Famous books and authors of the year 2017
Books | Author |
‘1971: The Fall of Dhaka’ | G. D. Bakshi |
‘Social exclusion and justice in India’ | P.S. Krishnan |
‘Unstoppable: My Life So Far’ | Maria Sharapova |
‘Salil Sports and Current Heroine in Indian Art’ | Kshetrapal Gangwar and Sanjib Kumar Singh |
‘Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Genuine Minds’ | Cordelia Fine |
‘I Do What I Do: On Reform, Ratoric and Resolve’ | Raghuram Rajan |
‘Khushwant Singh-in Wisdom and in Zest’ | Vijay Narayan Shankar and Omkar Singh |
‘President Pranab Mukherjee-A Statesman’ | Publishing, Statman Group |
‘The Wheel Chair’ | Raja Bundela |
‘M / s. Swaminathan: The Quest for a World Without Hunger ‘ | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan |
‘Childhood Nostalgia and Triggering Tales’ | A.P. mahaswari |
‘Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature’ | JaiRam Ramesh |
‘Story of Clean Jungle – Grandmothers’ | Dr. Madhu Pant |
‘Gandhi in Champaran’ | Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar |
‘The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox’ | Ullekh NP |
‘Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored’ | Rishi Kapoor and Meena Nair |
‘Jinnah Often Cam to Outer House’ | Kiran Doshi |
‘The People’s President: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’ | S. M. Khan |
‘The Tribal Will Not Dance’ | Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar |
‘Calcutta’ | Kunal Basu |
‘Half of what is with you’ | Anil Menon |
‘The Island of Lost Girls’ | Manjula Padmanabhan |
‘Veerappan, chewing the brigand’ | Vijay Kumar |
‘Pakistan: Coating the Abis’ | Tilak Deveshar |
‘Determination in Higher Education’ | Kanhaiya Prasad Sinha |
‘Indian Railway – The Vaving of a National Tapestry’ | Bibek Debroy, Sanjay Chadha and Vidyakrishnamurthy jointly wrote. |
‘Home of the Brave’ | Nitin A. Gokhale and Brigadier S.S. K. Chatterjee has written jointly. |
’50 Years of India’s Milk Revolution’ | Radha Mohan Singh |
Rekha – The Untold Story’ | Yasser Usman |
‘Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl’ | Ram Kamal Mukherjee |
‘Veerappan, Chasing the Brigand’ | Vijay Kumar |
‘Matoshree’ | Sumitra Mahajan |
Famous books and authors of the year 2016
Books | Author |
Citizen and Society | Hamid Ansari (Vice President) |
Driven: The Virat Kohli Story | Vijay Lokapally |
One Indian girl (Genre: Fiction) | Chetan Bhagat |
Six Machine (I Don’t Like Cricket … I Love It) | Chris Gayle |
AB The autobiography | AB De villiers |
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History | Sanjeev Sanyal |
R D Burmania: Panchamemoirs | Chaitanya Padukone |
India Rising: Fresh Hope, New Fears | Ravi Velloor |
Love of Indian history (Scholastic Asian Book Award) | Aditi Krishnakumar |
A Life in Diplomacy | Maharajakrishna Rasgotra |
The Unseen Indira Gandhi | Dr KP Mathur |
Ace Against Odds | Sania Mirza with Imran Mirza and Shivani Gupta |
Who Moved My Interest Rate | Duvvuri Subbarao (former Governor of RBI) |
Ringside With Vijender | Rudraneil Sengupta |
Courage & Commitment | Margaret Alva |
Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography | Bharathi S Pradhan |
Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters | Kishlay Bhattacharjee |
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprises | Kartar Lalvani |
India vs Pakistan. Why Can’t we just be Friends? | Husain Haqqani |
The Kiss of Life: How a serhero & my son defeated cancer | Emraan Hashmi and Bilal Siddiqi |
The Drowned Detective | Neil Jordan |
Book titled “Who was Shivaji? ” | Govind Pansare |
Endurance: My Year in Space & Our Journey to Mars | Scott Kelly |
Framed as a Terrorist | Mohammad Aamir Khan |
Standing Guard: A Year in Opposition | P Chidambaram |
The Forgotten Room | Lincoln Child |
Cometh the Hour | Jeffery Archer |
China: Behind the Miracle | Sumita Dawra |
Swimmers among the Stars | Kanishk Tharoor |
The Golden Son | Shilpi Somaya Gowda |
Alphabet Soup for Lovers | Anita Nair |
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives | Sunil Khilnani |
Life Mantras | Subrata Roy |
