Books & Authors 2023

March 2023 Updated All Imp Books Top 120

👉 Azaad — Ghulam Nabi Azad Top MCQs

👉 Victory City — Salman Rushdie

👉 Tomb of Sand — Geetanjali Shree

👉 Fearless Governance — Kiran Bedi
👉 Ambedkar : A Life — Shashi Tharoor
Q.
Who has been honored with the Saraswati
Samman 2022 ?
सरस्वती सम्मान 2022 से किसे सम्माकनत किया यया ै ?

a) Sivasankari • Tamil writer Sivasankari has been selected

for Saraswati Samman for 2022 for her
b) Anuradha Rai book Survya Vamsam.
• Saraswati Samman instituted by the K.K.
c) Geetanjali Shree Birla Foundation in 1991 is recognized as
d) Madhumita Sen the most prestigious and the highest
literary award in the country.
• 2021 Saraswati Samman – Ramdarsh
Option : A Mishra for Main to Yahan hoon
Q.
Who has been honored with the 32nd
Vyas Samman 2022 ?
32वाां व्यास सम्मान 2022 से किसे सम्माकनत किया
यया ै ?

a) Dr Gyan Chaturvedi • Noted Hindi writer Dr Gyan

Chaturvedi's 2018 satirical novel,
b) Asghar Wajahat Pagalkhana, has been selected
for the 32nd Vyas Samman, 2022.
c) Geetanjali Shree
• Dr Chaturvedi received India’s
d) Daya Prakash Sinha fourth highest civilian award
Padma Shri in 2015.
• 31st Vyas Samman – Asghar
Option : A Wajahat for his play Mahabali
 Sahitya Akademi Award 2022

• English – Anuradha Rao for her English

novel ‘All the Lives we Never’.
• Hindi – Badri Narayan (Tumadi ke Shabd)
• Award For - 22 languages of the 8th
Schedule to the Indian constitution as well
as in English and Rajasthani language.
• First Award - 1954
 Sahitya Akademi Award 2021

• Famous writer Namita Gokhale

received the award for her English
novel 'Things to Leave Behind’.
• Daya Prakash Sinha was given the
Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 for his
play 'Samrat Ashok' for Hindi.
• Tamil writer Sivasankari has been selected for Saraswati Samman for 2022
for her book Survya Vamsam Literature related Awards
• Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi – 32nd Vyas Samman 2022 for Pagalkhana
• Asghar Wajahat – 31st Vyas Samman 2021
• Sharad Pagare - 30th Vyas Samman for his novel titled ‘Patliputra ki Samragi
• Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022
• Hindi – Badri Narayan for Tumdi ke Shabd, an anthology of poems)
• English – Anuradha Roy (All the Lives We Never Lived, novel)
• International Booker Prize 2022 - Tomb of Sand, written by Geetanjali Shree
and translated by Daisy Rockwell.
• Booker Prize 2022 - Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilak for his novel The
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Q.
The book Azaad is the autobiography of
which person ?
आजाद नामि पुस्ति किस व्यक्ति िी आत्मिथा ै ?

a) Ghulam Nabi Azad • Ghulam Nabi Azad, a former

Chief Minister of Jammu and
b) Chandrashekhar Azad Kashmir and Union Minister, has
written an honest and forthright
c) APJ Abdul Kalam
autobiography, which will be
d) Abul Kalam Azad launched in New Delhi.

Option : A
Q.
Who is the Author of the book ‘Modi :
Shaping a global order in Flux' ?
मोदी : शेकपांय ए ग्लोबल ऑर्ड र इन फ्लक्स' पुस्ति िे
लेखि िौन ै ैं ?

a) J P Nadda • BJP national president J.P. Nadda

has launched a book “Modi :
b) P Sainath
Shaping a Global Order in Flux” in
c) Shashi Tharoor Chanakyapuri. Book is forewarded
by Union External Affair Minister S.
d) Manoj Pande Jaishankar. Editors are Sujan
Chinoy, Vijay Chauthaiwala, and
Uttam Kumar Sinha.
Option : A
Q.
Who is the Author of the book ‘Irrfan Khan
: A life in Movies’ ?
इरफान खान : अ लाइफ इन मूवीज' पुस्ति िे लेखि
िौन ै ैं ?

a) R Kaushik
• 2011 - Padma Shri (India's
b) Subhra Gupta
fourth highest civilian honour)
c) A Fernandez • In 2021, he was posthumously
awarded the Filmfare Lifetime
d) Manoj Pande Achievement Award.

