Reading is one the best habit anyone can adopt. Reading good books acts like great nutrition for our brain as well as soul. We must thank all those authors who have given us their thoughts and imagination. Their works nourishes our lives. Therefore, it is not surprising that some books and their authors have become world famous. These famous books and their authors are often recommended for reading. These books get translated in various languages and reach the readers around the world. Following is the updated list of some of the most famous books in the world.
Famous Books and Their Authors
| # | Author’s Name | Book’s Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire, Ignited Minds |
| 2 | Abdul Kalam Azad | India Wins Freedom |
| 3 | Abul Fazal | Ain-i-Akbari |
| 4 | Abul Fazal | Akbar-Nama |
| 5 | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations |
| 6 | Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf |
| 7 | Albert Camus | Plague |
| 8 | Albiruni | Tahakak – E – Hind |
| 9 | Alexander Dumas | Count of Monte Cristo |
| 10 | Alexander Dumas | Three Musketeers |
| 11 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| 12 | Amish Tripathi | The Immortals of Meluha |
| 13 | Amrita Pritam | Pinjar |
| 14 | Amrita Pritam | Rasidi Ticket |
| 15 | Anita Nair | Idris: Keeper of the Light |
| 16 | Anjali Joseph | The Living |
| 17 | Anjum Hasan | The Cosmopolitans |
| 18 | Annie Besant | New India |
| 19 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger |
| 20 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| 21 | Arundhuti Roy | The God of Small Things |
| 22 | Asha Ghosh | Buddhacharit |
| 23 | Ashapurna Devi | Bakul Katha |
| 24 | B. R. Ambedkar | What Congress and Gandhi have done to the untouchables |
| 25 | Babur | Baburnama |
| 26 | Baby Halder | A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir |
| 27 | Bana Bhatt | Harsha Charit |
| 28 | Bana Bhatt | Kadambari |
| 29 | Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay | Anand Math |
| 30 | Bhagat Singh | Why I am an Atheist |
| 31 | Bhisham Sahni | Tamas |
| 32 | Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhaye | Pather Panchali |
| 33 | Boris Pasternak | Dr.Zhivago |
| 34 | Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| 35 | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species |
| 36 | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist |
| 37 | Chaucer | Canterbury Tales |
| 38 | Coleridge | Ancient Mariner |
| 39 | D.H.Lawrence | Sons and Lovers |
| 40 | D.P. Moynihan | A Dangerous place |
| 41 | D.P. Moynihan | A Dangerous place |
| 42 | Dadabhai Naoroji | Poverty & Un-British Rule in India |
| 43 | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| 44 | Dante | Divine Comedy |
| 45 | Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment |
| 46 | E.M.Forster | A Passage to India |
| 47 | Earnest Hemingway | Old Man and the Sea |
| 48 | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 49 | Elliot | Murder in Cathedral |
| 50 | G.B.Shaw | Arms and the Man |
| 51 | George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| 52 | H.G. Wells | Time Machine |
| 53 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| 54 | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Le Contract Social |
| 55 | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver’s Travels |
| 56 | Jules Verne | Around the World in eighty days |
| 57 | Kalidas | Abhgyan Shakuntalam, Raghuvamsa |
| 58 | Karl Marx | Das Kapital |
| 59 | Kautilya | Arthashastra |
| 60 | Kazi Nasrul Islam | Agni Veena |
| 61 | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |
| 62 | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| 63 | Lewis Carrol | Alice in Wonderland |
| 64 | Lewis Wallace | Ben Hur |
| 65 | Mahatma Gandhi | My Experiments with Truth |
| 66 | Mark Twain | Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 67 | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield |
| 68 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | Discovery of India |
| 69 | Rabindra Nath Tagore | Geetanjali |
| 70 | Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra |
| 71 | Sir Thomas Moor | Utopia |
| 72 | Sir Walter Scott | The Lady of the Last Minstrel |
| 73 | Somerset Maughan | The Moon and Six pence |
| 74 | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd |
| 75 | Winston Churchill | Gathering Storm |
| 76 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter series |
| 77 | Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist |
| 78 | Alexander Pushkin | Eugene Onegin |
| 79 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings |
| 80 | C. S. Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| 81 | Ian Fleming | James Bond |
| 82 | Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha |
| 83 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan |
| 84 | Stephen Hawking | A Brief History of Time |
| 85 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama |
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