (US)
The Economic Consequences of the Peace: John Maynard Keynes (Br)
The Elements of Style: William Strunk (US) and EB White (US)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer: Siddhartha Mukherjee (Ind-US)
The End of a Beautiful Era: Joseph Brodsky (Rus-US)
The End of Food: Paul Roberts (US)
The End of History and the Last Man: Francis Fukuyama (US)
The English Roses: Madonna(It-US)
The Executioner’s Song: Norman Mailer (US)
The Eye of the Storm: Patrick White (Australia)
The Far Field: Madhuri Vijay (Ind)
The Far Pavilions: M.M. Kaye (Br)
The Federalist Papers: Publius The Female Eunuch: Germaine Greer (Australia)
The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan (US)
The Fifth Horseman: Larry Collins (US) and Dominique Lapierre (Fr)
The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin (US)
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad: Lesley Hazleton (Br-US)
The Forbidden Sea: Tara Ali Baig (Ind)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: John Fowles (Br)
The Fury: Salman Rushdie (Ind-Br)
The Future of Life: Edward O. Wilson (US)
The Gathering: Anne Enright (Ir)
The Ginger Man: J.P. Donleavy (US)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson (Swe)
The Glass Palace: Amitav Ghosh (Ind)
The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins (Br)
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy (Ind)
The Godfather: Mario Puzo (US)
The Goldfinch: Donna Tartt (US)
The Golden Gate: Vikram Seth (Ind-US)
The Golden Notebook: Doris Lessing (Br)
The Grapes and the Wind: Pablo Neruda (Chi)
The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck (US)
The Great Challenge: Louis Fischer (Fr)
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald (US)
The Great Indian Novel: Shashi Tharoor (Ind)
The Great Tamasha: James Astill (Br)
The Great Tradition: F.R. Leavis (Br)
The Great Unravelling: Paul Krugman (US)
The Green KInght: Iris Murdoch (Br)
The Green Road: Ann Enright (Ir)
The Guide: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
The Guns of August: Barbara Tuchman (US)
The Heart of the Matter: Graham Greene (Br)
The Heart of a Woman: Maya Angelou (US)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Carson McCullers (US)
The Hedgehog and the Fox: Isaiah Berlin (Rus-Br)
The History of the World: Walter Raleigh (Br)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams (Br)
The Hornet’s Nest: Jimmy Carter (US)
The Horse Whisperer: Nicholas Evans (Br)
The Hot Zone: Richard Preston (US)
The House on Mango Street: Sandra Cisneros (US)
The House of the Spirits: Isabel Allende (Chi)
The Humboldt Gift: Saul Bellow (US)
The Hungry Tide: Amitav Ghosh (Ind)
The Idiot: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Rus)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot (US)
The Imperfectionists: Tom Rachman (Br-Can)
The Importance of Being Earnest: Oscar Wilde (Ir)
The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai (Ind-US)
The Interpreters: Wole Soyinka (Nig)
The Inscrutable Americans: Anurag Mathur (Ind)
The Insider: P.V. Narasimha Rao (Ind)
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander: Humboldt (Br)
The Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison (US)
The Lovely Throne: Manu S. Pillai (Ind)
The Joke: Milan Kundera (Cze-Fr)
The Judgement: Kuldip Nayar (Ind)
The Keeper of the Keys: Milan Kundera (Cze-Fr)
The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini (Afg-US)
The Last Days of Hitler: Hugh Trevor-Roper (Br)
The Last Song of Dusk: Sidharth Sanghvi (Ind)
The Last Temptation of Christ: Kazantzakis (Gk)
The Legends of Khasak: O.V. Vijayan (Ind)
The Legends of Pensam: Mamang Dai (Ind)
The Life of Charlotte Bronte: Elizabeth Gaskell (Br)
The Liberal Imagination: Lionel Trilling (US)
The Line of Beauty: Alan Hollinghurst (Br)
The Little Prince: Antoine De Saint Exupery (Fr)
The Lord of the Flies: William Golding (Br)
The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold (US)
The Lowland: Jhumpa Lahiri (Ind-US)
The Magic Lantern: Ingmar Bergman (Swe)
The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann (Ger)
The Making of the English Working Class: EP Thompson (Br)
The Man Without Qualities: Robert Musil (Aus)
The Mandarin: Simone de Beauvoir (Fr)
The Masters: C.P. Snow (Br)
