General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Famous Books or Plays

Name of the Book/Play Author

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
Affluent Society J.K.Galbraith
After the Dark Night S.M. Ali
Agony and the Ecstasy, The Irving Stone
Airport Arthur Halley
Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazal
Alchemist, The Ben Johnson
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
All’s Well that Ends Well William Shakespeare
All the President’s Men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All the Prime Minister’s Men Janardhn Thakur
All Things Bright and Beautiful James Herriot
Ambassador’s Journal J.K. Galbraith
Ambassador’s Report Chester Bowles
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
An Eye to China David Selbourne
An Idealist View of Life Dr S. Radhakrishnan
Anand Math Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Androcles and the Lion George Bernard Shaw
Animal Farm George Orwell
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
Ape and Essence A.Huxley
Apple Cart George Bernard Shaw
Arabian Nights Sri Richard Burton
Area of Darkness V.S.Naipaul
Arthashastra Kautilya
Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw
Around the World in Eighty Das Jules Verne
Arrival and Departure Arthur Koestler
As you Like it William Shakespeare
As cent to Everest Sri John Hunt
Asian Drama Gunnar Myrdal

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Atoms of Hope Mohan Sundar Rajan

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Nirad C. Choudhury
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Babur-nama Babur (Translated into English by John
Falkland)
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw
Bang-e-Dara Mohd Iqba
Bend in the Ganges, A Manohar Malgaonkar
Ben Hur Lewis Wallace
Best and the Brightest, The David Halberstam
Between the Lines Kuldip Nayar
Bharat Bharati Maithili Sharan Gupt
Bisarjan Rabindranath Tagore
Birth and Death of the Sun George Bernard Shaw
Bitter Sweet Noel Coward
Blind Beauty, The Boris Pasternak
Born Free Joy Adamson
Bread, Beauty and Revolution Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, Khushwant Singh
The
Bride’s Book of Beauty, The Mulk Raj Anand
Broken Wing Sarajini Naidu
Bunch of Old Letters, A Jawaharlal Nehru
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Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw
Candida George Bernard Shaw
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Chitra Rabindranath Tagore
Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
Coolie Mulk Raj Anand
Crisis in India, The Ronald Segal
Culture in the Vanity Bag Nirad C. Choudhury
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Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
Dark Room, The R.K. Narayan
Das Kapital Karl Marx
David Coperfield Charles Dickens
Days of His Grace Eyvind Johnson
Death of a City Amirta Pritam
Death of a President William Manchester
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
Defence without Drift P.V.R. Rao

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Decline of the West O.Spengier

Descent of Man Charles Darwin
Devdas Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Dilemma of Our Time Harold Joseph Laski
Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Neighbours Kuldip Nayar
Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Divine Life Swami Sivananda
Doctor’s Dilemma George Bernard Shaw
Don Juan Lord Byron
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End of an Era C.S. Pandit
Ends and Means Aldous Huxley
Essays for Poor to the Rich John Kenneth Galbraith
Essays of Elia Charles Lamb
Expanding Universe Arthur Stanley Eddington
Experiments with Untruth Michael Anderson
Eye of the Storm Patrick White
Eternal Himalayas Maj H.P.S. Ahluwalia
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Faces of Everest Maj H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Face to Face Lasse and Lisa Berg
Family Reunion T.S. Eliot
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Farewell to Arms , A Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to Trumpets James Morris
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
First Among Equals Joffery Archer
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Friends, Not Masters Ayub Khan
From Here to an Eternity James Jones
Future Shock Alvin Toffler
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Gardener, The Rabindranath Tagore
Geet Govinda Jaya Dev
Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore
Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru
Godan Munshi Prem Chand
Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu
Going After Cacciato Tim O’ Brien

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Golden Gate, The Vikram Seth

