With a Large pile of syllabus to complete already, UPSC Aspirants may feel like not having enough free time for reading novels. It should not be like that, frequent indulging in leisure activities such as reading will only improve your mental health and help you put a solid focus on your preparation. Reading Novels will also improve your vocabulary and give you a better worldview.
21 Best Novels for UPSC Aspirants
- The Land of Seven Rivers – Sanjeev Sanyal
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
- An Uncertain Glory – Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
- English August – Upamanyu Chatterjee
- The Turn of the tortoise – T.N. Ninan
- India’s Struggle for Independence – Bipin Chandra
- India Unbound – Gurcharan Das
- India After Gandhi – Ramachandra Guha
- Games Indian Play – V Raghunathan
- How India sees the world – Shyam Saran
- Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- 10 Judgements that changed India – Zia Mody
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- India Discovered- John Keay
- Incredible India by Amitabh Kant
- Land of 7 Rivers – Sanjeev Sanyal
- The Idea of Justice – Amartya Sen
- Pax Indica – Shashi Tharoor
- The Indians – Sudhir Kakkar
- Argumentative Indian – Amartya Sen
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari