This post includes some of the notable books and writers of 2022 that have lately been published in the news.
Books & Authors is one of the most essential current affairs topics for many competitive exams, including the Kerala PSC.
List of Important Books & Authors 2022
A
- After Sappho – Selby Wynn Schwartz.
- All of You Every Single One – Beatrice Hitchman.
- Ambedkar and Modi: Reformer’s Ideas Performer’s Implementation – Ram Nath Kovind.
- Ancestor Trouble – Maud Newton.
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee – Sagarika Ghose.
- A Confused Mind Story – Sahil Seth.
- A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of Independence – Ruskin Bond.
- A Nation To Protect – Priyam Gandhi Mody.
- A Place Called Home – Preeti Shenoy.
B
- Burning Questions – Margaret Atwood.
- Bose: The Untold Story Of An Inconvenient Nationalist – Chandrachur Ghose.
- Brave Hearts of Bharat, Vignettes from Indian History – Vikram Sampath.
- Business of Sports: The Winning Formula for Success – Vinit Karnik.
C
- Chekutty – Sethu (Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2022).
D
- Dangerous Earth: What we wish we knew about volcanoes, hurricanes, climate change, earthquakes and more – Ellen Prager (Marine Biologist).
- December in Dacca – K.S. Nair.
- Decoding Indian Babudom – Ashwini Shrivastava.
- Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India – Saumya Saxena.
- Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us – Ro Khanna.
E
- E. K. Janaki Ammal: Life and Scientific Contributions – Nirmala James.
- Either/Or – Elif Batuman.
- Ente Kothankallukal (എന്റെ കൊത്തങ്കല്ലുകൾ) – Priya S.
F
- Fearless Governance – Kiran Bedi.
- Finding Me – Viola Davis.
- Forks in the Road: My Days at RBI and Beyond – Dr C. Rangarajan (19th RBI Governor).
- Free Fall: My Experiments with Living – Mallika Sarabhai.
G
- Getting Lost – Annie Ernaux
- Getting the Bread: The Gen-Z Way to Success – Prarthna Batra.
- Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra – Navdeep Singh Gill.
- Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India – Dhirendra K. Jha.
H
- How to Prevent the Next Pandemic – Bill Gates.
I
- India: The Mother of Democracy – published by Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
- India’s Economy From Nehru To Modi: A Brief History – Pulapre Balakrishnan.
- India’s Women Unsung Heroes – Meenakshi Lekhi.
- Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work and Leadership – Arundhathi Bhattacharya (Former Chairperson of SBI).
K
- Kilikkalam (കിളിക്കാലം) – P. Valsala.
L
- Lal Salam – Smriti Irani.
- Leaders, Politicians, Citizens – Rasheed Kidwai.
- Listen to Your heart; The London Adventure – Ruskin Bond.
- Lion of the Skies: Hardit Singh Malik, the Royal Air Force and the First World War – Stephen Barker.
- Lockdown Lyrics – Naveen Patnaik.
M
- Malayali Memorial – Unni R. (In news due to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's ‘savarna’ attire depiction)
- Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life – Viswananthan Anand.
- Modi @20: Dreams Meeting Delivery – M. Venkaiah Naidu (Former Vice President)
- My Life in Design – Gauri Khan.
N
- Nalanada: Until we meet again – Gautaam Borah.
- Nightcrawling – Leila Mottley
- Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI – Vinod Rai (Former CAG).
- Nuclearization of Asia – Rene Naba.
O
- Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng.
P
- Pride, Prejudice and Punditry – Shashi Tharoor.
Q
- Queen of Fire – Devika Rangachari.
R
- Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography – Dr. Thomas Matthew.
- Rusty Skies & Golden Winds – Sannidhya Sharma.
S
- Shrines of Gaiety – Kate Atkinson.
- Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times – Abhinav Chandrachud.
- Strangers to Ourselves – Rachel Aviv.
- Sultan: a memoir – Washim Akram (Autobiography, former Pakistani Cricketer).
- Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne – Katherine Rundell (Baillie Gifford Prize, 2022)*
T
- Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree.
- The Indian Story – Bimal Jalan.
- The $10 Trillion Dream – Subhash Chandra Garg.
- The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal – Amitava Kumar.
- The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution – Rajesh Talwar.
- The Candy House – Jennifer Egan.
- The Chipko Movement: A People’s History – Shekhar Pathak (Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022).*
- The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949-1962 – Nirupama Rao.
- The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations – Anirudh Suri.
- The Invisible Kingdom – Meghan O’Rourke.
- The Legend of Birsa Munda – Ankita Verma & Tuhin A. Sinha.
- The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – Michelle Obama.
- The Little Book of Joy – Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu.
- The Living Mountain – Amitav Ghosh.
- The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World – S. Jaishankar. (External Affairs Minister)
- The Life and Times of George Fernandes – Rahul Ramagundam.
- The Maverick Effect – Harish S. Mehta.
- The Paradise of Food – Khalid Jawed.
- The Philosophy of Modern Song – Bob Dylan.
- The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorized Biography of Usha Uthup – Vikas Kumar Jha.
- The School for Good Mothers – Jessamine Chan.
- The Struggle for Police Reforms in India – Prakash Singh.
- The Trayvon Generation – Elizabeth Alexander.
- Thee Pidicha Parnasaalakal – Joy Mathew (Malayalam Actor).
- Translating Myself and Others – Jhumpa Lahiri.
- Trust – Hernan Diaz.
U
- Unfilled Barrels: India’s Oil Story – Richa Mishra.
- Ungalil Oruvan (One Among You) – M.K. Stalin (Tamil Nadu CM).
V
- Valli – Sheela Tomy (English translation by Jayasree Kalathil; Shortlisted for JCB Prize 2022)
W
- Wrist Assured: An Autobiography – G.R. Viswanath (Former Cricketer).
- Winning the Inner Battle Bringing the best version of you to cricket – Shane Watson.
Y
- Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart.
📝SideNotes:
- India’s first woman botanist – E. K. Janaki Ammal.