List of Important Books Released in 2017

Name of the book	Author	About the book
Khullam Khulla uncensored	Rishi kapoor and Meena Iyer	eveals some interesting facts about the actors life
Jinnah often came to our house	Kiran Doshi (Hindu Prize 2016 Winner)	is a work of historical fiction which serves as a testimony to the Indian independence struggle, with accurate references to events from 1900- 1948
The Adivasi Will Not Dance:	Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar About:	political book of stories
The People's President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam	Author : SM Khan	Acquaints us with lesser known facts and stories which went towards making the great Dr Kalam the 'People's President'
Kalkatta	Kunal basu
Half of What I Say	Anil Menon	General fiction
The Island of lost girls	Manjula Padmanabhan	sequel to the feminist dystopia introduced in Escape (2008)
Gandhi in Champaran	Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar
Home of the Brave	Nitin A Gokhale & Brig S K Chatterji	Home of the Brave traces the early history of the RR, its organization, including its raising and subsequent deployment in Punjab, the North East and in Jammu & Kashmir.
The Rise of Sivagami	Anand Neelakantan	Aprequel to the blockbuster Baahubali,
Indian Railway- The weaving of a National Tapestry	Shri Bibek Debroy (Member, NITI Aayog) Shri Sanjay Chadha (Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce) & Ms. Vidya Krishnamurthi.
Hope in a challenged democracy; An Indian narrative’	Shri Ashwini Kumar About :	It provides a statesman’s perspective on addressing challenges and optimizing responses with a view to transforming our democracy as a true reflection of the collective conscience of the nation.
Flaming Tresses of Draupadi	M Veerappa Moily (SENIOR CONGRESS LEADER ) About: -	An English translation by D A Shankar of Moily’s original work in Kannada.
Matoshree	Sumitra Mahajan (Lok Sabha Speaker)	Based on life of Maratha Queen Ahilyabai Holkar
Number Do Lie	Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra co written with Jaideep Varma,	The book titled “Numbers Do Lie” delves into the stories of several players whose performances often did not receive the adulation they deserved.
Rekha: The Untold Story	Yasser Usman
My Story	An autobiography of Michael Clarke (former international cricketer and captain of Australia)
Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu	Rabi Thapa	Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu suggests that the world needs to get to know Thamel’s residents – both Nepali and those visitors that arrived but never left.
First philosophical novel for God titled "Confessions of a dying mind: the blind faith of atheism	IAS officer Haulianlal Guite
Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl	Ram Kamal Mukherjee.
Goras and Desis: Managing Agencies and the Making of Corporate India	Omkar Goswami	An insightful view on the origin and evolution of Indian corporates’
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand	retired police officer K. Vijay Kumar About:	It is part-autobiography and part-biography, as much about Veerappan as it is about the author himself
The Golden House,	Salman Rushdie	It tells the story of a wealthy family from Mumbai desperately seeking to forget the tragedy of 26/11 as they try to reinvent themselves in New York City.
Conflicts of Interest: My Journey through India’s Green Movement	Sunita Narains ,	She talks about how corporate lobbies and political interests often scuttle effective resolution of environmental research undertaken by her, along with her team at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Death Under The Deodars: The Adventures of Miss Ripley-Bean	Ruskin Bond	Author brings to life a mystery and murder featuring the elderly Miss Ripley-Bean and her friends
The Room on the Roof	Ruskin Bond
The Blue Umbrella	Ruskin Bond	The story is about a little girl who trades her old leopard claw necklace for a pretty, frilly blue umbrella. Set in a small village in Himachal Pradesh
A Flight of Pigeons	Ruskin Bond
"Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra	Ruskin Bond Sahitya Akademi award in 1996
An Era of Darkness : The British empire in India	Shashi Tharoor
The Adivasi Will Not Dance	Hansda Shekhar
The Sleepwalker’s Dream	Dhrubajyoti Borah About:	Through the novel, the readers peep into Bhutan’s beautiful valley of lush green forest
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness	Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy (debut novel ) Won booker prize
Modi’s midas touch in foreign policy	Surendra kumar
Son of the Thundercloud –	Easterine Kire
From Mumbai to Durban: India’s Greatest Tests,	S Giridhar and VJ Raghunath
The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox	Ullekh N P
Front Page Murders	Puja Changoiwala
My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission	Koppillil Radhakrishnan
Faith, Unity and Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan'	Hein G Kiessling largely about the first story but what also becomes clear is that the ISI’s two functions, ultimately, are the sides of a single coin.	There are two stories about the Inter-Services Intelligence of the Pakistan military. One is about its support for various jihadi groups which it then throws against India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The other is the ISI’s role as an instrument used by the Pakistani military to keep their country’s civil society under its thumb. This book is
A Full Night’s Thievery: Stories	Mitra Phukan
The Sellout	Paul Beatty MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2016	The novel concerns a narrator, referred to only by his last name, "Me", who attempts to reintroduce slavery and segregation in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Dickens. This attempt leads to a Supreme Court case, Me Vs. The United States of America.
A Life in Science	Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao (CNR Rao	How and why he took up science as a career.
The Pigeon Tunnel	John Le Carre
Pakistan - Courting the Abyss'	Tilak Devasher	Courting the Abyss is a comprehensive and clinical survey of a deeply troubled country which has become a centre of extremist ideologies and terrorist violence; consequently, a threat to many of its own nationals as also to countries in its neighbourhood and beyond.
An Unsuitable Boy	Karan Johar co-authored by Poonam Saxena (autobiography)
Akhada: The Authorized Biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat	Saurabh Duggal	It tells the story of a man of tremendous fortitude, of a father who fought against all odds to give his daughters - Olympians Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari -- a future they could not have dreamed for themselves, says publisher Hachette India.
"Winning like Virat: Think & Succeed like Kohli"	Abhirup Bhattacharya
Marching with a Billion- Analysing Narendra Modi’s Government at Midterm	Uday Mahurkar	It analyses the monumental changes that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has brought on multiple fronts as Prime Minister on India’s governance landscape
‘Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio	Rajesh Jain	It is a compilation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s addresses to the nation on radio every month under the programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
Metaphysics, Morals and Politics	Prof. Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay
M.S. Swaminathan: The Quest for a world without hunger	M.S. Swaminathan
India’s Indira: A Centennial Tribute”		Senior leader Anand Sharma has edited the book.

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