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
India-Myanmar Relations: Changing Contours | Rajiv Bhatia |
Erotext | Sudeep Sen |
The Story of the Lost Child | Elena Ferrante |
The Invisible Man from Salem | Christoffer Carlsson |
Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh | Sathya Saran |
Woodsmoke and Leafcups | Madhu Ramnath |
Ghosts of Kingdoms past | Satyajit Ray |
The Sea Lies Ahead | Intizar Husain |
The Eighth Ring: An Autobiography | KM Mathew |
JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA and the Sino-India War | Bruce Riedel |
The Noise of Time | Julian Barnes |
Offend, Shock or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution | Gautam Bhatia |
The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996 | Pranab Mukherjee |
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography | Pramod Kapoor |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
In Other Words | Jhumpa Lahiri |
Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time | Subhash Chandra |
On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power | Sharad Pawar |
Going for Gold | Nanda Menon |
A Handbook for My Lover | Rosalyn D’Mello |
1962: The War That Wasn’t | Shiv Kunal |
Three Seasons | Latha Anantharaman |
Slade House | David Mitchell |
Godfathers of Crime: Face to Face with India’s Most Wanted | Sheela Raval |
The Window | Fiona Barton |
The New Xenophobia | Tabish Khair |
Sleeping on Jupiter | Anuradha Roy |
Maru Bharat Saru Bharat (My India Noble India) | Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj |
The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee |
Family Life | Akhil Sharma |
Legal Confidential: Adventures of an Indian Lawyer | Ranjeev C Dubey |
For King and another Country | Shrabani Basu |
One Point Two Billion | Mahesh Rao |
The Private Life of Ms Sharma | Ratika Kapur |
Hangwoman | KR Meera (translated by J Devika) |
The Book of Gold Leaves | Mirza Waheed |
She will build Him a City | Raj Kamal Jha |
Odysseus Abroad | Amit Chaudhuri |
Flood of Fire | Amitav Ghosh |
Seahorse | Janice Pariat |
The Patna Manual of Style | Siddharth Chowdhury |
When the River Sleeps | Easterine Kire |
The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left | Praful Bidwai |
Eat Dust: Mining and Greed in Goa | Hartman De Souza |
The Marvels | Brian Selznick |
Career of Evil | Robert Galbraith |
This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines | Barkha Dutt |
The Last Raja of West Pakistan | Priyajit Debsarkar |
Red River Blue Hills | Ankush Saikia |
Swimmer among the Stars | Kanishk Tharoor |
The New Xenobhobia | Tabish Khair |
Sikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984 | Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |
Kalkatta | Kunal Basu |
Ancestral Affairs | Keki Daruwala |
The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
Famous books and authors of the year 2015
Books | Author |
Yogikasparsh | Nivedita Josh |
Flood and fire | Amitav Ghosh |
Modi’s World: Expanding India’s Sphere of Influence | C. Raja Mohan |
Red Tap to Red Carpet and then Some | Gina Rinehart |
Yoga and Islam | Imran Chaudhary and Shri Abhijeet Singh |
Modi-Ek Sitare ka Atulniy Udgam | Tarun Vijay |
Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson |
The Complete story of Indian reforms: 2G, power and private enterprises | Pradip Baijal |
Rashtrapursh chandrashekhar | Yashvant singh |
China: Confucius in the Shadows | Poonam Surie |
Sourav Ganguli: Cricket, Captaincy and controversy | Saptarshi Sarkar |
Unbelieveable: Delhi to Islamabad | Pro. Bhim Singh |
Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy Speaker’s Perspective | Meera Kumar |
The Modi Effect:Inside Narendra Modi’s Caimpaign to Transform india | Lance Price |
Mothering India | Sushmita Rao |
The Red Sari | Javier Memo |
Two Years at Months and Twenty-Eight Nights | Salman Rushdie |
Playing It My Way | Sachin Tendulkar |
Half Girlfriend | Chetan Bhagat |
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography | Andy Marino |
Arctic Summer | Damon Galgut |
Hard Choice | Hillary Clinton |
