Understanding the key works of literature and their authors is crucial for excelling in exams and interviews, especially in fields related to literature, history, and general knowledge. This list compiles notable books along with their authors, covering a wide range of genres and eras. It includes classic novels, influential philosophical texts, significant historical accounts, and renowned scientific treatises. Familiarity with these works can demonstrate a well-rounded knowledge base, critical thinking skills, and cultural literacy, which are highly valued in academic and professional settings. This compilation is an indispensable resource for students preparing for competitive exams and individuals aiming to leave a strong impression in interviews.
Essential Books and Their Authors for Exams and Interviews
Examples of Important Books and Authors:
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen: A classic novel exploring themes of love, class, and societal expectations in 19th century England.
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky: A profound psychological drama delving into morality, guilt, and redemption.
"1984" by George Orwell: A dystopian novel examining the dangers of totalitarianism and state surveillance.
"The Republic" by Plato: A foundational philosophical text discussing justice, governance, and the ideal state.
"Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin: A groundbreaking scientific work introducing the theory of evolution by natural selection.
"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare: One of the most important works in English literature, exploring themes of revenge, madness, and mortality.
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking: An accessible explanation of cosmology, the nature of the universe, and complex scientific concepts.
"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: A political pamphlet advocating for socialism and critiquing the inequalities of capitalism.
Why These Books Matter:
These books are frequently referenced in academic curricula, literary discussions, and cultural conversations. Knowledge of these works not only enhances intellectual engagement but also prepares individuals for a wide range of questions in exams and interviews, demonstrating a deep understanding of influential ideas and narratives that have shaped human thought and society. Here are the names of important books and there authors.
- A continent decides Lord Birdwood
- A Dream Play August Strindberg
- A Game of Hide and Seek Elizabeth Taylor
- A Midsummer Night‟s Dream William Shakespeare
- A room of one‟s own Virginia Woolf
- A study of history Arnold Joseph Toynbee
- A wreath of roses Elizabeth Taylor
- Abu Bin Adhem Leigh Hunt
- Adonais Shelley
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
- Aeneid Virgil
- Aerodrome Rex Warner
- Aladdin and the Lamp Walter Crane
- Alice‟s adventures in the wonderland Lewis Carroll
- All‟s well that ends well Shakespeare
- Ambassadors Henry James
- America; the beautiful Katherine Lee Bates
- An essay on criticism Alexander Pope
- Ancient Mariner Coleridge
- Anderson‟s fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen
- Animal Farm George Orwell
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
- Anthony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
- Armies of the Night Norman Mailer
- Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne
- Art of Cricket Don Bradman
- As you like it Shakespeare
- The Awakening Kate Chopin
- Axel‟s Castle Edmund Wilson
- Ben Hur* Lewis Wallace
- Between the Acts Virginia Woolf
- Beyond good and evil Friedrich Nietzsche
- Biographia Literaria S. T. Coleridge
- Birth of Briton” Winston Churchill
- Bleak House Charles Dickens
- Bridge of time Sarojini Naidu
- Brighton Rock Graham Greene
- Canon of Medicine Avicenna
- Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
- Carbury Family Anthony Trollope
- The castle Franz Kafka
- Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole
- Christabel S. T. Coleridge
- Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
- Civilization on Trial Arnold Toynbee
