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BOOKS AND AUTHORS 2020 When you look at the question papers of SSC CHSL, SSC CGL, SSC MTS, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, IBPS SO, IPPB Sc. I, LIC AAO, etc. you may find a lot of questions related to Books and Authors. Questions based on Books and Authors form a part of the General Awareness section of many Govt. and Bank exams. These books can be fiction, non- fiction, biographies, novels, award-winning novels, critically acclaimed books, etc. But chances are that if a particular book was in news, then it can be in your SSC CGL, CHSL, MTS, etc. exam too! Here's a list of important Books and Authors for 2020. We have divided the entire list into fiction, non-fiction, biographies, novels, award-winning novels, critically acclaimed books, etc. These books have been in news in for some reason or the other. You can also find the book list of 2018-2019 and 2016-2017 in this article. List of Important Books & Authors for SSC and Banks 1. Books and Authors List - Non-Fiction Let us now take a look at the important non-fiction books and authors that can be asked in your SSC CGL 2020 exam. As we know that Non-fiction is a category where we get to read biographies, memoirs, self-help books, business books, and histories. In research, it was found that reading nonfiction books increase your chance of becoming successful in all spheres. Books and Authors List 2019-2020 - Non-Fiction Following is the list of Non-Fiction Books that will help you ace your competitive exams. These are the best book from the year 2019-2020. Have a look over these books to prepare well for the examination. 1|Page
Books Authors A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981 Apoorva Kumar Singh The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems Abhay K. Karmayoddha Granth Amit Shah An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru The Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru The Red Sari Sonia Gandhi Unstoppable: My Life So Far Maria Sharapova The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Unbreakable Mary Kom The Audacity Of hope Barack Obama What Happened Hillary Clinton Feisty at Fifty Sudha Menon The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin Sharma Triple Talaq: Examining Faith Salman Khurshid A Century Is Not Enough Sourav Ganguly 2|Page
Playing It My Way Sachin Tendulkar
281 and Beyond VVS Laxman
Straight from the Heart: An Autobiography Kapil Dev
Books and Authors List 2018-2019 - Non-Fiction
Following is the list of Non-Fiction Books that will help you ace your exams. These are
the some of the informative books from the year 2018-2019. Have a look over these
books to prepare well for the examination.
Books Authors
Every Vote Counts – The Story of India’s
Navin Chawla
Elections
Dreams from my Father Barack Obama
I Do What I Do Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook Saba Naqvi
Law, Justice and Judicial Power – Justice P
Mool Chand Sharma
N Bhagwati’s Approach
Virat: The making of a Champion Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar
Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India P.Chidambaram
3|PageThe Paradoxical Prime Minister Shashi Tharoor
The Age of Awakening Amit Kapoor and Chirag Yadav
Ants Among Elephants Sujata Gidla
Hit Refresh Satya Nadella
Winning Like Virat: Think and Succeed like
Abhirup Bhattacharya
Kohli
The Turbulent Years Pranab Mukherji
Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephan Hawking
The Contenders – Who will lead India
Priya Sahgal
Tomorrow
Early Indians Tony Joseph
Hidden India Latika Nath
The Line of Control: Travelling with India
Happymon Jacob
and Pakistan
The Collision Years: 1996-2012 (Part-III) Pranab Mukherjee
We are Displaced: My Journey and Stories
Malala Yousafzai
from Refugee Girls Around the World
Hit Refresh Satya Nadella
4|PageExam Warriors Mr. Narendra Modi
Why I am a Hindu? Shashi Tharoor
Fault Lines (How Hidden Fractures Still
Raghuram Rajan
Threaten the World Economy)
Books and Authors List 2016-2017 - Non-Fiction
Have a look at the Books and Authors of the Non-Fiction famous book. These books
from the year 2016-2017 will help you with the exams to understand the English
concepts better and help you score better.
Books Authors
The trip to echo spring: On writers and
Olivia Laing
Drinking
On the origin of species Charles Darwin
The interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud
Pajamas are Forgiving Twinkle Khanna
A Wasted Hour Jeffrey Archer
Walden Henry David Thoreau
The Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru
5|PageBookless in Baghdad Shashi Tharoor The Algebra of Infinite Justice Arundhati Roy Two Lives Vikram Seth Geetanjali Rabindranath Tagore Silent Spring Rachel Carson Mythologies Roland Barthes The Diary of a young girl Anne Frank Travels of Ibn battuta Ibn battuta A brief history of time Stephen Hawking Economy and Society Max Weber The Rights of a man Thomas Paine The Symposium Plato The Anatomy of melancholy Robert Burton Lives of the poets Samuel Johnson 6|Page
2. Books and Authors List - Fiction Imagining stories activate regions of your brain responsible for developing a better understanding of others and also creating a new perspective. Fictional books are very popular among readers so they often make the news. Books and Authors List 2019-2020 Fiction Following is the list of Fiction Books that will help you score better for your competitive exams. These are the best book from the year 2019-2020. Have a look over these books to prepare well for the examination. Books Authors Animal Farm George Orwell The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Giver Lois Lowry The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Lord of the Flies William Golding Darkness to Light Lamar Odam Undaunted-Saving the Idea of India P.Chidambharam We Are Displaced Malala Yousafzai Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom 7|Page
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch
Books and Authors List 2018-2019 Fiction
Look over the Fiction Books and Authors of the year 2018-2019.
