1. Who is the author of “Wings of Fire”?
A) Chetan Bhagat
B) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ✅
C) Vikram Seth
D) Arundhati Roy
📘 Dr. Kalam’s autobiography narrates his journey from Rameswaram to the Presidency.
2. “Discovery of India” was written by:
A) B.R. Ambedkar
B) Sardar Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru ✅
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
📘 Nehru wrote it while imprisoned in 1942–44.
3. “God of Small Things” is a novel by:
A) Anita Desai
B) Kiran Desai
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Arundhati Roy ✅
📘 Roy won the Booker Prize 1997 for this novel.
4. Author of “The White Tiger” is:
A) Chetan Bhagat
B) Aravind Adiga ✅
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Rohinton Mistry
📘 Won the Man Booker Prize in 2008.
5. Who wrote “India Wins Freedom”?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ✅
📘 A firsthand account of India’s independence struggle.
6. “My Experiments with Truth” is an autobiography of:
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Mahatma Gandhi ✅
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Vallabhbhai Patel
📘 Translated from Gujarati, it details Gandhi’s early life.
7. “Midnight’s Children” was written by:
A) Vikram Seth
B) Salman Rushdie ✅
C) Amitav Ghosh
D) V.S. Naipaul
📘 Won the Booker Prize in 1981.
8. “Train to Pakistan” is authored by:
A) Amrita Pritam
B) Khushwant Singh ✅
C) Bapsi Sidhwa
D) R.K. Narayan
📘 A historical novel about Partition.
9. “The Inheritance of Loss” is written by:
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Kiran Desai ✅
C) Anita Nair
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
📘 Booker Prize winner in 2006.
10. Who is the author of “A Suitable Boy”?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Vikram Seth ✅
C) Ruskin Bond
D) Amitav Ghosh
📘 One of the longest novels in English.
11. Author of “The Great Indian Novel” is:
A) Khushwant Singh
B) Shashi Tharoor ✅
C) Chetan Bhagat
D) Arvind Adiga
📘 A satirical novel based on Mahabharata.
12. “Gitanjali” was written by:
A) R.K. Narayan
B) Bankim Chandra
C) Rabindranath Tagore ✅
D) Sarojini Naidu
📘 Tagore won Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for it.
13. “Playing It My Way” is the autobiography of:
A) Kapil Dev
B) Sourav Ganguly
C) Virat Kohli
D) Sachin Tendulkar ✅
📘 Released in 2014, it became a bestseller.
14. Who wrote “An Era of Darkness”?
A) Romila Thapar
B) William Dalrymple
C) Shashi Tharoor ✅
D) Jairam Ramesh
📘 Critiques British rule in India.
15. “The Argumentative Indian” is a book by:
A) Shashi Tharoor
B) Chetan Bhagat
C) Amartya Sen ✅
D) Raghuram Rajan
📘 Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen discusses India’s traditions of debate.
16. Author of “The Namesake” is:
A) Jhumpa Lahiri ✅
B) Anita Desai
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Kiran Desai
📘 A novel about immigrant identity and generational conflict.
17. “Why I Am an Atheist” was written by:
A) Bhagat Singh ✅
B) Gandhi
C) Bose
D) Nehru
📘 Penned during his imprisonment in Lahore.
18. “The Man Who Knew Infinity” is a biography of:
A) S. Ramanujan ✅
B) C.V. Raman
C) Homi Bhabha
D) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
📘 Written by Robert Kanigel.
19. “Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister” was written by:
A) Ramachandra Guha
B) Jairam Ramesh
C) Sagarika Ghose ✅
D) Pavan K. Varma
📘 Biography of Indira Gandhi.
20. “The Alchemist” was written by:
A) Paulo Coelho ✅
B) Dan Brown
C) Khaled Hosseini
D) Robin Sharma
📘 A global bestseller about following your dreams.
21. “The Diary of a Young Girl” is by:
A) Helen Keller
B) Anne Frank ✅
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Jane Austen
📘 Anne wrote this while hiding during WWII.
