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Autobiographies and Writings of National Leaders
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| The Story of My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Hind Swaraj | Mahatma Gandhi |
| The Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| An Autobiography: Toward Freedom | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| The Indian War of Independence 1857 | V.D. Savarkar |
| My Truth | Indira Gandhi (in conversation with Emmanuel Pouchpadass) |
| Annihilation of Caste | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Waiting for a Visa | B.R. Ambedkar |
| The Buddha and His Dhamma | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Satyarth Prakash | Swami Dayananda Saraswati |
| My Experiments with Truth (alt. title reference) | Mahatma Gandhi |
Regional Language Literary Giants
| Author | Language | Notable Work(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Bengali | Anandamath (contains "Vande Mataram") |
| Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay | Bengali | Devdas, Parineeta |
| Munshi Premchand | Hindi/Urdu | Godaan, Gaban, Nirmala |
| Subramania Bharati | Tamil | Nationalist poetry |
| Kuvempu | Kannada | Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Jnanpith) |
| Mahasweta Devi | Bengali | Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa |
| U.R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada | Samskara |
| M.T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam | Naalukettu, Randamoozham |
| Amrita Pritam | Punjabi | Pinjar |
| Mahadevi Verma | Hindi | Chhayavaad poetry |
| Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu | Poetry (Jnanpith 1969) |
Famous World Literary Classics and Authors (Quick Pairs)
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| War and Peace, Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 1984, Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
Sports and Miscellaneous Autobiographies (Frequently Tested)
| Book | Author (Subject) |
|---|---|
| Playing It My Way | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Wonder Boy | Sunil Gavaskar (autobiography, also titled Sunny Days) |
| Unguarded | Yuvraj Singh |
| The Test of My Life | Yuvraj Singh |
| Ace Against Odds | Sania Mirza |
| Playing to Win | Saina Nehwal (with Sunaina Kathuria) |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (autobiography) |
| India 2020 | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| Turning Points | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
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