Option : B
Q.
Who is the Author of the book ‘COACHING
BEYOND : My days with Indian Cricket Team’ ?
‘िोक ांय कबयॉन्ड : भारतीय कििेट टीम िे साथ मे रे कदन'
पुस्ति िे लेखि िौन ै ैं ?

a) R Sridhar • A book titled ‘COACHING

BEYOND: My Days with the Indian
b) R Kaushik Cricket Team’ authored by R.
Kaushik & R. Sridhar.
c) MS Dhoni
• The book reflects primarily on R.
d) A & B Both Sridhar’s seven-year coaching
tenure with the Indian cricket
team as its fielding coach.
Option : D
Q.

Who is the Author of the novel ‘Pyre’ ?

‘Pyre’ novel िे लेखि िौन ै ैं ?

a) S Murugan • Perumal Murugan’s novel ‘Pyre’, which deals

with caste-based discrimination, has been
b) Perumal Murugan nominated for the 2023 International Booker
Prize longlist.
c) A Vasudevan • Originally written in Tamil under the title
‘Pukkuli’, the book follows the story of a couple
d) None of the Above
from different castes who flee their village,
triggering a dark and ominous tale.
Option : B • The book was translated into English by
Aniruddhan Vasudevan in 2016.
Q.
Who is the Author of the book ‘Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj’ ?
‘छत्रपकत कशवाजी मै ाराज' पुस्ति िे लेखि िौन ै ैं ?

a) Shri Kavi • Shrimant Kokate, a well-known

Marathi author and historian,
b) Shrimant Kokate has recently released his first
English book titled
c) Dilip Choubey
“Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
d) R Tilak (illustrated)”, which has been
translated by Dilip Chavan.

Option : B
Q.
Who is the Author of the book ‘Bipin : The
Man behind Uniform’ ?
‘कबकपन : द मन कबै ाइां र् यूकनफामड ' पुस्ति िे लेखि
िौन ै ैं ?

a) Kamla Rawat • Bipin Rawat was India’s first Chief of

Defence Staff and one of the country’s
b) Rachna Biswat Rawat most notable military leaders until he
tragically died in a helicopter crash in
c) Madhulika Rawat 2021.
• The book was presented to India’s
d) Rajnath Singh Minister of Defence, Rajnath Singh, by
the author.
Option : • It serves as a fitting tribute to General
Rawat’s life and achievements.
Q.
Who is the Author of the book
‘Mundaka Upanishad : The Gateway
of Eternity’ ?

a) Jagdeep Dhankhad • Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar

announced the released of the book
b) Karan Singh “Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway
to Eternity”.
c) Rahul Gandhi • Dr. Karan Singh, a former member
of parliament, wrote the book at
d) Romila Thappad Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas in New Delhi.
He is a philosopher and politician
Option : B from India.
Q.
Who is the Author of the Novel
‘Victory City’ ?
कवक्ट्र ी कसटी’ उपन्यास िे लेखि िौन ै ैं ?

a) Salman Rushdie • Salman Rushdie published his new novel

“Victory City”, an “epic tale” of a 14th-
b) Salman Khurshid century woman who defies a patriarchal
world to rule a city.
c) Shashi Tharoor • The much-anticipated work tells the tale
of young orphan girl Pampa Kampana
d) A Krishnan
who is endowed by a goddess with
magical powers and founds the city, in
Option : A modern-day India, of Bisnaga, which
translates as Victory City.
Q.
With whom is the book ‘Chief Minister's
Diary No.1’ related ?
मुख्यमांत्री र्ायरी िमाांि 1 पुस्ति िा सां बांध किससे ै ?

• Former Chief Justice of India and

a) Nitish Kumar
member of the Rajya Sabha Ranjan
b) Yogi Adityanath Gogoi has released a book titled ‘Chief
Minister’s Diary No.1’ containing the
c) Mamta Banerjee account of events of the first year in
office of Assam CM Himanta Biswa
d) Hemant Biswa Sarma Sarma.
• The book featured accounts of daily
Option : D activities he undertook as a chief
minister.
Q.
Who is the author of the book
Ambedkar : A Life ?
Ambedkar : A Life पुस्ति िे लेखि िौन ै ?

a) Kiran Bedi
• Imp Books of Shashi Tharoor
b) Shashi Tharoor • Pride, Prejudice & Punditry
• Why I am a Hindu
c) Prem Khemka • The Hindu Way
• An Era of Darkness
d) Ruskin Bond • The Paradoxical Prime Minister

Option : B
Q.
Who is the author of the book “Forks
in the Road : My Days at RBI and
Beyond” ?
a) Bimal Jalan
• C. Rangarajan is an Indian
b) C Rangarajan economist, a former Member of
Parliament and 19th Governor of
c) Shaktikanta Das the Reserve Bank of India.
d) MD Patra

Option : B
Q.