The Medium is the Message: Marshall McLuhan (Can)
The Men Who Killed Gandhi: Manohar Malgonkar (Ind)
The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare (Br)
The Middle Ground: Margaret Drabble (Br)
The Mind of the C.E.O: Jeffrey E. Garten (US)
The Miniaturist: Kunal Basu (Ind)
The Miser: Moliere (Fr)
The Moon and Sixpence: W. Somerset Maugham (Br)
The Moor’s Last Sigh: Salman Rushdie (Ind-Br)
The Music Room: Namita Devidayal (Ind)
The Namesake: Jhumpa Lahiri (Ind-US)
The Name of the Rose, TheMysterious Flame of Queen Loana: Umberto Eco (It)
The Narrows: Michael Connelly (US)
The Night Manager: John le Carre (Br)
The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art. Kenneth Clark (Br)
The Oath of The Vayuputras: Amish (Ind)
The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway (US)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Michael Pollan (US)
The Open Society And Its Enemies: Karl Popper (Au-Br)
The Origin of Species: Charles Darwin (Br)
The Other Side of Silence: Urvashi Butalia (Ind)
The Other Side of Midnight: Sidney Sheldon (US)
The Painted Veil: W. Somerset Maugham (Br)
The Palace of Illusions: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Ind-US)
The Pickwick Papers: Charles Dickens (Br)
The Pilgrim’s Progress: John Bunyan (Br)
The Plot Against America: Philip Roth (US)
The Power and the Glory: Graham Greene (Br)
The Power of Positive Thinking: Norman Vincent Peale (US)
The Pregnant King: Devdutt Pattanik (Ind)
The Prime of Life: Simone de Beauvoir (Fr)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Muriel Spark (Scot)
The Prisoner of the Caucasus: Alexander Pushkin (Rus)
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: Dr. Li Zhisui (Chi)
The Proper Study of Mankind: Isaiah Berlin (Br)
The Rain King: Saul Bellow (US)
The Rape of the Lock: Alexander Pope (Bri)
The Republic: Plato (GK)
The Return of the Native: Thomas Hardy (Br)
The Rights of Man: Thomas Paine (Br-US)
The Right Stuff: Tom Wolfe (US)
The Road: Cormac McCarty (US)
The Road to Oxiana: Robert Byron (Br)
The Road to Wigan Pier: George Orwell (Br)
The Road Ahead: Bill Gates (US)
The Robe: Lloyd C. Douglas (US)
The Room on the Roof: Ruskin Bond (Ind)
The Roots: Alex Haley (US)
The Satanic Verses: Salman Rushdie (Ind-Br)
The Sea: John Banville (Ir)
The Second World War: Winston Churchill (Br)
The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk (US)
The Selfish Gene: Richard Dawkins (Br)
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: Deepak Chopra (Ind-US)
The Shadow Lines: Amitav Ghosh (Ind)
The Sheltering Sky: Paul Bowles (US-Mor)
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: Naomi Klein (Can)
The Shoes of the Fisherman: Morris L. West (Austral)
The Signature of All Things: Elizabeth Gilbert (US)
The Sixth Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert (US)
The Song of Susannah: Stephen King (US)
The Song of India: Sarojini Naidu (Ind)
The Souls of Black Folk: WEB Du Bois (US)
The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner (US)
The Sound of the Mountain: Yasunari Kawabata (Jap)
The Spirit of Indian Painting: BN Goswamy (Ind)
The Spirit of the Age: William Hazlitt (Br)
The State of a Nation: Fali S. Nariman (Ind)
The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Mahatma Gandhi (Ind)
The Story of My Life: Helen Keller (US)
The Story of the Integration of the Indian States: V.P. Menon (Ind)
The Strange and Sublime Address: Amit Chaudhuri (Ind)
The Stranger: Albert Camus (Fr)
The Stranger in the House: Georges Simenon (Bel)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S Kuhn (US)
The Struggle and the Triumph: Lech Walesa (Pol)
The Struggle in My Life: Nelson Mandela (SA)
The Sword and the Sickle: Mulk Raj Anand (Ind)
The Tale of Genji: Shikibu Murasaki (Jap)
The Testament: John Grisham (US)
The Third Wave: Alvin Tofler (US)
The Thirteenth Sun: Amrita Pritam (Ind)
The Thousand Faces of Night: Githa Hariharan (Ind)
The Three Mistakes in My Life: Chetan Bhagat (Ind)
The Time of the Hero: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
The Tin Drum: Gunter Grass (Ger)
The Total Zone: Martina Navratilova (Cze-US)
The Travels of Marco Polo: Marco Polo (It)
The Tree of Man: Patrick White (Austral)
The Trial: Franz Kafka (Cze)
The Trotter-Name: Allan Sealy (Ind)
The Unfurnished Man: Nizzim Ezekiel (Ind)