22. “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” is by:
A) Deepak Chopra
B) Robin Sharma ✅
C) Gaur Gopal Das
D) Jay Shetty
📘 A motivational fable on success and happiness.
23. “My Country My Life” is the autobiography of:
A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
B) Narendra Modi
C) L.K. Advani ✅
D) Rajnath Singh
📘 Chronicles Advani’s political journey.
24. “The Story of My Experiments with Truth” was originally written in:
A) English
B) Gujarati ✅
C) Hindi
D) Urdu
📘 Later translated into English by Mahadev Desai.
25. “The Satanic Verses” was written by:
A) Salman Rushdie ✅
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Vikram Seth
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
📘 Banned in many countries due to controversy.
26. “The Interpreter of Maladies” was written by:
A) Jhumpa Lahiri ✅
B) Anita Desai
C) Vikram Chandra
D) Kiran Desai
📘 This Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection explores Indian-American lives.
27. Who wrote “The Accidental Prime Minister”?
A) Jairam Ramesh
B) Sanjaya Baru ✅
C) P.C. Parakh
D) Vinod Rai
📘 A controversial book on Dr. Manmohan Singh's tenure as PM.
28. “Revolution 2020” is written by:
A) Amish Tripathi
B) Chetan Bhagat ✅
C) Durjoy Datta
D) Ravinder Singh
📘 A novel about love, corruption, and ambition.
29. Author of “The Secret” is:
A) Robin Sharma
B) Rhonda Byrne ✅
C) Stephen Covey
D) Jay Shetty
📘 Focuses on the "Law of Attraction."
30. “A Brief History of Time” was written by:
A) Richard Dawkins
B) Stephen Hawking ✅
C) Carl Sagan
D) Neil deGrasse Tyson
📘 Explores black holes, time, and the universe.
31. “The Lowland” is a novel by:
A) Kiran Desai
B) Jhumpa Lahiri ✅
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Manju Kapur
📘 A story of two brothers set in India and America.
32. “The Guide” is written by:
A) R.K. Narayan ✅
B) Khushwant Singh
C) Mulk Raj Anand
D) Ruskin Bond
📘 Adapted into a successful Hindi film.
33. Who wrote “India 2020”?
A) Manmohan Singh
B) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ✅
C) C.N. Rao
D) Raghuram Rajan
📘 A vision document for India's future.
34. “One Indian Girl” was written by:
A) Rujuta Diwekar
B) Chetan Bhagat ✅
C) Amish Tripathi
D) Preeti Shenoy
📘 A novel from the perspective of a working woman.
35. Who is the author of “The Story of My Life”?
A) Anne Frank
B) Helen Keller ✅
C) Jane Austen
D) Florence Nightingale
📘 Keller wrote this autobiography at age 22.
36. “The Room on the Roof” was written by:
A) Vikram Seth
B) R.K. Narayan
C) Ruskin Bond ✅
D) Chetan Bhagat
📘 Bond's first novel, written at age 17.
37. “A House for Mr. Biswas” is by:
A) V.S. Naipaul ✅
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Vikram Seth
📘 A semi-autobiographical novel set in Trinidad.
38. “The Zahir” was written by:
A) Paulo Coelho ✅
B) Dan Brown
C) Khaled Hosseini
D) Orhan Pamuk
📘 A novel of love, loss, and self-discovery.
39. Who wrote “The Da Vinci Code”?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Dan Brown ✅
C) Paulo Coelho
D) Stephen King
📘 A bestselling thriller that mixes history, art, and mystery.
40. “Who Moved My Cheese?” was written by:
A) Stephen Covey
B) Spencer Johnson ✅
C) Robin Sharma
D) Dale Carnegie
📘 A motivational book on dealing with change.
41. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is by:
A) Stephen R. Covey ✅
B) Dale Carnegie
C) Brian Tracy
D) Tony Robbins
📘 A classic on personal and professional effectiveness.
42. “Long Walk to Freedom” is the autobiography of:
A) Barack Obama
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Nelson Mandela ✅
D) Desmond Tutu
📘 Chronicles Mandela’s fight against apartheid.
