Here HP Exam Adda has provided a list of Important Books and Authors from a competitive exam point of view. Various Books of important personalities of Historical prominence or who have played an important role in social movements or have provided great insights into any important topic are asked in various national level or state level competitive exams of India.
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Important Books and Authors
| Sr. No. | Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| 1 | Young India Harijan My Experiment with Truth India of My Dreams Navjivan Hind Swaraj | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 2 | Neel Darpan | Dinbandhu Mitra |
| 3 | Discovery of India Glimpses of World History Meri Kahani | Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| 4 | Anand Math | Bakin Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| 5 | Poverty and Un British Rule of India | Dada Bhai Narauji |
| 6 | Indian Struggle | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| 7 | The Indian War of Indian Independence | Veer Savarkar |
| 8 | Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| 9 | India Divided | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 10 | Hints for Self Culture | Lala Hardayal |
| 11 | India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abdul Kalam Aazad |
| 12 | Kesri The Maratha Gita Rahasya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| 13 | Geetanjali Home and The World | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 14 | Nation | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| 15 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 16 | The Merchant of Venice Romeo and Juliet Macbeth A Midsummer Night’s Dream Julius Caesar Othello Hamlet | William Shakesphare |
| 17 | Arthashastra | Kautilya/Chanakya |
| 18 | Akbarnama Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazl |
| 19 | Baburnama | Babar |
| 20 | Das Capital | Karl Marx |
| 21 | Origin of Species | Charles Darwin
|
| 22 | Meghaduttam Shakuntala (Abhijnanashakuntalam) Raghuvamsa Kumarsambhava Agnimitra
| Kalidas |
| 23 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| 24 | Rajtrangini | Kalhana |
| 25 | NatyaShastra | Bharata |
| 26 | Kamasutra | Vatsayana |
| 27 | Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| 28 | Indica | Megasthanese |
| 29 | Astadhyayi | Panini |
| 30 | Gita Govinda | Jayadev |
| 31 | Aryabhattiya Surya Sidhanta | Aryabhatta |
| 32 | The White Tiger | Arvind Adiga |
| 33 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| 34 | The Satanic Verses Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 35 | Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| 36 | Ramcharitmanas | Tulsidas |
| 37 | Cricket, My Style | Kapil Dev |
| 38 | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| 39 | Harry Potter Book Series | J.K Rowling |
| 40 | Harsha Charita | Banabhatta |
| 41 | Argumentative India | Amartya Sen |
| 42 | Godan Gaban Karambhoomi Rangbhoomi | Premchand |
| 43 | The Kingdom of God is within you | Leo Tolstoy |
| 44 | Unto this Last | John Ruskin |
| 45 | Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| 46 | The Partition of India Annihilation of Caste | Dr. B.R Ambedkar |
| 47 | Wings of Fire Ignited Minds India 2020 | A.P.J Abdul Kalam |
| 48 | Why I am an Atheist | Bhagat Singh |
| 49 | The Voice of Freedom | Motilal Nehru |
| 50 | India for Indians | Chittranjan Das |
These are few important books which has been repeatedly asked in various competitive exams like SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC CPO, Railway exam and many state level exams.
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