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Important Books And Authors

For the Static GK portion, you are expected to have knowledge of both Indian and World literature. It is not necessary for you to be familiar with the storylines of all books. Knowing the names of the most prominent books and authors of those books would be adequate.Here is a list of books and their authors:
You should know each of these pairs by the time you sit for the exam. Knowledge of these books and their authors will not only help you crack the exam but will also greatly increase your cultural awareness and aid you when you are participating in quizzes and debates.

Ancient India

1. Antigone-Sophocles
2. Arthashastra-Kautilya 
3. Ashokavadana- Buddhist monks of the Mathura region
4. Brihaddeshi- Matanga Muni 
5. Buddha Charitam-Ashwaghosha
6. Geet Govinda-Jaya Deva                
7. Harshacharita-Banabhatta
8. Illiad-Homer
9. Natya Shastra-Bharata Muni
10. Indica-Megasthenes
11. Kamasutra-Vatsayayana
12. Kathasaritsagara- Somdeva
13. Kumar Sambhava-Kalidas    
14. Lysistrata-Aristophanes               
15. Mahabharata- Vyasa             
16. Malikagnimitra-Kalidas                
17. Manusmriti-Manu                
18. Medea-Euripides                
19. Meghdoot-Kalidas                
20. Mrichchakatikam-Shudraka                
21. Mudra Rakshasa-Vishakha Datta            
22. Nagananda-Harshavardhana            
23. Odyssey-Homer                    
24. Oedipus rex-Sophocles                
25. Oresteia-Aeschylus                
26. Panchatantra- Vishnu Sharma            
27. Priyadarsika- Harshavardhana            
28. Raghuvansha-Kalidas                
29. Rajtarangini-Kalhana                
30. Ramayana- Valmiki            
31. Ratnavali-Harshavardhana                
32. Shatapatha Brahmana-Yajnavalkya            
33. The Bacchae-Euripides                
34. Yoga Sutra- Patanjali

Medieval India

1. A Voyage to East India-Thomas Roe                
2. Akbarnama-Abul Fazl                    
3. Baburnama- Babur                    
4. Book of Durate Barbosa- Duarte Barbosa            
5. Book of Sir Marco Polo- Marco Polo                
6. Burkan-i-Maasir- Saiyaad Ali Tabtaba                
7. Fatwa-i-Jahandari-Ziauddin Barni                
8. Futuhat-i-Alamgiri- Ishwar Das Nagar                
9. Futuhat-i-Ferozshahi-Ferozshah Tughlaq            
10. History of the late Rebellion in the State of the great Mughal-Francois Bernier
11. Humayanama-Gulbadan Begum
12. Humayun Nama-Gulbadan                    
13. Insha-i-Mahru- Ainul-ul-Mulq Multani                
14. Kitab-ul-Hind-Al Beruni                    
15. Kitab-ul-Rehala- Ibn Batuta                    
16. Maasir-e-Alamgiri- Mohammad Saqi Mustaid Khan        
17. Maasir-e-Apm- Mirza Mohammad Qazwini            
18. Mirat-i-Ahmadi- Diwan Ali Mohammad bin Khan            
19. Mirat-i-Sikandari-Sikandar bin Mohammad Manju        
20. Murujul Jahab- Al Masudi                    
21. Narrative of Domingo Paes- Domingo Paes            
22. Padshahnama- Abdul Hamid Lahori                              
23. Shahjahannama- Inayat Khan                
24. Storio Dor Mogor- Manucci                    
25. Tabkat-i-Akbari- Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed Harvi        
26. Tabkat-i-Nasiri- Minhanjus Siraj                
27. Tajkirat-ul-Muluk- Rafiuddin Shiraz                
28. Tarikh-i-Alfi- Abdul Qadir Badayuni                
29. Tarikh-i-Feroz shahi-Ziauddin Barni                
30. Tarikh-i-Khafi Khan- Mohammad Hashim Khafi Khan        
31. Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi- Yahya Abdullah Sarhindi        
32. Tarikh-i-Shershahi- Abbas Khan Sherwani            
33. The Itinerary of Ludouico de Verthema- Ludouico de Verthema    
34. The Voyage of John Hughen Von Linschotten-John Linschotten    
35. Trarikh-I-Farishta- Mohammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi    
36. Travels in India- Jean Baptist Tavernier            
37.  Travels in the Mogul Empire-Francois Bernier            
38. Tughlaq Nama-Amir Khusrau                
39. Tujuk-i-Jahangiri- Jahangir

