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Books and Their Authors: Extended
An extended, tabular revision of books and authors focused on Indian English writing, award-winning works, regional-language classics and modern world literature, complementing the main books-and-authors page, for CAPF static GK
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One screen per section. Cover the right column and test yourself. Book-to-author pairings are durable static facts; recently published or award-winning books change yearly, so for any current book question verify the latest. This sheet extends the classical and freedom-struggle pairings in books and authors with modern Indian and world writing.
| Book |
Author |
| The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy (Booker, 1997) |
| Midnight's Children |
Salman Rushdie (Booker, 1981) |
| The White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga (Booker, 2008) |
| The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai (Booker, 2006) |
| A Suitable Boy |
Vikram Seth |
| The Guide; Malgudi Days |
R K Narayan |
| Train to Pakistan |
Khushwant Singh |
| Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
| The Argumentative Indian |
Amartya Sen |
| Book |
Author |
| The Discovery of India |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| India of My Dreams |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| Wings of Fire; Ignited Minds |
A P J Abdul Kalam |
| Waiting for a Visa |
B R Ambedkar |
| Playing It My Way |
Sachin Tendulkar |
| Straight from the Heart |
Kapil Dev |
| Unbreakable |
Mary Kom |
| The Test of My Life |
Yuvraj Singh |
| Book |
Author / language |
| Gora; Ghare Baire |
Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali) |
| Godan; Gaban |
Munshi Premchand (Hindi/Urdu) |
| Chemmeen |
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam) |
| Yayati |
V S Khandekar (Marathi, Jnanpith) |
| Samskara |
U R Ananthamurthy (Kannada) |
| Pather Panchali |
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bengali) |
| Tirukkural |
Thiruvalluvar (Tamil) |
| Book |
Author |
| Development as Freedom |
Amartya Sen |
| Poverty and Famines |
Amartya Sen |
| Planning and the Poor |
B S Minhas |
| An Uncertain Glory |
Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze |
| The Idea of India |
Sunil Khilnani |
| India After Gandhi |
Ramachandra Guha |
| Book |
Author |
| The Old Man and the Sea |
Ernest Hemingway |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
| Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
| Sapiens |
Yuval Noah Harari |
| The Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank |
| Peg |
Recall |
| Booker for The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy |
| Author of Malgudi Days |
R K Narayan |
| Author of Godan |
Munshi Premchand |
| Wrote Development as Freedom |
Amartya Sen |
| Author of India After Gandhi |
Ramachandra Guha |
| Wrote Sapiens |
Yuval Noah Harari |