
2014: The Election that Changed India is a 2015 book by Rajdeep Sardesai, a writer and journalist.

The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh is a 2014 memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, who was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media advisor from May 2004 to August 2008. Published by Penguin India, the book alleges that Singh was not entirely in control of his cabinet—or even the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Instead, significant power was wielded by the Congress party's president Sonia Gandhi, to whom Singh was completely "subservient". "There cannot be two centres of power", Baru remembers Singh explaining to him, "That creates confusion. I have to accept that the party president is the centre of power. The government is answerable to the party."

The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001) is a collection of essays written by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy. The book discusses several perspectives of global and local concerns, among them one being the abuse of Nuclear bomb showoffs.

Assamese Response To Regionalism is a book based on a study on electoral politics of Assam. The book is authored by Chandra Nath Baruah and published by Mittal Publications in 2009.

Bharatiya Janata Party- Past, Present and Future is the non-fiction book written by Shantanu Gupta and published by Rupa Publications in 2019. The book deals with the history and contemporary politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the largest political party in India. The book is included in the curriculum of undergraduate students studying South Asian Studies at Islamic University of Indonesia.

The Calcutta Quran Petition is a book by Sita Ram Goel and Chandmal Chopra published by Goel under his Voice of India imprint. The first edition was published in 1986, the second in 1987 and the third in 1999.

The Emergency: A Personal History is a 2015 book by Indian journalist Coomi Kapoor.

The Game of Votes: Visual Media Politics and Elections in the Digital Era is a 2019 non-fiction book by Farhat Basir Khan, an Indian photographer and a faculty member at the AJK Mass Communication and Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India is a book written by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, who was the President of India from 2002 to 2007. Ignited Minds is a logical step forward from Dr. Kalam's earlier book, India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium. This book consists of many inspirational messages by A P J Abdul Kalam.

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium is a book, written by late former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam and Y. S. Rajan. The book was written by the duo in the year 1998, before Kalam's tenure as the President of India. It talks about Kalam's ideas for India's future and for developing India.

India Unmade: How the Modi Government Broke the Economy is a book coauthored by Yashwant Sinha and Aditya Sinha published in 2018. The book criticizes the economic performance of the National Democratic Alliance government near the end of its tenure prior to the 2019 Indian general election.

India: From Midnight to the Millennium is a book written by Shashi Tharoor in 1997. It discusses a wide range of topics like caste, democracy in India, Indira Gandhi, the partition of India, and its transition from a socialist economy to a free market economy.

Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence is a book written by Jaswant Singh, a former Finance Minister of India and an External Affairs Minister, on Pakistan's founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the politics associated with the Partition of India. It is currently the latest book written by an Indian politician on the life of Jinnah. The book was released on 17 August 2009 and soon became the subject of controversy, subsequently leading to Singh's expulsion from the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). It contains controversial opinions of Singh, claiming that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's centralised policy was responsible for partition, and that Jinnah was portrayed as a demon by India for the partition. The book launch ceremony was held at Teen Murti Bhavan in the presence of only a couple of BJP members. In response to the book, Nusli Wadia, the grandson of Jinnah said: "My grandfather is my grandfather. You can't change the fact that I am his [Jinnah's] grandson, and I take extreme pride on being that."

Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy (2009) is a collection of essays written by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy. Written between 2002 and 2008, the essays have been published in various left-leaning newspapers and magazines in India. The first edition of the book consists of eleven essays with an introduction by Roy was published by Hamish Hamilton in India.

Madhavi is a Hindi play written by Bhisham Sahni. This is a play in three acts which recounts an ancient tale of Madhavi, daughter of king Rishi Yayati from Mahabharata.

Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography is an autobiography by a former Prime Minister of India Inder Kumar Gujral and the only one to be written by a former Indian Prime Minister thus far.

Meri Teri Uski Baat is a novel written by Yashpal. This novel is based on the history of Indian independence movement. This novel won the Hindi-language Sahitya Akademi Award in 1976.

Nehru: The Invention of India is a book written by Shashi Tharoor in 2003. It is a short biography that talks about the life of the first Prime Minister of India. It covers both personal aspects along with the historical and political aspects of India during the time of Pandit Nehru.

Nellie, 1983 is an Assamese book written by Diganta Sharma based on the Nellie massacre that took place during the Assam Movement in 1983. The book is published by Eklabya Prakashan, Jorhat, Assam.

One Life Is Not Enough is an autobiography by K. Natwar Singh, former Minister of External Affairs and senior Indian National Congress politician. An account of his career as a politician and bureaucrat, the book tells about his experiences in Delhi's political corridors and sets the record straight on several events, including the volcker controversy and Sonia Gandhi withdrawal as a prime minister candidate.

The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil is a 2012 book by the Indian journalist, television presenter and writer Mrinal Pande.

The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India is a 2018 non-fiction book written by senior leader of the Indian National Congress, Shashi Tharoor, about the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. The book was released on 26 October, 2018 by Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, Arun Shourie, and Pavan Varma.

Pax Indica: India and the World in the Twenty-first Century is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Shashi Tharoor, about India's foreign policy.

The Red Sari, which is a dramatized biography of the life of Sonia Gandhi, originally written in Spanish by Javier Moro and published in October 2008 in Spain. It ran into some controversy in India. Javier Moro's Spanish and Italian publishers received emails from Indian National Congress lawyers and spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi with demands to withdraw the book from stores. Singhvi stated that book distorted facts and misinterpreted details. The author always denied that the book is malicious.

The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (2008) is a collection of fourteen interviews of Indian author Arundhati Roy, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008. In these interviews, Roy speaks, among other things, about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujarat, Maoist rebels, the Kashmir issue and American imperialism. In the final interview, Roy speaks about herself as a person, a writer and a celebrity.

Swaraj is a 2012 book by the Indian social activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, who credits several people with writing it. Published in several languages, including English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi and Malayalam, the book questions the existing democratic framework in India and proposes a way how the people of India can achieve true Swaraj (self-rule).

Tehelka as Metaphor is a 2009 nonfiction book by Indian journalist, Madhu Trehan. The book is an account of the Tehelka exposé and its aftermath, Operation West End. In 2001, a sting operation and an undercover news story exposed the bribery and corruption prevalent in the Army and the then Indian government.

Uprising 2011- Indians Against Corruption, published in January 2013, is a pictorial diary/chronicle of the civil-society supported anti-corruption movement that took place in India between 2010-12. The period compilation has been jointly brought together by Kiran Bedi and Pavan Choudary as a dedication to all the Indians who participated in anti-corruption uprising led by Anna Hazare.