100 Best Books You Must Read Before You Die
Best Books You Must Read Before You Die
We can hear you! We always knew that you wanted to know the names of the books which you must read in your life. This blog is especially for book lovers who would love to read all the possible famous books being written in the world. So, here you go!
1.The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- Exupery
Do there exist any little book which you can complete in a day or two? Yes, here it is! The Little Prince is a small, interesting, and insightful read that we all need in our lives. The story of this beautiful book follows a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth and addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. What readers love about the book is that despite its style as a children’s book, The Little Prince makes observations about life and human nature.
2.The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alchemist is an allegorical novel. The book follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. We all have dreams and desires, we just want someone to tell us that our dreams can come true. This book can be a reminder for you. The book emphasizes the importance of faith, hope, and spirituality through the story of an ordinary boy.
3. 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
If you love to read romance novels, we would suggest you surely read this one. The book was published in March 2009 and was a bestseller in Turkey and France. It is about Maulana Jalal-Ud-Din, known as Rumi, and his companion Shams Tabrizi. This book explains how Shams transformed a scholar into a Sufi (mystic) through love.
Read this gorgeous book and experience the transformation within.
Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained,yet it explains all.
Like love, this book too has to be experienced, not simply read.
4. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things is a powerful novel filled with luscious prose and a heart-rending story, Roy reveals to her readers an India hanging onto to the traditions of the past with a slight glimpse of her future. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws” that lay down “who should be loved, and how. And how much.” The book explores how small things affect people’s behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is major discrimination that prevails in India. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.
5. All About Love by Bell Hooks
Romantic book readers always look for great reads and here is the one! All about love: new visions, discusses aspects of love in modern society. Each chapter discusses an aspect of love. This book is an engaging read as at first, Bell explains her position and introduces an external work that is primarily about that aspect of love. Then she provides suggestions on how to reverse our cultural training and become more open to giving and receiving love.
You would truly enjoy how the writer explains the importance of romantic love in our lives.
6. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie is a thought-provoking read. It is truly a book about teaching and teachable moments. A book for anyone who is looking for something which can help him or her through life when it gets hard. “Tuesdays with Morrie” starts as a teacher who watches his student, Mitch Albom, go through college, and then later in life Mitch experiences this same teacher (or Coach, Morrie) struggles with a life-threatening disease.
If you are looking for a simple book that reaches you straightaway then this is the one you should go for!
7. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows the story of four families over 18 months, and centers on Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a “suitable boy”. Lata is a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother or opinionated brother, Arun. Her story revolves around the choice she is forced to make between her suitors Kabir, Haresh, and Amit. This is one of the longest books ever written but keeps you engaged throughout.
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is a supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness and witty observation with profound insight. Pride and Prejudice have delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. You would enjoy reading that with the arrival of eligible young men in their neighborhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.
9. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
This beautiful novel is considered the greatest love story of the decade. The story travels around Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls in love with Augustus Waters, another cancer patient.
The story fills a reader with many emotions and a must-have book on everyone’s bookshelves.
10. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind By Joseph Murphy
If you are a huge fan of reading self-help books and looking for that perfect book for your thought process then this is the one you must choose. The whole concept of the conscious and subconscious mind is very beautifully explained by the writer. He says if you want something, just embed the idea into your non-resistive (Subconscious) mind. This book makes you stop and think about your thought patterns. Go and read this awesome book!
11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Sometimes when the child in you feels like reading a fun book or you want to memorize your childhood then this is the book you must go for. In this book, Eleven-year-old Charlie Bucket’s life is turned upside down when he finds a Golden Ticket that gives him access to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Now you must know how much fun is this to read.
12. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank is a quite famous book written and appreciated by readers from all over the world. This remarkable book is a collection of memories of 2 years by an interesting Jewish girl during world war II. Enjoy reading this intelligent book!
13. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The story of my life is a must-read book that is an interesting and inspiring autobiography. It is a collection of detailed experiences in the life of Helen Keller. This book is completely devoid of self-pity, yet full of love and compassion for others, this deeply moving memoir offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the outstanding women of the twentieth century. Go and check out this inspiring novel.
14. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
If you wish to know about topics and time and you are from a non-physics background then this is the book for you. Hawking wrote the book for readers without prior knowledge of physics and people who are just interested in learning something new. He discusses two major theories, general relativity, and quantum mechanics, that modern scientists use to describe the Universe.
15. The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond
The Room on the Roof is one of a very engaging books. You will love to read howthe book is filled with the smells, sights, sounds, confusion, and subtle organization of ordinary Indian life. The novel revolves around Rusty, an orphaned seventeen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun. Due to his guardian, Mr. Harrison’s strict ways, he runs away from his home to live with his Indian friends.
16. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor is known for his exquisite vocabulary and knowledge. This is one of the best satirical novels written by him. The Mahabharata, which is not a novel but an epic poem, can be understood, according to Tharoor, to represent Hinduism’s greatest literary achievement and thus serves as an appropriate paradigm in which to frame a retelling of recent Indian history.
17. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
If you are looking for a great self-help book that may help you to improve your personality, then this is one of the successful books written in history. This book includes various ways and techniques to improve your personality on a personal and professional level.
18. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher. He believes that there is a way out of suffering and into peace. The book is intended to be a guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and transcending thoughts of the past or future.
19. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Many times we may have questions related to money. You may want to know how you can save money and make more of it. This book advocates the importance of financial literacy (financial education), financial independence, and building wealth through investing in assets, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one’s financial intelligence (financial IQ).
20. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*cK by Mark Manson
This is a book about finding meaning in important things in life and only having those values that an individual can control. Whatever value (such as popularity) that is not under a person’s control, is a bad value to have and a person should strive to replace it with something more controllable such as punctuality, honesty, or kindness.
21. Addicted by Zane
Addicted is one of the interesting romantic novels written. The erotic story revolves around a well-settled and married businesswoman having 3 children. Even after having a great life, her desire to have great with other men sex spoiled her personal and professional life. Later she seeks the help of a counselor who helped her to understand and accept herself.
22. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Like the book Pride and Prejudice, this book has also been a great romantic read of all time. The book contains elements of social criticism with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and it is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane’s individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism.
23. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is again a great classic novel where you would love to read how Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and later inspired several aspects of Christmas, including family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games, and a festive generosity of spirit.
24. Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of Mumbai Mafia by Hussain Zaidi
Imagine you knowing a don and falling in love with him, this book does this to you. The story is primarily about how a boy from Dongri became a don in Dubai and captures his bravado, focus, ambition, and lust for power in a gripping narrative. The meticulously researched book provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the mafia’s games of supremacy and internecine warfare. Read this amazing book in a thriller genre.
25. 1984 by George Orwell
If you love reading a thriller, you must read 1984, a startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with time.
26. The Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi
If a mythological read keeps you stick, The Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi is on a radical idea that all Gods were once human beings; it was their deeds in the human life that made them famous as Gods. The three books of the trilogy are – The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, and The Oath of the Vayuputras.
27. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
This interesting novel is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Draupadi’s viewpoint, namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. The novel traces princess Panchaali’s life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom.
28. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Sacred Games draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh, and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.
29. Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
This is one of the best seller self-help books written by Robin Sharma. He left his career as a litigation lawyer at the age of 25 and became a motivational speaker. The book develops around two characters, Julian Mantle and his best friend John, in the form of conversation. Julian narrates his spiritual experiences during a Himalayan journey which he undertook after selling his holiday home and red Ferrari.
30. Atomic Habits by James Clear
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a supremely practical and useful book. James Clear distills the most fundamental information about habit formation, so you can accomplish more by focusing on less.No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day.
31. The Book of Mirdad by Mikhail Naimy
The book is presented as a series of dialogues between Mirdad, the abbot of a monastery, and his disciples. The Book of Mirdad draws on a variety of philosophies, including that of Leo Tolstoy and Sufi Islam. Mirdad’s dialogs give out teachings that show us how it is possible to transform our consciousness and uncover the God within, by dissolving our sense of duality.
32. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
If you love reading classics, you cannot skip this one for sure. Wuthering Heights is a popular romance novel for years. The novel centers around the story of Heathcliff. A homeless and abused orphan boy, who is picked up from the streets by Mr. Earnshaw, who takes him home with him to Wuthering Heights.
33. The Power of Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has been a bestseller, selling many millions of copies since its original publication. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can help you heal yourself, banish your fears, sleep better, enjoy better relationships, and just feel happier. The techniques are simple and results come quickly.
34. Inner Engineering by Sadhguru
If you are one of those spiritual book readers and you wish to know more about the science of your body then this is a must-read book. Inner Engineering is a book about technology that will help you achieve bliss by paying more attention to what’s going on within your body.
35. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. To kill a Mockingbird is Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, the book takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.
36. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Readers have told this book like the one you can be obsessed with. Purple Hibiscus is a story weighed down with oppression. The oppression of religion. An oppressive father. Oppressive heat. A country under an oppressive regime. But there is also the slightest hint of freedom.
37. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie published the world’s best-selling mystery novel in 1939. And Then There Were None tells the story of ten people who were lured onto Indian Island by a man named U. N. Owen. Once all ten people were in the house on the island, the story picks up when Anthony Marston is poisoned.
38. Mind full to Mindful by Om Swami
Based on the original Zen teachings, this beautiful book offers a life-changing perspective on life itself. Bestselling author of many transformational books, Om Swami shares with you the art of happiness with plenty of humor, stories, and wisdom as he takes you on a journey from being mind full to mindful. You would enjoy reading this one.
39. P.S. I love you by Cecelia Ahern
PS, I Love You is a promising story that deals with love and bereavement. Holly has recently lost the love of her life, Gerry, to a brain tumor. Now widowed at a young age, she struggles to get her life back together. Holly’s mother explains that before Gerry died, he wrote a series of notes to help encourage her to get back to living life without him. Over the year she opens these messages.
40. Before I go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
Every day, Christine Lucas forgets everything about herself, even her name. Suffering from anterograde amnesia, her only clues to her identity come from her journal… but how can she trust this record if she can’t even remember writing it? If you love reading mind-blending novels, then this must be on your next read.
41. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. Mario Puzo paints this elaborate picture of the Sicilian mafia through the eyes of Michael Corleone, a returning Marine Corps hero who at first wants nothing to do with the elaborate crime family that his father has built.
42. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train follows Rachel Watson, a woman who’s lost everything: her husband, her job, and arguably her mind. Rachel whiles away her days drinking on trains, romanticizing the lives of the picture-perfect suburbanites she passes — until one day she sees something shocking through her window. Read the book to know the rest of the story.
43. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The silent patient is a popular suspense thriller where Alicia Berenson is living the dream, working as a painter in London and happily married to her photographer husband. But even the most idyllic-looking life can be a tenuous illusion — as Alicia demonstrates the day she shoots her husband to death. Read this to know more.
44. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Spoiled, headstrong Scarlett O’Hara finds herself in dire straights during the Civil War. Her family’s fortune and plantation are in tatters, and Scarlett uses every wile in her toolkit to keep her family and land out of poverty. The infamous Rhett Butler offers her a way out, but will she lose her heart in the process? Hope you will find out reading this.
45. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
This is among the must-read love story novels. An older gentleman visits a woman with a fading memory every morning to read to her from a well-worn notebook. The notebook he reads contains the love story of Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson and Allie’s quandary: to marry her fiancé or give it all up for Noah.
46. Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. All these stories are very engaging and fun to read.
47. Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
48. Dune by Frank Herbert
It is one of the most important pieces of the science genre. Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.
49. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a mystery and crime masterpiece. The writer takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone wrong.
50. The Lord of Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivaled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Go and check out this one!
51. Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter is one of the best book series ever! Charming and Witty, you just can’t put the book down. Harry’s perfectly normal life at number 4 privet drive becomes extraordinary when he finds out that he is a wizard and Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry will teach him all he needs to know.
52. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a classic science fiction novel and a powerful commentary on humankind’s urge to suppress what it doesn’t understand. The shadow of the Cold War looms over the plot, which may confuse some younger readers, but the truths Ray Bradbury unearths are timeless.
53. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is a compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. This is exclusively fun to read about friendship, dreams, and agony.
54. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
This is a fascinating novel to read which describes life during the French Revolution. This book is on the favorite list of many readers. Read this novel to know more.
55. Invisible man by H.C. Wells
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows. This is one of the most engaging reads.
56. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
This is the brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as “magical realism.”
57. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea tell the story of a battle between an aging, experienced fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin. The story opens with Santiago having gone 84 days without catching a fish, and now being seen as “salao“, the worst form of unluckiness.
58. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
This novel is based on the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era. Some chapters are quite interesting where you will find philosophical discussions rather than narratives.
59. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse is a novel that recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book’s many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art, and the problem of perception. This is the book you can’t miss out on reading.
60. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. It introduces the protagonist, Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg merchant family. Following the early death of his parents, Castorp has been brought up by his grandfather and later, by a maternal uncle named James Tienappel. Read the novel to know more.
61. The Stranger by Albert Camus
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
62. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
If autobiographies interests you, Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history’s greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life — an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
63. Ikigai by Hector Garcia
Ikigai means ‘reasons to live’ Finding your Ikigai is easier than you might think. This book will help you work out what your Ikigai is, and equip you to change your life. You have a purpose in this world: your skills, your interests, your desires, and your history have made you the perfect candidate for something. All you have to do is find it.
64. The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond
The Blue Umbrella is a novella by Ruskin Bond, wherein he weaves a beautiful story of an ordinary village girl Binya and her love for the blue umbrella. Binya traded this beautiful blue umbrella for her only possession, a leopard claw necklace. So, this story is basically about the struggles of Binya to keep the umbrella safe from everyone and how she ended up giving it to someone out of a sudden realization.
65. Wings of Fire by Abdul Kalam
The ‘Wings of Fire’ is an autobiography by visionary scientist Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, who from very humble beginnings rose to be the President of India. The book is full of insights, personal moments, and life experiences of Dr. Kalam. It gives us an understanding of his journey of success.
66. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
Frankl came to believe that man’s deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living. Read this amazing book to know about the writer’s personal experience.
67. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
This is one of the finest science fiction novels written. You would love to read how a trio of explorers undertakes a dangerous, exciting trek that carries them through geologic time to encounter a living past.
68. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and burgeoning sexuality. It is told from the first-person perspective of Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo. You would love to read this fascinating story even beyond love and romance.
69. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn’t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one.
70. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This is the novel written as a series of documents. Through the character Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
71. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The story unfolds with Ashima’s grandmother coming to know that Ashima is pregnant. She was very excited when she came to know this and extremely happy as well as the fact that she would have the opportunity to name the family’s first Sahib. As the story unfolds, Ashima and her husband Ashok have yet not decided on a name for their baby until a letter arrives from their grandmother. Oh! We can’t keep this interesting story to ourselves! Read this interesting book to know further.
72. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Classic Text is the timeless Wisdom for Today’s Market Conditions.
The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of “value investing” which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies has made TheIntelligentInvestor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
73. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari’s book, ‘Sapiens,’ traces the origins, mechanisms, and effects of what we think of as “human progress” from small bands of hunter-gatherers 100,000 years ago to the present-day global network through which our species has come to dominate the entire Earth. What can be more interesting than to know about our existence?
74. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The book will fill your heart with love and your eyes with tears. When Breath Becomes Air details Dr. Kalanithi’s life as a neurosurgeon and his fight against advanced lung cancer. Even in his short life, he achieved noteworthy recognition as a scholar, a surgeon, a scientist, and now – posthumously – as a writer.
75. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
If you have a child at home, it is a highly acclaimed bedtime story. In this classic of children’s literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.
76. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
This book is based on the strongly patriarchal state known as Gilead. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the groups known as “handmaids”, who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the “commanders” – the ruling class of men.
77. Wonder by R J Palacio
Wonder is the story of August Pullman who was born with a facial difference that prevented him from going to mainstream school. He wanted to be treated as an ordinary child but his extraordinary face doesn’t let that happen. Read the book to know the whole story. This one will surely fill your heart with emotions.
78. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is the most popular children’s book written by famous cartoonist Jeff Kinney. This book is about the adventures of a 12-year-old who is fresh out of elementary and transitions to middle school, where he has to learn the consequences and responsibility to survive the year.
79. A little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A little life is an epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. This book is truly amazing and a great gift for its readers.
80. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone is such a heartbreaking story that is told with real literary force. Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.
81. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
This book explains the life of the various people suffering from several types of neurological disorders, showing their difficulties and how the available treatment and understanding of them are preliminary. You can feel for them.
82. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Sea of poppies is rich in historical detail and panoramic views of land and sea this story is set in the 1830s just on the cusp of the opium wars in China. Ghosh expertly weaves together the backstories of a colorful cast including many others.
83. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
This short novel, written in spare, economical prose, tells the story of a not particularly likable middle-aged Capetown college instructor who falls into “disgrace” because of an affair with a student and is soon reduced to living with his daughter in the bush and working as a euthanizer at the local animal shelter. A violent incident occurs, and “disgrace” takes on another meaning.
84. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Let’s meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” Read the book to know about the interesting persona.
85. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Graham Greene’s masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene is the unforgettable portrait of one man—flawed yet heroic.
86. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji is a very long romance, running to fifty-four chapters and describing the court life of Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.
87. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
88. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love.
89. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of the most illustrative and informative books for children between the ages group of 2 to 5 years. The book is the story of a caterpillar dissecting the pangs and toils of its life. The language of the book is very simple. This has been specially done so that the children are encouraged to read the book themselves.
90. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival by Laura Hillenbrand
Unbroken is the true story of Louis Zamperini who transformed from a child to an athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics. Now he must embark on one of the Second World War’s most extraordinary and eventful experiences. Read the book to know more.
91. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler’s life. This is one of the most personal novels by Chandler. He wrote it as his wife was dying.
92. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
This is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Carson had focused her attention on environmental conservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result of her research was Silent Spring, which brought environmental concerns to the American public. Read this book and know amazing facts about environmental conservation.
93. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine follows the intertwining lives of three central families, the Kashpaws, Lamartine’s, and Morrisseys, and two peripheral families, the Pillagers, and the Lazarus. Love Medicine garnered critical praise and won numerous awards.
94. Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm is extensively appreciated all over the world. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
95. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
This is a short adventure novel The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Read to know how itrelies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.
96. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The story is centered on two main characters: Biju and Sai. Biju is an undocumented Indian immigrant living in the United States, son of a cook who works for Sai’s grandfather. The novel follows the journey of Biju, an undocumented immigrant in the US who is trying to make a new life; and Sai, an Anglicised Indian girl living with her grandfather in India.
97. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and conveys with precision, urgency, and barely disguised fury what it might have been like to be one of India’s untouchables.
98. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
99. Gaban by Munshi Premchand
If you love to read Indian regional literature then you can not miss out on this one. Gaban, one of the most celebrated novels of Munshi Premchand. It tells the story of Ramanath, a charming but morally weak young man, who to fulfill his beautiful wife’s – Jalpa – excessive craving for jewelry involves himself in complex economic and personal relationships, which eventually leads to his apparent ignominy and his escape from home.
100. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. We hope you read this one and get there….