Expect one Question from “Important Books & Authors” in your TISSNET exam. All important books release of 2020 and 2021 have been listed here. Go through it again with Questions at the end of this article.
Book Name | Authors Name |
Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful Life | Amish Tripathi and Bhavna Roy |
Guru Nanak Dev | Kirpal Singh Ji |
Reporting India: My Seventy Year Journey as a Journalist | Prem Prakash |
Majhi Bhint (‘My Wall’) | Rajendra Darda |
I am No Messiah | Meena Iyer |
Your Best Day is Today! | Anupam Kher |
Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy | Tamal Bandyopadhyay |
The Fixer: Winning Has A Price. How Much Will You Pay? | Suman Dubey |
Portraits of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside | N K Singh |
The Battle of Belonging | Shashi Tharoor |
The Khalistan Conspiracy: A former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 | GBS Sindhu |
Bapu- the Unforgettable | Manish Sisodia |
Kitchens of Gratitude | Chef Vikas Khanna |
Voices of Dissent | Romila Thapar |
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction | Arundhati Roy |
My Life in Design | Gauri Khan |
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind | Ramchandra Guha |
National Security Challenges: Young Scholars Perspective | Indian Army Chief, General M M Naravane |
One Arranged Murder | Chetan Bhagat |
Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020 | Arjun Subramaniam |
Connecting, Communicating, Changing | Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh |
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World | Dalai Lama and Franz Alt |
Amazing Ayodhya | Neena Rai |
The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World | Dr. S Jaishankar |
A Song of India | Ruskin Bond |
Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver | Urjit Patel |
Miracle At Happy Bazaar | Ruskin Bond |
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems | Abhijit V. Banerjee |
Chaturanga | Anand Neelakantan |
Think Like a Monk | Jay Shetty |
The Dharma Forest | Keerthik Sasidharan |
The Death Script: Dreams And Delusions In Naxal Country | Ashutosh Bhardwaj |
Checkmate: How The BJP Won And Lost Maharashtra | Sudhir Suryawanshi |
Bad Money: Inside The NPA Mess And How It Threatens The Indian Banking System | Vivek Kaul |
Akbar: The Great Mughal | Ira Mukhoty |
Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey |
Midnight in Chernobyl | Adam Higginbotham |
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump | Mary Jordan |
Memoirs and Misinformation | Jim Carrey |
The Wizenard Series: Season One | Kobe Bryant & Wesley King |
Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P V Sindhu | Krishnaswamy V |
From the Trenches | Abhishek Singhvi |
How the Onion Got Its Layers | Sudha Murthy |
Shivaji in South Block: The Unwritten History of a Proud People | Girish Kuber |
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir | John Bolton |
Vijayant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero | Neha Dwivedi |
Fear of God | Bommadevara Chandravadhan |
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City | Fang Fang |
Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains, and Planes | Ruskin Bond |
The Ickabog | J.K Rowling |
Lockdown Liaisons: Leaving and Other Stories | Shobhaa De |
A Burning | Megha Majumdar |
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism | Dinyar Patel |
Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India | Amish Tripathi |
Burnt Sugar (Released as “Girl in White Cotton” in India) | Avni Doshi |
Too Much and Never Enough | Mary Trump |
The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World | S Jaishankar |
Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India | Viral V.Acharya |
36 Days | Kamlesh Sutar |
Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver | Urjit Patel |
If It Bleeds | Stephen King |
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography | Tenzin Geyche Tethong |
Suraj Kade Marda Nahi (Sun Never Dies) | Baldev Singh Sadaknama |
Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India | RC Bhargava |
The Pandemic Century | Mark Honigsbaum |