43. “The Wings of Fire” was co-authored by:
A) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & R. Narayanan
B) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & Arun Tiwari ✅
C) Kalam & Y.S. Rajan
D) Kalam & Srijan Pal Singh
📘 Arun Tiwari was a close associate of Kalam.
44. Who wrote “Ignited Minds”?
A) S. Radhakrishnan
B) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ✅
C) Ratan Tata
D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
📘 A call to Indian youth to strive for excellence.
45. “Not Just an Accountant” was written by:
A) N.K. Singh
B) Vinod Rai ✅
C) Urjit Patel
D) Kaushik Basu
📘 Memoir by former CAG of India, exposing scams.
46. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is by:
A) Jo Nesbo
B) Gillian Flynn
C) Stieg Larsson ✅
D) Agatha Christie
📘 Swedish crime thriller that became a global bestseller.
47. “The Test of My Life” is the autobiography of:
A) Yuvraj Singh ✅
B) Rahul Dravid
C) Sourav Ganguly
D) Kapil Dev
📘 About his cricket journey and battle with cancer.
48. “Emotional Intelligence” was written by:
A) Daniel Goleman ✅
B) Howard Gardner
C) Robert Cialdini
D) Malcolm Gladwell
📘 Introduced the concept of EQ in psychology.
49. “India After Gandhi” is authored by:
A) Ramachandra Guha ✅
B) S. Gopal
C) Bipin Chandra
D) Romila Thapar
📘 A definitive history of India post-independence.
50. “The Art of War” is an ancient book by:
A) Confucius
B) Sun Tzu ✅
C) Lao Tzu
D) Chanakya
📘 A classic treatise on military strategy and tactics.
51. Who is the author of “What Young India Wants”?
A) Amish Tripathi
B) Narendra Modi
C) Chetan Bhagat ✅
D) Shashi Tharoor
📘 A collection of essays on youth, politics, and change.
52. “The Palace of Illusions” is written by:
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ✅
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Kiran Desai
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
📘 A retelling of Mahabharata from Draupadi’s perspective.
53. Author of “Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges” is:
A) Manmohan Singh
B) Abdul Kalam ✅
C) Narendra Modi
D) Rajnath Singh
📘 Sequel to Kalam’s earlier book “Wings of Fire.”
54. “The Coalition Years” is the memoir of:
A) Pranab Mukherjee ✅
B) P. Chidambaram
C) L.K. Advani
D) Ram Jethmalani
📘 Covers Pranab Mukherjee’s political life from 1996–2012.
55. “The Tipping Point” is written by:
A) Malcolm Gladwell ✅
B) Stephen Covey
C) Dale Carnegie
D) Daniel Pink
📘 Explores how small actions create a tipping point in trends.
56. Who wrote “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck”?*
A) Mark Manson ✅
B) Tim Ferriss
C) Ryan Holiday
D) Gary Vaynerchuk
📘 A bestselling self-help book with a bold title and tone.
57. “The Kite Runner” was authored by:
A) Khaled Hosseini ✅
B) Elif Shafak
C) Orhan Pamuk
D) Arundhati Roy
📘 A novel about friendship and redemption set in Afghanistan.
58. “Man’s Search for Meaning” is written by:
A) Viktor Frankl ✅
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Carl Jung
D) Albert Ellis
📘 Frankl’s memoir of surviving Nazi concentration camps.
59. Author of “Out of My Comfort Zone” is:
A) Sachin Tendulkar
B) Rahul Dravid
C) Steve Waugh ✅
D) Shane Warne
📘 Autobiography of the former Australian cricket captain.
60. “A Better India: A Better World” was written by:
A) Raghuram Rajan
B) N.R. Narayana Murthy ✅
C) Nandan Nilekani
D) Arvind Subramanian
📘 A call to reform India from the Infosys founder.
61. “India Unbound” was authored by:
A) Jairam Ramesh
B) Gurcharan Das ✅
C) Raghuram Rajan
D) Amartya Sen
📘 Discusses India’s post-independence economic transformation.
