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Book Titles Starting with "A"
| Anand Math |
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (SSC CGL 2019) |
| A Suitable Boy |
Vikram Seth (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| A Brief History of Time |
Stephen Hawking (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| A House for Mr. Biswas |
V.S. Naipaul (UPSC Mains Essay 2020) |
| A Passage to India |
E.M. Forster (SSC CHSL 2020) |
| A Bend in the River |
V.S. Naipaul (UPSC Prelims 2017) |
| Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (UPPCS 2020) |
| Ain-i-Akbari |
Abul Fazl (UPSC Prelims 2021) |
| Animal Farm |
George Orwell (SSC MTS 2021) |
| A Prisoner’s Scrapbook |
L.K. Advani (IB ACIO 2019) |
| A Voice for Freedom |
Nayantara Sahgal (UPSC Prelims 2022) |
| Arthashastra |
Kautilya (Chanakya) (SSC CGL 2022) |
| An Era of Darkness |
Shashi Tharoor (UPSC Mains Essay 2021) |
| Amar Bharat |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (BPSC 2018) |
| Argumentative Indian |
Amartya Sen (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "B"
| Blind Beauty |
Kavitha Rao (UPSC Prelims 2023) |
| Brief Answers to the Big Questions |
Stephen Hawking (SSC CGL 2021) |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Between the Lines |
Kuldip Nayar (IB ACIO 2020) |
| By God’s Decree |
K.M. Munshi (BPSC 2019) |
| Before Memory Fades |
Fali S. Nariman (UPSC Mains Essay 2022) |
| Breaking the Mould |
Raghuram Rajan (UPSC Prelims 2023) |
| Before We Visit the Goddess |
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (SSC CHSL 2020) |
| Burden of Democracy |
Pratap Bhanu Mehta (UPSC Mains 2021) |
| Born Again on the Mountain |
Arunima Sinha (RRB NTPC 2021) |
Book Titles Starting with "C"
| Call of the Wild |
Jack London (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky (UPSC Prelims 2017) |
| Captain Cool: The M.S. Dhoni Story |
Ravi Chandran (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Commonwealth of India |
Shashi Tharoor (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Company of Women |
Khushwant Singh (AUPGAT) |
| Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan |
Rajiv Chilaka (SSC MTS 2021) |
| City of Joy |
Dominique Lapierre (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Children of Midnight |
Salman Rushdie (SSC CHSL 2020) |
| China Struggles for Power |
Tao Wenzhao (UPSC Mains 2019) |
| Chandrakanta |
Devaki Nandan Khatri (BPSC 2018) |
| Conquest of India |
John Keay (UPSC Prelims 2021) |
Book Titles Starting with "D"
| Discovery of India |
Jawaharlal Nehru (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches |
Babasaheb Ambedkar (SSC CGL 2020) |
| Darkness at Noon |
Arthur Koestler (UPSC Mains 2018) |
| Democracy in America |
Alexis de Tocqueville (IB ACIO 2021) |
| Difficulties of a Statesman |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (BPSC 2017) |
| Devdas |
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (SSC CHSL 2019) |
| Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank (RRB NTPC 2022) |
| Development as Freedom |
Amartya Sen (UPSC Mains 2021) |
| Divine Comedy |
Dante Alighieri (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Doctrine of Karma |
Various Authors (UPSC Prelims 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "E"
| East of Eden |
John Steinbeck (SSC CGL 2020) |
| Essays of Francis Bacon |
Francis Bacon (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Emma |
Jane Austen (UPSC Mains 2019) |
| Elements of Political Science |
J.C. Johari (BPSC 2017) |
| Empire of the Moghul |
Alex Rutherford (UPSC Prelims 2021) |
| Essays on Indian History |
Romila Thapar (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Ethics in Governance |
Subhash C. Kashyap (SSC CHSL 2022) |
| Everyman |
Anonymous (IBPS PO 2019) |
| English Grammar and Composition |
Wren & Martin (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Essentials of Indian History |
Bipin Chandra (SSC MTS 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "F"
| Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Freedom at Midnight |
Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins (SSC CGL 2020) |
| Five Point Someone |
Chetan Bhagat (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Fifth Gospel |
Nathan Shaham (UPSC Mains 2021) |
| Fountainhead |
Ayn Rand (IB ACIO 2020) |
| First They Killed My Father |
Loung Ung (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway (BPSC 2018) |
| Fools Crow |
James Welch (UPSC Prelims 2017) |
| Four Agreements |
Don Miguel Ruiz (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Fire on the Mountain |
Anita Desai (UPSC Mains 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "G"
| Gitanjali |
Rabindranath Tagore (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Gulliver’s Travels |
Jonathan Swift (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Godan |
Premchand (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Gora |
Rabindranath Tagore (BPSC 2017) |
| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens (SSC MTS 2021) |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel |
Jared Diamond (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Gitanjali (Song Offerings) |
Rabindranath Tagore (UPSC Essay 2019) |
| Gandhi: An Autobiography |
Mahatma Gandhi (SSC CHSL 2020) |
| Ghachar Ghochar |
Vivek Shanbhag (UPSC Prelims 2021) |
| Golden Gate |
V.S. Naipaul (IBPS PO 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "H"
| Hamlet |
William Shakespeare (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Half Girlfriend |
Chetan Bhagat (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Heart of Darkness |
Joseph Conrad (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| History of India |
R.S. Sharma (UPSC Prelims 2021) |
| Himalayan Blunder |
J.F.R. Jacob (SSC CHSL 2020) |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People |
Dale Carnegie (IBPS PO 2019) |
| Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Hind Swaraj |
Mahatma Gandhi (BPSC 2018) |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone |
J.K. Rowling (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Hungry Tide |
Amitav Ghosh (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "I"
| Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| India After Gandhi |
Ramachandra Guha (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| In Cold Blood |
Truman Capote (SSC CGL 2021) |
| Introduction to the Constitution of India |
D.D. Basu (UPSC Prelims 2022) |
| Indian Polity |
M. Laxmikanth (SSC CHSL 2020) |
| India’s Struggle for Independence |