The Universe in a Single Atom: Dalai Lama (Tib)
The Uprooted: Oscar Handlin (US)
The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life: Richard Hoggart (Br)
The Varieties: of Religious Experience: William James (US)
The Vegetarian: Han Kang (S.Kor)
The Vendor of Sweets: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
The Vicar of Wakefield: Oliver Goldsmith (Ir-Br)
The Victim: Saul Bellow (US)
The Volcano Lover: Susan Sontag (US)
The Wangs Vs. The World: Jade Chang (US)
The Wasteland: T.S. Eliot (US-Br)
The Way of all Flesh: Samuel Butler (Br)
The Way to Paradise: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith (Scot )
The White Mughals: William Dalrymple (Scot)
The World is Flat: Thomas Friedman (US)
The World is What It Is: Patrick French (Br)
Thesaurus: Dr Peter Mark Roget (Br)
The Year of Magical Thinking: John Didi-on (US)
The Zahir: Paulo Coelho (Bra)
The Zoya Factor: Anuja Chauhan (Ind)
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston (US)
Theory of War: Joan Brady (US)
Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe (Nig)
Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman (Isr-US)
Thorn Birds: Colleen McCullough (Ir-Austral)
Thousand Cranes: Yasunari Kawabata (Jap)
Thus Spake Zarathustra: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Ger-Swi)
Time Machine: H.G. Wells (Br)
Tinker, Tailor Soldier: John Le-Carre (Br)
Tom Jones: Henry Fielding (Br)
To Kill a Mocking Bird: Harper Lee (US)
To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf (Br)
Traditions of Indian Folk Dance: Kapila Vatsyayan (Ind)
Train to Pakistan: Khushwant Singh (Ind)
Transmission: Hari Kunzru (Ind-Br)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)
Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller (US)
True History of Kelly Gang: Peter Carey (Austral)
Truth, Love and a Little Malice: Khushwant Singh (Ind)
Tryst with Destiny: S. Gopalan (Ind)
Twelfth Night: W. Shakespeare (Br)
Two Leaves and a Bud: Mulk Raj Anand (Ind)
Ulysses: James Joyce (Ir)
Unaccustomed Earth: Jhumpa Lahiri (Ind-US)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe (US)
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond: Gail Omvedt (Ind)
Under the Net: Iris Murdoch (Br)
Unless: Carol Shields (US)
Unsafe at Any Speed: Ralph Nader (US)
Unto The Last: John Ruskin (Br)
Up from Slavery: Booker T. Washington (Br)
Utopia: Thomas More (Br)
Valley of the Dolls: Jaqueline Susann (US)
Vanity Fair: William Thackeray (Br)
Vernon God Little: DBC Pierre (Australia)
Waiting for the Barbarians: J.M. Coetzee (SA)
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett (Ir)
Waiting for the Mahatma: R.K. Narayan (Ind)
Wake Up India: Annie Besant (Ir)
Walden: Henry David Thoreau (US)
War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy (Rus)
Watchmen: Alan Moore (Br)
We Love You, Charlie Freeman: Kaitlin Greenidge (US)
Westward Ho: Charles Kingsley (Br)
We Need New Name: No Violet Bulawayo (Zim)
What is Not Yours is Not Yours: Helen Oyeyemi (Br)
What is Remembered: Suketu Mehta (Ind-US)
What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School: Mark H. McCormack (US)
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? : Lee Iacocca (US)
White Noise: Don DeLillo (US)
White Teeth: Zadie Smith (Br)
Who Moved My Cheese? : Dr. Spencer Johnson (US)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal: Jeanette Winterson (Br)
Wide Sargasso Sea: Jean Rhys (Dom)
Wild Swans: Jung Chang (Chin-Br)
Wings of Fire: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Ind)
Winning: Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (US)
Winter Solstice: Rosamunde Pilcher (Scot)
Without Fear The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh: Kuldip Nayar (Ind)
Witness to an Era: Frank Moraes (Ind)
Wolf Hall: Hilary Mantel (Br)
Women in Love: D.H. Lawrence (Br)
World Within Worlds: Stephen Spender (Br)
Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte (Br)
Yayati: V.S. Khandekar (Ind)
Yesterday and Today: K.P.S Menon (Ind)
You Can Win: Shiv Khera (Ind)
Yuganta: The End of an Epoch: lrawati Karve (Ind)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert Pirsig (US)
Zorba the Greek: Nikos Kazantzakis (Gk)
Zuleika Dobson: Max Beerbohm (Br)

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