UPSC Books - Best books for UPSC Civil Services Examination 2024

History

India’s Struggle for Independence

Bipin Chandra

Indian Art & Culture

Nitin Singhania

History of Medieval India

Satish Chandra

Concise History of Modern India

Sujata Menon

NCERT 11th Ancient and Medieval

NCERT

NCERT 12th Modern Indian History

NCERT

Geography

World Atlas

Orient Black Swan

Certificate Physical Geography

G C Leong

NCERT VI-X Old Syllabus

NCERT

NCERT XI, XII New Syllabus

NCERT

Polity

Indian Polity

M Laxmikant

Economic Development & Policies in India

Jain & Ohri

Introduction to the Constitution of India

DD Basu

NCERT IX-XII

NCERT

Economics

Indian Economy

Nitin Singhania

Economic Development & Policies in India

Jain & Ohri

International Relations

NCERT XII (Contemporary World Politics)

NCERT

Current Affairs

CSAT

Tata McGraw Hill CSAT Manual

McGraw Hill

Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning

Dr. R.S. Aggarwal

GS Paper 1

History, Indian Heritage Culture

Ancient India

RS Sharma

Indian Art and Culture

Nitin Singhania

History of Medieval India

Satish Chandra

India after Independence

Bipin Chandra

India’s Struggle for Independence

Bipin Chandra

Geography

World Geography

Majid Hussain

Geography of India

Majid Hussain

Certificate Physical and Human Geography

GC Leong

World Atlas 

Orient Black Swan

Fundamentals of Physical Geography NCERT Class 11

NCERT

GS Paper 2

Polity & International Relations

Indian Polity

M. Laxmikanth

International Relations

Pushpesh Pant

Introduction to the Constitution of India

DD Basu

GS Paper 3

Economy

Indian Economy

Nitin Singhania

Environment and Disaster Management

Tata McGraw Hill

Challenges to Internal Security of India

Ashok Kumar

GS Paper 4

Ethics

Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude for Civil Services Main Examination

Subba Rao and P.N. Roy Chaudary

Agriculture

Fundamentals Of Agricultural Extension Education

U Barman

A Text Book of Agricultural Statistics

R. Rangaswamy

Agronomy

Yellamanda Reddy

Entomology

Vasantha Raj & David

Genetics

B.D.Singh

Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science

A guide on forest Entomology

Regupathy

A Textbook Of Animal Husbandry

G C Banerjee

Advanced Animal Nutrition

D. V Reddy

Agricultural Economics

S Subba Reddy

Animal husbandry & veterinary science

T.N. Palanivelu

Anthropology

Physical Anthropology

P Nath

Fossil Evidence

S Das

Social Anthropology

DN Majumdar & T N Madan

Indian Anthropology

Nadeem Hasnain

Anthropology Theories

Makhan Jha

Botany

Cell Biology

De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar

Cryptograms

B.R. Vasista

Botany for Degree Students; Pteridophyta (Vascular Cryptogams)

P.C. Vashishta

Ecology, Microbiology, Animal Behaviour, Pollution and Toxicology For B. Sc. Part III, Paper III

Dr Veer Bala Rastogi

Economic botany in the tropics

S. L. Kochhar

Chemistry

A guide to mechanism in organic chemistry

Peter Sykes

A textbook of environmental chemistry and pollution

S.S. Dara

A textbook of organic chemistry

Bahl & Ba

A textbook of physical chemistry (Vol. – IV)

K.L. Kapoor

Advance physical chemistry

Gurdeep Raj

Civil Engineering

Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics

Irving Herman Shames

Strength of Material

Prof. S. Ramamrutham

Mechanics for Engineers

B Johnson

Structural Analysis

C. K. Wang

Limit state design of steel structures

S K Duggal

Commerce & Accountancy

Accounting Corporate Accounting

Naseem Ahmed

Accounting Standards

D. S. Rawat

Auditing Students’ Guide to Auditing

Aruna Jha

Income Tax book

V.K. Singhania or Girish Ahuja

Cost Accounting; Theory & Problems

Maheshwari & Mittal

Economics

Indian Economy

Ramesh Singh

The Indian Economy

Sanjiv Verma

Indian Economy

Mishra and Puri

Indian Economy

R. Dutt and KPM Sundaram

Banking

S.B. Gupta

Dictionary of Economics

Graham Bannock; T.E. Baxter, Ray Rees

International Trade

Bo Soderston

Electrical Engineering

Electromagnetic Fields & Waves

Kd Prasad

Energy Conversion

Ashfaq Hussain

Circuit Theory: Analysis and Synthesis

A. Chakrabarti

Signals and Systems

Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan V. Willsky, S. Hamid Nawab

Physics of Semiconductor Devices

Simon Sze

Analog Electronics

J.B. Gupta

Digital Logic and Computer Design

M. Morris Mano

Principles of Electronics

V .K. Mehta

Geography

A Geography by Population

R.C. Chandna

Agricultural Geography

Majid Husain

Climatology

D.S.Lal

Economic and Social Geography – Made Simple

R.Knowles & J.Wareing

Economic Geography

Hartshorn & Truman A

Geology

Advancing Frontiers in Geology and Geophysics: A Volume in Honour of M.S. Krishnan

A P Subramaniam & S. Balakrishnan

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Writings on Geology and Mineralogy: Scientific Papers and Comments

Ranganathan, A. & Rao, K. Srinivasa (Eds.)

