Static GK Notes for RRB NTPC &GROUP-D-2: Important Books&Authors List

Static GK Notes for RRB NTPC &GROUP-D-2: 

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CLASS-2: Important Books&Authors List

Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night  –Salman Rushdie 

The Red Sari –Javier Moro 

Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama

My Favourite Nature Stories- Ruskin Bond

Neither a hawk nor a dove –Khurshid M Kasuari 

Faces and Places Professor –Deepak Nayyar 

Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Meira Kumar 

Farishta –Kapil Isapuari 

Super Economies –Raghav Bahal 

China: Confucius in the Shadow –Poonam Surie 

My country My Life ‐ L.K.Advani

Joseph Anton ‐ Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)

The Sahara Testaments ‐ Tade Ipadeola

Narendra Modi: A Political Biography ‐ Andy Marino

My Unforgettable Memories ‐ Mamata Banerjee

Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri ‐ Dr R L Bhat

Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan ‐ Daman Singh

The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall

Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership ‐ Pavan Choudary

Walking With Giants ‐ G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary )

Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths ‐ PC Parakh

The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‐ Sanjaya Baru

God of Antarctica ‐ Master Yashvardhan Shukla (At the age of 13)

My Years with Rajiv and Sonia ‐ R.D.Pradhan

Khushwantnama ‐The Lessons of My Life ‐ Khushwant Singh

Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age ‐ Alexander Bard

One Life is Not Enough ‐ Natwar Singh

The Lives of Others ‐ Neel Mukherjee

My Music My Life ‐ Pt Ravi Shankar

I am Malala ‐ Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb

A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power ‐ Bette Dam

True Colours — Adam Gilchrist

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? ‐ Faraz Ahmad

The God of Small Things ‐ Arundhati Roy

Interpreter of Maladies ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

And then One Day: A Memoir ‐ Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography)

Unaccustomed Earth ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Lowland ‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Truth Always Prevails ‐ Sadruddin Hashwani

Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder

Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) ‐ Mary Kom

Enoch, I am a British Indian ‐ Sarinder Joshua

Durch ModiNomics ‐ Sameer Kochar

Public Issues Before Parliament ‐ Vijay Darda

Water, Peace, and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis ‐ Brahma 

Chellaney Ambedkar

Awakening India’s Social Conscience ‐ Dr Narendra Jadhav

Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav

Akbar – The Aesthete ‐ Dr Indu Anand

Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar

India at Risk ‐ Jaswant Singh

The Narrow Road to the Deep North ‐ Richard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker)

Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector ‐ Dr UD Choubey

Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar ‐ Dilip D’Souza

Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace ‐ Leon Panetta and Jim Newton

Not Just an Accountant ‐ former CAG Vinod Rai

Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann, and Philidor ‐ Parimarjan Negi

A Bend in the river ‐ V.S. Naipaul

Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna ‐ Gautam Chintamani

Half Girlfriend ‐ Chetan Bhagat

Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician ‐ Biography of 

Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Spiritual Father of Pakistan)

50 years of man in space ‐ Garik Israelian, Brian May and David J Eicher

Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 ‐ Sandeep Unnithan

Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: 

The Election That Changed India ‐Rajdeep Sardesai

Your Dreams Are Mine Now: She Showed him What Love ‐ Ravinder Singh

Born Again on the Mountain- Arunima Sinha

Flood of Fire –Amitav Ghosh

30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai

The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath: Ben S. Bernanke

To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story: Jairam Ramesh

Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice: Dr Mool Chand Sharma

Ramcharitmanas (105-year-old Urdu copy ): Shiv Brat Lal

Mrs Funnybones: Twinkle Khanna

Making India Awesome: Chetan Bhagat

An Autobiography: Jawahar Lal Nehru

The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity: Tarun Khanna

R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music: Khagesh Dev Burman

Ghosts of Calcutta: Sebastian Ortiz

Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India: Jairam Ramesh

Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji: Abdul Kalam

Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination: Teesta Setalvad

Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in the Chinese language): Tarun Vijay

Education of Muslims: Professor JS Rajput

Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy: Saptarshi Sarkar

Flood of fire: Amitav Ghosh

Super Economies: Raghav Bahl

Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise: Pradeep Baijal

Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad: Prof Bhim Singh

Food for All: Uma Lele

Family Life: Akhil Sharma( winner of the Folio Prize 2015)

Faces and Places: Prof. Deepak Nayyar

Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Speaker’s Perspective: Meira Kumar

Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me: Vinod Mehta

Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks: SK Rath

Why I Assassinated Gandhi: Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse

'Life On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power: an autobiography of Sharad Pawar

What Happened to Netaji? authored by former jou

rnalist Anuj Dhar

'Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations: authored by Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah

'Interlinking of Indian Rivers authored by Radha Kant Bharati

'Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India: Sam Pitroda

'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights: Salman Rushdie

'The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath' authored by Ben S. Bernanke

'Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India: the autobiography of Sam Pitroda written with the help of David Chanoff, an American author.