Famous books and authors of the year 2014
Book | Author |
The Second Half | Roy Keane |
The Half Mother | Shahnaz Bashir |
Shikhandi and other Tales They Don’t Tell you | Devdutt Patnaika |
Courtesans, Bar Girls and Dancing Boys: The Illicit World of Indian Dance | Anna Morcom |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan |
Playing It My Way | Sachin Tendulkar |
The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee |
In Search of Hope | Mariane Pearl |
Sun Mere Bandhu Re : The musical world of S.D. Burmon | Sathya Saran, Harpar Collins |
No Country | Kalyan Ray |
Colours of the Cage : A Prison Memoir | Arun Ferreira |
Sons of Brahma | Dhruba Hazarika |
The Political Imagination: A personal Response to Life, Literature and Politics | Narantara Sehgal |
Maimaar-E-Quan | Dr.A.R. Kidwai |
Birth of Cinema authored | N. Gopal Krishna |
An Introduction to Urdu Poetry | Anees Ayesha |
Indian Painting | Prof. B. N. Goswami |
1283 Golas | Pele |
The Third Curve-a Book Written | Mansoor Khan |
I am Malala | Malala Yousufzai |
Haunted by Fire Essays On Caste, Class, Exploitation And Emancipation | Mythily Sivaraman |
Gandhi Before India | Ramchandra Guha |
How Not to Make Money | Raj Kundra |
Selected Works of Jawarharlal Nehru Second Series, Edited | Prof. Madhavan Palat |
My Journey : Transforming Dreams into Actions | Dr. APJ Kalam |
Gitanjali the Collection of Poems | Tagore |
The Moonballer book | Nirupama Vaidyanathan |
Agenda for India’s Growth | P. Chidambaram |
The Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri |
Shahar Sone Chala a Collection of Poems authored | Sat Pal |
Smritiyan authored | Garima Sanjay |
Unbeautifully | Madeline Sheehan |
Going Clear: Scientology | Lawrence Wright |
Hot Ticket (Sinners on Tour) | Olivia Cunning |
Beauty from Surrender | Georgia Cates |
The Republic of Thieves | Scott Lynch |
Second Chance Boyfriend | Monica Murphy |
And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini |
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Harry Potter Companion Books) | J. K. Rowling |
Famous books and authors of the year 2013
Book | Author |
The Sea of Innocence | Kishwar Desai |
My Afternoon Poems | Ashok K. Mahapatra |
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and The year of his pilgrimage: | Haruki Murakami |
Punjabiyat | Col Jasbir Singh Khurana |
Solo | William Boyd |
Walking Disaster | Jamie McGuire |
Twisted Perfection | Abbi Glines |
Spellbinding | Maya Gold |
Unbreakable | Elizabeth Norris |
Body Goddess | Payal Gidwani Tiwari |
ABCs of Parenting | Gouri Dange |
Come on Inner Peace! | Sachin Garg |
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions: | Amartya Sen & Jean Dreze |
Compass Box Killer | Piyush Jha |
Unexploded | Alison Macleod |
Trans Atiantic | Colum McCann |
The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton |
We Need New Names | Noviolet Bulawayo |
The Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri |
A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Qzeki |
The Testament of Mary | Colm Toibin |
The Spinning Heart | Donal Ryan |
The Marrying of Chani Kanfman | Eve Harris |
Five Star Billionaire | Tash Aw |
Almost English | Charlotte Mendelson |
Harvest | Jim Crace |
The kills | Richard House |
Famous books and authors of the year 2012
Book | Author |
The Convert | Deborah Baker |
Chinaman | Shehan Karunatilaka |
Soul Mate | Dharmendra R. Pandey |
River of Smoke | Amitav Ghosh |
The Sily Company of People who Care | Rahul Bhattacharya |
The Wandering Falcon | Jamil Ahmad |
Please Look after Mom | Kyung Sook Shin |
Dream of Ding Village | Yan Lionke |
The Lake | Bonana Yashimoto |
Actors Annonymous | James Franco |
When Loss is Gain | Pavan K. Varma |
The Yellow Emperor’s Cure | Kunal Basu |
The Best Thing About You is You | Anupam Kher |
Bekir Paror Jui (Fire on the banks of river beki) | Hemen Das |
Moda Goa: History & style | Wendell Rodricks |
Bajanaama, A study of Early Indian Recording | A.N. Sharma |
Write of Passage | R. Siva Kumar |
Nirbasan | Taslima Nasreen |
Lava | Javed Akhtar |
Cooking with Poo | Saiyuud Diwong |