Who is the author of the book “Light We Carry:

Overcoming in Uncertain Times” ?

a) Barak Obama • Spouse of Barack Obama

b) Michelle Obama
c) Donald Trump
d) Joe Biden

Option : B
Q.

Who is the author of the book “Winning the Inner

Battle Bringing the best version of you to cricket” ?

a) MS Dhoni • Shane Watson – Former

Australian Cricketer
b) Shane Watson
c) Shane Warne
d) Kumar Sangakkara

Option : B
Q.

Who is the author of the book “From dependence

to SelfReliance” ?

a) Bimal Jalan • 20th Governor of RBI

b) Kiren Rijiju
c) Anurag Thakur
d) Vinesh Phogat

Option : A
Q.

Who is the author of the book “ “DELHI

UNIVERSITY : Celebrating 100 Glorious Years“ ?

a) Amit Shah • Minister of Petroleum and Natural

Gas & Housing and Urban Affairs -
b) Kiren Rijiju Hardeep Singh Puri

c) Hardeep Singh Puri

d) S Jaishankar

Option : C
 Books & Authors 2023 Revision
• Victory City – Salman Rushdie
• Ambedkar : A Life – Shashi Tharoor
• Mundaka Upanishad – Karan Singh
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj – Shrimant Kokate
• Bipin : The Man Behind The Uniform” - Rachna Biswat Rawat
• India’s Struggle for Independence – Gandhian Era - P. Jyothimani
and G. Balan.
• Modi : Shaping a Global Order in Flux – Launched by JP Nadda
• ‘COACHING BEYOND : My Days With The Indian Cricket Team’ - R.
Kaushik & R. Sridhar.
 Books & Authors 2023 Revision

• The Presidential Year – Pranab Mukherjee (13th President of India)

• Nalanda – Until We Meet Again’ - Gautam Borh
• ‘Miracles of Face Yoga’ - Mansi Gulati
• Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Katherine
Rundell (50,000 pound cash prize for Baillie Gifford Prize)
• The Chipko Movement : A People’s History - Shekhar Pathak
Q.1.
Who has been honored with the 31st Vyas Samman
Award ?
31वें व्यास सम्मान पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनत किया यया ै ?

a) Asghar Wajahat • For his Book – Mahabali

b) Ramdarsh Mishra • Saraswati Samman 2021

• Ramdarsh Mishra
c) Deepak Sharma
• For his book – Mein to Yahan hun
d) Shashi Tharoor

Option : A
Q.2.

Who is the author of the book “Leaders, Politicians &

Citizens“ ?

a) Ruskin Bond • Listen to Your heart : The London

Adventure – Ruskin Bond
b) Prakash Singh
c) Rasheed Kidwai
d) Salmam Khurshid

Option : C
Q.3.

Who is the author of the book “Believe : What life &

Cricket taught me“ ?

a) Sachin Tendulkar • With Bharat Sundarshan

b) Rahul Dravid
c) MS Dhoni
d) Suresh Raina

Option : D
Q.4.
Who is the author of the book “The Queen
of Indian Pop : The Authorized biography of
Usha Uthup“ ?

a) Sagaroika Ghose
• Ullas Ki Naav — The Queen of
b) Vinay kr jha
Indian Pop' written by Vikas
c) Vikash Kr Jha Kumar Jha, translated by
Srishti Jha
d) Ratnakar Sharma

Option : C
Q.5.

Who is the author of the book "Gautam Adani : The

Man Who Changed India"?

a) Sonu Phogat • He is the richest person

in Asia and the third richest
b) RN Bhaskar person in the world.

c) Vinit Karnik
d) Gautam Adani

Option : B
Q.6.

Who is the author of the book “How to prevent the

Next Pandemic“ ?

a) Barak Obama • Founder of Microsoft

b) Joe Biden
c) Bill Gates
d) Stephen Hawking

Option : C
Q.7.

Who is the author of the book “The India Story“ ?

a) Amartya Sen • 20th Governor of RBI

b) Bimal Jalan
c) P Chidambram
d) S Jaishankar

Option : B
Q.8.

