Famous Books and Authors List
Explore the famous books and authors list in India and around the world. Prepare important books and authors for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC and other competitive exams.
Famous Books and Authors List – Ancient India
- Valmiki = Ramayana
- Vyasa = Mahabharata
- Kalidasa = Abhijnanasakuntalam, Meghaduta, Raghuvamsha, Kumarasambhava
- Kautilya (Chanakya) = Arthashastra
- Panini = Ashtadhyayi
- Patanjali = Mahabhashya
- Bharata Muni = Natyashastra
- Vatsyayana = Kamasutra
- Banabhatta = Harshacharita, Kadambari
- Vishakhadatta = Mudrarakshasa
- Sudraka = Mrichchhakatika
- Bharavi = Kiratarjuniya
- Magha = Shishupalavadha
- Dandin = Dashakumaracharita
- Amarasimha = Amarakosha
- Ashvaghosha = Buddhacharita
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Famous Books and Authors List – Medieval India
- Kalhana = Rajatarangini
- Al-Biruni = Kitab-ul-Hind
- Al-Masudi = Muruj al-Dhahab
- Minhaj-us-Siraj = Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
- Ziauddin Barani = Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi, Fatwa-i-Jahandari
- Shams-i-Siraj Afif = Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi
- Amir Khusrau = Khazain-ul-Futuh, Tughlaq Nama
- Ibn Battuta = Rihla
- Abul Fazl = Akbarnama, Ain-i-Akbari
- Badauni = Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh
- Abdul Hamid Lahori = Padshahnama
- Jahangir = Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri
- Babur = Baburnama
- Guru Arjan Dev = Adi Granth
- Surdas = Sur Sagar
- Tulsidas = Ramcharitmanas, Vinaya Patrika
- Kabir = Bijak
- Chaitanya = Chaitanya Charitamrita
- Krishnadevaraya = Amuktamalyada
- Abdur Razzaq = Matla-us-Sadain
- Ferista (Firishta) = Tarikh-i-Firishta
- Jnaneshwar = Jnaneshwari
- Tukaram = Tukaram Gatha
Famous Books and Authors List – Modern India
- Raja Rammohan Roy = The Precepts of Jesus
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati = Satyarth Prakash
- Swami Vivekananda = Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay = Anandamath, Durgeshnandini
- Rabindranath Tagore = Gitanjali, Gora, The Home and the World
- Sri Aurobindo = The Life Divine, Savitri
- Mulk Raj Anand = Untouchable, Coolie, Across the Black Waters
- K. Narayan = Swami and Friends, The Guide, Malgudi Days, The English Teacher
- Raja Rao = Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope
- Khushwant Singh = Train to Pakistan, Delhi: A Novel, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
- Rohinton Mistry = A Fine Balance
- Salman Rushdie = Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, Shame, Victory City
- Arundhati Roy = The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Amitav Ghosh = The Shadow Lines
- Vikram Seth = A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate, An Equal Music
- Ruskin Bond = The Room on the Roof, The Blue Umbrella, A Flight of Pigeons
- Chetan Bhagat = Five Point Someone
- P.J. Abdul Kalam = Wings of Fire
- Jawaharlal Nehru = The Discovery of India, An Autobiography
- Mahatma Gandhi = The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Hind Swaraj
- R. Ambedkar = Annihilation of Caste, The Problem of the Rupee
- Radhakrishnan = The Hindu View of Life
- Munshi Premchand = Godaan, Gaban
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan = Madhushala
- Jaishankar Prasad = Kamayani
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay = Devdas
- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay = Pather Panchali
- Kuvempu = Sri Ramayana Darshanam
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak = Gita Rahasya
- Subhas Chandra Bose = The Indian Struggle
- D. Savarkar = The Indian War of Independence, 1857
- Dadabhai Naoroji = Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale = Speeches and Writings
- N. Roy = India in Transition
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad = India Wins Freedom
- Amitav Ghosh =The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy)
- Jhumpa Lahiri = Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, The Lowland
- Aravind Adiga = The White Tiger, Last Man in Tower, Selection Day
- Kiran Desai = The Inheritance of Loss, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
- Rohinton Mistry = A Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey, Family Matters
- Anita Desai = Clear Light of Day, In Custody, Fire on the Mountain
- Amish Tripathi = The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy), Ram Chandra Series
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni = The Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantments, Mistress of Spices
- Ashwin Sanghi = The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna Key
- Chetan Bhagat = Five Point Someone, 2 States, The 3 Mistakes of My Life
- Sudha Murty = Wise and Otherwise, Three Thousand Stitches, Grandma’s Bag of Stories
- Vikram Chandra = Sacred Games, Red Earth and Pouring Rain
- Shashi Tharoor = Inglorious Empire, The Great Indian Novel, India: From Midnight to the Millennium