Guerrillero del tiempo (Time Guerilla) | Fide Castro |
Glimpses of Indian Women Hockey | K. Arumugam |
The Taxonomy of office chairs | Jonathan Olivares |
The Sins of the Father | Jeffery Archer |
Intimacies | Kunal Basu |
Two Mothers | Khalid Mohamed |
Spark of the Divine | Sant Rajender Singhji Maharaj |
India for Sale:My 150 Cartoons on Corruption | Sudhir Tailang |
Bajanaama | A.N. Sharma |
Sinh Garjana (Roar of Lion)-II | D.G. Venzara |
And All is said | Zareer Masani |
Lest We Forget History | Gagan Sethi and PGJ Nampoothiri |
Moda Goa | Wendell Rodricks |
A Life in Politicks | Selected Speeches and Lectures 1979-2004: P.A Sangma |
Begum Bano aur Khatoon | Rama Pandey |
The Man Within My Head | Pico Iyer |
How to fight Islamist terror From a missionary Position | Tabish Khair |
A life in words: Memories | Ismat Chaughtai (Translated by M Asaduddin) |
Dictionary of the Great Andamanses Language | Anvita Abbi |
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 | William Dalrymple |
A Free Man | Aman Sethi |
The Folded Earth | Anuradha Roy |
The $10 Trillion Prize | Abheek Singhi with Michael J Silverstein, Carol Liao & David Michael |
The Incredible Banker | Ravi Subramanian |
The Araya Women | R. Narayan |
Famous books and authors of the year 2011
Book | Author |
Home Boy | H.M. Naqvi |
The Story of a Widow | Musharraf Ali Farooqi |
Atlas of Unknowns | Tania James |
Coconut Unlimited | Nikesh Shukla |
The Temple Goers | Aatish Taseer |
Not Quite White | Simon Thirsk |
Witness the Night | Kishwar Drsai |
Times by the Thames: An Indian Cruise | Vijay Dutt |
The Congress and the Making of Indian Nation | Pranab Mukherjee |
Beyond Silence | Kusum Ansal |
Kurukshetra to Kargil | K. Kuldip Singh |
Journey of a Nation: Indian National Congress; 125 Years | Anand Sharma |
Tenders Hooks | Moni Mohsin |
The Pleasure Seekers | Tinhani Doshis |
Only time will tell | Jeffrey Archer |
The inheritor | Upendra Tankha |
Indian Cinema- The Faces Behind the mask | Anil Sarri |
Patrons of Poor- Caste Politics and Policy Making in India | Narayan Lakshman |
The Taste of Sorrow | Jude Morgan |
Kashmir and Beyond- 1996-84 | Karan Singh |
A Doctor in the House | Mahathir Mohammed |
Muan Jodro | Om Tanvi |
Third Best | Arjun Rao |
Billy Arjan Singh- The tiger of Dudhwa | Shaminder Boparai |
The Collaborator | Mirza Waheed |
Pure Sequence | Paro Anand |
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
The Intolerant Indian | Gautam Adhikari |
The Gathering | Kelly Armstrong |
Chalti Chaki | Suryanath Singh |
Through Her Eyes | Jennifer Archer |
Beautiful Beings | Kailin Gow |
In the Shadow of the Lamp | Susanne Dunlap |
Carte Blanch (James Bond Novel) | Jeffery Deaver |
Wheat Killing You? | Ishi Khosla |
A Madras Miscellany –A decade of People, Place and Potpourri | S. Muthian |
Daughters –A Story if Five generation | Bharati Roy |
Born Liars | Ian Leslie |
Three Parts Desire | Shailaja Bajpai |
Broken melodies | Gajra Kottary |
Chand@Aasman.Com | Vimal Kumar |
A Man Melting | Craig Cliff |
The Memory of love | Aminatta Forna |
Commitment And Creativity and Reminiscences of an IAS Officer | PN Bhandari |
River of Smoke | Amitav Ghosh |
Geek Nation | Angela Saini |
First Day First Show | Anupama Chopra |
Magical Moonbeams | Ruqayia Shabir Tantray |
The Dowry Problem | Robin Wyatt with Nazia Masood |
Teesri Taali | Pradip Saurabh |
Love was Never Mine | Kunal Bhardwaj |
Priya- In Incredible Indyaa | Namita Gokhale |
The Memory of Love | Aminatta Forna |
Grace Williams Says it Loud | Emma Henderson |
Leela’s Book | Alice Albinia |
Great House | Nicoe Krauss |
Annable | Katjleen Winter |
Room | Emma Donoghue |
Not Made In Heaven | Ranjana Sinha |
Last Man in Tower | Arvind Adiga |
The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
On Canaan’s Side | Sebastian Barry |
Jamrach’s Menagerie | Carol Birch |
The Sisters Brothers | Pattrick deWitt |
Half Blood Blues | Esi Edugyan |
A Cupboard of Full Coast | Yvvette Edwords |
The Stranger’s Child | Alan Hollinghurst |
Pigeon English | Stephen Kelman |
The Last Hundred Days | Patric McGuinness |
Snowdrops | A.D. Miller |
