Embark on a literary journey through the timeless wisdom of renowned authors and their influential works. Here’s a List of Important Books and Authors that one must know.
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List of Important Books and Authors
A Few Thousand Kilometres of Happiness – Anand Krishna Panicker
A Voice of Freedom – Nayantara Sahgal Annihilation of Caste – B.R. Ambedkar Bharat Durdasha – Bhartendu HarishchandraDas Kapital – Karl Marx David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru Divine Comedy – Dante AlighieriDivine Life for Children – Swami ShivanandDon Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway Free Hindustan – Tarak Nath Das Freedom at Midnight – Dominique Lapierre and Larry CollinsFrench Revolution – Thomas Carlyle Gandhi Before India – Ramachandra Guha Gathering Storm – Winston Churchill Geetanjali – Rabindra Nath Tagore Glimpses of World History – Jawaharlal NehruHamdard – Muhammad Ali Hints For Self Culture – Lala Hardayal History Of Congress – Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya Independent (Newspaper) – Motilal Nehru
India After Gandhi – The History of the World’s Largest Democracy – Ramchandra Guha India Divided – Dr. Rajendra Prasad India For Indians – Chittaranjan Das India Since Independence – Bipan Chandra Indian Unrest – Valentine Chirol Kaal – Paranjape King Lear – William ShakespeareLetters from a Father to her Daughter – Jawaharlal Nehru Maximum City – Bombay Lost and Found – Suketu Mehta Indian Struggle – Subhash Chandra Bose Painter of Signs – R.K. Narayan Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma Past Forward – G.R. Narayanan Pather Panchali – Bibhuti Bhushan Plain Speaking – N. Chandrababu Naidu Portrait of India – Ved Mehta Post Office – Rabindranath Tagore Poverty and Un-British Rule in India – Dadabhai NaorojiPrem Pachisi – Munshi Prem Chand Raghuvamsa – Kalidas Rajtarangini – Kalhana Ram Charita Manas – Tulsidas Ramayana – Maharishi Valmiki Ranghbhoomi – Prem Chand Ratnavali – Harsha Vardhan Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) – Gulzar Red Earth and Pouring Rain – Vikram Chandra Ritu Samhara – Kalidas River of Smoke – Amitav GhoshSaket – Maithili Sharan Gupt Sambad Kaumudi – Raja Ram Mohan Roy Satyarth Darpan – Dayanand Saraswati Seven Summers – Mulk Raj Anand Shadow from Ladakh – Bhabani Bhattacharya Snakes and Ladders – Essays on India – Gita Mehta Social Change in Modern India – M.N. Srinivas Som Prakash – Ishwarchadra Vidyasagar Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Rashmi Bansal Sultry Days – Shobhaa De Sunny Days – Sunny Days The Bride’s Book of Beauty – Mulk Raj Anand The Cat and Shakespeare – Raja Rao The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation – Pranab Mukherjee The Dark Room – R.K. Narayan The Degeneration of India – T.N. Seshan The Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru The Dramatic Decade The Indira Gandhi Year’s – Pranab Mukherjee The Girmitiya Saga – Girraj Kishore The Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy The Golden Gate – Vikram Seth The Men Who Killed Gandhi – Manohar Malgonkar The Revolutionary – Shachindra Sanyal The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success – Deepak Chopra The Songs of India – Sarojini Naidu The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi The Strange and Sublime Address – Amit Chaudhuri The Sword and the Sickle – Mulk Raj Anand The Trial of Palande – Anuj Tikku The Vendor of Sweets – R.K. Narayan The Way of the Wizard – Deepak Chopra Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh Two Leaves and a Bud – Mulk Raj Anand Unhappy India – Lala Lajpat Rai Victoria and Abdul – Shrabani Basu Vikram Seth – Kuldeep Nayar Waiting for the Mahatma – R.K. Narayan Wake Up India – Annie Besant War of Indian Independence – Veer Savarkar We, Indians – Khushwant Singh Wings of Fire: An Autobiography – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Yama – Mahadevi Verma Yashodhara – Maithili Sharan Gupt Years of Pilgrimage – Dr. Raja RamannaYear of the Vulture – Amita Malik
