Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Depressing story of two women in Afghanistan.
1984
George Orwell
A dystopian nightmare where war is peace and freedom is slavery.
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Life of a teenager with angst, alienation and superficiality.
The Metamorphisis
Franz Kafka
Worst nightmare for a family with single breadwinner.
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
A story of discovering one’s own enlightenment.
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A rich family may not mean a happy life.
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mahabharata from Panchaali’s eyes
Twenty Two Goblins
Arthur W. Ryder
Classic Indian folklore told in a simplistic manner.
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Sometimes you think of your choices.
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Interesting story of the dead among us.