4 books

I do love reading but off late I have hardly been reading.

4) Anna Karenina: I LOVE this book by leo tolstoy. I had to reda it for the russian literature course that I did in my 1st yr in MA. The way the character of Anna is created, portrayed and written its brilliant. I could at some level understand her misery. Love Anna, LOve Tolstoy for creating her:)

3) To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee: racism through eyes of a child portrayed with such sensitivity and simplicity. You HAVE to read this book. brilliantly written :)


2) Harry Potter series : I LOVE them a) they are well written, excellent choice of words. Iam not quite into fantasy literature but you have to give it to JKR for creating a new world. I grew up reading this book. I remember telling the story of Harry Potter to my bro with so much of drama that he started reading it as well . To my dismay, it meant competition once new books were released. Both of us fought to decide who will read it first. I saved up my scholarship money to buy the books, i refused birthday dress for harry potter, I WOKE UP and was at the book store at 7.30 am even before it could open to buy my new harry potter book ( 5th one) and yes,I own all the HP series :) interestingly the spiritual meaning behind the book is very deep, JKR s idea of Time and Death and very close to what Sri Sri says so I like it even more :)

1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte : My all time favorite love story- its a doomed love story of Heathcliff and Catherine. We had to study it in my 2nd year of degree and the character of Heathcliff is extremely complex, villainous and a great lover at the same time. beautifully written, compact precise and my favorite dialogue from the bookis what Catherine says about Heathcliff " Whatever our souls are made of, His and mine are the same ". and I cannot forget the way my lecturer taught that novel to us, more importantly I learnt to analyse a novel and write about it after rewriting the answer crazy number of times for my lecturer. So in a way the novel helped me grow as well:)

Choosing the books was very very hard. So i have to mention few other favorites as well. These are favorites because they have touched me/ affected me so profoundly/changed me/ made me believe in things/ made me smile/ been there for me when needed :)

Alchemist by paulo Coelho

Curious incident of the Dog in the night time

Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton

Love in Times of Cholera by Gabriel Marques ( love story of 2 old people :) MUST READ!)

Stumbling into infinity my Michael Fisherman

Autobiography of a Yogi

Diary of Anne Frank