Famous international books and authors
Books and author is an important GK section for every competitive exam. During all time periods, there are numbers of books which have been considered as some of the greatest works of literature ever written. These books are considered as the essential foundation of world literature. Candidates must by heart those book names and their respective author names for exam preparation. Here is the list of such some books and their author’s name.
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| A passage to India | E.M.Forster |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A Week with Gandhi | Louis Fisher |
| A Woman's Life | Guy de Maupassaut |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Adventures of Tom Saweyer | Mark Twain |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nasrul Islam |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carrol |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Shakespeare |
| Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton |
| Arms and the Man | G.B.Shaw |
| Around the World in eighty days | Jules Verne |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| Avigyan Sakuntalam | Kalidas |
| Ben Hur | Lewis Wallace |
| China Passage | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| Confessions | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Divine Comedy | Dante |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde | Stevenson |
| For whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Freedom at Midnight | Dominique Lapierre |
| French Revolution | Thomas Carlyle |
| Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
| Geetanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Grammar of Politics | Harold T.Laski |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Illiad | Homer |
| Invisible Man | H.G.Wells |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
| Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| King Lear | Shakespeare |
| Les Miserable | Victor Hugo |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Man and Superman | G.B.Shaw |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| Mother | Maxim Gorky |
| My experiments with Truth | Mahatma M.K.Gandhi |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| Old Man and the Sea | Earnest Hemingway |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Origin of species | Charles Darwin |
| Othello | Shakespeare |
| Panchatantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Paradise lost | John Milton |
| Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Principia | Issac Newton |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Shape of Things to Come | H.G.Wells |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre |
| The Class | Erich Byron |
| The Clown | Heinrich Boll |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Merchant of venice | William shakespeare |
| The Other Side of Midnight | Sindye Sheldon |
| The Post Office | R.N.Tagore |
| The Tempest | Shakespeare |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| Treasure Island | R.L.Stevenson |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Utopia | Sir Thomas Moor |
| War and peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Waste Land | T.S.Eliot |
"Famous international book" is an important topic in competitive GK exams. The questions related to "Famous international book" is common in any GK exam question papers. It is a key static GK topic that needs attention. It will be easy to scores on this topic once candidates by heart the above list.
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