Who is the author of the book “Fearless Governance“ ?

a) Narendra Modi • 1st woman IPS of India

b) Arvind Kejriwal
c) Kiran Bedi
d) Draupadi Murmu

Option : C
Q.9.

Who is the author of the book “Tomb of Sand“ ?

a) Devanshi Shree • Tomb of Sand’, has become the

b) Geetanjali Shree first book written in an Indian
language to be awarded
c) Anjali Shree the International Booker Prize

d) Rupali Shree

Option : B
 International Booker Prize 2022
• International Booker Prize 2022 –
Geetanjali Shree (For the Novel ‘Tomb of
Sand’)
• Translated into English by Daisy Rockwell.
• ‘Tomb of Sand’, has become the first book
written in an Indian language to be awarded
the International Booker Prize.
• Geetanjali Shree first Indian to win International
Booker Prize
Q.10.

Who is the author of the book “The Seven Moons of

Maali Almeida“ ?

a) Philip Salt
b) Damon Galgut
c) Shehan Karunatilka
d) Dinesh Chandimal

Option : C
 Booker Prize 2022

• Booker Prize 2022 – Sri Lankan

Writer Shehan Karunatilaka (for his
novel The Seven Moons of Maali
Almeida)
• Booker Prize 2021 – Damon Galgut
(For his Novel The Promise)
 Books related to PM Narendra Modi
• Exam Warrior – Narendra Modi
•
• The Great Disappointment – Salman Anees Soz
• Narendra Modi : A Political Biography – Andy Marino
• The Architect of the New BJP – Ajay Singh
• Narendra Modi : Vision And Accomplishments – K R Gupta
• Narendra Modi : Creative Disrupter – R Balashankar
• Modi@20 : Dreams meet Delivery – it is a compilation of chapters
written by S Jaishankar, Amish Tripathi, PV Sindhu, Anupam Kher,
Amit Shah and Sudha Murthy among others.
Ruskin Bond
Padma Shri (1999) & Padma Bhushan (2014)

The Room on the Roof (1st Novel)

The Blue Umbrella
कदल्ली अब दूर नै ी ां
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
(Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992)

• How to Be a Writer (2020)

• All time Favourites for Children (2021)
• A Little book of India (2022)
• Listen to Your Heart (2022)
• Adventures at School
• The Girl on the Train
 Latest Books & Author’s

• “Not Just A Nightwatchman : My Innings with BCCI” - Vinod

Rai (Former CAG)
• “Birsa Munda – Janjatiya Nayak” - Prof. Alok Chakrawal
(Released by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan)
• “Queen of Fire” - Devika Rangachari
• “Crunch Time : Narendra Modi’s National Security Crises” - Dr
Sreeram Chauliahas
 Latest Books & Author’s

• “The Little Book of Joy” - 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin

Gyatso) & Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• “Unfilled Barrels : India’s oil story” - Richa Mishra
• “Wrist Assured : An Autobiography” - R Kaushik
(Autobiography of Former Indian cricket captain G R
Vishwanath)
 Books & Author’s

• Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin’s autobiography

Ungalil Oruvan (One Among You)
• “A Nation To Protect” - Priyam Gandhi Mody (The book
highlights the role of PM Narendra Modi during the
Covid crisis in the past two years)
• ‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’ - Bill Gates
 Latest Books & Author’s

• “Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra” - Navdeep Singh Gill

• “Fearless Governance” - Kiran Bedi
• ‘A Little Book Of India : Celebrating 75 Years Of Independence’
- Ruskin Bond
• “The $10 Trillion Dream” – Shubhash Chandra Garg (former
finance secretary of India)
• ‘The Legend Of Birsa Munda’ - Tuhin A Sinha & Ankita Verma
• “Bose : The Untold Story Of An Inconvenient Nationalist” -
Chandrachur Ghose
 Latest Books & Author’s

• “Mamata Beyond 2021” - Jayanta Ghosal

• “Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’ - Dr Thomas Matthew
• “Indomitable : A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work and
Leadership” the autobiography of Arundhati Bhattacharya,
retired Indian banker and former first-ever woman Chairperson of
the State Bank of India
• “The Modi Gambit : Decoding Modi 2.0” - Sanju Verma
• “The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh” – Shantanu Gupta
• “Rewinding The First 25 Years Of MeitY!” – SS Oberoi
 Latest Books & Author’s