Books Authors
Healed Manisha Koirala
My Life, My Mission Swami Ramdev
Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
Game Changed Shahid Afridi
My Seditious Heart Arundhati Roy
India Positive Chetan Bhagat
Gun Island Amitav Ghosh
The Third Pillar Raghuram Rajan
Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly Anupam Kher
Rafele: Fighter Aircraft Scam S Vijayan
8|PageBihar Diaries Amit Lodha
The Blind Lady’s Descendents Anees Salim
Post Box No.203 – Nala Sopara Chitra Mudgal
India Unmade Yashwant Sinha
Bebak Baat Vijay Goel
Blue Water Ahoy! Anup Singh
Milkman Anna Burns
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
A Suitable Girl Vikram Seth
Becoming Michelle Obama
Pyjamas and Forgiving Twinkle Khanna
The Diary of a Domestic Diva Shilpa Shetty
Books and Authors List 2016-2017 Fiction
Also, these Fiction books and authors of the year 2016-2017.
Books Authors
9|PageWuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The adventures of
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
The fault in our stars John Green
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Lord of flies William Golding
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guide R K Narayan
Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh
Midnight's children Salman Rushdie
The Night Train at Deoli Ruskin Bond
Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh
The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor
The Blue Umbrella Ruskin Bond
10 | P a g eThe Laughing Monsters Denis Johnson
3. Books and Authors List - Biographies
Biographies and autobiographies are a very nice mixture of both Fiction and Nonfiction,
so they cater the needs of all types of readers and are a good source of encouragement
for readers as they get to know about personalities who made it big by their work.
Books Author
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
The Wright Brothers David McCullough
Wild Swans Jung Chang
The Audacity
Barack Obama
Of hope
Tennessee Williams John Lahr
Open Andre Agassi
Napoleon Andrew Roberts
4. Books and Authors - Autobiographies
Autobiographies are self-written biographies. Here are some autobiographies that have
made a global impact and are related to important causes:
11 | P a g eBooks Author Open Book Jessica Simpson Happy for No Reason Mandira Bedi and Satyadev Bar I am Malala Malala Yousafzai The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Story Of my Experiments with truth Mahatma Gandhi An autobiography of Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Wings of Fire A P J Abdul Kalam An autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru Playing It My way Sachin Tendulkar Straight From the Heart Kapil Dev Story of my Life Hellen Keller The Bandit Queen Of India Phoolan Devi Truth Love and a Little Malice Khushwant Singh Why I am an Atheist Bhagat Singh 12 | P a g e
Baburnama Babur
The autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X
Up From Slavery Robert T Washington
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
Books that win Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize and other prizes are important too.
Here is a list of them:
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Books and Authors
2019
The Overstory: Richard Powers.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight.
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart.
Fairview: Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Be With: Forrest Gander.
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza
Griswold.
2018
Less - Andrew Sean Greer Drama (Fiction)
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Caroline Fraser
(Biography or Autobiography)
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 - Frank Bidart (Poetry)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James
Forman Jr (General Non-Fiction)
2017
13 | P a g e1. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (Fiction)
2. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between - Hisham Matar
(Autobiographies and Biographies)
3. Drama: Sweat Lynn Nottage
4. History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising in 1971 and It's Legacy
by Heather Ann Thompson
5. Poetry: Olio by Tyehimba Jess
2016
1. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fiction)
2. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan (Biography or Autobiography)
3. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS - Joby Warrick (Nonfiction)
2015
1. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (Fiction)
2. The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in
Europe - David I. Kertzer (Autobiographies and Biographies)
Man Booker Prize-Winning Books and Authors
2019
1. Margaret Atwood- The Testaments
2. Lucy Ellmann- Ducks, Newburyport
3. Bernardine Evaristo- Girl, Woman, Other
4. Chigozie Obioma- An Orchestra of Minorities
5. Salman Rushdie- Quichotte
6. Elif Shafak- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
2018
1. The Overstory - Richard Powers
2. The Long Take - Robin Robertson
3. Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
4. Milkman - Anna Burns
14 | P a g e5. Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
6. The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
2017
1. The Sellout - Paul Betty (Fiction)
2. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James (Fiction)
3. The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan (Fiction)
4. The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (Fiction)
5. Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel (Non-fiction)
6. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes (Fiction)
7. A Horse Walks Into a Bar (2017) - David Grossman (Novel)
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