Re: List of best Physics books for the preparation of IAS exam?
			Physics Vol I&II by David Haliday and Resnick (for basic concepts) 
Any practice book for objective questions. 
Any IIT/Engineering entrance type objective questions book in physics will do 
Mechanics - D.S. Mathur, B.S. Agarwal 
Waves and Oscillations - Brijlal & Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal
Optics - Brijlal& Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal, Ajoy & Ghatak 
Thermal Physics - Singal, Agarwal & Prakash, B.S. Agarwal, Shah & Srivastava 
Electricity & Magnetism: D.C. TAyal, B.S. Agarwal, Griffith 
Any fundamental book on electrical engineering like B.L Thareja (Vol 1) or Vincent Del Tero 
Modern Physics - A Beiser (Concepts of modern physics), S.L. Gupta, B.S. Agarwal, J.B. Rajan 
Electronics - Milman & Halkias, S. Ramnam, Ryder or Bolstead, Malvina 
Properties of Matter - B. Aggarwal 
Atomic Physics - J. B. Rajan 
Fundamental of Magnetism electricity - B.N. Basudeva 
A Text Book of Suond - Khanna & Bedi 
Nuclear Physics - D.C. Tayal 
Introduction of Electrodynamics - Griffith 
Advanced Level Physics - Nelkon & Parkar 
University Physics - Zeemasky 
Numerical Problems - B. Lal & Subrahmanyam 
Quantum Mechnaics - A Ghatak 
A Dictionary of Physics - Goldstein 
Paper 1
Classical Mechnism -Gupta, Kumar & Sharma 
- Takewale & Puranik
-H.Goldstein 
Mechanics - Kleppner & Kolenkov
-D.S. Mathur 
Wave/Spl.Relatively - D.S. Mathur/Kleppner&Kolenkov 
Special Relativity-R.Resnic
-Gupta & Goyal 
Optics-Ajay Ghatak
-B.S. Agarwal 
Electrodyanamics - David Griffiths 
EM Theory -Chopra&Agarwal/Satya Prakash 
Thermal Physics - P.K Chakraborty
- Satya Prakash, Singhal & Agarawal
-Statistical Physics -B.B laud 
Paper 2
Quantum Physics- Resnick & Eisberg 
Concept of Mordern Physics - Arthut Bevser 
Quantum Mechanics -Ghatak & Loknathan
-Chatwal & Anand/Satya Prakash 
Atomic & Molecular Spectra -Rajkumar 
Nuclear Physics -S.B Patel 
Solid State Physics -Kittel 
Electronics -Allon Mottershed 
Objective Physics -H.C. Verma/TMH