Important Books Released in 2019, 2020

Authors NameBook Name
Amrit Raj‘Indian Icon: A Cult Called Royal Enfield’
Dr A. Sivathanu Pillai’40 Years with Abdul Kalam-Untold Stories’
Norman D. Palmer‘Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific’
Kirpal Singh JiGuru Nanak Dev
Prem Prakash‘Reporting India: My Seventy Year Journey as a Journalist’
Rajendra Darda‘Majhi Bhint’ (‘My Wall’)
Meena Iyer‘I am No Messiah’
Radhakrishna Prakashan‘Boskiyana’
Rallabandi Srirama Chakradhar and Amara Sarada Deepthi‘Thavaasmi: Life and Skills through the lens of Ramayana’
Sasindran Kallinkeel‘Rasaathi: The other side of Transgender’
Anupam Kher‘Your Best Day is Today!’
Chinmay Tumbe‘The age of pandemic (1817-1920): How they shaped India and the World’
Tamal Bandyopadhyay‘Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy’
Randeep Guleria and co-written by Chandrakanta Lahariya and Gagandeep Kang‘Till we Win’-India’s Fight Against COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr Pradeep Kumar Srivastava‘Bye Bye Corona’
Sarbpreet Singh‘Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories from 1984’
Suman Dubey‘The Fixer: Winning Has A Price. How Much Will You Pay?’
N K Singh‘Portraits of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside’
Deepankar Aron‘On the Trails of Buddha: A Journey to the East’
Shashi Tharoor‘The Battle of Belonging’
Pradeep Goorha‘Mr Prime Minister, We Shrank the Dragon’
Union Minister, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil‘Deh Vechwa Karani’
GBS Sindhu‘The Khalistan Conspiracy: A former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984’
Kumar Padampani Bora‘Discovering the Heritage of Assam’
Anand Neelakantan‘The Very, Extremely, Most Naughty Asura Tales for Kids’
Manish Sisodia‘Bapu- the Unforgettable’
Dr Krishna Saksena‘A Bouquet of Flowers’
Chef Vikas Khanna‘Kitchens of Gratitude’
Romila Thapar‘Voices of Dissent’
Arundhati Roy‘Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.’
Claude ArpiEnd of an Era, India Exits Tibet
Gauri Khan My Life in Design
Richard H. Thaler Cass R. Sunstein‘The Little Book of Green Nudges’
Goonmeet Singh Chauhan‘Invertonomics: 8 ideas to transform India’
Sheela Birnstiel‘Nothing to lose’
Sheela Birnstiel‘My story in my own words’
Pope Francis‘Let Us Dream’
Ramchandra GuhaThe Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind’
Gurcharan Singh and MS UnnikrishnanPitching is Straight
Indian Army Chief, General M M Naravane‘National Security Challenges: Young Scholars Perspective’
Jatin Paranjpe and Anand Vasu‘Cricket Drona’
Sree Iyer‘Who painted my lust red?’
Jitendra SinghGastric Cancer
Chetan BhagatOne Arranged Murder
Arjun Subramaniam‘Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020’
Bijal Vachharajani‘A bend in time: Writings by children on the COVID-19 pandemic
Raksha Mantri Rajnath SinghConnecting, Communicating, Changing
Dalai Lama and Franz AltOur Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World
Neena Rai‘Amazing Ayodhya’
Yatish Yadav‘RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations’
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smriti Irani‘The Swachh Bharat Kranti’
Nirupama Yadav‘Vishesh: Code to Win’
Vijay Kumar Choudary‘Siyasat Mein Sadasyata’
Matthew Mc Conaughey‘Greenlights’
Narendra Singh Tomar‘Best Practices in Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme’
Viral V Acharya‘Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India’
Dr S Jaishankar‘The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World’
Hussain Zaidi‘The Endgame’
Pema Kandu‘The Tangrams’
Stephen King‘‘If it Bleeds’’
Ruskin Bond‘A Song of India’
Tenzin Geyche Tethong‘His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography’
R C Bargava‘Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India’
Urjit Patel‘Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver’
Amish Tripath‘Legend of Suheldev: The King who saved India’
Dinyar Patel‘Naoroji Pioneer of Indian Nationalism’
Shobhaa De‘Lockdown Liaisons’
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B)‘One year of Modi 2.0- Towards a Self-Reliant India’ (e-Booklet)
JK Rowling‘The Ickabog’
Ruskin Bond‘Hop-On: My Adventures on Boats, Trains and Planes’
Fang Fang‘Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from Quarantined City’
Col. VN Thapar and Neha Dwivedi‘Vijyant at Kargil: The life of a Kargil War Hero’
Prahlad Singh Patel‘Prof. B.B. Lal: India Rediscovered’
Uma Balasubramaniam'Sayajirao Gaekwad III: The Maharaja of Baroda'
V.Krishnaswamy“Shuttling to the top: The story of PV Sindhu”
Mary Jordan‘The art of her Deal: The untold story of Melania Trump’
Nobel Laureate J M Coetzee“The death of Jesus”
Smriti Zubin Irani“Chronicles of Change Champions”
National book trust, India“Corona Studies Series”
Apoorva Kumar SinghA Commentary and Digest on The Air, Act 1981
Abhay K.The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems
Amit ShahKarmayoddha Granth


