Important Books & Authors – Quick Revision

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Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore

The Discovery of India — Jawaharlal Nehru

My Experiments with Truth — Mahatma Gandhi

Godan — Munshi Premchand

Gaban — Munshi Premchand

Anandamath — Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Durgeshnandini — Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

The Guide — R. K. Narayan

Malgudi Days — R. K. Narayan

Swami and Friends — R. K. Narayan

Untouchable — Mulk Raj Anand

Coolie — Mulk Raj Anand

Train to Pakistan — Khushwant Singh

A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth

The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy

The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga

Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie

The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri

Wings of Fire — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari

India Wins Freedom — Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

The Argumentative Indian — Amartya Sen

The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai

The Palace of Illusions — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Great Indian Novel — Shashi Tharoor

The Shadow Lines — Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide — Amitav Ghosh

The Room on the Roof — Ruskin Bond

The Blue Umbrella — Ruskin Bond

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian — Nirad C. Chaudhuri

The Private Life of an Indian Prince — Mulk Raj Anand

A Fine Balance — Rohinton Mistry

The Last Mughal — William Dalrymple

The Wonder That Was India — A. L. Basham

The Story of My Experiments with Truth — Mahatma Gandhi

Pather Panchali — Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Parineeta — Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Devdas — Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Chokher Bali — Rabindranath Tagore

The Home and the World — Rabindranath Tagore

The Post Office — Rabindranath Tagore

Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Othello — William Shakespeare

King Lear — William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare

Paradise Lost — John Milton

The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Emma — Jane Austen

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë

Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens

David Copperfield — Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens

Great Expectations — Charles Dickens

Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift

The Rape of the Lock — Alexander Pope

The Pilgrim’s Progress — John Bunyan

The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser

The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

Tess of the d’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy

Sons and Lovers — D. H. Lawrence

Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf

The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot

Ulysses — James Joyce

Lord of the Flies — William Golding

Animal Farm — George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) — George Orwell

The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

The Time Machine — H. G. Wells

Dracula — Bram Stoker

Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

World Literature – Famous Books and Authors (81–100)

The Iliad — Homer

The Odyssey — Homer

The Republic — Plato

Poetics — Aristotle

The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri

Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes

War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez

The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Stranger — Albert Camus

The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka

The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien

The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini

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