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
Gora Rabindranath Tagore
Grammar of Politics Harold Laski
Great Expectation Charles Dickens
Great Illusion Norman Angell
Guide, The R.K.Narayan
Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati Sahai Firaq
Gulistan Bostan Sheikh Saadi
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Hamlet William Shakespare
Harsha Charita Bana Bhatt
Heat and Dust Ruth P. Jhabwala
Henry Esmond Thackeray
Hero of Our Time Richard Hough
Heroes and Hero Worship Thomas Carlyle
Himalayan Blunder Brig J.P. Dalvi
Hindu Civilization J.M. Barrie
History of the Congress Party Dr Shankar Ghose
Hindu view of Life Dr Radhakrishnan
House Divided Pearl S. Buck
Human Factor Graham Greene
Hungry Stones Rabindranath Tagore
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I am not An Island K.A.Abba
I follow the Mahatma K.M. Munshi
Idiot, The Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I am Assassinated Z.A. Bhutto
Illiad Homer
Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
India Divided Rajendra Prasad
India from Curzon to Nehru and After Durga Dass
India We Left, The Humphrey Travelyan
India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam
Indian Home Rule M.K. Gandhi
Indian Philosophy Dr S. Radhakrishnan
Indian Muslims Prof Mohammed Mujeeb
Indo-Pakistan Conflict, The Russel Brines
India-China War Neville Max well
Inside Asia John Gunther
Inside Europe John Gunther

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Invisible Man H.G. Wells

Iron in the Soul Jean Paul Sartre
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Jai Som Nath K.M. Munshi
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Jean Christopher Romain Rolland
Judgment, The Kuldip Nayar
Judge’s Miscellancy, A A.M. Hidayatullah
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
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Kadambari Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanwas Amrita Pritam
Kamasutra Vatsyayan
Kamayani Jai Shanker Prasad
Kapal Kundala Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Kaya Kalp Munshi Prem Chand
Khak-i-Dil Jan Nissar Akhtar
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
Killer Angles Michael Shaara
King of Dark Chamber Rabindranath Tagore
King Lear William Shakespeare
Kore Kagaz Amrita Pritam
Kumar Sambhava Kalidas
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La Divina Comedia A.Dante
Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
Life Divine Aurobindo Ghosh
Living Room Graham Greene
Letters from a Father to his Daughter Jawaharlal Nehru
Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling
Lipika Rabindranath Tagore
Lolita V.Nabakov
Lost Child Mulk Raj Anand
Love Story Eric Segal
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Macbeth William Shakespare
Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Mahabharata Maharishi Ved Vyas
Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
Man of Destiny George Bernard Shaw

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Man the Unknown Lewis Carrol

Man for All Seasons, A Robert Bolt
Marriage and Morals Bertrand Russell
Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Moti Mahal Gopinath Mohanty
Meghdoot Kalidas
Memories of World War II Winston Churchill
Men who kept the Secrets Thomas Powers
Men who Killed Gandhi, The Manohar Malgonkar
Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
Middle March George Eliot
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Miidsummer Night’s Dream, A William Shakespeare
Mill on the Floss George Eliot
Modern Painters John Ruskin
Mother Maxim Gorky
Mother India Katherine Mayo
Mountbatten and Partition of India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mountbatten and Partition of India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapieere
Mrs Warren’s Profession George Bernard Shaw
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
Mudra Rakshas Vishakadutta
Murder in the Catherdral T.S. Eliot
Muslim Dilemma in India M.R.A.Baig
My Early Life Mahatma Gandhi
My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi
My India S. Nihal Singh
My Life, Law and Other Things M.C. Setalvad
My Music, My life Ravi Shankar
My Truth Indira Gandhi
Mysterious Universe James Jeans
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Naganandam King Harsha Vardhan
Naked Face, The Sydney Sheldon
Naked came the Stranger Penelope Ashe
Naked Triangle Balwant Gargi
Natya Shastra Bharat Muni
Nehru: The Making of India M.J. Akbar
Nehru Family and Sikhs Harbans Singh
Netaji Dead or Alive Samar Guha
Nine Days Wonder John Masefield
Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Non –Violence in Peace and War Mahatma Gandhi

