Religious Books

Hindus — Four Vedas, The Bhagwad Gita, The Ramayan, The Puranas, The Mahabharat, The Upnishads, The Ramcharitmanas

Muslims — The Holy Quran

Sikhs — Guru Granth Sahib

Christians — The Bible

Parsis — Zend Avesta

Books and Authors

● A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru
● Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Arthur Conan Doyle
● Adhe Adhure : Mohan Rakesh
● A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer
● A China Passage : J.K. Galbraith
● Aesop’s Fables : Aesop
● A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
● A Midsummer Night’s Dream : William Shakespeare
● A Million Mutinies, Now : V.S. Naipal
● An iron Will : Swett Marden
● A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy
● A Passage to India : E.M. Forster
● A Prisoner’s Scrapbook : L.K. Advani
● A Season of Ghosts : Ruskin Bond
● A Suitable Boy : Vikram Seth
● A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
● A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai
● A Voice for Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
● Aenied : Virgil
● Against the Tide : Minoo Masani
● Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre
● A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrik Moyihan
● A Haunted House : Virginia Woolf
● Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
● Amar Kosha : Amar Singh
● Anand Math : Bankim Chandra Chatterje
● A Story of History : Arnold Toynbee
● Avanti Sundari : Dandi
● Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
● As You Like It : W. Shakespeare
● Between the Lines : Kuldeep Nayyar
● Bhagwad Gita : Maharshi Ved Vyas
● Black Wednesday : Promila Kalhan
● Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand
● Buddha Charitam : Ashvaghosh
● Bal Gitayan : D.P. Maheshwari
● Bitter Sweet : Noel Coward
● Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak
● Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu
● Canterbury Tales : Chaucer
● Chidambara : Sumitra Nandan Pant
● Chitralekha : Bhagwati Charan Verma
● City of Joy : Dominique Lapierre
● Confessions of a Lover : Mulk Raj Anand
● Comedy of Errors : Shakespeare
● Communist Manifesto : Karl Marx
● Comus : John Milton
● Confidential Clerk : T.S. Eliot
● Coolie : Mulk Raj Anand
● Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas
● Childe Harold : Lord Byron
● Chittirappavai : P.V. Akhilandam
● Degeneration of India : T.N. Seshan
● Devdas : Sharat Chandra
● Divine Comedy : Dante
● Discovery of India : Jawaharlal Nehru
● Don Ouixote : Cervantes
● Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde : R.L. Stevenson
● Dash Kumar Charitam : Dandi
● Dark Room, The : R.K. Narayan
● Debacle : Emile Zola
● Diana, The True Story : A. Morton
● Deserted Village : Goldsmith
● Distant Drums : Manohar Malgaonkar
● Emma : Jane Austen
● Ends and Means : Aldous Huxley
● Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
● Emperor Jones, The : Eugene O’ Neill
● Essays on Gita : Sri Aurbindo Ghosh
● Every Man a King : Swett Marden
● Father and Sons : Ivan Turganev
● Faust : Goethe
● For Whom the Bell Tolls : Ernest Hemingway
● Flames from the Ashes : P.D. Tandon
● Friends, Not Masters : Ayub Khan
● Gathering Storm : Winston Churchill
● Geet Govind : Jaya Dev
● Ghasiram Kotwal : Vijay Tendulkar
● Gitanjali : R.N. Tagore
● Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
● Glimpses of World History : J.L. Nehru :
● Godan : Premchand
● God Father, The : Mario Puzo
● Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
● Great Tragedy : Z.A. Bhutto
● Guide, The : R.K. Narayan
● Hamlet : William Shakespeare
● Harsha Charit : Bana Bhatt
● Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawar Jhabwala
● Himalayan Blunders : Brig. J.P. Dalvi
● House Divided : Pearl S. Buck
● Idle Hours : R.K. Laxman
● Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
● Idylls of the King : Lord, Alfred Tennyson
● If I am Assassinated : Z.A. Bhutto
● Isabela : Keats
● Illiad : Homer
● Inside the C.B.I. : Joginder Singh
● India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
