Important Books and Authors for Bank and SSC Exams

1. Books and Authors List – Non-Fiction

As we know that Non-fiction is a category where we get to read biographies, memoirs, self-help books, business books and histories. In a research, it was found that reading nonfiction books increase your chance of becoming successful in all spheres.

Books	Authors
The trip to echo spring: On writers and Drinking	Olivia Laing
On the origin of species	Charles Darwin
The interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud
Walden	Henry David Thoreau
The Discovery Of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
Bookless in Baghdad	Shashi Tharoor
The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy
Two Lives	Vikram Seth
Geetanjali	Rabindranath Tagore
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
Mythologies	Roland Barthes
The Diary of a young girl	Anne Frank
Travels of Ibn battuta	Ibn battuta
A brief history of time	Stephen Hawking
Economy and Society	Max Weber
The Rights of a man	Thomas Paine
The Symposium	Plato
The Anatomy of melancholy	Robert Burton
Lives of the poets	Samuel Johnson

2. Books and Authors List – Fiction

Imagining stories activate regions of your brain responsible for developing a better understanding of others and also creating a new perspective. Fictional books are very popular among readers so they often make the news.

Books	Authors
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
The fault in our stars	John Green
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Lord of flies	William Golding
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guide	R K Narayan
Train to Pakistan	Khushwant Singh
Midnight’s children	Salman Rushdie
The Night train at Deoli	Ruskin Bond
Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh
The Great Indian Novel	Shashi Tharoor
The Blue Umbrella	Ruskin Bond
The Laughing Monsters	Denis Johnson

3. Books and Authors List – Biographies

Biographies and autobiographies are a very nice mixture of both Fiction and Nonfiction, so they cater the needs of all types of readers and are a good source of encouragement for readers as they get to know about personalities who made it big by their work.

Books	Author
Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson
The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt	Edmund Morris
The Wright Brothers	David McCullough
Wild Swans	Jung Chang
The Audacity Of hope	Barack Obama
Tennessee Williams	John Lahr
Open	Andre Agassi
Napoleon	Andrew Roberts

4. Books and Authors – Autobiographies

Autobiographies are self-written biographies. Here are some autobiographies that have made a global impact and are related to important causes:

Books	Author
I am Malala	Malala Yousafzai
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Franklin
Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela
Story Of my Experiments with truth	Mahatma Gandhi
An autobiography of Agatha Christie	Agatha Christie
Wings of Fire	A P J Abdul Kalam
An autobiography	Jawaharlal Nehru
Playing It My way	Sachin Tendulkar
Straight From the Heart	Kapil Dev
Story of my Life	Hellen Keller
The Bandit Queen Of India	Phoolan Devi
Truth Love and a Little Malice	Khushwant Singh
Why I am an Atheist	Bhagat Singh
Baburnama	Babur
The autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X
Up From Slavery	Robert T Washington
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand

Books that win Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize and other prizes are important too. Here is a list of them:

Pulitzer Prize Winning Books and Authors

2017

1. The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead (Fiction)
2. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between – Hisham Matar (Autobiographies and Biographies)
3. Drama: Sweat Lynn Nottage
4. History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising in 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson 
5. Poetry: Olio by Tyehimba Jess

2016

1. The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fiction)
2. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life – William Finnegan (Biography or Autobiography)
3. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS – Joby Warrick (Nonfiction)

2015

1. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr (Fiction)
2. The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe – David I. Kertzer (Autobiographies and Biographies)

Man Booker prize Winning Books and Authors

1. The Sellout – Paul Betty (Fiction)
2. A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James (Fiction)
3. The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan (Fiction)
4. The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton (Fiction)
5. Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel (Non-fiction)
6. The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes (Fiction)
7. A Horse Walks Into a Bar (2017) – David Grossman (Novel)