General knowledge paper in Bihar Judicial Services Mains ( Written) Examination is of 150 marks. One question is asked relating to the name of books and authors. In this post there is a list of books and its authors that has been asked in Bihar judicial Services Examinations from 20 the judicial service exam 1980 to 30th judicial service exam 2018.

20th Judicial Services Exam  1980

• Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India – Dada Bhai Nairoji
• Air Port – Arther Halley
• Meghdootam – Kalidas
• Vinay Patrika – Tulasidas
• Rajtargini – Kalhan
• Freedom at Midnight – Larry Collense & Dominic Lapier
• Roses in December – M.C. Chhagla
• Grammar of Politics – Herald J. Laskie
• Gandhi and Stalin – Liu Fisher
• Man and Superman – George Bernard Shaw
• Indica – Megasthnese
• The Great Tragedy – Z. A. Bhutto

21st Judicial Services Exam  1984

• Meghdootam – Kalidas
• The story of my experiment with truth – Mahatma Gandhi
• Babarnama – Babur ( in Turki laungage)
• Ramayana – Mahershi Balmiki
• Discovery of India –  Jawaharlal Nehru
• Republic – Plato

22nd Judicial Services Exam 1986

• Rasik Priya – Ramchandra
• Padmaavat – Malik Mohammad Jayasi
• Mudra Rakshash – Vishakhadatta
• Mahabhashya – Patanjali
• Abhigyan shakuntalam – Kalidas
• The personality of India – Bendapudi Subbarao
• Midnight’s children – Salman Rushdie
• Aakriy – of Hindu Science – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• A passage to India – E. M. Foster
• The origin of species – Charles Darwin

23rd Judicial Services Exam 1987

• Geet Govind – Jaydev
• Rajtarangini – Kalhan
• Padmaavat – Malik Mohammad Jayasi
• Akabarnama – Abul Fazal
• Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore
• Gaban – Munshi Premchand
• Saket – Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Chitralekha – Bhagavathi Sharan Verma
• Kamayani – Jai Shankar Prasad
• Mein Kampf – Hitler
• Anand Math – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• Odyssey – Homer
• Shekhar ek jeevani – Sachidanand Vatsyayan Agyeya
• India wins freedom – Abul Kalam Azad

24th Judicial Services Exam 1991

• Godan – Munshi Premchand
• Paradise Lost – John Milton
• Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore
• India divided – Rajendra Prasad
• India wins freedom – Abul Kalam Azad
• The transfer of power in India – V. P. Menon
• The Hindu View of Life – S. Radhakrishnan

25th Judicial Services Exam 2000

• India Wins Freedom – Abul Kalam Azad
• The Ramayana – Balmiki
• The Mahabharata – Ved Vyas
• God Father –  Mario Puzo
• Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru

26th Judicial Services Exam 2006 

• The RamayRam – Maharshi Balmiki
• The Sur Sagar – Surdas
• The Godan – Munshi Premchand
• Saket – Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Kamayani – Jaishankar Prasad
• The Mahabharata – Ved Vyas
• Padmavat – Malik Muhammad jayasi
• Odyssey – Homer
• Ram Charit Manas – Tulasidas
• Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore
• Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Meghdoot – Kalidas

27th Judicial Services Exam 2011

• As You Like it – William Shakespeare
• Beginning of the Beginning – John Stephen
• Chitra – Rabindranath Tagore
• Das Capital – Karl Marx
• Devdas – Sharat Chandra Chattopdhyaya
• Glimpses of world History – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Git Govind – Jaydev
• Godan  –  Munshi Premchand
• Kamasutra – Vatsyayan
• My Truth –  Indira Gandhi
• Saket – Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Wings of fire – A. P. J. Kalam
• Asian Drama – Gunnar Mirdal
• Malgudi Days – R. K. Narayanan

28th Judicial Services Exam 2014

• A week with Gandhi – Louis Fisher
• A house for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
• Durgesh Nandini – Bankim Chandra chattopadhyay
• Hamlet – Shakespeare
• India divided – Dr Rajendra Prasad
• Hungry stones – Rabindranath Tagore
• India wins freedom – Abul Kalam Azad
• Yayati – Vishnu Shankar khandalkar
• Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
• The road ahead – Bill gates
• Mother India – Katherine Mayo
• The insider – PV Narasimha Rao
• Rangbhoomi – Munshi Premchand
• Pather Panchali – Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyaya

 Assistant Prosecution Officer Mains Exam 2014

• The God of small things – Arundhati Roy
• The guide – R K Narayan
• Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
• The white tiger – Aravind adiga
• Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
• The room on the roof – Ruskin bond
• My dear bapu – Gopal Krishna Gandhi
• Sanskriti ke char adhyay – Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• Aadha gaon – Rahi Masoom Raza
• Gora – Rabindranath Tagore
• Raag darbari – Shrilal Shukla
• Maila Anchal – Phanishwar Nath Renu
• Satyarth Prakash – Dayanand Saraswati
• Hind Swaraj – Mahatma Gandhi

29th Judicial Services Mains Exam 2017

• Classes  Civilization – Samuel P Huntington
• Integrated humanism – Pt. Deen dayal Upadhyay
• Wings of fire – APJ Abdul Kalam.
• Autobiography of a yogi – Paramahansa Yoga Nand
• Degeneration of India – Sanjay Hazarika and Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan
• Hindu view of life – S Radhakrishnan
• Four decades in parliament – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

30th Judicial Services Mains Exam 2018

• The Judgement – Kuldeep Nayyar
• India Divided – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Malgudi Days – R. K. Narayan
• One Life is not Enough – Natwar Singh
• The Turbulent Years : 1980 – 1996 – Pranab Mukherjee
• The Girl in Room 105 – Chetan Bhagat
• Why I am a Hindu – Shashi Tharoor
• 281 and Beyond – R. A. Kaushik and V.V.S. Laxman
• Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyay – Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• Bharat Bharati – Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Madhushala – Harivansh Rai Bachchan
• Tamas – ‎Bhisham Sahni
• Rangbhumi – Premchand
• Aadhe Adhure –  Mohan Rakesh
• Durgeshnandini – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• Jangal Ke Davedar – Mahasweta Devi