General Awareness plays a very significant role in IBPS, SSC, SBI and other competitive exams. You will always find some questions related to the “famous books and their authors” in the GA section. Questions will be related to the books, which are in the news or published recently.
Here, we provide you a list of the most important books and their authors, which will be very helpful for your preparation regarding IBPS General Awareness Books and Authors.
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Famous Books and Author 2016 (January - March)
| S. No. | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Anything But Khamosh | Shatrughan Sinha |
| 2. | Maru Bharat Saru Bharat (My India Noble India) | Jain Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj |
| 3. | Jawaharlala Nehru and The Indian Polity in Perspective | P. J. Alexander (Editor) |
| 4. | Objective Railway Engineering-Track, Works & Others | M. M. Agarwal |
| 5. | The Z Factor | Shri Subhash Chandra |
| 6. | Tolerance | Mamata Banerjee |
| 7. | The Turbulent Years – 1980-1996-Vol-II | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 8. | Transedence | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 9. | A Kingdom for his Love | Vani Mahesh and Shine Antony |
| 10. | India 2016 & Bharat 2016 | Ministry of I & B |
| 11. | Indian Paper Money | Razack |
| 12. | Who Was Shivaji? | Sri Govind Pansare |
| 13. | The Culture Heritage of Trans Himalayan-Kinnaur | P. S. Nagi Loktus |
| 14. | Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography | Pramod Kapoor |
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Famous Books and Author 2016 (April - June)
| S. No. | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | The Kiss of Life How a Superhero and my son defeated | Bilal Siddiqui |
| 2. | A State in Denial - Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous | BG Verghese |
| 3. | Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars | Scott Kelly |
| 4. | The Making of India: The Untold Story of British | Kartar Lalvani |
| 5. | Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up | Rana Ayyub |
| 6. | Book on ParamVir Chakra winners | Manju Lodha |
| 7. | No Time to Pause - book | Pavithra Ramesh |
| 8. | Shashi Kapoor - The Householder, The Star | Shashi Kapoor |
| 9. | India vs Pakistan: Why Can’t we just be Friends | Hussain Haqqani |
| 10. | Tagore’s Vision of the Contemporary World | Indra Nath Choudhuri |
| 11. | My Favourite Nature Stories | Ruskin Bond |
| 12. | Making It Big | Binod Chaudhary |
| 13. | The Birds of Banni Grassland | Scientists of Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) |
| 14. | A Life in Diplomacy | MK Rasgotra |
| 15. | The Education President | International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building, OP Jindal Global University |
| 16. | The World in 2050 – Striving for a More Just, Prosperous and Harmonious Global Community | Harinder S. Kohli |
| 17. | The Unseen Indira Gandhi | Dr. KP Mathur |
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Famous Books and Author 2016 (July - September)
| S. No. | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Ringside With Vijender | Rudranjeil Sengupta |
| 2. | Autobiography ‘Ace Against Odds’ | Sania Mirza |
| 3. | Who moved my interest rate? | Mr. Subbarao |
| 4. | Autobiography ‘Courage & Commitment’ | Margret Alva |
| 5. | The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh |
| 6. | India’s most Powerful Women | Mrs. Prem Ahluwalia |
| 7. | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | JK Rowling |
| 8. | Grassroots Innovation | Prof. Anil K. Gupta |
| 9. | Uttarakhand: Fifteen Years of Development | Edited by R. S. Tolia |
| 10. | One Indian Girl | Chetan Bhagat |
| 11. | The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History | Sanjeev Sanyal |
| 12. | AB: The Autobiography | AB de Villiers |
| 13. | The Grolier Codex | Josue Saenz |
| 14. | Shanti ki Talash mein Zindgi | Radhika Nagrath |
| 15. | Sai Charitra Granth | Ganpatrao Dattatreya Sahasra-buddhe |
| 16. | Six Machine | Chris Gayle |
| 17. | North Eastern Council: A Story of Sagacity and Success | Dr. Jitendra Singh |
| 18. | Citizen and Society | Mohd. Hamid Ansari |
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Famous Books and Author 2016 (October - December)
| S. No. | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign Policy | Surendra Kumar |