● India Wins Freedom : Maulana Azad
● Indian War of Independence : V.D. Savarkar
● Jean Christopher : Romian Rolland
● Judgement, The : Kuldip Nayyar
● Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare
● Jurassic Park : Michael Chrichton
● Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
● Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
● Kamayani : Jay Shankar Prasad
● Kamasutra : S.H. Vatsayayan
● Kaya Kulp : Premchand
● King Lear : W. Shakespeare
● Lajja : Tasleem Nasreen
● Lady Chhatterley’s Lover : D.H. Lawrence
● Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
● Life Divine : Sri Aurbindo
● Living History : Hillary Rodham Clinton
● Living with Honour : Shiv Khera
● Lolita : Vladimir Nobokov
● Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela
● Less Miserable : Victor Hugo
● Macbeth : Shakespeare
● Madhushala : Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’
● Mahabharata : Maharshi Ved Vyas
● Major Barbara : G.B. Shaw
● Malti Madhav : Bhavbhuti
● Malvikagnimitra : Kalidas
● Man and Superman : G.B. Shaw
● Meghdoot : Kalidas
● Men Who Killed Gandhi : Manohar Magaonkar
● Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare
● Middle March : George Eliot
● Midnight Children : Salman Rushdie
● Mother : Maxim Gorky
● Mudra Rakshasa : Vishakha Datt
● Murder in the Cathedral : T.S. Eliot
● My Experiments with Truth : Gandhi
● Nana : Emile Zola
● Natya Shastra : Bharat Muni
● Netaji Dead or Alive : Samar Guha
● Nine Days’ Wonder : John Mansfield
● Ninteen Eighty Four : George Orwell
● O’ Jeruselam : L. Collins & D. Lapierre
● Odyssey : Homer
● Old Man and the Sea : Ernest Hemingway
● Of Human Bondage : Somerset Maugham
● Our India : Minoo Masani
● Out of Dust : F.D. Karaka
● On Contradiction : Mao-Tse-Tung
● Pakistan, The Gathering Storm : Behazir Bhutto
● Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma
● Pather Panchali : Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya
● Peace has no Alternative : Mikhail Gorbachev
● Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens
● Pilgrim’s Progress : John Bunyan
● Prathma Pratishruti : Ashapoorna Devi
● Price and Prejudice : Jane Austin
● Prince : Machiaveli
● Peter Pan : J.M. Barrie
● Principia : Isaac Newton
● Raghuvansha : Kalidasa
● Rajtaringini : Kalhan
● Ram Charit Manas : Tulsidas
● Ramayana : Valmiki
● Rangbhoomi : Premchand
● Ratnavali : Harshavardhan
● Robaiyat : Omar Khayyam
● Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe
● Rugby Chapel : Mathew Arnold
● Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupta
● Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie
● Satyarth Prakash : Swami Dayanand
● Shakuntalam : Kalidas
● Shahnama : Firdausi
● Social Contract : Rousseau :
● Sursagar : Surdas
● Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
● Testament of Beauty : Robert Bridges
● The Blind Assassin : Margaret Atwood
● The Emperor’s New Suit : Hans Chrishtian Anderson
● Three Musketeers : Alexander Dumas
● The Otherness of Self : Feroz Varun Gandhi
● The Elephant Paradigm : Gurcharan Das
● The Affluent Society : J.K. Galbraith
● The God of Small Things : Arundhati Roy :
● The Inheritance of Loss : Anita Desai
● The Legacy of Nehru : K. Natwar Singh
● Tom Jones : Henry Fielding
● Treasure Island : R.L. Stevenson
● Trail of Jesus : John Masefield
● Uncle Tom’s Cabin : Mrs. Haraiet Stowe
● Unhappy India : Lajpat Rai
● Utopia : Tomas Moor
● Unto The Last : John Ruskin
● Untold Story : B.M. Kaul
● Urvashi : Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar
● Uttara Ram Charita : Bhav Bhuti
● Universe Around Us : James Jeans
● Vanity Fair : Thackeray
● Victim, The : Saul Bellow
● Village, The : Mulk Raj Anand
● Vinay Patrika : Tulsidas
● Voskresenia : Leo Tolstoy
● War and Peace : Tolstoy
● Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
● We Indians : Khushwant Singh
● Waiting for God : Thomas Becket
● Wings of Fire : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
● Yama : Mahadevi Verma
● Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupta
● Zulfi, My Friend : Piloo Mody
● Zhivago, Dr. : Boris Pasternak

