Below are some of the famous books and authors of 2020. This topic may prove helpful for the upcoming PSC, UPSC, IBPS PO/Clerk, Railways, insurance exams.
Famous Books & Authors of 2020
A
- A Ballad of Remittent Fever – Ashoke Mukhopadhyay.
- A Burning – Megha Majumdar.
- A Children's Bible – Lydia Millet.
- A Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981 – Apoorva Kumar Singh.
- Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World – Chinmay Tumbe.
- Amazing Ayodhya – Neena Rai.
- A Promised Land – Barack Obama.
- A Song of India – Ruskin Bond.
- Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. – Arundhati Roy.
B
- Bad Money: Inside The NPA Mess And How It Threatens The Indian Banking System – Vivek Kaul.
- Bapu- the Unforgettable – Manish Sisodia.
- Bye Bye Corona – Dr. Pradeep Kumar Srivastava.
C
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – Isabel Wilkerson.
- Chaturanga – Anand Neelakantan.
- Chosen Spirits – Samit Basu.
- Chronicles of Change Champions – Smriti Irani.
- COVID-19: SabhyataKa Sankat Aur Samadhan – Kailash Satyarthi.
- Cricket Drona – Jatin Paranjape.
D
- Deacon King Kong – James McBride.
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line – Deepa Anappara.
H
- Hamnet – Maggie O'Farrell.
- Hidden Valley Road – Robert Kolker.
- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography – Tenzin Geyche Tethong.
- Homeland Elegies – Ayad Akhtar.
- Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains and Planes – Ruskin Bond.
- How the Onion Got Its Layers – Sudha Murthy.
I
- I am No Messiah – Meena Iyer.
- If it Bleeds – Stephen King.
- Invincible – A Tribute to Manohar Parrikar – Tarun Vijay.
L
- Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future – Pope Francis.
- Lockdown Liaisons – Shobhaa De.
K
- Karmayoddha Granth – Amit Shah.
- Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Kitchens of Gratitude – Vikas Khanna (Chef).
M
- Miracle At Happy Bazaar – Ruskin Bond.
- Moustache – Hareesh S. (JCB Prize for Literature 2020)
- My Life in Designs – Gauri Khan.
N
- Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism – Dinyar Patel.
- National Security Challenges: Young Scholars Perspective – General M. M. Naravane (Indian Army Chief).
O
- Oh Mizoram – P. S. Sreedharan Pillai (Governor of Mizoram).
- One Arranged Murder – Chetan Bhagat.
- Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World – Dalai Lama & Franz Alt.
- Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver – Urjit Patel (Former RBI Governor).
P
- Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy – Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
- Portraits of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside – N. K. Singh.
- Prelude to a Riot – Annie Zaidi.
Q
- Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India – Dr. Viral V. Acharya.
R
- RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations – Yatish Yadav.
- Red Pill – Hari Kunzru.
- Reporting India: My Seventy Year Journey as a Journalist – Prem Prakash.
S
- Shakespeare in a Divided America – James S. Shapiro.
- Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart. (Booker Prize 2020)
T
- The Battle of Belonging – Shashi Tharoor.
- The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind – Ramchandra Guha.
- The Death of Jesus (Vol. III) – J.M. Coetzee.
- The Dharma Forest – Keerthik Sasidharan.
- The Discomfort of Evening – Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.
- The Endgame – Hussain Zaidi.
- The Ickabog – JK Rowling.
- The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World – Dr. S. Jaishankar.
- The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&aw Officer Unravels The Path To 1984 – G.B.S. Sidhu.
- The Machine is Learning – Tanuj Solanki.
- The Shaurya Unbound-Tales of Valour of the Central Reserve Police Force – Om Birla (Lok Sabha Speaker).
- The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett.
- These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light – Dharini Bhaskar.
- Think Like a Monk – Jay Shetty.
U
- Uncanny Valley – Anna Wiener.
- Undertow – Janhavi Barua.
V
- Voices of Dissent – Romila Thapar.
W
- War: How Conflict Shaped Us – Margaret MacMillan.
- Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from Quarantined City – Fang Fang.
Y
- Your Best Day is Today! – Anupam Kher.
📝SideNotes:
- Moustache – Malayalam novel (Meesha), translated to English by Jayasree Kalathil.