Concise Glossary of Geology

Mathur, S.M.

Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain

Mathur, Anuradha & Cunha, Dilip Da

Delta Sedimentation: East Coast of India

Singh, I.B. & Swamy, A.S.R.

Dimensions of Himalayan Geology

Biyani A.K.

History

A History of South India

K.A. Nilkantha Sastri

Ancient India

Upinder Singh

Anatomy of the Raj (PPH)

Suhash Chakravarty

Age of Capital

E.J. Hobsbawm

The story of Civilization, Vol. 2 (NCERT)

Arjun Dev

Law

International Law

S. K Kapoor

Our Constitution

Subhash C. Kashyap

The Constitution of India (Bare Act)

PM Bakshi

An Introduction to Public International Law

S. K. Verma

Introduction to the Constitution of India

D.D Basu

Constitution of India

VN Shukla

Management

Fundamentals of Management

DeCenzo, Agarwal, Bhattacharya and Robbins

Marketing Management

Philip Kotler

Cost and Management Accounting

MN Arora

Organization Behaviour

Stephen Robbins

Financial Management

Prasanna Chandra

Mechanical Engineering

Thermodynamics

R Yadav

Theory of Mechanics

S. S. Rattan

Heat Conversion

Arora and Kundwar

Heat Transfer

Gupta Prakash

Heat and Mass Transfer

R. Yadav

Theory of Mechanism and Mechanics

Jagdish Lal

Medical Science

Human Anatomy

B D Chaurasia

Embryology from I B Singh

I B Singh

Human Physiology

Ganong; Guyton and A.K. Jain book

Biochemistry

U. Satyanarayana book

Pathology

Robbins, and Cotran

Philosophy

A History of Philosophy

Frank Thilly

Survey of Indian Philosophy

C D Sharma

Existentialism: A Reconstruction

 David Cooper

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

S Chatterjee

A History of Philosophy

Frank Thilly

An Introduction to Political Theory

O P Gauba

Introduction to Religious Philosophy

Y Masih

Physics

Any fundamental book on electrical engineering

B.L Theraja (Vol 1) or Vincent Del Toro

Classical Mechanism

Gupta, Kumar & Sharma – Takewale & Puranik -H.Goldstein

Electricity & Magnetism

D.C. TAyal, B.S. Agarwal, Griffith

Introduction of Electrodynamics

David Griffiths

EM Theory

Chopra&Agarwal/Satya Prakash

Political Science & International Relations

An Introduction To Political Theory

O.P Gauba

Fifty Major Political Thinkers

Ian Adams And R W Dyson

A History Of Political Thought: Plato To Marx

Subrata Mukherjee And Sushila Ramaswamy

An Oxford Companion To Politics In India

niraja Gopal Jayal And Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Foundations Of Indian Political Thought

V.R Mehta

Psychology

Psychology XI & XII Std NCERT

NCERT

Introduction to Psychology

Morgan & King

Systems & Theories of Psychology

Krawiec & Chaplin

Psychology

Morgan and King

Psychology

Ciccarelli

Public Administration

Administrative Thinkers

Prasad and Prasad

Public Administration: Administrative Theories and Concepts

Fadia & Fadia

Public Administration and Public Affairs 12th Edition

Nicholas Henry

Mohit Bhattacharya- New horizons in Public administration

Mohit Bhattacharya

Mohit Bhattacharya- Pub Ad A new look

Mohit Bhattacharya

Sociology

Sociology

Anthony Giddens

Sociological Theory

Ritzer George

Sociology

Haralambos & Holborn

Oxford Dictionary Of Sociology

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Sociological Thought

M Francis Abraham and John Henry Morgan

Mechanical Engineering

Thermodynamics

 R Yadav

Theory of Mechanics

S S Rattan

Heat Conversion

Arora and Kundwar

Heat Transfer

Gupta Prakash

Heat and Mass Transfer

R. Yadav

Theory of Mechanism and Mechanics

Jagdish Lal

Statistics

An Introduction to Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics

V K Rohtagi

An Outline of Statistical Theory (2 Vol.)

A M Goon, M K Gupta and B. Dass Gupta

Fundamentals of Applied Statistics

S C Gupta and V K Kapoor

Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics

A C Gupta and V K Kapoor

Fundamentals of Statistics (2 Vol.)

A M Goon, M K Gupta and B Dass Gupta

Zoology

Modern Zoology

Ramesh Gupta

Organic Evolution (Evolutionary Biology)

Veer Bala Rastogi

Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology

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Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology

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Cell Biology

CB Powar