Books & Authors is one of the most important topics of static GK. This is one of the important subjects of General Knowledge questions that are asked in competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, RRB, Banking, etc
Here we share 149 book names with respective authors. This list of Books and Authors GK is very useful for your competitive exams.
List of Books and Authors GK
The following table enlists the major/famous books name and their authors:
| No. | Books Name | Authors Name |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | My experiments with Truth | Mahatma M.K.Gandhi |
| 02 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| 03 | Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 04 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| 05 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| 06 | The Moon and Sixpence | Somerset Maughan |
| 07 | Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come | John Bunyan |
| 08 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| 09 | Utopia | Sir Thomas Moor |
| 10 | Origin of species | charles Darwin |
| 11 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 12 | A passage to India | E.M.Forster |
| 13 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| 14 | Discovery of India | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 15 | The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| 16 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| 17 | The Lady of the Last Minstrel | Sir Walter Scott |
| 18 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 19 | Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| 20 | Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| 21 | Le Contract Social | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 22 | Avigyan Sakuntalam | Kalidas |
| 23 | Anand Math | Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay |
| 24 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 25 | Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| 26 | Akbar-Nama | Abul Fazal |
| 27 | Shakuntala | Kalidas |
| 28 | War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 29 | A Dangerous place | D.P. Moynihan |
| 30 | Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
| 31 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 32 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| 33 | Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| 34 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| 35 | Ancient Mariner | Coleridge |
| 36 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 37 | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| 38 | Antony and Cleopatra | Shakespeare |
| 39 | Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| 40 | Around the World in eighty days | Jules Verne |
| 41 | Baburnama | Babur |
| 42 | Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| 43 | Bhagwat Gita | Ved Vyas |
| 44 | Bisarjan | R.N.Tagore |
| 45 | Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| 46 | Chitra | R.N.Tagore |
| 47 | Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| 48 | Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky |
| 49 | Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| 50 | Divine Comedy | Dante |
| 51 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson |
| 52 | Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| 53 | Dr. Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| 54 | For whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| 55 | Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
| 56 | Freedom at Midnight | Dominique Lapierre |
| 57 | Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
| 58 | Geet Govind | Jaya Dev |
| 59 | Gora | R.N. Tagore |
| 60 | Hamlet | Shakespeare |
| 61 | Harshacharita | Bana Bhatt |
| 62 | Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| 63 | Hungry Stones | R.N.Tagore |
| 64 | Illiad | Homer |
| 65 | Invisible Man | H.G.Wells |
| 66 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| 67 | Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| 68 | Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| 69 | Kidnapped | R.L.Stevenson |
| 70 | King Lear | Shakespeare |
| 71 | Kumar Sambhav | Kalidas |
| 72 | Last Days of Pompeii | Bulwer Lytton |
| 73 | Les Miserable | Victor Hugo |
| 74 | Life Divine | Shri Aurobindo |
| 75 | Mahabharata | Vyas |
| 76 | Man and Superman | G.B.Shaw |
| 77 | Meghdut | Kalidas |
| 78 | Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| 79 | Odyssey | Homer |
| 80 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| 81 | Othello | Shakespeare |
| 82 | Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| 83 | Paradise lost | John Milton |
| 84 | Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| 85 | Plague | Albert Camus |
| 86 | The Post Office | R.N.Tagore |
| 87 | Principia | Issac Newton |
| 88 | Ramayana | Valmiki |
| 89 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 90 | Shah Nama | Firdausi |
| 91 | Shape of things to come | H.G.Wells |
| 92 | Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| 93 | The Tempest | Shakespeare |
| 94 | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| 95 | Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| 96 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 97 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Mrs. Harriet Stowe |
| 98 | Waste Land | T.S.Eliot |
| 99 | Nineteen Eighty-four | George Orwell |
| 100 | Sunny Days | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 101 | Faust | Goethe |
| 102 | Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| 103 | The City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
| 104 | The One Day Wonders | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 105 | Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| 106 | Bachelor of Arts | R. K. Narayan |
| 107 | China Passage | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 108 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| 109 | A Voice For Freedom | Nayantara Saigal |
| 110 | A Week with Gandhi | Louis Fisher |
| 111 | A Woman’s Life | Guy de Maupassant |
| 112 | Age of Reason | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 113 | Asian Drama | Gunnar Myrdal |
| 114 | The Bubble | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 115 | Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| 116 | The Castle | Franz Kalka |
| 117 | Chandalika | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 118 | The Class | Erich Byron |
| 119 | The Clown | Heinrich Boll |
| 120 | Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| 121 | Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| 122 | Confessions | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 123 | The Court Dancer | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 124 | Death of a City | Amrita Pritam |
| 125 | Decline and Fall of the Roman | Edward Gibbon Empire |
| 126 | Essays of Gita | Sir Aurobindo Ghosh |
| 127 | French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle |
| 128 | Ganadevata | Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya |
| 129 | Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 130 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| 131 | Grammar of Politics | Harold T.Laski |
| 132 | Guide | R.K.Narayan |
| 133 | Hindu View of Life | Dr.S.Radha Krishnan |
| 134 | Hungry Stones | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 135 | India Divided | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 136 | Jurassik Park | Michael Crichton |
| 137 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 138 | Richard Nixon | Leaders |
| 139 | Mahatma Gandhi | Romain Rolland |
| 140 | The Masters | C.P.Shaw |
| 141 | My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
| 142 | Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 143 | The Other Side of Midnight | Sidney Sheldon |
| 144 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 145 | Shape of Things to Come | H.G.Wells |
| 146 | Sons and Lovers | D.H.Lawrence |
| 147 | Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| 148 | Valley of Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
| 149 | Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
Thank you for reading the list of important Books and Authors, General Knowledge Material is useful for all competitive exams such as SSC, RRB, Banking, UPSC, State PSC and other competitive exams.
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