Books and Authors

1. India and China—A Thousand Years of Cultural Relations
—By Probodh Chandra Bagchi

2. Maqbool Fida Hussain
—By K. Bikram Singh

3. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008
—Sustaining Growth and Sharing Prosperity

4. The Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
—By Barack Obama

5. Glimpses of Indian Agriculture
—By Macro and Micro Aspects; Edited by R. S. Deshpande, Vijai Paul Sharma, R.P.S. Malik, Brajesh Jha, S.A. Ansari

6. I shall Never Ask for Pardon
—A Memoir of Pandurang Khankhoje : Savitri Sawhney

7. The Morbid Age : Britain between the Wars
—By Richard Overy Allen Lane

8. The Crisis of Islamic Civilization
—By Ali A. Allawi

9. Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
—By Eduardo Galeano

10. If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is Guide
—By Vijay Santhanam & Shyam Balasubramanium


11. The Ultimate Gift
—By Jim Stovall

12. The Miracle of Democracy : India’s Amazing Journey
—By T. S. Krishnamurthy

13. India’s Energy Security
—Edited by Ligia Noronha and Anant Sudarshan

14. The Judiciary and Governance in India
—By Madhav Godbole

15. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
—By J. K. Rowling

16. The Private Patient
—A novel by P. D. James Penguine

17. No Other World—Selected Poems
—By Kunwar Narain

18. The 24 ×7 Marriage : Smart Strategies For Good Beginnings
—By Dr. Vijay Nagaswami

19. The Idea of Justice
—By Dr. Amartya Sen

20. Arguments for a Better World : Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen
—By Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur

21. Globalisation and Development
—By Sundanda Sen

22. The Politics of Extremism in South Asia
—By Deepa M. Ollapally

23. Rising India and Indian Communities in East Asia
—Edited by K. Kesavapany, A. Mani and P. Ramasamy

24. The Three Trillion Dollar War : The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
—By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilms

25. Arjun Singh—Ek Sahayatri Itihas Ka
—By Ram Sharan Joshi

26. Politics of Inclusion—Caster, Minorities and Affirmative Action
—By Zoya Hasan

27. Bold Endeavors—How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
—By Felix Rohatyn

28. Imaging India—Ideas for a New Century
—Nandan Nilekani

29. Daughters of Shame
—By Jasvinder Sanghera Imprint Hodder, Gurgaon

30. Celebrating India : Reflections on Eminent Indian Muslims (1857–2007)
—By Meher Fatima Hussain

31. The Myth of Judicial Activism : Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions
—Kermit Roosevelt III

32. EU-India Relations
—A Critique : Edited by Shazia Aziz Wulbers

33. The Age of the Unthinkable : Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises us and What we can do About It
—By Joshua Cooper Rawa

34. Macroeconomics of Post-Reforms India, Vol. I Money and Finance in the Indian Economy, Vol. II
—By Mihir Rakshit

35. Out of Steppe : The Lost People of Central Asia
—By Daniel Metcalfe

36. The Winter Vault
—By Anne Michaels Knopf

37. Democracy and Human Development in India
—By Naresh Gupta

38. Lords of Finance : 1929, The Great Depression and The Bankers Who Broke the World
—By Liaquat Ahmed

39. Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in South Asia
—Edited by Ejaz Ghani and Sadiq Ahmed

40. India and Pakistan—Social, Political and Military Perspective
—By Rajkumar Singh

41. Kissinger : 1973, The Crucial Year
—By Alistair Home, Simon and Schuster

42. The Great Divide
—Edited by Ira Pande Harper Collins

43. Taliban : Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamen-talism in Central Asia
—By Ahmed Rashid

44. India and the Global Financial Crisis
—Y. V. Reddy