General Awareness-Topics

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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