Building Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Hydrology, Water Supply Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Solid Waste Management, etc are some of the topics included in IES (Civil Engineering) Exam. There are many reference books which can help you do a thorough preparation on the main topics mentioned above.

Main Topics on IES (Civil Engineering) Exam

• Building Materials
• Structural Analysis
• Design of Steel Structures
• Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures
• Construction Practice, Planning and Management
• Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow, Pipe Flow
• Hydraulic Machines and Hydropower
• Hydrology
• Water Resources Engineering
• Water Supply Engineering
• Waste Water Engineering
• Solid Waste Management
• Air, Noise Pollution and Ecology
• Soil Mechanics
• Foundation Engineering
• Surveying
• Transportation Engineering

Books on Building Materials

• Building Construction by B.C. Punmia
• Building Construction by Sharma and Kaul
• Building Drawing by Shah Kale and Patki
• Engineering Materials by Surinder Singh
• Properties of concrete by A.M. Neville

Books on Structural Analysis

• Strength of Materials by Timoshenko and young
• Mechanics of Materials by E.P. Popov
• Strength of Materials & Mechanics of Structures by B.C. Punmia

Books on Design of Steel Structures

• Design of Steel Structures by S.K.Duggal
• Design of Steel Structures by P.Dayaratnam
• Design of Steel Structures by N.S.Negi
• Design of Steel Structures by S.A.Kazimi
• Comprehensive Design of Steel Structures by B.C.Punmia

Books on Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures

• Hydraulic Structures by Narayanan & Novak
• Irrigation Engineering & Hydraulic Structures by S.K.Garg
• Earth & Rock-fill Dam by H.D.Sharma
• Concrete Dams by R.S.Varshney

Books on Construction Practice, Planning and Management

• Construction Engineering & Management by S.Sitaraman
• Construction Planning equipments and methods by R.L.Peurity
• PERT and CPM by L.S.Srinath
• Quantity Surveying by B.N.Dutta

Books on Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow, Pipe Flow

• Experimental Fluid Mechanics by G.L.Asawa
• Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Engineering by Dr R.S.Kumar
• Fluid Mechanics by Streeter & Wylie
• Fluids Mechanics & Hydraulics by A.K. Jain
• Fluids Mechanics & Hydraulics by R.K. Bansal
• Fluids Mechanics by R.J. Garde & Mirajgaonkar
• Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics by P.N.Modi and S.M.Seth
• Mechanics of Fluids by Shames

Books on Hydraulic Machines and Hydropower

• Concrete Dams by R.S.Varshney
• Hydraulic Machines by J. Lal
• Hydraulic Structures by Narayanan & Novak
• Irrigation Engineering & Hydraulic Structures by S.K.Garg

Books on Hydrology

• Hand Book of Applied hydrology by V.T.Chow
• Ground water Hydrology by Todd
• Engineering Hydrology by K.Subramanya

Books on Water Resources Engineering

• Applied Resource engineering by Linsely
• Engineering Hydrology by Linsely
• Water resource engineering by Linsely

Books on Water Supply Engineering

• Environmental Engineering by Howard S.Peavy, Donald R. Rowe and George Tchobanoglous
• Water and Waste Water Technology by Mark T Hammer
• Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering by G.S Birdie and J.S. Birdie
• Water Supply and Sewage by Terence J.Mcghee
• Water Supply Engineering by B.C. Punnia, Ashok Jain and Arun Jain
• Water Supply Engineering by R.S. Kshirsagar

Books on Waste Water Engineering

• Waste Water Treatment for Pollution Control by Soli J.Arcieivala
• Industrial Waste Water Source Control by Nancy Rilkmen and Clay Jones

Books on Solid Waste Management

• Hazardous Waste management by M.D. LaGrega, P.L. Buckingham, J.C.Evans
• Introduction to Environmental Engineering by M.L.Davis and D.A.Cornwell
• Principles and Management Issues by G. Tchobanoglous, H.Theisen, S.Vigil

Books on Air, Noise Pollution and Ecology

• Noise and Vibration Control Engineering by Beranek
• Noise Pollution and Control Strategy by Singal

Books on Soil Mechanics

• Geotechnical Engineering by S.K.Ghulati and Manoj Dutta
• Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkatramaiah

Books on Foundation Engineering

• Analysis and Design of Foundation and Retaining Structures by S. Prakash and Gopal Ranjan
• Design of Substructures by Swami Saran
• Soil Engineering Theory and Practice by Alam Singh
• Soil Mechanics by B. M. Das

Books on Surveying

• Surveying by K. R. Arora
• Advance Surveying by R. Agor

Books on Transportation Engineering

• Fundamentals of portation Engineering by C.S Papacostas
• Principles of Transportation Engineering by P.Chakraborty and A.Das
• Traffic engineering and Transport planning by L.R Kadyali
• Transportation Engineering by C.Jotin Khisty and B.Kent Lall

Apart from these books, one must regularly practice previous years question papers too to clear the exam. This will help you to identify areas where they have to improve for clearing the exam.