Dear James Macmillan,

AskIITians provides the comprehensive list of books that are suitable for the preparation of IIT-JEE and for the Olympiads.

Here is the list,

Important Books For IIT-JEE

Chemistry Books

Physical Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry

Physics Books  

S.NO	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books	Remarks
1	H.C.Verma	Concepts of Physica Vol I and II	For text books and problem books.
2	I.E. Irodov	Problems in General Physics	selected problems
3	Halliday, Resnick & Walker	Fundamentals of Physics	Reference Book
4	By Halliday, Resnick & Walke	Fundamentals of Physics
5	H C Verma	Concept of Physics Volume 1 & Volume 2
6	Krotov	Aptitude Test Problems in Physics
7	Nelkon and Parker	Advance physics
8	S.L. Loney	Dynamics of a Particle & of Rigid Bodies
9	I. E. Irodov	Problems in General Physics
10	V. Zubov & V. Shalnov	Problem in Physics
11	A. A Pinsky	Problems in physics
12	V. Zubov & V. Shalnov	Problem in physics
13	S. L Loney	Elements of Dynamics Part I & II
14	Tipler	Physics Vols I & II
15	R. P. Feynman	Feynman Lectures on Physics
16	R. P. Feynman	The Feynman Lectures on Physics vols 1 & 2
17	L. A. Sena	A collection of questions and Problems in Physics

Mathematics Books 

S.NO	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books	Remarks
1	R.D. Sharma	Maths XI & XII	Basic Text Books
2	S. L. Loney	Trigonometry	Recommended
3	S. L. Loney	Co-ordinate Geometry	Reference Book
4	Hall Knight	Higher Algebra	Reference Book
5	I.A. Maron	Problems in Calculus of One Variable	Reference Book
6	Arihant	Algebra	Reference Book
7	Arihant	Differential Calculus	Reference Book
8	Arihant	Integral Calculus	Reference Book
9	S.L. Loni	Plane Trigonometry Part 1
10	S. L. Loni	Plane Co-ordinate Geometry
11	Hall and Knight	Higher Algebra
12	Shanti Narayan	Vector
13	W. Feller	Introduction Probability & Its Applications
14	Arihant Prakshan	Vector and 3D Geometry
15	Tata McGraw Hill (TMH)	Mathematics
16	I.A. Maron	Problems in Calculus of one variable
17	J. Edward	Calculus
18	R. S. Aggarwal	Maths XIth and XIIth
19	V. Govorov,N. Miroshin and S. Smirnova	Problems in Mathematics
20	Barnard and Child	Higher Algebra
21	Dr. Gorakh Prasad	Co-ordinate Geometry
22	K.P. Basu	Algebra made easy
21	Patapov DoroFeev	Elementy Maths
22	Krechmar	Maths
23	G. N. Berman	A problem book in mathematical Analysis

Here is the list of books for Olympiad preparation recommended by AskIITians,

• GEOMETRY

1. Durrel M. A., Modern Geometry Macmillan & Co., London.
2. H. S. M. Coxeter and S. L. Greitzer, Geometry Revisited Mathematical Association of America.
3. S. L. Loney, Plane Trigonometry Macmillan & Co., London.

• NUMBER THEORY

1. I. Niven & H. S. Zuckerman An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi.
2. David Burton Elementary Number Theory Universal Book Stall, New Delhi.
3. G. H. Hardy & Wright An introduction to the theory of numbers, Oxford University Publishers.

• JOURNALS

1. Samasya, journal devoted to problem solving, published by Leelavati trust, Bangalore.
2. Bona Mathematica, published by Bhaskaracharya Prathistana , Pune.

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