62. “The End of Imagination” was written by:
A) Medha Patkar
B) Vandana Shiva
C) Arundhati Roy ✅
D) Mahasweta Devi
📘 Collection of essays opposing nuclear tests and globalization.
63. “The Glass Palace” was written by:
A) Amitav Ghosh ✅
B) Vikram Seth
C) V.S. Naipaul
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
📘 Historical novel spanning Burma, India, and Malaya.
64. “Unaccustomed Earth” is a short story collection by:
A) Kiran Desai
B) Anita Desai
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Jhumpa Lahiri ✅
📘 Explores second-generation Indian-American experiences.
65. “The Elephant Vanishes” is by:
A) Haruki Murakami ✅
B) Kazuo Ishiguro
C) Banana Yoshimoto
D) Yukio Mishima
📘 A collection of surreal short stories by the Japanese author.
66. “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” is written by:
A) Anita Desai
B) Arundhati Roy ✅
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Kiran Desai
📘 Arundhati Roy's second novel, published in 2017.
67. “Playing to Win” is authored by:
A) Anil Kumble
B) Nandan Nilekani
C) Saina Nehwal ✅
D) Abhinav Bindra
📘 Autobiography of India’s badminton star.
68. “From the Heart” is written by:
A) Kapil Dev
B) Ravi Shastri
C) Kapil Dev ✅
D) M.S. Dhoni
📘 Kapil Dev reflects on life, cricket, and leadership.
69. “Every Vote Counts” is authored by:
A) Sunil Arora
B) T.N. Seshan
C) Navin Chawla ✅
D) Gopalaswami
📘 Written by former Chief Election Commissioner of India.
70. “A Bend in the River” is written by:
A) V.S. Naipaul ✅
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Chimamanda Adichie
D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
📘 A novel set in post-colonial Africa.
71. “Prisoner No. 100” is authored by:
A) Indira Gandhi
B) Kanimozhi
C) Sudha Murty
D) Anjum Zamarud Habib ✅
📘 A woman’s account of her prison experiences in Kashmir.
72. “Exam Warriors” was written by:
A) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
B) Pranab Mukherjee
C) Narendra Modi ✅
D) Arvind Kejriwal
📘 A motivational book for students by India’s PM.
73. “Why I Killed Gandhi” is a controversial book by:
A) V.D. Savarkar
B) Gopal Godse ✅
C) Nathuram Godse
D) Prafulla Chaki
📘 Godse’s brother wrote this book justifying the assassination.
74. “Half Girlfriend” was written by:
A) Chetan Bhagat ✅
B) Durjoy Datta
C) Preeti Shenoy
D) Nikita Singh
📘 A love story involving English barriers and rural-urban India.
75. Who wrote “The Paradoxical Prime Minister”?
A) Yashwant Sinha
B) Raghuram Rajan
C) Shashi Tharoor ✅
D) Rajdeep Sardesai
📘 A critique of Narendra Modi’s leadership.
76. “The Silent Patient” was written by:
A) Paula Hawkins
B) Alex Michaelides ✅
C) Gillian Flynn
D) Tana French
📘 A psychological thriller that became a global bestseller.
77. Who wrote “The Immortals of Meluha”?
A) Devdutt Pattanaik
B) Amish Tripathi ✅
C) Chetan Bhagat
D) Ashwin Sanghi
📘 First book in the Shiva Trilogy, blending mythology with fiction.
78. “The Secret of the Nagas” is authored by:
A) Amish Tripathi ✅
B) Devdutt Pattanaik
C) Preeti Shenoy
D) Anuja Chauhan
📘 Sequel to “The Immortals of Meluha”.
79. “Wise and Otherwise” is written by:
A) Kiran Bedi
B) Sudha Murty ✅
C) Indra Nooyi
D) Arundhati Bhattacharya
📘 Collection of short real-life stories from rural India.
80. “The Great Gatsby” is authored by:
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald ✅
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Mark Twain
📘 A classic American novel set in the Jazz Age.