- Clarissa: or, The History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson
- Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
- Comedy of Errors* William Shakespeare
- Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The complete angler Izaak Walton
- The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell
- Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
- Creative Evolution * Henry Bergson
- Creditors August Strindberg
- Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold
- Daffodils William Wordsworth
- Daisy Miller Henry James
- Dance of death Wystan Hugh Auden
- Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell
- Das Capital Karl Marx
- David Copper field Charles Dickens
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
- Decameron Boccaccio
- Decline and fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon
- Dialogues Plato
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Rousseau
- Divine Comedy Dante (Italy)
- Dr Zhivago Boris Pasternak
- Don Quixote Cervantes (Spanish)
- Dracula Bram Stoker
- Dynasts Thomas Hardy
- East to West: A Journey Round the World Arnold Toynbee
- Emma Jane Austin
- Essay on man Alexander Pope
- The Faerie Queen Edmund Spenser
- Far fetched fables George Bernard Shaw
- Far from madding crowd Thomas Hardy
- Farewell to cricket Don Bradman
- The father August Strindberg
- Flowers of evil Baudelaire
- For the term of his natural life Marcus Clarke
- For Whom the Bell Tolls Earnest Hemingway
- Frankenstein Mary Shelley
- Free Fall William Golding
- Freedom in exile Dalai Lama
- French Revolution Thomas Carlyle
- From Here to Eternity James Jones
- The Ghost Sonata August Strindberg
- Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore
- Go tell it on the mountain James Baldwin
- Golden Ass) Lucius Apuleius
- Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell
- Good Soldier Ford Madox
- Great contemporaries Winston Churchill
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens
- Green Book Moammer Qaddafi
- Gulistan Sheikh Sa‟adi
- Gulliver‟s travels * Jonathan Smith
- Hamlet Shakespeare
- Hard times Charles Dickens
- Harry Porter and the deathly hallows Mrs. J.K. Rowling
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- The Heart of the matter Graham Greene
- Hellenism: The History of a Civilization Arnold Joseph Toynbee
- Heroes and hero-worship Thomas Carlyle
- Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle
- Hiroshima John Hersey
- History of Arabs Philip K Hitti
- History of England Thomas Macaulay
- History of English Literature Hippolyte Taine
- History of Mr. Polly H.G. Wells
- The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
- Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Human Comedy Honoré de Balzac
- The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Iliad Homer
- Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
- In Cold Blood Truman Capote
- In Memoriam Lord Alfred Tennyson
- The island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells
- The informer Liam O Flaherty
- Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
- Joan of Arc George Bernard Shaw
- Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding
- Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
- Julius Caesar Shakespeare
- Jungle book Rudyard Kippling
- Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kim Rudyard Kippling
- King Lear William Shakespeare
- Kipps H. G. Wells
- Kulliyat Faizi
- L‟Allergo John Milton
- „La Belle Dame sans Merci‟ John Keats
- Lady Chatterley‟s Lover D. H. Lawrence
- Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby
- Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory
- Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
- The legend of sleep Hollow Washington Irving
- Light of Asia Sir Edwin Arnold
- Little women Louisa May Alcott
- Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
- Lord of rings J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lost generation John Dos Passos
- Lost Horizon James Hilton
- The lost world Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Love story Erich Segel
