Are you looking for the latest books and authors current affairs for 2025 ? This post has a full list that is perfect for students preparing for SSC, Banking, RRB NTPC, UPSC , and state-level exams .
Questions about famous books and their authors are very common in the General Awareness section of these exams. They often ask, “Who wrote this book?” or “Which author won an award?” So, knowing the latest books and authors can help you score better.
Let’s check out the complete list of the latest books and authors for 2025 that you must study for competitive exams!
Books and Authors 2025 List March 2025 Book Name Author ‘Leo: The Untold Story of Chennai Super Kings’ P.S. Raman Autobiography Stumped Syed Kirmani, Debashish Sengupta, Dakshesh Pathak To the Seventh Generation: The Journey of Christian Medical College Vellore Dr. V.I. Mathan ‘SHOOTING STRAIGHT: A military Biography of Lt Gen Rostum K Nanavatty’ Arjun Subramaniam Rohtang: Aar Paar Ajey Prapancha Charitra Daggubati Venkateswara Rao Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Tenzin Gyatso Nalanda: How It Changed the World Abhay Kumar March to Glory: The Story of India’s 1975 World Cup triumph Errol D’Cruz and D. K. Arumugam Memories and Milestones V. Sriram and Lashman
February 2025 Book Name Author Life on Mars: Collected Stories Namita Gokhale The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts Arun Shourie “I Am? Gopichand P. Hinduja I Am a Soldier’s Wife: The Life and Love of Toni Lidder Geetika Lidder The launch of Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade Dr. Aishwarya Pandit
January 2025 Book Name Author Soumitra Chatterjee and His World Sanghamitra Chakraborty How India Scaled Mt G20: The Inside Story of the G20 Presidency Amitabh Kant The World After Gaza’: A Guide to Challenging Times Pankaj Mishra Parliament: Powers, Functions & Privileges; A Comparative Constitutional Perspective. Dr. K.S. Chauhan Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh Through the Ages: A Visual Narrative of Continuities and Linkages Launched by Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah Chhaunk On Food, Economics, and Society Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Ente Jeevitham Niraye: The Autobiography of a Nephrologist Dr. K. Thomas Mathew Wild Fictions Amitav Ghosh
Book Name Author New Bharat – Modi’s Vision and Development 2019-2024 Ravi Prashar • Hindu Rashtra Hai Kya Published by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) Tipu Sultan- The Saga of the Mysore Interregnum Vikram Sampath Loh Purush Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ka Jeevanvrit Rakesh Kumar Sharma Beyond The Higgs Boson: The W Boson and Dr Ashutosh Kotwal’s Quest for the Unknown Dr. Ashutosh Kotwal BRING IT ON: The Incredible Story of My Life Dr. Deepa Malik Dalai Lama’s Secret to Happiness Dr. Dinesh Shahra
Book Name Author The Showman Glenn Maxwell Bharatvakya Pravin Vitthal Tarde Friends – India’s Closest Strategic Partners Prof. Sreeram Chaulia The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism Ramachandra Guha Maa-Mother Dr. Davendra Kumar Dhodawat Vision to Victory: Unleashing India’s SME Platform Ajay Thakur Why Bharat Matters Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Ratan Tata: A Life Thomas Mathew
Book Name Author Mountain Mammals of the World M.K. Ranjitsinh War Journalist Bob Woodward Khaki Mein Sthitapragya Anil Raturi Former Indian Wrestler Sakshi Malik Unveils Memoir Titled ‘Witness’ Co-authored by journalist Jonathan Selvaraj PM Narendra Modi launched “Bharatvakya”, a Biography of Classical Musician Bharat Balvalli Pravin Vitthal Tarde, an eminent actor and screenwriter Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (CM of Himachal Pradesh) Released two books,”Jalandhar Peeth Ka Rahsya”, “Mushtarka Khata” Ajay Parashar , Director, Information and Public Relations (IPR) of North-East Council Mother Mary Comes to Me (Arundhati Roy’s first memoir ) Arundhati Roy LARA: The England Chronicles Trinidadian cricketer, Brian Lara
Book Name Author Lara: The England Chronicles Brain Lara, Co-authored with Phil Walker Khaki Mein Sthitapragya: Memories and Experiences of an IPS Officer Anil Raturi Sri Rama in Tamilagam – An inseparable bond Dr. D.K. Hari and Dr. D.K. Hema Hari From Oil to Lithium: Navigating the Future of Energy Kuldeep Gupta Heroes of the Indian Air Force Indian Air Force (IAF) with the National Film Development Corporation of India Five Decades in Politics Rashid Kidwai Randhurandhar Shahajiraje Bhosale Amar Yuvraj Dangat
Book Name Author The Scientist Entrepreneur: Empowering Millions of Women (Dr. Kalpana Sankar’s autobiography) Kalpana Sankar Modi’s Governance Triumph: Reshaping India’s Path to Prosperity BJP General Secretary Tarun Chugh 75 Great Revolutionaries of India Rajya Sabha MP Bhim Singh India@100: Envisioning Tomorrow’s Economic Powerhouse Prof. K V Subramanian Call of the Gir Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani Jamsetji Tata: Powerful R Gopalakrishnan and Harish Bhat SAVE AMERICA Donald J. Trump
Book Name
Author
Manoj Bajpayee: Kuch Paane Ki Zid (Hindi) / Manoj Bajpayee: The Definitive Biography (English)
Journalist Piyush Pandey (Originally written in Hindi), Translated into English by journalist Rachit Vats
Biography of the former Vice President titled ‘Venkaiah Naidu – Life in Service
Shri S Nagesh Kumar (former Resident Editor of The Hindu, Hyderabad edition)
’Celebrating Bharat – The Mission and Message of Shri M Venkaiah Naidu as 13th Vice–President of India
A Photo chronicle compiled by Dr I.V. Subba Rao, Former Secretary to the Vice-President of India.
