Books by Indian Authors
Indian authors and Indian origin authors together are marking a mark in the field of world literature with their insightful writings which are capturing the attention and imagination of global audiences. As CLAT draws near and the pressure mounts, they should begin to interest you too.
Here is a list of books by Indian authors and authors of Indian origin to get you started. Remember that this list is by no means exhaustive and is just a reference point for your preparation. Additionally, to supplement your preparation, google the remaining three incorrect options and find out who they are.
- BOOK: A Suitable Boy
AUTHOR: Vikram Seth
- BOOK: A Matter of Rats
AUTHOR: Amitava Kumar
- BOOK: An Area of Darkness
AUTHOR: V.S. Naipaul
- BOOK: An Obedient Father
AUTHOR: Akhil Sharma
- BOOK: Byculla to Bangkok
AUTHOR: S. Hussain Zaidi
- BOOK: English, August
AUTHOR: Upamanyu Chatterjee
- BOOK: Godan
AUTHOR: Munshi Premchand
- BOOK: I Too Had A Love Story
AUTHOR: Ravinder Singh
- BOOK: Indulekha
AUTHOR: Oyyarathu Chandu Menon
- BOOK: Interpreter of Maladies
AUTHOR: Jhumpa Lahiri
- BOOK: Jaya
AUTHOR: Devdutt Pattanaik
- BOOK: Malgudi Day
AUTHOR: R.K. Narayan
- BOOK: Maximum City
AUTHOR: Suketu Mehta
- BOOK: Narcopolis
AUTHOR: Jeet Thayil
- BOOK: Nectar in a Sieve
AUTHOR: Kamala Markandaya
- BOOK: Our Moon Has Blood Clots
AUTHOR: Rahul Pandita
- BOOK: Sea of Poppies
AUTHOR: Amitav Ghosh
- BOOK: Train to Pakistan
AUTHOR: Khushwant Singh
- BOOK: The Argumentative Indian
AUTHOR: Amartya Sen
- BOOK: The Art of Choosing
AUTHOR: Sheena Iyengar
- BOOK: The Blue Umbrella
AUTHOR: Ruskin Bond
- BOOK: The Great Indian Novel
AUTHOR: Shashi Tharoor
- BOOK: The God of Small Things
AUTHOR: Arundhati Roy
- BOOK: The Japanese Wife
AUTHOR: Kunal Basu
- BOOK: The Jungle Book
AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling
- BOOK: The Lowland
AUTHOR: Jhumpa Lahiri
- BOOK: The Palace of Illusions
AUTHOR: Chitra Banerjee Divakauri
- BOOK: Twilight in Delhi
AUTHOR: Ahmed Ali
- BOOK: Untouchable
AUTHOR: Mulk Raj Anand
- BOOK: Wings of Silence
AUTHOR: Shriram Iyer
Q. Choose the correct option.
1. Who wrote India After Gandhi?
a) Ramachandra Guha
b) Mridula Koshy
c) Kiran Nagarkar
d) Indira Gandhi
2. Who is the author of Socialite Evenings?
a) Chetan Bhagat
b) V.S. Naipaul
c) Shobhaa De
d) Cyrus Mistry
3. Who wrote Fasting, Feasting?
a) Manu Joseph
b) Anita Desai
c) Rohinton Mistry
d) Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi
4. Who is the author of The White Tiger?
a) Amit Chaudhuri
b) Akhil Sharma
c) Abraham Verghese
d) Aravind Adiga
5. Who wrote The Inheritance of Loss?
a) Birbal Jha
b) Charu Nivedita
c) Kiran Desai
d) Fahad Shah
6. Who is the author of The Death of Vishnu?
a) Manil Suri
b) Ira Trivedi
c) Indra Sinha
d) Karan Bajaj
7. Who wrote Coolie?
a) Ram Prasad Bismil
b) Nirupama Devi
c) Gopinath Mohanty
d) Mulk Raj Anand
8. Who is the author of The Serpent and The Rope?
a) Manoj Singh
b) Raja Rao
c) Sudha Murty
d) Faraaz Kazi
9. Who wrote Midnight’s Children?
a) Keshava Reddy
b) Hemant Shesh
c) Salman Rushdie
d) Lakshmi Raj Sharma
10. Who is the author of The Enigma of Arrival?
a) V.S. Naipaul
b) Mridula Garg
c) Vikas Swarup
d) Nandini Sahu
11. Who wrote A Fine Balance?
a) Mukul Kesavan
b) Khewal Dheer
c) Durjoy Dutta
d) Rohinton Mistry
12. Who is the author of The Namesake?
a) Barun Roy
b) Jhumpa Lahiri
c) Indira Goswami
d) Kalki Krishnamurthy
13. Who wrote Sleeping on Jupiter?
a) Malik Ram
b) Anuradha Roy
c) Laxmi Narayan Mishra
d) Partap Sharma
14. Who is the author of The Last Labyrinth?
a) Arun Joshi
b) Viveki Rai
c) Rooma Mehra
d) Pankaj Rag
15. Who wrote That Long Silence?
a) Ram Vilas Sharma
b) Vasudha Patil
c) Shashi Deshpande
d) Vijay Tendulkar
16. Who is the author of The Sari Shop?
a) Sarojini Sahoo
b) Uday Prakash
c) Amrita Pritam
d) Rupa Bajwa
17. Who among them has written A New World?
a) Anjan Sundaram
b) Amit Chaudhuri
c) Tarun Tejpal
d) Kunal Basu
18. Who is the author of Memories of Rain?
a) Sunetra Gupta
b) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
c) Bharati Mukherjee
d) Ruskin Bond
19. Who wrote Inside the Haveli?
a) Shiv. K. Kumar
b) R.K. Narayan
c) Rama Mehta
d) G.N. Devy
20. Who is the author of Rich Like Us?
a) Nayantara Sahgal
b) Kamala Das
c) Meenakshi Mukherjee
d) Mahesh Dattani
ANSWER KEY
1. a- Ramachandra Guha
2. c-Shobhaa De
3. b-Anita Desai
4. d-Aravind Adiga
5. c-Kiran Desai
6. a-Manil Suri
7. d-Mulk Raj Anand
8. b-Raja Rao
9. c-Salman Rushdie
10. a-V.S. Naipaul
11. d-Rohinton Mistry
12. b-Jhumpa Lahiri
13. b-Anuradha Roy
14. a-Arun Joshi
15. c-Shashi Deshpande
16. d-Rupa Bajwa
17. b-Amit Chaudhuri
18. a-Sunetra Gupta
19. c-Rama Mehta
20. a-Nayantara Sahgal