• ‘Pride, Prejudice and Punditry’ - Dr. Shashi Tharoor

• “Democracy, Politics and Governance” in English and
‘Loktantr, Rajniti and Dharm’ in Hindi - Dr A. Surya Prakash.
• “Gandhi’s Assassin : The Making of Nathuram Godse and His
Idea of India” - Dhirendra Jha
• ‘India, That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution’ -
J Sai Deepak
 Latest Books & Author’s

• “Resolved : Uniting Nations in a Divided World” – Ban ki-Moon

• India vs UK : The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win –
Syed Akbaruddin
• “SHUTTLER’S FLICK : Making Every Match Count” –
Autobiography of Pullela Gopichand (co-authored by Priya
Kumar)
• “Lal Salaam : A Novel” – Smriti Irani
• ‘At Home In The Universe’ : Bala Krishna Madhur
• “Cooking too Save your Life” – Abhijeet Banrjee
 Latest Books & Author’s

• “Kamala Harris : Phenomenal Woman"

– Chidanand Rajghatta
• “Sunrise over Ayodhya : Nationhood in Our Times” –
Salman Khurshid
• “The Origin Story of India’s States” – V. S Shrinivasan
• “Actually.. I Met Them : A Memoir” – Gulzar
• “The Secrets To Balancing Work And Family Life”
– Indra Nooyi
 Manohar Parrikar was the first IITian to become the Chief Minister of a
state in India,

‘Manohar Parrikar – Off the Record’

Waman Subha Prabhu

Manohar Parrikar : Brilliant Mind,

Simple Life
- Nitin Anant Gokhale
 Nehru, Tibet & China
- Avatar Singh Bhasin

‘The Little Book of Encouragement’

- Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama of Tibet)
 A Dream of Revolution : A
Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan"
- Bimal Prasad & Sujata Prasad

The Kapil Sharma Story

- Ajitabha Bose
‘Accelerating India : 7 Years of
Modi Government
- K. J Alphons

The Accidental Prime Minister

- Sanjay Baru

The Paradoxical Prime Minister

- Shashi Tharoor

“Exam Warriors”
- PM Narendra Modi
 By Many a Happy Accident:
Recollections of a Life’
- Hamid Ansari (12th Vice P of India)

Dare I Question? Reflections

on Contemporary Challenges
- Hamid Ansari
Raghuram Rajan - I do what I do

‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an

Indian Generation’
- Ashok Lavasa (Former Election C)

The India Story

- Bimal Jalan (20th Governor of RBI)

“Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver”

- Urjit Patel (24th Governor of RBI)
“Home in the World : A Memoir”
- Amartya Sen

Languages of Truth
- Salman Rushdie

‘Triple Talaq: Examining Faith’

- Salman Khurshid
 ‘Unfinished : A Memoir’
– Priyanka Chopra

‘I Am No Messiah’
– Sonu Sood & Meena Iyer

‘Your Best Day Is Today!’

- Anupam Kher’s

“The Big Thoughts of Little Luv”

“An Unsuitable Boy”
- Karan Johar
 ‘My Life, My Mission
- Baba Ramdev

“Lessons Life Taught Me

Unknowingly”
- Anupam Kher

‘Listening, Learning,
and Leading
- M.Venkaih Naidu
 ‘India’s 71-Year Test : The Journey
to Triumph in Australia
- R Kaushik

‘The Commonwealth of Cricket’

- Ramchandra Guha’s

Stargazing : The Players in My Life’

- Ravi Shastri’s
‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’
- Suresh Raina and sports author Bharat Sundaresan,
 281 and Beyond Game Changer
- VVS Laxman - Shahid Afridi
A Century is Not Enough
- Saurav Ganguly
Mind Master Imperfect (autobiography)
- Vishwanathan - Sanjay Manjrekar
Anand (Chess)
No Spin
- Sharne Warne
The Test of my Life Playing it My Way
- Yuvraj Singh - Sachin Tendulkar
“In Pursuit Of Justice : An
Autobiography”
- Justice Rajindar Sachar.

“The Making of Aadhaar: World’s

Largest Identity Platform”
- Ram Shevak Sharma

My Life in Full : Work, Family &

Future
- Indra Nooyi (Former PepsiCo CEO)
 Question for You

Who is the author of the book “From dependence

to SelfReliance” ?

a) Bimal Jalan
b) C Rangarajan
c) Anurag Thakur
d) Vinesh Phogat
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