List of Books and Authors 2021 | Books Launched in 2021 and 2020
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Books and their Authors 2021
The following table consists of Famous Books and Authors that were in news in the year 2021.
| List of Famous Books and Authors 2021 | |
| Books | Authors |
| My Years with Rajiv: Triumph and Tragedy | Wajahat Habibullah |
| Manohar Parrikar- Off the Record | Waman Subha Prabhu |
| By Many A Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life | M Hamid Ansari |
| Whereabouts | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir | Kobad Ghandy |
| Maverick Messiah - A Political Biography of N.T. Rama Rao | Ramesh Kandula |
| Rashtra Pratham - 82 varshon ki Swarnim Gatha | Released By Amit Shah |
| The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News | Meghna Pant |
| Memoir “Unfinished” | Priyanka Chopra |
| Turn Around India: 2020- Surmounting Past Legacy | R P Gupta |
| By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life | Hamid Ansari |
| The Little Book of Encouragement | Dalai Lama |
| Race With Me | Andre De Grasse |
| My Experiments with Silence | Samir Soni |
| Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis | Anindya Dutta |
| ‘Beautiful Things’ A Memoir | Hunter Biden |
| First Person Singular: Stories | Haruki Murakami |
| Updated edition of “Exam Warrior” | Narendra Modi |
| Eka Eka Ekashi | Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay |
| The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times | Amitav Ghosh |
| Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me | Suresh Raina |
| Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar | Edited by Yatindra Mishra |
| Odisha Itihaas | Dr.Harekrushna Mahtab (original version) |
| Shankarlal Purohit (Hindi version) | |
| Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple life | Nitin A Gokhale |
| Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924-1966) | Vikram Sampath |
| Sach Kahun Toh | Neena Gupta |
| Nehru, Tibet and China | Avtar Singh Bhasin |
| India and Asian geopolitics: The Past, Present | Shivshankar Menon |
| Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance | Preet Mohan Singh Malik |
| Life in the Clock Tower Valley | Shakoor Rather |
| The Bench | Meghan Markle |
| Stargazing: The Players in My Life | Ravi Shastri |
| Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 | Salman Rushdie |
| Home in the World | Amartya Sen |
| 'The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis | Amitav Ghosh |
| The 7 Sins of Being A Mother | Tahira Kashyap Khurrana |
| My Joys and Sorrows – as a Mother of a Special Child | Krishna Saksena |
| Anomalies in Law and Justice | R V Raveendran |
| Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story | Sundeep Mishra |
| Ayodhya | Madhav Bhandari |
| Sutranivednachi sutra- ek anubav | Roopa Chari |
| Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi's Assassin | Dhaval Kulkarni |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan's Pregnancy Bible | Kareena Kapoor Khan |
| The Struggle Within: A Memoir of the Emergency by Ashok Chakravarti | Ashok Chakravarti |
| India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends | Kanti Bajpai |
| The India Story | Bimal Jalan |
| The Stranger In The Mirror | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
| Bank with a Soul: Equitas | D. Subbarao |
| Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama | Manan Bhatt |
| How the Earth Got Its Beauty | Sudha Murty |
| The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan | Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad.
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| Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest | Boria Majumdar and Kushan Sarkar |
| Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID | Ritu Menon |
| Accelerating India: 7 years of Modi Government | K J Alphons |
| Human Rights and Terrorism in India | Subramanian Swamy |
| Translating Myself and Others | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Shining Sikh Youth of India | Dr. Prabhleen Singh |
| 400 Days | Chetan Bhagat |
| The Battle of Rezang La | Kulpreet Yadav |
| Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition | Uday Mahurkar |
| Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion, And Nation | Shafey Kidwai |
| Actually ... I Met Them | Gulzar |
| Writing for My Life: The Very Best of Ruskin | Ruskin Bond |
| Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman | Chidanand Rajghatta |
| Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine Odyssey | Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee |
| John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer of Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee | Amit Ranjan |
| An Economist at Home and Abroad: A Personal Journey | Shankar Acharya |
| Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey through Modern India | Pradeep Magazine |
| Sunrise Over Ayodhya | Salman Khurshid |
| Force in Statecraft | Released by Ajay Kumar |
| Delhi: A Soliloquy | M Mukundan |
| The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India | Debashish Mukerji |
| Srimadramayanam | Sasikiranacharya |
| Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World | Ban Ki-moon |
| Contested Lands: India, China, and the Boundary Dispute | Maroof Raza |
| Conversations: India’s Leading Art Historian Engages with 101 themes, and More | Brijinder Nath Goswamy |
| Cooking to Save your Life | Abhijit Banerjee |
| India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win | Syed Akbaruddin |
| The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India | Debashish Mukerji |
| Democracy, Politics and Governance | Dr. A. Surya Prakash |
| Public Service Ethics | Prabhat Kumar |
| At Home In The Universe | Bala Krishna Madhur |
| Raj Kapoor: The Master At Work | Rahul Rawail |
| Bachelor Dad | Tussar Kapoor |
Books and their Authors 2020
The following table consists of Famous Books and Authors that were in news in the year 2020.
