One of the best ways to prepare for any of the exams is to reference books. They provide mostly all the insights related to the subject one is about to start. For example, An exam like GATE, there are a lot of books available in the market.
Best Books for GATE 2020 Preparation
Best Books for GATE – Agricultural Engineering (AG)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Concept of Agricultural Engineering | Mohanty Das |
| Farm Machinery | Three Authors |
| Soil & Water Conservation | VVN Murty |
Best Books for GATE – Chemical Engineering (CHE)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| An Insight into Chemical Engineering | M.Subbu |
| Chemical Engineering For Gate Principles Solved Problems & Objective Type Questions | Ram Prasad |
| Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering | Fogler |
| Heat Transfer | JP Holman |
| Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics | JM Smith |
| Principles of Mass Transfer and Separation Processes | BK Dutta |
| Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering | McCabe -FPM and MO |
Best Books For Civil Engineering (CE)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Environment 1 and 2 | S K Garg |
| Fluid mechanics | R K Bansal |
| Highway engineering | Khanna and Justo |
| Open channel flow and engineering hydrology | K Subramanya |
| RCC | Pillai and Menon |
| Soil mechanics and foundation engineering | Gopal and Ranjan |
| Steel | Bhavikati |
Best Books for GATE – Computer Science (CS)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Architecture | Hamacher |
| Algorithm | Cormen |
| Operating System | Galvin |
| TOC- Theory of Computation | Ullman |
Best Books for GATE – Electrical Engineering (EE)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Electrical machines | Nagrath, Kothari |
| Fundamentals of circuits | Alexander, Sadiku |
| Power Electronics | P S Bhimbhra |
Best Books For Geology, and Geophysics (GG)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Complete Master Guide GATE | Amresh Singh |
| Geophysics | Telford |
Best Books For Mechanical Engineering (ME)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Fluid Mechanics | R.K. Bansal (Numerical point of view), Frank M.White (For understanding) |
| Heat Transfer | Cengel (For understanding concept) |
| Production Engineering | Swadesh Singh |
| Thermodynamics | P.K.Nag |
| Theory of Machine (TOM) | S.S. Ratan |
Best Books for GATE – Production, and Industrial (PI)
| Name of the Book | Name of the Author |
| Fluid Mechanics and Machinery | Modi & Seth |
| Heat Transfer | Made Easy Class Notes |
| IC engine | Mathur Sharma |
| Material Science | Made Easy Class Notes & Swadesh Singh |
| Machine Design | VB Bhandari |
| Production | S K Mondal Notes
Swadesh Sing |
| Refrigeration | Made Easy Class Notes |
| Strength of Material | Sadhu Singh |
| Thermodynamics | P.K Nag |
| Theory of Machine | SS Ratan |
