What books should be read to prepare for the civil services main exam for chemistry?

Thanks for A2A. Organic Chemistry Bonding and shape of organic molecules, Stereo chemistry of carbon compound - Reactions and reagents - O.P. Agarwal A guide to mechanism in organic chemistry - Peter Sykes Rest all the chapters - A text book of organic chemistry - Bahl & Ba Inorganic Chemistry Atomic Structure - Principle of physical chemistry - Puri, Sharma & Pathwa Advance Inorganic Chemistry - J.D. Lee Chemical Periodicity, Chemical bonding,Coordination compound- Maden, Malik, Tuli Theoretical principles of inorganic chemistry - G.S. Manku, Extradiction of metals, Principle of inorganic chemistry - Puri, Sharma, Jauhar. Rest all the chapters - An advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee Pollution and its control - A text book of environmental chemistry and pollution - S.S. Dara. Physical Chemistry Principals of Physical Chemistry (Gaseous state, Thermodynamics, Phase rule, solutions, Colligative properties, Electro Chemistry, Catalysis, Colloids) - Puri, Sharma & Pathawa Chemical kinetics - Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj Photo chemistry - A text book of physical chemistry (Vol. - IV) - K.L. Kapoor Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj Also it helps if you had chemistry as your graduation subject.Refer syllabus and proceed accordingly.Good Luck.

for organic chemistry try for foreign authors. for inorganic jd lee is the best option. for physical chem atkins.