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This article gives you a list of important books and authors.

Award-winning
titles

1.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard
Flanagan

Award- Man Booker Prize 2014

2.The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by
Elizabeth Kolbert

Award-Pulitzer
Prize 2015 (general non-fiction)

3.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony
Doerr

Award-Pulitzer Prize 2015 (fiction)

4.
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of
Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I Kertzer

Award-Pulitzer Prize 2015 (biography)

5.
The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal
Tanweer

Award- DSC
Prize for South Asian Literature 2015

6.
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Award-DSC Prize for South Asian
Literature 2015

Other important books

1)
Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me
by Vinod Mehta

2)
Madhorubhagan by Perumal Murugan

3)
Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and
Controversy was written by Saptarshi Sarkar

4)
The Indian Parliament – A Critical Appraisal by Sudha
Pai and Avinash Kumar

5)
Why I Assassinated Gandhi by Nathuram Vinayak
Godse and Gopal Vinayak Godse

6)
Born Again on the Mountain: A Story of Losing
Everything and Finding It Back by Arunima Sinha

7)
The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by
Pranab Mukherjee

8)
2014 : The Election That Changed India by
Rajdeep Sardesai

9)
Playing it my way by Sachin Tendulkar

10)
The Substance and the Shadow by Dilip Kumar

11)
Lesson in Leadership: Lal Bahdur Shastri by
Pavan Choudary

12)
Getting India Back on Track by Bibek Debroy,
Ashley Tellis and Reece Trevor

13)
Prem Tirth by Narendra Modi

14)
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw : The Man and His
Times by Behram M Panthaki & Zenobia Panthaki

15)
The Accidental Prime Minister : The Making and
Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjay Baru

16)
Beyond doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination  Teesta Setalvad

17)
The China Model by Daniel Bell

18)
Recasting India by Hindol Sengupta

19)
Dealing with China by An insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower by Henry M Paulson

20)
Benazir Bhutto: A Multidimensional Portrait by Dr
Anna Suvorova

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