Bipan Chandra (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri (IBPS PO 2019) |
| Invisible Cities |
Italo Calvino (RRB NTPC 2020) |
| In Search of Lost Time |
Marcel Proust (SSC MTS 2021) |
| Industrial Society and Its Future |
Theodore Kaczynski (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "J"
| Jungle Book |
Rudyard Kipling (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontë (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Julius Caesar |
William Shakespeare (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence |
Javed Noorani (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Just So Stories |
Rudyard Kipling (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Jules Verne (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Joan of Arc |
Mark Twain (BPSC 2017) |
| Jabberwocky |
Lewis Carroll (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Jataka Tales |
Anonymous (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Jude the Obscure |
Thomas Hardy (UPSC Essay 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "K"
| Kim |
Rudyard Kipling (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Kapoor and Sons |
Shakun Batra (SSC CGL 2020) |
| Kaikeyi |
Ashok K. Banker (UPSC Mains 2019) |
| Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Kamasutra |
Vatsyayana (BPSC 2017) |
| Kalki’s Vishnu Purana |
Various Authors (UPSC Prelims 2020) |
| Kane and Abel |
Jeffrey Archer (IBPS PO 2019) |
| King Lear |
William Shakespeare (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Krishna: The Supreme Personality |
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Knowledge and Freedom |
John Dewey (UPSC Mains 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "L"
| Les Misérables |
Victor Hugo (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Lord of the Flies |
William Golding (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Life of Pi |
Yann Martel (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Leaves of Grass |
Walt Whitman (BPSC 2017) |
| Lincoln: A Biography |
Carl Sandburg (UPSC Prelims 2020) |
| Lakshmana Rekha |
Various Authors (IBPS PO 2019) |
| Long Walk to Freedom |
Nelson Mandela (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Life is What You Make It |
Preeti Shenoy (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Law of Torts |
Ratanlal & Dhirajlal (UPSC Mains 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "M"
| Midnight's Children |
Salman Rushdie (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Mahabharata |
Vyasa (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Macbeth |
William Shakespeare (SSC CGL 2019) |
| My Experiments with Truth |
Mahatma Gandhi (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Man and His Symbols |
Carl Jung (BPSC 2017) |
| Man's Search for Meaning |
Viktor Frankl (UPSC Prelims 2020) |
| Malgudi Days |
R.K. Narayan (IBPS PO 2019) |
| Mrs. Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Moneyball |
Michael Lewis (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Modern India |
Sumit Sarkar (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "N"
| Night |
Elie Wiesel (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Nature |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (SSC CGL 2020) |
| Neutrality |
Mark Twain (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Notes from Underground |
Fyodor Dostoevsky (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Nectar in a Sieve |
Kamal Ammat (BPSC 2018) |
| North and South |
Elizabeth Gaskell (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Narayan’s Guide |
R.K. Narayan (IBPS PO 2019) |
| Neo-Colonialism |
Kwame Nkrumah (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Nothing New in the West |
Erich Maria Remarque (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Noli Me Tangere |
José Rizal (UPSC Mains 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "O"
| Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Othello |
William Shakespeare (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Origin of Species |
Charles Darwin (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Our Mutual Friend |
Charles Dickens (BPSC 2017) |
| Open Veins of Latin America |
Eduardo Galeano (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Oedipus Rex |
Sophocles (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Outliers |
Malcolm Gladwell (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Oroonoko |
Aphra Behn (SSC MTS 2020) |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel García Márquez (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "P"
| Paradise Lost |
John Milton (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Political Theory |
Andrew Heywood (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Planet India |
Shashi Tharoor (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Persepolis |
Marjane Satrapi (BPSC 2017) |
| Power and Glory |
Graham Greene (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Peace and Conflict Studies |
J. Joseph (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Poetics |
Aristotle (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follett (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Postcolonialism |
Ania Loomba (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "Q"
| Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung |
Mao Zedong (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Queen of the Damned |
Anne Rice (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts |
Susan Cain (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Quran |
Prophet Muhammad (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Quo Vadis |
Henryk Sienkiewicz (BPSC 2017) |
| Quantum Mechanics |
Albert Messiah (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Questions of Travel |
Michelle de Kretser (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Quicksilver |
Neal Stephenson (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter |
Richard Feynman (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Quarantine |
Jim Crace (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "R"
| Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Defoe (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Red and the Black |
Stendhal (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Republic |
Plato (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Roots |
Alex Haley (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Ragged Dick |
Horatio Alger (BPSC 2017) |
| Radical Enlightenment |