Far to Go | Alison Pick |
The Testament of Jessie Lamb | Jane Rogers |
Derby Day | D.J. Taylor |
Amitabh Laxicon | Bhawana Somaaya |
The wandering Falcon | Jamil Ahmad |
God is a River | Mona Verma |
Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders | Rajeev Peshawaria |
An Appeal From Death Row (Rajiv Murder Case – The Truth Speaks) | A.G. Perarivalan |
A Free Man | Aman Sethi |
On China | Henry Kissinger |
Those in Peril | Wilbur Smith |
Deadly Embrace | Bruce Riedel |
The Abduction | John Grisham |
Killing Hour | Andrew Gross |
Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
The Service of the State | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
This is All I have to Say | Swapan Seth |
Prisoner No 100 | Anjum Zamarud Habib |
Sepia Leaves | Amandeep Sandhu |
And All is Said- Memoris of a Home Divided | Zareer Masani |
Interleaves | Lata Mani |
The Female Eunuch | Germaine Greer |
His Majesty’s Opponent – Subhas Chandra Bose | Sugata Bose |
India’s Struggle Against Empire | Sugata Bose |
State of Wonder | Anna Patchett |
Does He Know a Mother’s Heart? | Arun Shourie |
Oru malaprankadha | Habeeb Arakkl |
Virtuous Sin | Shadan Ahmed |
5000 Years of Indian Art | Sushma K. Bahl |
Upworldly Mobile | Ranjini Manian |
The Romance of Indian Coffee | P.T. Bopanna |
The World at His Feat | Pullela Gopichand |
Non-Stop India | Mark Tully |
The Taj at Apollo Bunder | Charles Allen & Sharada Dwivedi |
The Dancing Girl: A History of Early India | Balaji sadaivan |
His Monsoon Bride | Aastha Atray |
A History of Violence: from the End of the middle Ages to the Present | Robert Muchembled Polity, USA |
A love Song for India | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy | Bill Clinton |
Dead Reckoning – Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War | Sarmil Bose; Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon |
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground | Jonathan Steele |
India’s Parliamentary Democracy on Trial | Madhav Godbole, Rupa Publication New Delhi |
Integrating Services in South Asia Trade, Investment and Mobility | Rupa Chandra |
Last Man in Tower | Arvind Adiga |
Maharaja Hari Singh: The Troubled Years | Harbans Singh |
My Kashmir: The Dying of the light | Wajahat Habibullah Penguin India, New Delhi |
Rising India – A Saga of Youth and Adventure | M.S.Kohli |
Silent Scream | Kishin R. Wadhwaney |
Small is beautiful | E.F. Schumachar |
Sociological Traditions, Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India | T.N. Madan, Sage Publications India Ltd, New Delhi. |
Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson |
The beautiful and the damned: Life in New India | Siddharth Deb |
The Better Angles of our Nature: Why Violence has declined | Steven Pinker, U.K |
The Cat’s Table: A Novel | Micheal Ondaatje |
The Financial Inclusion – Imperative and Sustainable Approaches | Deepali Pant Joshi Cambridge University Press, New Delhi |
The Higher Honour | Condolizza Rice, former US Secretary of State |
The Man who never Died: The Life, Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labour Icon | William Adler, U.S.A |
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity | Jeffery D. Sachs. |
The Valley of Marks | Tarun Tejpal Fourth Estate |
Thorns to Competition | Arindam Chaudhury and Rajita Chaudhury |
Famous books and authors of the year 2010
Book | Author |
Day Scholar | Eric Gamalinda |
Jimmy The Terrorist | Omair Ahmed |
The Descartes Highlands | Siddharth Choudhury |
Residue | Nitasha Kaul |
To Be Mortal | Sanjula Sharma |
Journey to the Holy Land-A Pilgrim’s Dairy | Amir Ahmad Alawi |
Home | Marilynne Robinson |
Going Rogue-An American Life | Sarah Palin |
The Load | Conceicao B Praun |
Slumboy –L’extraordinair destin D’um Enfant De Bombay (French) | Azharuddin Ismail |
Khuddur Yatra (the journey of khuddure) | Abanindranath tagore |
The grasshopper’s Run | Siddhartha Sharma |
Balancing Act | Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy |
I Accuse –The Anti Sikh Violence of 1984 | Jarnail Singh |
Talash-E-Ghalib | Sujan Kaur |
