Books and Authors / पुस्तकें एवं लेखक
Books and Authors is a major static-GK topic. The source provides a long list of important Indian and international authors along with their well-known books. Questions are generally asked in the form 'Who wrote this book?' or 'Which book was written by this author?'
Books and Authors static GK का important topic है। Source में Indian और international authors के साथ उनकी important books की long list दी गई है। Exams में generally 'Who wrote this book?' या 'Which book was written by this author?' type questions पूछे जाते हैं।
International Authors / अंतरराष्ट्रीय लेखक
- Alexandre Dumas → The Three Musketeers
- Aristotle → Politics
- Aung San Suu Kyi → Freedom from Fear
- Barack Obama → Dreams from My Father; A Promised Land in source
- Charles Dickens → David Copperfield
- Dante Alighieri → The Divine Comedy
- E.M. Forster → A Passage to India
- Gunter Grass → The Tin Drum
- H.G. Wells → Time Machine
- Karl Marx → Das Kapital
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels → Communist Manifesto
- Malala Yousafzai → We Are Displaced
- Sir Richard Burton → The Arabian Nights
- Stephen Hawking → A Brief History of Time
- Taslima Nasreen → All About Women
- Thomas Pynchon → Against the Day
Indian Authors and Personalities / भारतीय लेखक एवं व्यक्तित्व
- Amartya Sen → Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
- Amartya Sen → The Argumentative Indian
- Amartya Sen → Development as Freedom
- Amitav Ghosh → River of Smoke; Sea of Poppies; The Circle of Reason; The Great Derangement
- Amrita Pritam → Death of a City
- Anita Desai → Clear Light of Day
- Arun Shourie → A Secular Agenda
- Arundhati Roy → The Algebra of Infinite Justice
- Arundhati Roy → The God of Small Things
- Arundhati Roy → Greater Common Good
- Ashwaghosha → Buddha Charitham in source
- Bankim Chandra Chatterji → Anand Math; Durgeshnandini
- Chandrashekhar → Meri Jail Diary
- Chetan Bhagat → Revolution 2020; What Young India Wants; Half Girlfriend; One Night at the Call Centre; Making India Awesome; One Indian Girl
- Chitra Subramaniam → India is for Sale
- Dr C. Rangarajan → Indian Economy: Essays on Money and Finance
- General V.P. Malik → Kargil: From Surprise to Victory
- Indira Gandhi → My Truth
- Jai Shankar Prasad → Ajatshatru
- Jawaharlal Nehru → Discovery of India; Glimpses of World History
- Jayaprakash Narayan → Prison Diary
- K. Natwar Singh → Walking with Lions; Curtain Raisers
- Kapil Dev → Straight from the Heart
- Khushwant Singh → Train to Pakistan
- Kiran Bedi → I Dare; As I See
- Kiran Desai → The Inheritance of Loss
- L.K. Advani → A Prisoner's Scrap in source
- Mahatma Gandhi → My Experiments with Truth
- Mark Tully → The Heart of India
- Mulk Raj Anand → Untouchable
- Narendra Modi → Exam Warriors
- Pranab Mukherjee → The Coalition Years; The Presidential Years
- Premchand → Godan
- Ramachandra Guha → Gandhi; Makers of Modern India
- R.K. Narayan → The Guide
- Ruskin Bond → A Garland of Memories; Death under the Deodars
- Sarojini Naidu → Golden Threshold; The Broken Wings
- Shashi Tharoor → A Long Era of Darkness; Paradoxical Prime Minister
- Sri Aurobindo Ghosh → Essays on Gita
- V.S. Naipaul → India: A Wounded Civilisation; Half a Life; An Area of Darkness; Magic Seeds
- Ved Vyas → Bhagwad Gita in source
- Vikram Seth → An Equal Music
Sports-Related Books / खेल से संबंधित पुस्तकें
- Kapil Dev → Straight from the Heart
- Yuvraj Singh → The Test of My Life
- Sourav Ganguly and Gautam Bhattacharya → A Century is Not Enough
- Vijay Lokapally → Driven: The Virat Kohli Story
- Vimal Kumar → Sachin: Cricketer of the Century
Recent Books Listed in the Source / स्रोत में दी गई अपेक्षाकृत नई पुस्तकें
- Nand Kishore Acharya → Chilte Hue Apne Ko – 2019
- Natwar Singh → One Life is Not Enough
- P. Chidambaram → A View from Outside
- Raghuram Rajan → I Do What I Do
- Naveen Chawla → Every Vote Counts
- Rajdeep Sardesai → How Modi Won India – 2019
- Vasdev Mohi → Cheque Book – 2019, Saraswati Samman in source
Most Important Exam Pairs / महत्वपूर्ण परीक्षा युग्म
- Discovery of India → Jawaharlal Nehru
- My Experiments with Truth → Mahatma Gandhi
- Godan → Premchand
- The Guide → R.K. Narayan
- Train to Pakistan → Khushwant Singh
- The God of Small Things → Arundhati Roy
- Das Kapital → Karl Marx
- A Brief History of Time → Stephen Hawking
- Exam Warriors → Narendra Modi
- The Test of My Life → Yuvraj Singh