81. “The Old Man and the Sea” was written by:
A) Ernest Hemingway ✅
B) William Faulkner
C) John Steinbeck
D) Mark Twain
📘 A novella about perseverance; won Hemingway the Nobel.
82. “Wuthering Heights” was written by:
A) Jane Austen
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Emily Brontë ✅
D) Louisa May Alcott
📘 A Gothic novel of love and revenge.
83. “Pride and Prejudice” is a novel by:
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen ✅
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Virginia Woolf
📘 One of the most beloved romantic novels in English literature.
84. Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
A) Harper Lee ✅
B) Alice Walker
C) Toni Morrison
D) Sylvia Plath
📘 A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on racial injustice.
85. “The Fountainhead” was authored by:
A) Ayn Rand ✅
B) Sylvia Plath
C) George Orwell
D) Virginia Woolf
📘 A philosophical novel exploring individualism.
86. “Animal Farm” was written by:
A) George Orwell ✅
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Oscar Wilde
📘 A political satire on communism and totalitarianism.
87. “1984” was also authored by:
A) George Orwell ✅
B) H.G. Wells
C) Ray Bradbury
D) J.G. Ballard
📘 Dystopian novel depicting a surveillance state.
88. “The Alchemist” is originally written in:
A) Spanish ✅
B) English
C) French
D) Portuguese
📘 Paulo Coelho wrote it in Portuguese; translated worldwide.
89. “Inglorious Empire” is authored by:
A) Amartya Sen
B) Shashi Tharoor ✅
C) William Dalrymple
D) Jairam Ramesh
📘 Exposes the economic impact of British colonialism on India.
90. “Glimpses of World History” was written by:
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Maulana Azad
C) Jawaharlal Nehru ✅
D) Sardar Patel
📘 Series of letters from Nehru to Indira Gandhi.
91. “A Promised Land” is an autobiography of:
A) Joe Biden
B) Barack Obama ✅
C) Kamala Harris
D) Donald Trump
📘 Covers Obama’s political journey up to 2011.
92. “Becoming” is the memoir of:
A) Hillary Clinton
B) Oprah Winfrey
C) Michelle Obama ✅
D) Kamala Harris
📘 A deeply personal memoir and global bestseller.
93. “Hit Refresh” was written by:
A) Jeff Bezos
B) Satya Nadella ✅
C) Sundar Pichai
D) Elon Musk
📘 Chronicles Nadella’s transformation of Microsoft.
94. “The Google Story” is authored by:
A) Thomas Friedman
B) Nicholas Carlson
C) David A. Vise ✅
D) Walter Isaacson
📘 Traces the rise of Google from a startup to a tech giant.
95. “Steve Jobs” biography was written by:
A) Walter Isaacson ✅
B) Malcolm Gladwell
C) Tim Cook
D) Elon Musk
📘 An authorized biography based on interviews with Jobs.
96. “I Do What I Do” is written by:
A) Subramanian Swamy
B) Raghuram Rajan ✅
C) Urjit Patel
D) Y.V. Reddy
📘 A collection of speeches and insights from his RBI tenure.
97. “Let Me Say It Now” is the autobiography of:
A) Ajit Doval
B) Rakesh Maria ✅
C) Kiran Bedi
D) Karnal Gill
📘 Former Mumbai Police Commissioner on 26/11 and policing.
98. “The 3 Mistakes of My Life” was written by:
A) Durjoy Datta
B) Amish Tripathi
C) Chetan Bhagat ✅
D) Ravinder Singh
📘 A story about cricket, religion, and business in Gujarat.
99. “The Man from the Egg: Unusual Tales from the Trinity” is by:
A) Amish Tripathi
B) Devdutt Pattanaik ✅
C) Chitra Banerjee
D) Rujuta Diwekar
📘 Retells Hindu mythology with a modern, simple tone.
100. “The Commonwealth of Cricket” is written by:
A) Rahul Dravid
B) Ramachandra Guha ✅
C) Boria Majumdar
D) Harsha Bhogle
📘 A cricket memoir blending personal experience and history.
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