Famous Books - 2020
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.