- Love‟s cure Beaumont and Fletcher
- Love‟s labour lost Shakespeare
- Love‟s pilgrimage Upton Sinclaire
- Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
- Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
- Man and superman George Bernard Shaw
- Macbeth William Shakespeare
- Mansfield Park Jane Austin
- Masnawi Maulana Room and Hafiz Tabrizi
- Mayfair Michael Arien
- Measure for measure William Shakespeare
- Meeting by the River Christopher Isherwood
- Memoirs Richard Nixon
- Merchant of Venice Shakespeare
- The merry adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle
- Micrographia Robert Hooke (1665)
- Middle March George Eliot
- Mien Kemp Adolf Hitler
- Mill on the Floss George Eliot
- Miss Julie August Strindberg
- Moby Dick Herman Melville
- Moonstone Wilkie Collins
- The Mouse Trap Dame Agatha Christie
- Much Ado about nothing William Shakespeare
- Murder of Roger Ackroyd Dame Agatha Christie
- My land, my people Dalai Lama
- My Life Bill Clinton
- Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer
- Nakshikanthar (Bengali) Jasim-ud-din
- New Arabian Nights R. L. Stevenson
- Night and Day Virginia Woolf
- Nineteen Eighty – Four George Orwel
- Northanger Abbey Jane Austin
- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad
- Notes from the underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Novum Organum Francis Bacon
- Ode to west wind P. B. Shelley
- Odyssey Homer
- Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
- Old man and the sea Earnest Hemingway
- Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
- On the sublime Longinus
- Origin of Species Charles Darwin
- Oroonoko or the Royal Slave Aphra Behn
- Othello William Shakespeare
- Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
- Outline of the history of the world H. G. Wells
- Pale fire Vladimir Nabokov
- Palestine; peace not apartheid Jimmy Carter
- Pamela Samuel Richardson
- Paradise lost John Milton
- Paradise Regained John Milton
- Path to power Margaret Thatcher
- Persuasion Jane Austin
- Pick wick papers Charles Dickens
- The picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
- Pilgrim‟s Progress John Bunyan
- Pleasant and unpleasant George Bernard Shaw
- Portrait of a Lady Henry James
- Portrait of Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
- Pride and prejudice * Jane Austin
- The Prince Machiavelli
- Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette
- Principia Isaac Newton
- Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
- Rape of the lock Alexander Pope
- The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
- The Recovery Avicenna
- The Red and the Black Stendhal
- The red badge of courage Stephen Crane
- Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
- Republic Plato
- Resurrection Tolstoy
- Revelations of Divine Love Julian
- Revolution and independence William Wordsworth
- The ring and the book Robert Browning
- Road to freedom Bertrand Russell
- Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
- Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
- The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
- „The Scholar Gipsy‟ Matthew Arnold
- Sense and Sensibility Jane Austin
- Seven pillars of wisdom John Ruskin
- Shakuntala Kalidas
- The Ship of Fools Alexander Barclay
- "The Sleeping Beauty" Charles Perrault
- Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Sohrab-o-Rustam * William Blake
- Songs of experience William Blake
- Songs of innocence William Blake
- Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
- Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill
- Sword of honour Even Waugh
- System of logic John Stuart Mill
- The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
- Tale of two cities * Charles Dickens
- Tales of unrest Joseph Canvas
- Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare
- Tempest Shakespeare
- Tenant of Wild fell Hall Charlotte Bronte
- Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith
- The Thirty Nine Steps John Buchan
- Three ghost stories Charles Dickens
- Time Machine Herbert George Well
- Tom Jones Henry Fielding
- Tragic History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlow
- Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
- Turn of the Screw Henry James
- War of the worlds H.G. Wells
- Waste Land T. S. Eliot
- Wild Goose Chase Rex Warner
- Winter tales Shakespeare
- Tom Jones Henry Fielding
- Travels in Arabian deserts C. M. Doughty
- Treatise of human nature Allan Octavian Hume
- Treasure island R. L. Stevenson
- The Trial Franz Kafka
- Twelfth Night William Shakespeare
- Ulysses James Joyce
- Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
- Utopia Sir Thomas Moore
- Vanity Fair William Thackeray
- Vanity of human wishes Dr. Samuel Johnson
- The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf
- War and peace * Leo Tolstoy
- The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
- Waste Land T.S. Eliot
- The Waves Virginia Woolf
- The way of all flesh Samuel Butler
- Way of the world Congreve
- Wealth of nations Adam Smith
- Witness for the Prosecution Dame Agatha Christie
- Women in love D.H. Lawrence
- Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
- “Ahya-e-Uloom-Ud-Din” Imam Ali Ghazali
- “Anwar-ut-Tanzil” Allama Baidawi
- “Arab Ka Chand” Swami Luxman Prasad
- “Aurang Shahi” Hazrat Sultan Bahu
- “Awarif-ul-Ma‟arif” Umar Bin Muhammad Shahab-ud-din Soharwardi
- “Bahishti-Zewar” Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi
- “Chemia-e-Sa‟adat” Imam Ali Ghazali
- “Dalil-ul-Arifin” Khawaja Qutb-ud-din Bakhtiar Kaki
- “Dastoor-ul-Tib” Bu Ali Sina
- “Fauz-ul-Kabir” Shah Wali-ullah
- “Fawaid-e-Fuad” Amir Hassan Sijzi
- “Fusus-ul-Hikmah” Ibn Arabi
- “Futuh-ul-Baldan” Balazari
- “Futuh-ul-Ghaib” Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani
- “Al-Futuhat-ul-Makkiya” Ibn-e-Arabi
- “Fuyuz-ul-Harmain” Shah Wali-ullah
- “Ghalba-e-Room” Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
- “Ghaniat-ut-Talibin” Abdul Qadir Jilani
- “Hidaya” Maulana Burhan-ud-din Mehmood Balkhi
- “Hujjat-ullah-Al-Baligha” Hazrat Shah Wali-ullah
- “Isbat-un-Nabuwwat” Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Sani
- “Itqan-Fi-Uloom-ul-Quran” Allama Jalal-ud-Din Siyuti
- “Iqtisad-Fil-Aitiqad” Imam Ali Ghazali
- “Al-jabr wa‟l-muqabala” Muhammad bin Musa Al-Khawarizmi
- “Al-Jihad Fil Islam” Maulana Maududi
- “Al-Judari-wa-al-Hasbah” Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Zakaria al-Razi
- “Hujatulla al-Baligha” Sha Wali-ullah
- “Hussain o Yazid” Imam Ibn-e-Timia
- “Kanz-ul-Iman” Ahmed Raza Khan Brelvi
- “Kashf-ul-Asrar” Hazrat Sultan Bahu
- “Kashf-ul-Mahjoob” Hazrat Ali Hajveri Data Ganj Bux
- “Kitab-ul-Baldan” Yaqubi
- “Kitab-ul-Haiwan” Al-Jahiz
- “Kitab-ul-Hawi” Abu Bakar Muhammad Al-Razi
- “Kitab-ul-Ibrar” Ibn-e-Khaldun
- “Kitab-ul-Kharaj” Imam Abu Yousaf (RA)
- “Kitab-ul-Ma‟arif” Ibn-e-Qutaiba
- Author of “Kitab-ul-Manazir” Ibn-ul-Haitham
- “Kitab-ul-Mausiqi” * Al-Farabi
- “Kitab-ul-Shifa” Bu Ali Sina
- “Kitab-ul-Tanbih” Abul Hassan Ali Masudi
- “Kitab-us-Surat-ul-Ard” Al-Khawarizmi
- “Kulliyat” Ibn Rushd
- “Life of the prophet (SAW)” Ibn Hisham
- “Mad-o-Jazar-e-Islam” Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali
- “Masharaq-ul-Anwar” Imam Hassan al-Saghani
- “Mauta Imam Malik” Imam Malik Bin Anas
- “Mohsin-e-Insaniat” Naeem Siddiqui
- “Muhammad Ki Sarkar” Sardar Godart Singh
- “Muhammad; the prophet” Muhammad Ali
- “Muqaddamah” Ibn Khaldun
- “Noor-ul-Quran” Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani
- “Personal Muhammadan Law” Justice Syed Ameer Ali
- Al-Qanoon-Fit-Tib” Bu Ali Sina
- “Qaseeda Burda Sharif” Imam Sharf-ud-din Al-Bosiri
- “Rahat-ul-Quloob” Khawaja Nizam-ud-din Auliya
- “Rasool-e-Rehmat” Maulana Azad
- “Reconstruction of religious thought in Islam” * Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- “Safar Nama Sheikh-ul-Hind” Hussain Ahmed Madni
- “Shah Nama” Firdausi
- “Shah-Nama-e-Islam” Hafeez Jalandhri
- “Shahadat-e-Haq” Maulana Maududi
- “Shamail-e-Trimzi” Imam Muhammad Tirmizi
- “Si‟r-ul-Ajam” Shibli Nu‟mani
- “Sir-ul-Asrar@” Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakaria al-Razi
- “Sirat-e-Mustaqim” Syed Ahmed Brelvi
- “Sirat-un-Nabi” Maulana Shibli Nomani
- “Sirat-ur-Rasulullah (SAW)” Ibn Ishaq
- “Spirit of Islam” Justice Syed Ameer Ali
- “Sunan Bahiqi” Abu Bakr Ahmed Al Hassan Bahiqi
- “Sunan Dar Qatni” Abul Hassan Ali Dar Qatni
- “Sunan Darmi” Abu Muhammad Abdullah Bin Abdul Rehman Darmi
- “Sunan Hakim” Muhammad Hakim
- “Tafhim-ul-Quran” Maulana Abul A‟la Maudoodi
- “Tafseer-e-Haqqani” Maulvi Abdul Haq
- “Tafseer-e-Kabir” Fakhruddin Muhammad Razi
- “Tafseer-e-Kashshaf” Abul-Qasim Mahmud Zamakhshari
- “Tafseer-e-Mazahri” Qazi Sana-ullah Panipati
- “Tafseer-e-Tibri” Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Tibri
- “Tafseer Ibn-e-Kathir” Abul-Fida Ismail Ibn-e-Kathir
- “Taqwiyyat-ul-Iman” Shah Ismail Shaheed
- “Tarikh-e-Kabir” Ibn-e-Asakir
- “Tauhid-e-Shahudi” Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Sani
- “Tazkira-tul-Aulia” Khawaja Farid-ud-din Atar
- “Aab-e-Hayat” * Muhammad Hussain Azad
- “Aag Ka Darya” Qura-tul-Ain Haider
- “Afqar-e-Iqbal” Dr. Javed Iqbal
- “Akhir-e-Shab Ke Hamsafar” Qura-tul-Ain Haider
- “Alipur ka Aili” Mumtaz Mufti
- “Anarkali” Imtiaz Ali Taj
- “Angaray” Asmat Chughtai
- “Apna Greban Chak” Dr. Justice ® Javed Iqbal
- “Arbab-e-Sukhan” Maulana Hasrat Mohani
- “Azadi ka Safar: Tehrik-e-Pakistan aur Muslim Khawatin” Begum Salma
- Tassaduq Hussain
- “Azeem Almiya” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
- “Bostan” Sheikh Sahdi
- “Chah-e-Yousaf Se Sada” Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani
- “Chandni Begum” Qura-tul-Ain Haider
- “Chadar Char Deewari Aur Chandni” Bushra Rehman
- “Dast-e-Saba” Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- “Dasht-e-Wafa” Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
- “Daughter of the East” Benazir Bhutto
- “Din aur Dastan” Intizar Hussain
- “Doosra Qadam” Bano Qudsia
- “Ek Chadar Maili Si” Rajindar Singh Bedi
- “Fasana-e-Azad” Rattan Nath Sarshar
- “Ghazal Dar Ghazal” Habib Jalib
- “Ghazliat” Hafiz Shirazi
- “Glimpses into the corridors of Power” Gohar Ayub (2007)
- “Great Tragedy” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
- “Hairat Kada” Ashfaq Ahmed
- “Heer Ranjha” Waris Shah
- “In the line of fire” Gen. Parvez Musharraf
- “Jangloos” Shaukat Siddiqui
- “Javed Nama” Allama Iqbal
- “Khak Aur Khoon” Nasim Hejazi
- “Khazan ke akhri din” Amjad Islam Amjad
- “Khuda Ki Basti” Shaukat Siddiqui
- “Khushbu” Parveen Shakir
- “Kulliyat (Urdu)” Akbar Hussain
- “London Ki Ek Raat” Sajjad Zaheer
- “Mati Ka Darya” Mirza Adeeb
- “Military Inc: Inside Pakistan‟s Military Economy” Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa (2007)
- “Mir‟at-ul-Uroos” Deputy Nazir Ahmed
- “Mirza Sahiban” Hafiz Barkhurdar
- “Muqalat-e-Sir Syed” Maulana Ismail Panipatti
- “Muqadama-e-Kashmir” Sardar Abdul Qayum Khan
- “Muqaddama-e-Shi‟ro-Sha‟iri” Altaf Hussain Hali
- “Musaddas-e-Hali” Altaf Hussain Hali
- “My country, my life” L. K. Advani (2008)
- “The myth of independence” Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
- “Naqsh-e-Faryadi” Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- “Nazaray” Krishan Chandar
- “Pairahan” Qateel Shifai
- “Pakistan: at a glance” Syed Sharif-ud-din Pirzada
- “Pakistan Culture aur Qaumi Tashakhus Ki Talash” Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- “Pakistan: the heart of Asia Liaquat Ali Khan
- “Punjab ka Muqadma” Muhammad Hanif Ramay
- “Saif-ul-Mulook” Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
- “Sassi Punnoon” * Hashim Shah
- “Shah-Jo-Risalo” Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai
- “Shahab Nama” Qudrat-ullah Shahab
- “Shuhla-o-Shabnam” Josh Malih Abadi
- “Sohni Mehnwal” Fazal Shah
- “Tauba-tul-Nusuh” Deputy Nazir Ahmed
- “Tazkirah” Allama Inayat-ullah Al-Mashriqi
- “Thoughts and afterthoughts” Altaf Gohar
- “Udas Naslain” Abdullah Hussain
- “Umra-o-Jan-Ada” Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
- “Ungint Suraj” Majeed Amjad
- “Urdu-e-Mu‟alla” Assad-ullah Khan Ghalib
- “Whispers of the desert” Fatima Bhutto
- “Ya Khuda” Qudrat-ullah Shahab
- “Yadgar-e-Ghalib” Altaf Hussain Hali
- Zindan Nama Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- “Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto: Bachpan Se Takhta-e-Dar Tak” Salman Tasir
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