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 |