Future of Higher Education: Nine Mega Trends | V Pattabhi Ram |
The Endgame | Hussain Zaidi |
The Spirit of Cricket: India | Steve Waugh |
Mahaveer: The Soldier who never died | Rupa Srikumar & A.K. Srikumar |
A Song of India | Ruskin Bond |
A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981 | Apoorva Kumar Singh |
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems | Abhay K. |
Karmayoddha Granth | Amit Shah |
Balwa | Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Raater Kolkata | Hemendra Kumar Roy |
Death – An Inside Story | Jaggi Vasudev |
A Child of Destiny | K. Ramakrishna Rao |
Messages from Messengers | Priti K Shrof |
The Crossfire of Love | Dhiren Tiwari |
The Thin Mind Map | Dharmendra Rai |
How the Onion Got Its Layers | Sudha Murty |
Sayajirao Gaekwad III : The Maharaja of Baroda | Uma Balasubramaniam |
Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P.V. Sindhu | V. Krishnaswamy |
The Art of Her Deal : The Untold Story of Melania Trump | Mary Jordan |
New India : Selected Writings 2014-19 | Arun Jaitley |
The Winning Sixer: Leadership Lessons To Master | WV Raman |
Relentless | Yashwant Sinha |
Human Dignity -A purpose in perpetuity | Ashwani Kumar |
An Extraordinary Life: A biography of Manohar Parrikar | Sadguru Patil & Mayabhushan Nagvenkar |
Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess | Satyarth Nayak |
The Death of Jesus | John Maxwell Coetzee |
Legacy of Learning | Savita Chhabra |
Missing in Action : The Prisoners Who Never Came Back | Chander Suta Dogra |
Messiah Modi : A Tale of Great Expectations | Tavleen Singh |
My Encounters in Parliament | Bhalchandra Mungekar |
Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar Parrikar | Tarun Vijay |
Books And Authors Quiz 2020
Q1. Which amongst the following is a book written by Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan?
(a) Chidambara
(b) Kapala Kundala
(c) Kamayani
(d) Prateeksha
Q2. Who is the author of the book “War and Diplomacy in Kashmir”?
(a) G. Parthasarathy
(b) Sir Owen Dixon
(c) C. Dasgupta
(d) Kuldeep Nayar
Q3. Who is the author of the book ‘Conquest of Happiness’?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Aldous Huxley
(c) Bertrand Russell
(d) George Bernard Shaw
Q4. Whose autobiography is “My Life”?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Margaret Thatcher
(d) J. M. Lyngdoh
Q5. Who is the author of “Business @ Speed of Thought”?
(a) Dick Francis
(b) John Gray
(c) Bill Gates
(d) David Baldacci
Q6. Who wrote the play “Uttararamacharita”?
(a) Harsha
(b) Tulsidas
(c) Bhavabhuti
(d) Sudraka
Q7. Who is the author of the book “My Life”?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Hillary Roddham Clinton
(d) Margaret Thatcher
Q8. Who is the author of the book “Is New York Burning”?
(a) John Gresham
(b) Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
(c) Christopher Paolini Knaul
(d) Michael Moor
Q9. Who is author of the book ‘Apprenticeship of a Mahatma’ on which the film called ‘The Making of the Mahatma’ is based?
(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Shyam Benegal
(c) Shobha de
(d) Fatima Meer
Q10. Which of the following was authored by Mulk Raj Anand?
(a) The Village
(b) A Stranger Called I
(c) Dark Room
(d) My God Died Young
Q11. Who is the author of the book Long Walk to Freedom?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Louis Fischer
(c) Aung Sang Su Kyi
(d) Mao Tse Tung
Q12. ‘Indica’ was written by
(a) Justin
(b) Megasthenese
(c) Pliny
(d) Strabo
Q13. Who among the following has been awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman for his outstanding achievement in their field and fostering understanding of India abroad?
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Ms. Indira Nooyi
(c) Laxmi Mittal
(d) Sunil Mittal
Q14. The author of the book “Environmental Jurisprudence” is-
(a) Justice Y. V. Chandrachud
(b) Justice Ashok A. Desai
(c) Justice A. K. Sood
(d) Justice Prem Nagar
Q15. Who is the author of the book “The Three Mistakes in My Life”?
(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) Chetan Bhagat
(c) Amrita Pritam
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri