Bookshelf

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)

Literary Fiction & Contemporary

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
  • The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
  • And the Mountains Echoed — Khaled Hosseini
  • Love Story — Erich Segal
  • Doctors — Erich Segal
  • Train to Pakistan — Khushwant Singh
  • Bhima — M.T. Vasudevan Nair
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold — Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Tuesdays with Morrie — Mitch Albom
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven — Mitch Albom
  • Looking for Alaska — John Green
  • The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
  • All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Gabriel García Márquez
  • The General in His Labyrinth — Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
  • Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami

Mythology & Retellings

  • Circe — Madeline Miller
  • The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller

Historical Fiction

  • The Glass Palace — Amitav Ghosh

Thrillers & Mystery

  • The Last Don — Mario Puzo
  • The Godfather — Mario Puzo
  • Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh
  • The Fourth Protocol — Frederick Forsyth
  • The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth
  • The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown
  • Angels & Demons — Dan Brown
  • Inferno — Dan Brown
  • Deception Point — Dan Brown
  • Eye of the Needle — Ken Follet
  • Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie
  • Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie
  • The Cuckoo’s Calling — Robert Galbraith

Young Adult & Fantasy Series

  • Harry Potter (series) — J.K. Rowling
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) — Rick Riordan
  • The Hunger Games (series) — Suzanne Collins
  • Immortals of Meluha (trilogy) — Amish Tripathi

Plays & Drama

  • The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth — William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest — William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet — William Shakespeare
  • Othello — William Shakespeare