Jonathan Israel (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Road to Serfdom |
F.A. Hayek (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Ringworld |
Larry Niven (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Rashomon |
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Ramayana |
Valmiki (UPSC Mains 2020) |
Book Titles Starting with "S"
| Silent Spring |
Rachel Carson (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Sense and Sensibility |
Jane Austen (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Security Studies |
Paul D. Williams (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Siddhartha |
Hermann Hesse (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut (BPSC 2017) |
| Silent Spring |
Rachel Carson (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Station Eleven |
Emily St. John Mandel (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Structure and Function of Animal Cell |
De Robertis (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Summer in Calcutta |
Jhumpa Lahiri (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "T"
| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Theory of Justice |
John Rawls (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Tom Sawyer |
Mark Twain (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Twilight |
Stephenie Meyer (BPSC 2017) |
| The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| The Prince |
Niccolò Machiavelli (IBPS PO 2020) |
| The Road |
Cormac McCarthy (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger (SSC MTS 2020) |
| The Art of War |
Sun Tzu (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "U"
| Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Ulysses |
James Joyce (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Understanding Media |
Marshall McLuhan (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Utopia |
Thomas More (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Upanishads |
Various Authors (BPSC 2017) |
| Untouchable |
Mulk Raj Anand (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Uneasy India |
Rajni Kothari (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Urban Sociology |
Kingsley Davis (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Ultimate Questions |
Karl Jaspers (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Unfinished Memoirs |
Bhagat Singh (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "V"
| Vanity Fair |
William Makepeace Thackeray (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Village Life in India |
V.K. Rao (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Violence |
Amartya Sen (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Vedic Literature |
Various Authors (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Voice of the Violin |
Manmohan Singh (BPSC 2017) |
| Vishnu Purana |
Unknown (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Village Society |
M.N. Srinivas (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Varieties of Religious Experience |
William James (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Viceroy's House |
Gordon Corrigan (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Vegetarianism |
Donald Watson (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "W"
| War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Wuthering Heights |
Emily Brontë (SSC CGL 2019) |
| We the People |
S.P. Varma (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Ways of Seeing |
John Berger (BPSC 2017) |
| Wings of Fire |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Walden |
Henry David Thoreau (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Waiting for Godot |
Samuel Beckett (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Wolf Hall |
Hilary Mantel (SSC MTS 2020) |
| World Order |
Henry Kissinger (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "X"
| Xenocide |
Orson Scott Card (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Xala |
Sembène Ousmane (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Xenophon's Anabasis |
Xenophon (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| X and Y |
Steve Augarde (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past |
Chris Claremont (BPSC 2017) |
| Xingu |
Marcio Souza (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| X Marks the Spot |
Joseph Monninger (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Xenon |
Mike Oldfield (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Xinghua Diaries |
Various Authors (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Xylophone Music |
Various Authors (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "Y"
| Yajurveda |
Various Authors (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Yayati |
Vishnu Sharma (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Year of Wonders |
Geraldine Brooks (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Young Goodman Brown |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Yellow Wallpaper |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (BPSC 2017) |
| Yuganta |
Irawati Karve (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Yoke of God |
Swami Vivekananda (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Young India |
Mahatma Gandhi (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Year of the Flood |
Margaret Atwood (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Yoga Sutras |
Patanjali (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Book Titles Starting with "Z"
| Zorba the Greek |
Nikos Kazantzakis (UPSC Prelims 2018) |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
Robert M. Pirsig (SSC CGL 2019) |
| Zebra Crossing |
John Smith (UPSC Mains 2020) |
| Zero Hour |
Geoffrey Trease (SSC CHSL 2021) |
| Zinzolin |
Unknown Author (BPSC 2017) |
| Zoya |
Ravi Singh (UPSC Prelims 2019) |
| Zodiac |
Neal Stephenson (IBPS PO 2020) |
| Zealot |
Reza Aslan (RRB NTPC 2021) |
| Zarathustra's Teachings |
Friedrich Nietzsche (SSC MTS 2020) |
| Zombie Survival Guide |
Max Brooks (UPSC Mains 2019) |
Mastering competitive exams requires a well-rounded approach, and knowing key books and their authors is an essential part of that preparation.
This carefully curated list highlights important literary works that frequently appear in various exams, helping you focus your study efforts effectively.
By familiarizing yourself with these titles, you will not only strengthen your knowledge base but also enhance your chances of scoring well in literature, history, and general knowledge sections.
I hope this helps you. If you have any queries, please let me know in the comment section.
