Books and Authors – 2020
Books and Authors segment is one of the most important parts of not only Current Affairs but in some exams, it is also an important part of Static GK question segment. from previous year questions, It has been seen that questions from this Books and Authors portion of GK from recent past are asked frequently in exams like SSC, Railway, Banking, State PCS and other competitive exams. In some exams also books from famous authors also asked even those books had been released a long time before. This is why the table below contains a list of Books and Authors of 2020.
| Authors | Books |
|---|---|
| Bijal Vachharajani | A bend in time: Writings by children on the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Dr Krishna Saksena | A Bouquet of Flowers |
| Neena Rai | Amazing Ayodhya |
| Arundhati Roy | Azadi: Freedom Fascism Fiction |
| Manish Sisodia | Bapu- the Unforgettable |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Best Practices in Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme |
| Dr Pradeep Kumar Srivastava | Bye Bye Corona |
| Jatin Paranjpe and Anand Vasu | Cricket Drona |
| Union Minister, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil | Deh Vechwa Karani |
| Kumar Padampani Bora | Discovering the Heritage of Assam |
| Arjun Subramaniam | Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020 |
| R C Bargava | Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India |
| Goonmeet Singh Chauhan | Invertonomics: 8 ideas to transform India |
| Chef Vikas Khanna | Kitchens of Gratitude |
| Pope Francis | Let Us Dream |
| Pradeep Goorha | Mr Prime Minister, We Shrank the Dragon |
| Sheela Birnstiel | My story in my own words |
| Dinyar Patel | Naoroji Pioneer of Indian Nationalism |
| Indian Army Chief, General M M Naravane | National Security Challenges: Young Scholars Perspective |
| Sarbpreet Singh | Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories from 1984 |
| Sheela Birnstiel | Nothing to lose |
| Deepankar Aron | On the Trails of Buddha: A Journey to the East |
| Tamal Bandyopadhyay | Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy |
| N K Singh | Portraits of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside |
| Prahlad Singh Patel | Prof. B.B. Lal: India Rediscovered |
| Yatish Yadav | RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations |
| Vijay Kumar Choudary | Siyasat Mein Sadasyata |
| Chinmay Tumbe | The age of pandemic (1817-1920): How they shaped India and the World |
| Shashi Tharoor | The Battle of Belonging |
| Suman Dubey | The Fixer: Winning Has A Price. How Much Will You Pay? |
| JK Rowling | The Ickabog |
| Dr S Jaishankar | The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World |
| GBS Sindhu | The Khalistan Conspiracy: A former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 |
| Richard H. Thaler Cass R. Sunstein | The Little Book of Green Nudges |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smriti Irani | The Swachh Bharat Kranti |
| Pema Kandu | The Tangrams |
| Randeep Guleria, Chandrakanta Lahariya and Gagandeep Kang | Till we Win: India’s Fight Against COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Col. VN Thapar and Neha Dwivedi | Vijyant at Kargil: The life of a Kargil War Hero |
| Nirupama Yadav | Vishesh: Code to Win |
| Romila Thapar | Voices of Dissent |
| Sree Iyer | Who painted my lust red? |
| Smriti Zubin Irani | Chronicles of Change Champions |
| National book trust, India | Corona Studies Series |
| Nobel Laureate J M Coetzee | The death of Jesus |
| Kamlesh Sutar | 36 Days |
| Megha Majumdar | A Burning |
| K. Ramakrishna Rao | A Child of Destiny |
| Apoorva Kumar Singh | A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981 |
| Ruskin Bond | A Song of India |
| Ira Mukhoty | Akbar: The Great Mughal |
| Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | An Extraordinary Life: A biography of Manohar Parrikar |
| Vivek Kaul | Bad Money: Inside The NPA Mess And How It Threatens The Indian Banking System |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Balwa |
| Avni Doshi | Burnt Sugar (published in India under the title ‘Girl in White Cotton’) |
| Anand Neelakantan | Chaturanga |
| Sudhir Suryawanshi | Checkmate: How The BJP Won And Lost Maharashtra |
| Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh | Connecting, Communicating, Changing |
| Jaggi Vasudev | Death – An Inside Story |
| Claude Arpi | End of an Era, India Exits Tibet |
| Bommadevara Chandravadhan | Fear of God |
| Abhishek Singhvi | From the Trenches |
| V Pattabhi Ram | Future of Higher Education : Nine Mega Trends |
| Jitendra Singh | Gastric Cancer |
| RC Bhargava | Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India |
| Abhijit V. Banerjee | Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems |
| Matthew McConaughey | Greenlights |
| Tenzin Geyche Tethong | His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography |
| Ruskin Bond | Hop On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains and Planes |
| Sudha Murthy | How the Onion Got Its Layers |
| Ashwani Kumar | Human Dignity -A purpose in perpetuity |
| Stephen King | If It Bleeds |
| Tarun Vijay | Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar Parrikar |
| Amit Shah | Karmayoddha Granth |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun |
| Savita Chhabra | Legacy of Learning |
| Amish Tripathi | Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India |
| Shobhaa De | Lockdown Liaisons: Leaving and Other Stories |
| Rupa Srikumar and A.K. Srikumar | Mahaveer : The Soldier who never died |
| Jim Carrey | Memoirs and Misinformation |
| Priti K Shrof | Messages from Messengers |
| Tavleen Singh | Messiah Modi : A Tale of Great Expectations |
| Adam Higginbotham | Midnight in Chernobyl |
| Ruskin Bond | Miracle At Happy Bazaar |
| Chander Suta Dogra | Missing in Action : The Prisoners Who Never Came Back |
| Bhalchandra Mungekar | My Encounters in Parliament |
| Gauri Khan | My Life in Design |
| Dinyar Patel | Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism |
| Arun Jaitley | New India : Selected Writings 2014-19 |
| Chetan Bhagat | One Arranged Murder |
| Dalai Lama and Franz Alt | Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World |
| Urjit Patel | Overdraft : Saving the Indian Saver |
| Gurcharan Singh and MS Unnikrishnan | Pitching is Straight |
| Viral V.Acharya | Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India |
| Hemendra Kumar Roy | Raater Kolkata |
| Yashwant Sinha | Relentless |
| Uma Balasubramaniam | Sayajirao Gaekwad III : The Maharaja of Baroda |
| Girish Kuber | Shivaji in South Block: The Unwritten History of a Proud People |
| V. Krishnaswamy | Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P.V. Sindhu |
| Satyarth Nayak | Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess |
| Mary Jordan | The Art of Her Deal : The Untold Story of Melania Trump |
| Abhay K. | The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems |
| Ramchandra Guha | The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind |
| Dhiren Tiwari | The Crossfire of Love |
| John Maxwell Coetzee | The Death of Jesus |
| Ashutosh Bhardwaj | The Death Script: Dreams And Delusions In Naxal Country |
| Keerthik Sasidharan | The Dharma Forest |
| Hussain Zaidi | The Endgame |
| J.K Rowling | The Ickabog |
| S Jaishankar | The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World |
| Mark Honigsbaum | The Pandemic Century |
| John Bolton | The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir |
| Steve Waugh | The Spirit of Cricket : India |
| Dharmendra Rai | The Thin Mind Map |
| Anand Neelakantan | The Very, Extremely, Most Naughty Asura Tales for Kids |
| WV Raman | The Winning Sixer: Leadership Lessons To Master |
| Kobe Bryant & Wesley King | The Wizenard Series: Season One |
| Jay Shetty | Think Like a Monk |
| Mary Trump | Too Much and Never Enough |
| Neha Dwivedi | Vijayant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero |
| Fang Fang | Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City |