| List of Famous Books and Authors 2020 | |
| Books | Authors |
| Nothing to lose | Sheela Birnstiel |
| Long Bright River | Liz Moore |
| A Long Petal of the Sea | Isabel Allende |
| Timeless Tales From Marwar | Vijaydan Detha, Vishes Kothari |
| Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart |
| Sarojini’s Mother | Kunal Basu |
| Bhopalnama: Writing A City | Vertul Singh |
| Superhuman River: Stories Of The Ganga | Bidisha Banerjee |
| The RSS: And The Making Of The Deep Nation | Dinesh Narayanan |
| Fearless Freedom | Kavita Krishnan |
| We Are The Champions | Rashmi Bansal & Devendra Tak |
| Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years | Montek Singh Ahluwalia |
| Beyond Doubt – A Dossier On Gandhi`s Assassination | Teesta Setalvad |
| Pilgrim Nation: The Making Of Bharatvarsh | Devdutt Pattanaik |
| The Henna Artist | Alka Joshi |
| India Unlimited: Reclaiming The Lost Glory | Arvind Panagariya |
| Fintech Future: The Digital DNA Of Finance | Sanjay Phadke |
| Two Plays | Chandrashekhar Kambar |
| Modi Mandate 2019: Dispatches from Ground Zero | Pradeep Bhandari |
| Akbar: The Great Mughal | Ira Mukhoty |
| RAYA: Krishnadevaraya Of Vijayanagara | Srinivas Reddy |
| Invertonomics: Eight Ideas To Transform India | Goonmeet Singh Chauhan |
| The Machine Is Learning | Tanuj Solanki |
| Collected Plays: Volumes One & Two | Manjula Padmanabhan |
| The Trouble With Hating You | Sajni Patel |
| Big Summer | Jennifer Weiner |
| The Hilarious World of Depression” | John Moe |
| The Paris Hours | Alex George |
| Karmayoddha Granth | Released by Amit shah |
| Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver | Urjit Patel |
| The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World | S Jaishankar |
| A Song of India | Ruskin Bond |
| Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India | Viral Acharya |
| The Endgame | S Hussain Zaidi |
| Mahaveer: The Soldier who never died | A K Srikumar |
| Future of Higher Education in India- Nine Mega Trends | V Pattabhi Ram |
| Vishesh: Code to Win | Nirupama Yadav |
| Corona Kavithakal | P S Sreedharan Pillai |
| Connecting, Communicating, Changing | Publications Divisions of MeiTy |
| A bend in time: Writings by Children on the Covid-19 pandemic | Bijal Vachharajani |
| National Security Challenges: Young Scholars’ Perspective | Published by Centre for Land Warfare Studies |
| Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years The Turbulent Years: 1980–1996 | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Jinnah: India, partition, independence In service of emergent India: a call to honor Defending India | Jaswant Singh |
| The Square and the Circle of Indian Arts Bharata: The Natya Sastra | Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan |
| Breaking Through: A Memoir Productivity and Growth in Indian Manufacturing Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation since the Mid-Sixties | Isher Judge Ahluwalia |
| The Curse Of Gandhari | Aditi Banerjee |
| The Penguin Book Of Italian Short Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Akshar Yatra and Samvad Upanishad | Gulab Kothari |
| Breaking the Cocoon @ 40 | Radha Nair |
| The End of an Era: India Exits Tibet | Claude Arpi |
| Voice of Dissent | Romila Thapar |
| Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction | Arundhati Roy |
| Discovering the Heritage of Assam | Padampani Bora (Foreword by Amitabh Bachchan) |
| C is for Cat and D is for Depression | Kairavi Bharat (Illustrations by Priya Kuriyan) |
| Ramayana in Rhyme and Krishna in Rhyme | Ananya Mittal and Kairavi Bharat |
| Night of the Restless Spirits | Sarbpreet Singh |
| Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union | Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| Bye Bye corona | Dr. Pradeep Srivastava |
| Bapu: The Unforgettable | Launched by Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia |
| The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, And What it means to be Indian | Shashi Tharoor |
| Mr. Prime Minister, We Shrank the Dragon | Pradeep Goorha |
| Portraits of Power: Half a century of Being at Ringside (Autobiography) | N K Singh |
| The Fixer: Winning Has a Price. How Much Will You Pay? | Suman Dubey |
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