List of Important Books Released in 2019

Authors NameBook Name
R P N SinghPolitics of Opportunism
PM Narendra ModiThe Braille edition of the book Exam Warriors
Viswanathan Anand and Susan NinanMind-Master
Hemant Karkare's daughter Jui KarkareHemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi"Courts of India"
Karkare's Daughter Jui KarkareHemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir
Prime Minister Narendra ModiBraille Edition of ‘Exam Warriors’
Shri N ChandrasekaranBridgital Nation
Neha J HiranandaniGirl Power: Indian Women Who Broke The Rules
Roopa PaiFrom Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Explosive Ideas that Made (and Are Making) Modern Medicine
‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma–the South African Legacy’Fakir Hassen
Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S PradhanTurbulence and Triumph: The Modi Years
Ministry of fisheriesHandbook on Fisheries Statistics - 2018
Vikram Sampath Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883-1924
Indian Diaspora ClubGlorious Diaspora-Pride of India
Habiburahman, Sophie AnselFirst They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks
Peter BakerObama: The Call of History
Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof RazaKashmir’s untold story: Declassification
Satyarth Nayak“Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar”
Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Persistent SystemsManav
St James House and the History of Parliament Trust‘The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World’
Adi ShankaracharyaVivekadeepini
Venkaiah NaiduListening, Learning and Leading
Baba Ramdev'My Life, My Mission'
Meenakshi Lekhi'The New Delhi Conspiracy'
Tridip Suhrud‘The Diary of Manu Gandhi’
Sushil Kumar"A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief"
Adi ShankaracharyaVivekadeepini
Anupam Kher“Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly”.
Ashis Ray“Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge”
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul KalamMy Journey
Dr. Bibek DebroyMaking of New India
Dr. Krishna Saksena"Whispers of Time"
Dr. Y.V. ReddyIndian Fiscal Federalism
Jairam Ramesh‘Chequered Brillance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon’
Kamlesh Patel Alias Daaji‘Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way’
Kamlesh Patil & Joshua Pollock‘The Heartfulness way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformation’
Lamar OdomDarkness to light
Lieutenant General Ranbir SinghFire and Fury Corps -- Saga of Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice',
M Venkaiah NaiduQuality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher Education
Malala YousafzaiWe are Displaced
Manoshi Sinha Rawal‘Saffron Swords’
Meenakshi Lekhi“The New Delhi Conspiracy”
Mool Chand Sharma‘Law, Justice and Judicial Power- Justice P N Bhagwati’s Approach’
Mr. Suri‘Khooni Vaisakhi’
Navin Chawla‘Every Vote Counts- The story of India’s Elections’
Neeraj Jha, Vidhanshu Kumar‘Virat: The making of a Champion’
P. Chidambaram‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’
R Uma MaheswariFrom Possession to Freedom
Raghuram RajanThe Third Pillar
Ruchir Sharma‘Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India’
Saba NaqviPolitics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook
Shahid AfridiGame Changer
Sharad Dutt‘Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music’
Shri Harivansh and Shri Ravi Dutt Bajpai. "Chandra Shekhar - The Last Icon of Ideological Politics";
Sonia Singh‘Defining India: Through Their Eyes’
Vinit Goenka'Function of Data Sovereignty - The Pursuit of Supremacy'
Valay Singh‘Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord’

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