Books I Love

 “Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.”- J.R.R.Tolkien

I have tried to understand what makes me love a book. Is it the writing? The story? The characters? The themes? Or a combination of some or all of them? I truly don't know. Maybe one day the combination that hits my mental and emotional sweet-spot will reveal itself to me. But, for now, all I can recognize is the warm, heady feeling that surrounds me as I dive and lose myself into words that craft exquisite worlds. These books generate that feeling in me...

Fiction:
  1. 4321 - Paul Auster
  2. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  4. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P.G.Wodehouse 
  5. Brinkley Manor / Right Ho Jeeves - P.G.Wodehouse
  6. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Cutting For Stone - Abraham Verghese  
  8. Flatland - Edwin A. Abott
  9. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  10. Galahad at Blandings - P.G.Wodehouse
  11. Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm 
  12. Haroun and The Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie 
  13. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
  14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  15. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  16. Life of Pi - Yenn Martel  
  17. Making Faces - Amy Harmon
  18. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
  19. Pigs Have Wings - P.G.Wodehouse
  20. Ponniyin Selvan - Kalki Krishnamurthy
  21. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  22. Room - Emma Donoghue
  23. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
  24. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse 
  25. Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
  26. Thank You Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
  27. The Adventures of the Wishing Chair / The Wishing Chair Again / More Wishing Chair Stories - Enid Blyton
  28. The Age of Shiva - Manil Suri
  29. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G.Wodehouse
  31. The Enchanted Wood / The Magic Faraway Tree / The Folk of the Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton 
  32. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
  33. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 
  34. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  35. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
  36. The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
  37. The Hidden Flower - Pearl Buck
  38. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  39. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  40. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  41. The Secret Garden - Frances Hogdson Burnett
  42. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd  
Non-Fiction:
  1. Design Meets Disability - Graham Pullin
  2. Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl 
  3. Play Therapy - Virginia Axline
  4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan
  5. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
  6. The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar 
  7. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
  8. The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
  9. Unveiling India - Anees Jung

2 comments:

GS said...

Knowing you is a good feeling. You write well. More on this soon.

Neeraja said...

Thanks for the kind words GS :). Glad to connect with you!