Mahaneta – Life and Journey of Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu
Shri Sanjay Kishore
Kargil War: The Turning Point
Vir Chakra awardee, the late Colonel Magod Basappa Ravindranath
Folk Deities of Tamil Nadu: Worship, Tradition and Custom’ and ‘Forts of Tamil Nadu: A Walk-Through’
Ek Refugee Scientist’ Autobiography by Dr. MK Shingari
Dr MK Singari (Releasd by Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu)
Sukhvinder Singh SukhuJamsetji Tata: Powerful Learnings for Corporate Success
co-authored by R Gopalakrishnan and Harish Bhat
Echoes of Faith: Tales of
Explorations, Nature and Divinity
Ashok Lavasa and Novel Lavasa
Samayapuram – The Sacred Seat of Shakti
Vrinda Ramanan
Imperial Games in Tibet: The Struggle for Statehood and Sovereignty
Dilip Sinha
The Book of Compassion
Dalai Lama and Kailash Satyarthi
Book Name
Author
Gateways to the Sea: Historic Ports and Docks of Mumbai Region
Released by Governor of Maharashtra, Shri Ramesh Bais
The Adventures of Ed-a-Mamma: Ed Finds
A Home
Actress Alia Bhatt (her first debut children’s book)
‘I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story’ (autobiography)
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin
A Fly on the RBI Wall: An Insider’s View of the Central Bank
Alpana Killawala
Source Code: My Beginnings
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
Rajgan Purik
Mohammad Sadiq Hardassi
A Dictator Calls: The Mystery of the
Stalin-Pasternak Telephone Call
Ismail Kadare
Book Name
Author
The Winner’s Mindset
Shane Robert Watson
At The Wheel of Research: An
Exclusive Biography of Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
Anuradha Mascarenhas
Kairos
Jenny Erpenback (first German writer to win International Booker Prize 2024 for book
‘Kairos’)
‘Just A Mercenary? : Notes from My Life and Career’
Former RBI Governor D Subbarao
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Book Name
Author
New memoir
“Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’’
Salman Rushdie
Maker of Modern Goa: The Untold Story of Pratap Singh Rane
Vijayadevi Rane (Pratap’s wife)
“The Idea of Democracy”
Sam Pitroda
Sabke Ram
Pravwsh Kumar and Shri Rajeev Gupta
The Winner’s Mindset
Former Australian cricketer Shane Watson
Heavenly Islands of Goa
Goa Governor Sreedharan Pillai
“The Law and Spirituality: Reconnecting the Bond”
Prof. Raman Mittal
India – the Road to Renaissance: A Vision and an
Agenda
Bhimeswara Challa
India’s Nuclear Titans
Soumya Awasthi
Sl. No. Book Name Author 1 Basic Structure and Republic P S Sreedharan Pillai 2 Swallowing the Sun Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri 3 The Conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency Gotabaya Rajapaksa 4 Israel War Diary Vishal Pandey 5 Code-Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) 6 From A Car Shed To The Corner Room & Beyond S. Raman 7 Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI Madhumita Murgia 8 Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death Laura Cumming 9 Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Naomi Klein 10 A Flat Place Noreen Masud 11 All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack Tiya Miles 12 How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir Safiya Sinclair
Book Name
Author
‘Ek Samandar, Mere Andar’
Dr Sanjeev Kumar Joshi
KASHMIR: Travels in Paradise on
Earth
Romesh Bhattacharji
Dabbling in Diplomacy: Authorised
& Otherwise, Recollections of a Non-Career Diplomat
S.D. Muni
The book “Neeraj Chopra: The Man Who Made History”
Norris Pritam
‘Fool Bahadur’: First Magahi Novel Translated to English
Abhay K
Basic Structure and Republic
Goa Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai
Artificial Intelligence and National Security
Amit Sinha and Vijay Khare
Transforming HARYANA
Kuldip Chand Agnihotri
Coffee-Table Book Titled ‘Shree Jagannatha, Lord Of The Universe’
Raghuvir Srinivasan
Book Name
Author
Maha Kavithai
Vairamuthu
Coffee table book titled “Srirangam – The
Resplendent Kingdom of Rangaraja”
The Hindu Group of Publications
Sanskriti ke Ayaam
Dr Manorama Mishra
Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan
Ajay Bisaria
An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Modi: Energising A Green Future
Released by Union Minister Bhupender Yadav
Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
M.J. Akbar
Fertilising the Future: Bharat’s March Towards Fertilizer Self-Sufficiency’ (‘Urvarak-Atmanirbharta ki Raah)
Dr Mansukh Mandaviya
The Rajiv I Knew: And Why he was India’s Most Misunderstood Prime Minister
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Assam’s Braveheart Lachit Barphukan
Arup Kumar Dutta
Conversations with Aurangzeb
Charu Nivedita
A Promised Nation Hon’ble Shri Narendra Modi – the Maker of New India’, in Braille script
Launched by Shri Amit Shah
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
Ramachandra Guha
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