Love in a Headscarf | Shelina Zahra Janmohammed |
To The Last Bullet | Vinita Kamte |
The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
Paradise Lost | John Milton |
The Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
ivanhoe | Sir wafter scott |
Promessi Sposi, The Betrothed | Alassandro Manzoni |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
Vanity Fair | William Makpeace Thackeray |
Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome |
A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark T wain |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
The Brothers Karamazov | Feodor Dostoevsky |
Treasure Island | R. L. Stevenson |
Tess of the d’urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
Time Machine | Herbert George Wells |
Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
Gitanjall | Rabindranath Tagore |
Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence |
The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan |
of Human Bondage | Somerset Maugham |
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse | Hida Rosner |
Mahatma Gandhi | Romain Rolland |
The Story of My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
Tarka the Otter | Henry Williamson |
And Quiet Flows the Don | Mikhail Sholokhov |
A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Miller Hemingway |
The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Untouchable | Mulk Raj Anand |
Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene |
The Diary of A Young Girl | Anne Frank |
The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
The Bridge on the Drina | lvo Andric |
The President | Miguel Angel Asturias |
Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell |
Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
A Town like Alice | Nevil Shute |
51 . Nectar in a Sieve | Kamala Markandeya |
The Tree of Man | Patrick White |
Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh |
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
The Guide | R. K. Narayan |
Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
Born Free | Joy Adamson |
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
A Backward Place | Ruth Prawar Jhabwala |
The Jewel in the Crown | Paul Scott |
The Custer Wolf | Roger Caras |
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Portrait of india | Ved Mehta |
Love Story | Erich Segal |
The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
Kanthapura | Raja Rao |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach |
Humboldt’s Gift | Saul Bellow |
All Things Wise and Wonderful | James Herriot |
Roots | Alex Haley |
Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai |
The Far Pavilions | M. M. kaye |
Sophie’s Choice | William Styron |
A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul |
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
The Bone People | Keri Hulme |
The Final Passage | Caryl Phillips |
The City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins |
Spy Catcher | Peter Wright |
English August (An Indian Story) | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
The Long Silence | Shashi Deshpande |
Lajja | Taslima Nasrin |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
Delhi is Not Far | Ruskin Bond |
The Heart of india | Mark Tully |
Anita and Me | Meera Syal |
The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
Snakes and Ladders | Gita Mehta |
The Mistress of Spices | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
Anil’s Ghost | Michael Ondaatje |
Riot | Shashi Tharoor |
Family Matters | Rohinton Mistry |
White Mughals | William Dalrymple |
Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
Hungry Tide | Amitav Ghosh |
Amu | Shonali Bose |
Famous books and authors of the year 2009
Book | Author |
Causes of the Indian Mutiny | Sir. Syyed Ahmed Khan |
Ghulam Giri | Jyotiba Phule |
To all fighters, why Socialism? | J.P. Narayan |
Pakhtoon | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
Problem of the East | Lord Curzon |
My Indian years | Lord Harding ll |
Economics History of Inida | R.C. Dutt |