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Odakkuzhal G. Shankara Kurup
Odyssey Homer
Of Human Bondage W.Somerset Maugham
Oh, Calcutta Kenneth Tynan
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Old Man, and the Sea, The Ernest Hemingway
One World Wendell Willkie
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Origin of Species Charles Darwin
One Life Christian Bernard
Othello William Shakespeare
Other Side of Midnight, The Sidney Sheldon
Our India Minoo Masani
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Painter of Signs R.K. Narayan
Pair of Blue Eyes, A Thomas Hardy
Pakistan Crisis David Loshak
Pakistan Cut to Size D.R.Mankeikar
Panchagram Tarashankar andopadhyaya
Panchali Sapatham Subramanian Bharati
Panchatantra Vishnu Sharma
Passage to England, A Nirad C. Choudhury
Paradise Lost John Milton
Paradise Regained John Milton
Passage to India, A E. M. Forster
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle
Patriot, The Pearl S. Buck
Pick wick Papers Charles Dickens
Pinjar Amrita Pritam
Post Office Rabindranath Tagore
Prem Pachisi Munshi Prem Chand
Premonitions P.N. Haksar
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Principia Isaac Newton
Prison Diary Jayaprakash Narayan
Promises to Keep Chester Bowles
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Raghuvamsa Kalidas
Rainbow, The Pearl S. Buck
Ram Charita Manas Tulsidas

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki

Rangbhoomi Munshi Prem Chand
Rape of Bangladesh Anthony Mascarenhas
Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan
Red Star Over China Edgar Snow
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age M.O. Mathai
Republic, The Plato
Resurrection Count Leo Tolstoy
Return of the Native, The Thomas Hardy
Revenue Stamp, The Amrita Pritam
Ritu Samhara Kalidas
Road to Folly Leslie Ford
Robe, The L.C. Douglas
Romeo and Julier William Shakespeare
Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat-i-Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald
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Sadar – i- Rijasat Karan Singh
Saket Maithili Sharan Gupt
Satyartha Prakash Swami Dayanand
Savitri Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C. Choudhury
Search for Home,A Sashti Brata
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Seven Lamps of Architecture John Ruskin
Satanic Verses, The Salman Rushdie
Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand
Shahama Firdausi
Shakuntala Kalida
Shall We Tell the President Jeffrey Archer
Shape of Things to Come H.G. Wells
Shame Salman Rushdie
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith
Shivaji, The Great Patriot Lala Lajpat Rai
Sohrab and Rustum Mathew Arnold
Song of India, The Sarojini Nadiu
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
Saz-i-Watan Munshi Prem Chand
St Joan George Bernard Shaw
Story of My Life Moshe Dayan
Sunny Days Sunil Gavaskar
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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

Tale of Two Cities, A Charles Dickens

Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb
Tempest, The William Shakespeare
Tess of the D’ Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Time Machine H.G. Vatsyayan
To each His Stranger Nirad C. Choudhury
To Live r Not to Live Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island John Kenneth Galbraith
Triumph William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night Alexander Dumas
Twenty Years After Mulk Raj Anand
Two Leaves and A Bud
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Ulysses James Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin H.S. Stowe
Unhappy India Lala Lajpat Rai
Universe Around Us James Jeans
Unto This Last John Ruskin
Utopia Thomas Moore
Uttar Ramcharita Bhavbhuti
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Valley of Dolls Jacquieline Susann
Vanity Fair William Thackeray
Vendor of Sweets, The R.K. Narayan
View from the UN U.Thant
Village, The Mulk Rai Anand
Vinay Patrika Tulsidas
View from Delhi, A Chester Bowles
Virginians, The William Thackeray
Vish Vriksha Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Voice of Conscience V.V. Giri
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Wake Up India Annie Besant
Walls of Glass, The K.A. Abbas
War and Peace Count Leo Tolstoy
War of Indian Independence Vir Savarkar
War of the Worlds, the H.G. Wells
Waste Land T.S. Eliot
Way of all Flesh Samuel Butler
Wealth of Nations Adam Smith

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General Awareness: Famous Books or Plays

We Indians Khuswant Singh

Wonder that Was India, The A.L. Basham
Weck, The Rabindranath Tagore
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Yama Mahadevi Varma
Yashodhara Maithili Sharan Gupt
Year of the Vulture, The Amita Malik

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