General Knowledge
Famous Authors & Their Books
Essential reference table of literary masterpieces and their creators.
Famous Authors & Their Masterpieces
A quick-revision guide to monumental world literature books and their authors for competitive general awareness.
| Book Title | Author | Genre & Period |
|---|---|---|
| Wings of Fire & Ignited Minds | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | Autobiography & Scientific Vision |
| India 2020 & Target 3 Billion | Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | National Development Strategy |
| Discovery of India & Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian Freedom Movement & History |
| The Story of My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | Autobiography & Satyagraha Philosophy |
| Gitanjali & The Post Office | Rabindranath Tagore | Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | Indian Independence History |
| Panchatantra | Pandit Vishnu Sharma | Ancient Sanskrit Fables & Ethics |
| Abhijnanasakuntalam & Meghaduta | Kalidasa | Classical Sanskrit Drama & Poetry |
| Arthashastra | Chanakya (Kautilya) | Ancient Statecraft & Political Economy |
| Anandamath (National Song 'Vande Mataram') | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Historical Bengali Novel (1882) |
| Godan & Gaban | Munshi Premchand | Classic Hindi Realist Literature |
| Malgudi Days & The Guide | R.K. Narayan | Indian Fiction (Sahitya Akademi Award) |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Man Booker Prize Winner (1997) |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | Booker Prize Winner & Booker of Bookers |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | Post-Independence Epic Fiction |
| The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Man Booker Prize Winner (2008) |
| The Argumentative Indian | Amartya Sen | Economics Nobel Laureate Essays |
| An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India | Shashi Tharoor | Colonial History (Sahitya Akademi 2019) |
| Poverty and Un-British Rule in India | Dadabhai Naoroji | Drain of Wealth Theory (1901) |
| War and Peace & Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Russian Classic Historical Epic |
| The Republic | Plato | Classical Greek Philosophy |
| Hamlet, Macbeth & Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Elizabethan Drama |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 19th Century British Novel |
| Das Kapital & Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx | Political Economy & Philosophy |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | Early Modern Spanish Classic |
| A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Victorian Social Literature |
| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | Foundational Modern Economics (1776) |