Booklist for UPSC Mains

PAPER I

1. Rebooting India – Nandan Nilkeni
2. India Wakes – Bart Fisher, Arun Tiwari
3. Everyone loves good drought – P.Sainath
4. Making India awasome – Chetan Bhagat
5. Wings of fire – Abul Kalam
6. India in slow motion, Their are no full stops in India – Mark Tully
7. I too have a dream – Vergis Curion
8. India: From Midnight to Millennium, Pax Indica, Age of Darkness – Shashi Tharoor
9. Volga to Ganga – Rahul Sankrutyayan
10. Bullet for Bullet – Julio Rebero
11. Swaraj – Arvind Kejriwal
12. Promised land – Barak Obama

PAPER-II

1. Modern India for Mains by Spectrum (Rajiv Ahir)
2. India’s struggle for independence – Bipinchandra
3. India since Independence – Bipinchandra or India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha
4. World History for M.A. – L.Mukharji (Selective Part) could be alternatively covered from NCERT old syllabus World History (Arjun Dev)
5. Indian Culture for Mains – Spectrum
6. History of Art – NCERT

PAPER-III

1. Challenge & Strategy – Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy – Rajiv Sikri
2. Social Problems India – Ram Ahuja
3. Indian Polity for Civil Services Examination – Laxikanth
4. Indian Polity – Wizard
5. Our Constitution – Subhash Kashyap
6. Our Parliament – Subhash Kashyap
7. Bare Act – P.M.Bakshi
8. Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design – Pratap Bhanu Mehta
9. Indian Diaspora – Jairam
10. International Organizations – Spectrum for mains
11. World Focus magazine (selective topics)

PAPER-IV

1. Performance of Indian economic reforms – Uma Kapila
2. Indian Economy – Ramesh Singh (Tata Mcgrewhill)
3. Economic Survey & Budget
4. India Year Book – Publication Division
5. Yojana Magazine
6. India’s National Security – Bajpai-Pant
7. Cyber Security – Godbole
8. Science & Technology for Mains – Civil Services Times
9. Science & Technology for Mains – Spectrum
10. Certified course in Environment studies – IGNOU

PAPER-V

1. Integrity and Aptitude – Tanvi Singh (could be used as textbook)
2. Ethics and Governance – Sawshilya (Pearson)
3. Lexicon for Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude – Chronicle
4. Restoring Values – E. Sridharan
5. II Administrative Reform Committee report (ARC) 4th Report ‘Ethics in Governance