| 2. | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy |
| 3. | Mahatma - Gandhi's Life in Colour Untouchability No More | Gandhi Serve India |
| 4. | e-nook on RTI | Shailesh Gandhi |
| 5. | Philosophy of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay | Launched by PM Modi |
| 6. | The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad | Twinkle Khanna |
| 7. | The Sleepwalker’s Dreams | Dhrubajyoti Borah |
| 8. | Driven: The Virat Kohli Story | Vijay Lokapally |
| 9. | Andhere se Ujale ki Aur | Arun Jaitley |
| 10. | Rajiv Gandhi assassin, hidden rules, Priyanka meeting Nalini | Pa Ekalaivan |
| 11. | An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India | Dr. Shashi Tharoor |
| 12. | Charaiveti Charaiveti | Shri Ram Naik |
| 13. | Shah Rukh Khan biography ‘SRK - 25 Years of a Life’ | Samar Khan |
| 14. | Dipa Karmakar’s biography ‘Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder’ | Vimal Mohan, Digvijay Singh Deo, Bishweshwar Nandi (her coach) |
| 15. | Life at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Indradhanush - 2 and Rashtrapati Bhavan - From Raj to Swaraj | Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting |
| 16. | Many Everests: An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dream into Reality | Ravindra Kumar |
| 17. | Courts of India - Past to Present | Supreme Court of India - Bar & Bench |
| 18. | Amul’s India 3.0 | Santosh Desai, Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Tharoor, Jug Suraiya, Indrajit Hazra, Jai Arjun Singh, Naresh Fernandes, Agnello Dias, Arnab Goswami and Karan Johar |
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| S.No. | BOOK | AUTHOR |
| 1. | Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights | Salman Rushdie |
| 2. | The Red Sari | Javier Moro |
| 3. | Neither a Hawk nor a Dove | Khurshid M Kasuri (Pakistan’s Ex-Foreign Minister) |
| 4. | Faces and Places | Prof Deepak Nayyar |
| 5. | Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me | Vinod Mehta |
| 6. | Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy: Speaker’s Perspective | Meira Kumar |
| 7. | Farishta | Kapil Isapuri |
| 8. | Super Economies | Raghav Bahl |
| 9. | China: Confucius in the Shadows | Poonam Surie |
| 10. | Delhi to Islamabad | Bhim Singh |
| 11. | Flora of Guntur City Andhra Pradesh | PR Mohana Rao |
| 12. | Kiran Bedi: Kaise Bani Top Cop (Comic Book) | Kiran Bedi |
| 13. | Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks | Saroj Kumar Rath |
| 14. | Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee |
| 15. | Family Life | Akhil Sharma |
| 16. | God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican | Gerald Posner |
| 17. | Lucknow Boy: A Memoir | Late Vinod Mehta |
| 18. | Education of Muslims: Islamic Perspective of Knowledge and Education | J.S. Rajput |
| 19. | Flood of Fire | Amitav Ghosh |
| 20. | Ahmedabad: A city in the world | Amrita Shah |
| 21. | Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership | Pavan Choudary |
| 22. | Narendra Modi: A Political Biography | Andy Marino |
| 23. | Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths | PC Parakh |
| 24. | India at Risk | Jaswant Singh |
| 25. | Water, Peace and War - Confronting the Global Water Crisis | Brahma Chellaney |
| 26. | Public Issues Before Parliament | Vijay Darda |
| 27. | The Political Economy of Energy and Growth | Sh. Najeeb Jung |
| 28. | ModiNomics: Inclusive Economics, Inclusive Governance | Sameer Kochhar |
| 29. | Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri | Dr. R L Bhat |
| 30. | The Accidental Prime Minister | Dr. Sanjaya Baru |
| 31. | Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) | Mary Kom |
| 32. | Ambedakar Awakening India’s Social Consciences | Dr. Narendra Jadhav |
| 33. | My Country My Life | L. K. Adwani |
| 34. | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| 35. | Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector | Dr. U. D. Chaubey |
| 36. | Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 37. | China-India War: World’s First Water War | General Sundarajan Padmanabhan |
| 38. | The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal | Prof. Sudha Rai & Avinash Kumar |
| 39. | Why I Assassinated Gandhi | Nathuram Godse & Gopal Godse (edited by Virendra Mehra) |
| 40. | Born Against the Mountains | Arunima Sinha |
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