Best Books for CAT Preparation

If all goes well, CAT 2025 will be organized in November 2025 as usual. So, you must be looking for guides, tutorials and the best books for CAT Preparation 2025. If you are, you are at the right place.

If you are new here, please read my guide on how to prepare for CAT from home. I have shared some insights, ideas, tricks and even a list of some books over there.

But if you are looking for more books for CAT, I’ll share those here.

See, CAT and IIMs don’t require you to read regular guide textbooks. You need to become an allrounder in literature, logic, reasoning and general awareness. So, the listed books are not just your regular guide textbooks. These include everything that you will require to crack CAT 2025.

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Best Introductory Textbooks for CAT Exam

These books are guides and solved papers to help you understand the syllabus for CAT. If you are new to CAT, you should know what kind of questions come in the exam and what are the patterns for the tests.

Gautam Puri’s Topic-Wise & Year-Wise Solved Papers is possibly the best book to start. It is available in both paperback and Kindle versions. You can get it from Amazon here.

I wouldn’t suggest any other book for solved papers as most of the alternatives lack the correctness. Remember the golden rule to read only one book for one purpose. Remember to buy a newer version if that is available.

There is no need to buy any extra guides for anything. Just understand the syllabus and patterns from this article from my blog and you are good to go.

Best Books For Data Interpretation And Logical Reasoning (DI-LR)

Data interpretation and Data sufficiency – By Ananta Ashisha is great book for Data Interpretation but it doesn’t cover logical reasoning. Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning – By Gautam Puri can be your best bet for covering both DI and LR. If you are looking for an additional resource, How to prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT – By Arun Sharma is another book to try.

All these books are also available in Kindle format and the best thing is that you can download a free sample before you buy the book. I’d suggest downloading free Kindle sample version and then buying the paperback version if a book fits you well. Remember to buy a newer version if that is available.

Best Books For Verbal Ability And Reading Comprehension

Well, to crack this section you need to put in a bit more effort than the other sections as it requires good vocabulary along with the ability to solve Jumbled Questions so here are some books to help you out.

Best Books For Quantitative Aptitude

This is indeed a very interesting section, easy for those having good mental power and difficult for those who aren’t good at calculations. Check out the books listed and practice your level best to make yourself capable of cracking this section

Some other books on which you can look upon for perfect study strategy to crack CAT are mentioned below-

Best Books to Improve Your Vocabulary for CAT Exam

CAT exam goes beyond your regular understand. You will be tested with a number of vocabulary problems and following books can help you:

The list of books for preparation is never-ending but it’s important to choose the best ones. Besides these, you should also read some newspapers and magazines to keep yourself updated for your approach to hit your CAT target.

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