Medieval Europe (1500 AD-1900 AD)

1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Lewis Caroll    
2. Around the World in Eighty Days-Jules Verne    
3. Dracula-Bram Stoker            
4. Frankenstein-Mary Shelley            
5. Great Expectations-Charles Dickens        
6. Gulliver’s Travels-Jonathan Swift        
7. Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain        
8. Ivanhoe- Walter Scott            
9. Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte            
10. Les Propheties-Nostradamus        
11. Little Women-Louisa May Alcott        
12. Macbeth-William Shakespeare        
13. Merchant of Venice-William Shakespeare    
14. Moby Dick-Herman Melville        
15. Paradise Lost-John Milton            
16. Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen        
17. Romeo Juliet-William Shakespeare        
18. Silas Marner-George Elliot            
19. Tess of the D’Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy    
20. The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde    
21. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-L. Frank Baum    
22. Three Men in a Boat-Jerome.K.Jerome    
23. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson    
24. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne
25. Vanity Fair-William Makepeace Thackeray    
26. Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte

Pre Independent India

1. A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar)- Robert Sewell
2. A Gift to Monotheists-Raja Rammohan Roy    
3. A Nation in the Making-S.N.Banerjee        
4. Anand Math-Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay    
5. Byomkesh Bakshi series-Saradindu Bandopadhyay
6. Debi Choudhurani-Bankim Chandra  Chattopadhyay
7. Devdas- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay    
8. Discovery of India-Jawaharlal Nehru        
9. Ghulam Giri-Jyotibha Phule            
10. Gitanjali-Rabindranath Tagore        
11. Hind Swaraj-Mahatma Gandhi        
12. Neeldarpan-Dinbandhu Mitra        
13. Parineeta – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay    
14. Pather Panchali-Bibhutibhuson Bandopadhyay    
15. Poverty and Un-British rule in India-Dadabhai Naoroji
16. Precepts of Jesus-Raja Rammohan Roy    
17. Stree Purusha Tulana-Tarabai Shinde        
18. Sultana’s Dream-Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein
19. The Indian Struggle-Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
20. The Spirit of Islam-Syed Amir Ali        
21. Unhappy India-Lala Lajpat Rai        
22. Untouchable-Mulk Raj Anand

Modern India 

1. Why I Am an Atheist? - Bhagat Singh

2. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

3. Feluda series - Satyajit Ray

4. Flood of Fire - Amitav Ghosh

5. Half Girlfriend - Chetan Bhagat

6. I Too Had a Love Story - Ravinder Singh

7. Ignited Minds - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

8. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

9. The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor

10. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

11. The Maneater of Malgudi - R.K. Narayan

12. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

13. The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi

14. The Peacock Garden - Anita Desai

15. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

16. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh

17. Wise and Otherwise - Sudha Murty

18. Q&A - Vikas Swarup

19. India After Gandhi - Ramachandra Guha

20. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

21. English, August - Upamanyu Chatterjee

22. The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh

23. Two Lives - Vikram Seth

24. The Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi

25. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

26. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

27. My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi

28. The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh

29. Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat

30. Waiting for the Mahatma - R.K. Narayan

Foreign Authors

1. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin (American)

2. A History of Rome - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (German)

3. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams (American)

4. Animal Farm - George Orwell (British)

5. Atonement - Ian McEwan (British)

6. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (British)

7. Dear John - Nicholas Sparks (American)

8. Dubliners - James Joyce (Irish)

9. Famous Five series - Enid Blyton (British)

10. Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee (American)

11. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (American)

12. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling (British)

13. James Bond series - Ian Fleming (British)

14. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (British)

15. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-American)

16. Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers (Australian-British)

17. Matilda - Roald Dahl (British)

18. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (Polish-British)

19. Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (American)

20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (American)

21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombian)

22. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (British)

23. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (British)

24. Sherlock Holmes series - Arthur Conan Doyle (British)

25. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs (American)

26. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (Brazilian)

27. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (American)

28. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe (American)

29. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (British)

30. The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) (British)

31. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (American)

32. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (Dutch)

33. The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon (American)

34. The Firm - John Grisham (American)

35. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (American)

36. The Host - Stephenie Meyer (American)

37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American)

38. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (British)

39. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (Austro-Bohemian)

40. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie (British)

41. The Shining - Stephen King (American)

42. The Sins of the Father - Jeffrey Archer (British)

43. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (American)

44. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Russian)

45. Winnie the Po- - A.A. Milne (British)