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Important Books and Authors for SSC CGL Exam

Let’s get going with this list of important books and authors for the SSC CGL General Awareness section. Aspirants must take down this list below for greater chances of answering the book names, years, and authors at ease -

Book Name

Author

Year of Publication

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree

2022

Adam

S. Hareesh

2022

To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID

Barkha Dutt

2022

Asoca: A Sutra

Irwin Allan Sealy

2021

Whereabouts

Jhumpa Lahiri

2018

The Bench

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex

2021

Elephant in the Womb

Kalki Koechlin

2021

Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought

Kavitha Iyer

2021

Economy and

Society

Max Weber

1922

Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World

Sangeet Paul Choudhary

2021

A House for Mr. Biswas

V.S. Naipaul

1961

A Bunch of Old Letters

Jawaharlal Nehru

1958

A Death in Shonagachhi

Rijula Das

2021

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith (Father of Economics)

1776

Ajatshatru

Jay Shankar Prasad

2020

An Era of Darkness

Shashi Tharoor

2016

Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story

Kishwar Desai

2018

Stories I Must Tell: An Actor’s Emotional Journey

Kabir Bedi

2021

The World As I See It

Albert Einstein

1934

Naa Jeevana Gamanam

(My Journey)

APJ Abdul Kalam

2013

Kamayani

Jay Shankar Prasad

1936

Dharmatma Gokhale

M.K Gandhi

-

The Guide

R.K Narayan

1958

Indian Philosophy

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

1923

Agnibeena

Kazi Najrul Islam

1922

Eternal India

Indira Gandhi

1978

Devdas

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

1917

Beautiful Things

Hunter Biden

2021

The Little Book of Encouragement

Dalai Lama

2021

The Red Sari

Javier Moro

2008

Walking with Giants

G. Ramachandran (former Finance Secretary)

2013

Unbreakable

Mary Kom

2013

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

1988

The Night Train at Deoli

Ruskin Bond

1988

AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

Arundhati Roy

2020

The Night Watchman

Louis Erdrich

2020

The Kiss of Life

Emran Hashmi

2016

The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

1791

The Audacity Of Hope

Barack Obama

2006

Hindutva or Hind Swaraj

U.R. Ananthamurthy

2014

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

James Cross Giblin

2002

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Robin Sharma

1996

A Century Is Not Enough

Sourav Ganguly

2018

Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism

Dinyar Patel

2020

The Z Factor

Subhash Chandra

2016

Triple Talaq: Examining Faith

Salman Khurshid

2018

What Happened

Hillary Clinton

2017

The Lion Of Kashmir

Siddhartha Gigoo

2020

My China Diary

K Natwar Singh

2009

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

Raghuram Rajan

2010

Ananda Math

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

1882

Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State

Maleeha Lodhi

2011

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

1981

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

2006

Vidrohi Sanyaasi

Rajeev Sharma

2020

Himalayan Blunder

Brigadier John Dalvi

1968

The Birds of Banni Grassland

Narendra Modi

2016

My Experiments with Truth

MK Gandhi

1925

A Passage to India

E.M Forster

1924

Exploring Marxist Bengal

Debraj Bhattacharya

2016

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James

2011

Journey of a Nation: Indian National Congress: 125 Years

Anand Sharma

2011

CMJ: A Cricketing Life

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

2011

Romancing with Life

Dev Anand

2007

Aadhe Adhure

Mohan Rakesh

1969

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

1844

No Full Stops in India

Mark Tully

1991

Women of Vision

Alam Srinivas

2013

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth

1993

The City of Joy

Dominique Lapierre

1985

Gita Govind

Jaya Dev

-

Coolie

Mulk Raj Anand

1936

After The Dark Night

S.M. Ali

1973

Apple Cart

George Bernard Shaw

1929

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Nirad C. Choudhary

1951

Broken Wing

Sarojini Naidu

1912

The Gardener

Rabindranath Tagore

1913

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

1859

We Indians

Khushwant Singh

1982

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

2017

Selection Day

Arvind Adiga

2016

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

2015

Important Books and Authors for SSC CGL 2022 (Fiction)

Check the table below for the list of important books and authors for the SSC CGL 2022 exam in the fiction category -

Book Name

Author

Year of Publication

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

2005

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

2009

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

2005

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

2002

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2006

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

2004

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

2007

We Are Displaced

Malala Yousafzai

2019

Gun Island

Amitav Ghosh

2019

The Third Pillar

Raghuram Rajan

2019

Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly

Anupam Kher

2019

Rafele: Fighter Aircraft Scam

S Vijayan

2019

Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh

1988

The Great Indian Novel

Shashi Tharoor

1989

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

1813

Lord of Flies

William Golding

1954

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1925

Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh

1956

The Blue Umbrella

Ruskin Bond

1974

India Positive

Chetan Bhagat

2019

Important Books and Authors for SSC CGL Exam (Non-Fiction)

Here is the list of non-fiction books and authors for the SSC CGL exam that you must keep a tab on -

Book Name

Author

Year of Publication

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

1899

A Wasted Hour

Jeffrey Archer

2017

The Discovery Of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

1946

Karmayodha Granth

Amit Shah

2020

Unstoppable: My Life So Far

Maria Sharapova

2017

Every Vote Counts – The Story of India’s Elections

Navin Chawla

2019

Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India

P.Chidambaram

2014

Pajamas are Forgiving

Twinkle Khanna

2018

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

2008

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

1985

India Unbound

Gurcharan Das

2000

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

1985

Business Legends

Gita Piramal

1998

The Idea of India

Sunil Khilnani

1997

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

Ruchir Sharma

2012

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

2003

Award-Winning Books and Authors for SSC CGL General Awareness

In this compilation, we have curated a list of both national and international award-winning books specifically for SSC CGL General Awareness. Along with the SSC CGL Preparation Tips, you'll also find information about the award names, which will assist you in tackling nuanced questions from this section like a true bibliophile.

International Award-Winning Books

The following list specifically points out the International award winning books and authors for SSC CGL General Awareness section -

Book Name

Author

Accolade

The Netanyahus

Joshua Cohen

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.(2022)

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree

The International Booker Prize (2022)

My Heart is a Chainsaw

Stephen Graham Jones

Bram Stoker Award for Novel (2021)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

Booker Prize (2022)

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

PEN/Hemingway Award (2022)

Hell of a Book

Jason Mott

National Book Award (Fiction, 2022)

Saltwater Demands a Psalm

Kemi Alabi

Walt Whitman Award (2022)

At Night All Blood is Black

David Diop

The International Booker Prize (2021)

Invisible Child

Andrea Elliott

Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction (2022)

The Promise

Damon Galgut

Booker Prize (2021)

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2021)

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Booker Prize (2020)

The Discomfort of Evening

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

The International Booker Prize (2020)

National Award-Winning Books

The list of Indian award-winning books and authors from where questions may be asked in SSC CGL General Awareness section is mentioned below -

Book Name

Author

Accolade

Mirage and Other Stories

Damodar Mauzo

57th Jnanpith Award (2022)

Things to Leave Behind (novel)

Namita Gokhale

Sahitya Akademi Award (English, 2021)

Kabita (poem)

Nilmani Phookan Jr

56th Jnanpith Award (2021)

When God Is a Traveler (poem)

Arundhathi Subramaniam

Sahitya Akademi Award (English, 2020)

Samrat Ashok (Play)

Daya Prakash Sinha

Sahitya Akademi Award (Hindi, 2021)

An Era of Darkness (non-fiction)

Shashi Tharoor

Sahitya Akademi Award (English, 2019)

Tokri Mein Digant ‘Their Gatha’ : 2014 (Poetry)

Anamika

Sahitya Akademi Award (Hindi, 2020)

Tell Her Everything

Mirza Waheed

The Hindu Literary Prize (Fiction, 2019)

Famous Literature Books and Authors for SSC CGL General Awareness

We know that you have liked reading literary books revolving around stories and non-fiction tales. Even if you don’t or missed out for reasons, we have compiled this list of famous literature books and authors for your SSC CGL General Awareness preparation. Keep reading to check renowned literature in both Hindi & English language.

English Literature Books & Authors

Check out the top English books with author names and years below that can come for General Awareness in SSC CGL 2022 exam in the list below -

Book Name

Author

Year of Publication

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

1961

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

1953 (U.S. National Book Award for Fiction)

A Week with Gandhi

Louis Fisher

1942

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1987

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

1958

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

1982 (Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

1960

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

1612 (Part One)

1620 (Part Two)

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

1955

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

1925

Hindi Literature Books & Authors

Hindi literature is also well knows for its literature and fictions that students need to cover. The list shows important Hindi literature books and authors for SSC CGL exam below -

Book Name

Author

Year of Publication

Jhoota Sach

Yashpal

1960

Ajatshatru

Jay Shankar Prasad

-

Bharat Bharati

Maithili Sharan Gupt

1914

Kurukshetra

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

1946

Yama

Mahadevi Verma

1936

Kitni Nawon Mei Kitnee Baar

S.H Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’

-

Amrit aur Vish

Amrit Lal Nagar

1966

Nadi ke Dweep

S.H Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’

1951

Chandrakanta Santati (First Modern Hindi novel)

Devkinandan Khatri

1888

Satya Harishchandra

Bhartendu Harishchandra

1876

Indian History Books and Authors for SSC CGL General Awareness

History, both Ancient and Modern eras, have influenced so much culture into our lives and also into the SSC syllabus. Check out the list below to get famous Indian History books and authors for SSC CGL General Awareness section -

Book Name

Author

Year of Publication

India Wins Freedom

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (first Education Minister of India)

1957

The Shadow of the Great Game

Narendra Singh Sarila

2005

Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story

Kishwar Desai

2018

The Heathen in His Blindness

S. N. Balagangadhara

1994

Freedom at Midnight

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins

1975

Makers of Modern India

Ramachandra Guha

2010

The Discovery Of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

1946

The Argumentative Indian

Amartya Sen

2005

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857

William Dalrymple

2006

The Wonder That Was India

Arthur Llewellyn Basham

1954

List of Awards for Books and Authors

Now that you read through the list of books and authors for SSC CGL exam, it’s time to check out the famous list of book awards in both National & International level for your Static GK preparation.

Pulitzer Prize

The International Booker Prize

Bram Stoker Award

Man Booker Prize

National Book Award

PEN/Hemingway Award

Walt Whitman Award

Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Nobel Prize in Literature

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Sahitya Akademi Award

Jnanpith Award

The Hindu Literary Prize

Yuva Puraskar

Ghalib Award

Crossword Book Award

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Tata Literature Live! Awards

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