'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights authored by the British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie

'To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story' written by former Union Environment & Forest Minister (Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh.

'Making India Awesome' written by – Chetan Bhagat

'Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, Democracy in India' written by Jairam Ramesh

'Uniki' written by – CH Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra.

'Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy' written by Saptarshi Sarkar.

'Flood of fire' written by Amitav Ghosh.

“India Central Asia Relations”: The Economic Dimension authored by Amiya Chandra.

“Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years” – authored by AS Dulat and Aditya Sinha.

“37 Bridges and Other Stories” – authored by noted Pakistani author Aamer Hussein

Who Moved My Interest Rate? authored by Duvvuri Subbarao, the former Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

“The Unseen Indira Gandhi” authored by Dr KP Mathur

“A Life in Diplomacy” written by former Indian diplomat Maharajakrishna Rasgotra.

“Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography by Margaret Alva

Book “MS: A Life in Music” authored by T.J.S. George

“One Part Woman” authored by Perumal Murugan

The book “Ace against Odds” is the autobiography of an Indian tennis player. Sania Mirza

“Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga” authored by Nitin Gokhale

“The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” authored by Amitav Ghosh

“Ringside With Vijender” is authored by Rudraneil Sengupta

"The making of India: The untold story of British Enterprises" authored by Kartar Lalvani

'Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounter authored by Kishlay Bhattacharjee

'Shashi Kapoor - the Householder, the Star' authored by Aseem Chhabra

'The Kiss of Life' authored by Emraan Hashmi

'Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography' authored by Bharathi S Pradhan

'A State in Denial' authored by BG Verghese

'No Time to Pause' authored by - Pavithra Ramesh

'Param Vir: A War Diary' authored by - Manju Lodha

'Hindutva or Hind Swaraj' authored by - U.R. Ananthamurthy

“Flying in High Winds: A Memoir” authored by - K. Mishra

'Alphabet Soup for Lovers” authored by - Anita Nair

'The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler' authored by - James Cross Giblin

'The Story of Kashmir through the Ages” authored by - Arjan Nath Chaku

“Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My 

Innocence” authored by - Mohammad Aamir Khan

“Standing Guard— A year in Opposition”? authored by - P Chidambaram

“Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography” authored by – Pramod Kapoor

"That Long Silence” authored by – Shashi Deshpande

"Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket” authored by - Shantanu Guha Ray

“Standing On An Apple Box” authored by – Aishwarya Dhanush

“Who was Shivaji?” authored by - Govind Pansare

'The Z Factor,” a book written by Subhash Chandra

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy

The Birds of Banni Grassland – Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology – Released by Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi

Age of Anger: A history of the Present – Pankaj Mishra

Son of Thundercloud – Easterine Kire

Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders – 2017 Booker

Inside Parliament: Views from the front row – Derek O’Brien

The Sellout – Paul Beatty – 2016 Booker

A brief history of Seven killings – Marlon James – 2015 Booker

A horse walks into a bar – David Grossman – the Man Booker International Prize

The Ibis Trilogy – Amitav Ghosh

Selection day – Aravind Adiga

Death under the Deodars – Ruskin Bond

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India – Shashi Tharoor

India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time – Shashi Tharoor

The Great Derangement: Climate Change And The Unthinkable – Amitav Ghosh

Democrats and Dissenters – Ramachandra Guha

I Do What I Do – Raghuram Rajan

The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Decade – Pranab Mukherjee

The Turbulent Years: 1980 – 1996 – Pranab Mukherjee

Thoughts and Reflections – Pranab Mukherjee

Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister – Sagarika Ghose

Why Growth Matters – Jagadish Bhagawati

India’s Tryst with Destiny – Jagadish Bhagawati

An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions – Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze

The Country of First Boys – Amartya Sen

Gandhi Before India – Ramachandra Guha

Scion of Ikshvaku – Amish

Sita: Warrior of Mithila – Amish

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie

A Manifesto For Change – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity - Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India - Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Pathways to Greatness - Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam

The Mother I Never Knew – Sudha Murthy

Serpent’s Revenge – Sudha Murthy

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series – Rick Riordan

The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney

Fifty Shades Series – E.L. James

And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini

War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy