List of Books and Authors 2020 | Books Launched in 2020
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Books and their Authors 2020
The following table consists of Famous Books and Authors that were in news in the year 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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