Pather Panchali | Bibhuti Bhushan Benerji |
The Spirit of Islam | Syyed Ameer Ali |
Precepts of Jesus | Ram Mohan Roy |
A Gift of Monotheists | Ram Mohan Roy |
Satyarth Prakash | Swami Dayanand |
Anand Math | Bankim C. Chatterji |
Devi Chaudharni | Bankim C. Chatterji |
Sitaram | Bankim C. Chatterji |
The Indian Struggle | S.C. Bose |
Poverty Un-British Rule in India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
The Spirit of Islam | Syyed Ameer Ali |
A Nation in the making | S.N. Banerji |
Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
The Indian War of Independence | V.D. Savarkar |
Indian Divided | Rajendra Prasad |
The Discovery of India | J.L. Nehru |
Neel Darpan | Dinbandhu Mitra. |
Hind Swaraj | M.K. Gandhi |
What Congress and Ghandi have done to the untouchables | B.R. Ambedkar |
Panchatanra | Pt. Vishnu Sharma |
Mudra Rakshas | Vishakhadatta |
Prem Vatika | Raskhan |
Ashtadhyayi | Panini |
Mrichhakatikam | Shudrak |
Raghuvansham, Kumarsambhavam, Meghdootam, Abhugyanshakuntalam | Kalidasa |
Mitakshara | Vigyaneshwar |
Kama Sutra | Mallanāga Vātsyāyana |
Daybhag | Jeemootwahan |
Rajtarangini | Kalhana |
Natural History | Plini |
Arthashastra | Kautilya |
Avanti Sundari, Dashkumaracharitam | Dandi |
Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharata | Ved Vyas |
Buddha Charitam | Ashwaghosh |
Geet Govind | Jayadev |
Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
Malti Madhav | Bhavabhuti |
Amar Singh | Amar Singh |
Niti-Shatak, Shringar Shatak, Vairagya Shatak | Bhartihari |
Shahnama | Firdausi |
Ain-i-Akbari, Akabarnama | Abul Fazal |
Sahityalahri, Sursagar | Surdas |
Bijak, Ramayani, Sabar | Kabirdas |
Humanyunama | Gulbadan Beghum |
Kitab-ul-Hind | Al-Beruni |
Padmavat | Malik Mohammed Jayasi |
Coolie, Confession of a lover, Two leaves and a bud | Mulk Raj Anand |
Hinduism, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, A Passage to England, Culture in the Vanity Bag, Continent of Crime | Nirad C. Chaudhury |
Chitrangada, Gitanjali, Gora, Chandalika, Visarjana, Hungry Stones | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
The Judgment, Distant Neighbours; India, The Critical Years; In Jail, Indai after Nehru, Between the Lines | Kuldip Nayyar |
Jyotsana, Yugwani, Chidambara | Sumitranandan Pant |
Life Divine Essays on Gita | Sri Aurobindo Ghosh |
Divine Life | Swami Shivanand |
Death of a City , Kagaz te Canvas, Forty nine Days | Amrita Pritam |
Godan, Gaban, Karmabhumi, Rangbhumi | Munsi PremChand |
Indira Gandhi Returns, Indira Gandhi; Badhate Kadam, The Company of woman | Khushwant Singh |
Untold Story, Confronation with Pakistan | B.M Kaul |
Sakharam Binder | Vijay Tendulkar |
The Darkroom, Malgudi Days, Guide, My Days, Swami and Friends | R.K. Narayanan |
Indian Philosophy | Dr.S.Radhakrishnan |
Golden Threshold, Broken wings | Sarojini Naidu |
Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Jusi ki kali | Suryaknt Tripathi Nirala |
Jhootha Sach | Yashpal |
Kamayani, Aansoo, Skandagupa, Ajatshatru | Jai Shankar Prasad |
Agni Veena | Kazi Nazrul Islam |
Bharat Bharati | Mainthilisharm Gupt |
Kurukshera, Urvashi | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar |
Eternal India | Mrs. Indira Ghandhi |
Kitni Nawon Mein Kitenee Bar, Aangan Ke paar, Dwar, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, Nadi Ke Dweep | S.H.Vatsyayan’Agyeya’ |
Yama, Niharika, Neeraja | Mahadevi Verma |
Amrit Aur Vish | Amrit Lal Nagar |
A Voice of Freedom | Nayantara Sehgal |
Area of Darkness, A House for Mr.Biswas A Million Multinies Now, A Bend in the River | V.S. Naipal |
Chandrakanta Santati | Devkinandan Khatri |
Devdas, Charitraheen, Shrikant, Parineeta | Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay |
Jhansi Ki Rani | Vrindavanal Verma |
Sunita, Tyagpatra | Jainendra Kumar |
Chitralekha | Bhagwati Charan Verma |
Maila Aanchal, Mare Gaye Gulfam | Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’ |
Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai | Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’ |
Bharat Durdasha, Satya Harischandra | Bhartendu Harischandra |