30 Books That Are So Good You Won’t Be Able To Put Them Down
30 Books That Are So Good You Won’t Be Able To Put Them Down: Books, our lifesavers for many a time. They turn out to be one’s best companion during sleepless nights, traveling, and boring days. It takes again an hour to fix which book to read among the thousands present. So save your time as we list down the 30 best books to read.
30 Books That Are too Good to Resist Reading
1. A suitable boy by Vikram Seth
This is the longest novel ever published in a single volume of 1349 pages in 1993. This story focuses on the theme where after post-partition, an Indian family tries to look for a boy suitable to marry their daughter. It’s a must-read book as it gives a glance at the post-partition scenario of India.
2. Train to Pakistan by Khuswant Singh
This book compels to show the reality and horror of post-partition of India and Pakistan. It’s commendable how Singh turns a fun-loving village into a village of hatred and fear. The vivid description of each character again is bound to capture the hearts of the readers. It is one of the Tamil translated books.
3. The Kite Runners by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner is a father-son story, emphasizing the familial aspects. Themes of guilt and redemption feature prominently in the novel with a pivotal scene depicting an act of sexual assault that happens against Hassan that Amir fails to prevent. The situation as a whole was the main reason why Amir and Hassan’s friendship ended. The latter half of the book centers on Amir’s attempts to atone for this transgression by rescuing Hassan’s son two decades later. This book is sure to make you emotional by the end.
4. The subtle art of not giving a f*CK by Mark Mansion
This book is a Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life is the second book by blogger and author Mark Manson. In it, Manson argues that life’s struggles give it meaning and that the mindless positivity of typical self-help books is neither practical nor helpful. This book definitely helps you to turn yourself into better human beings.
5. Looking for Alaska by John Green
Looking for Alaska is a coming-of-age novel that touches on themes of meaning, grief, hope, and youth-adult relationships. The novel won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association and led the association’s list of most challenged books in 2015 due to profanity and sexually explicit scene.
6. Notebook by Nicolas Spark
The Notebook is a 1996 romantic novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks, The novel was later adapted into a popular film of the same name, in 2004. The Indian Bollywood film, Zindagi Tere Naam. This is again a must-read book.
7. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he asks a Gypsy fortune teller in the nearby town about its meaning.
The woman interprets the dream as a prophecy telling the boy that he will discover a treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. The story moves in the direction leading him towards his goal. This story well says that life is just like a circle it stops where it had begun.
8. The fault in our stars
The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American romantic drama film directed by Josh Boone, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by John Green. Two cancer-afflicted teenagers Hazel and Augustus meet at a cancer support group. The two of them embark on a journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam. I strongly recommend reading The Fault in Our Stars if you want a good, easy read that will make you laugh, cry, and smile throughout.
9. The monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life, and the subsequent wisdom that he gains on a life-changing odyssey that enables him to create a life of passion, purpose, and peace. Even this is a life-changing book.
10. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The 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. This book simply teaches so many complicated things.
If you are into Hindu mythology then you should read this book to get a glimpse of Mahabharata from the viewpoint of Draupadi.
11. Forever is a lie
This book is written by Novoneel Chakroborty and has a sequel to it as Forever is true. It a complete thriller romantic love story which will keep you engrossed till the end. The best happened to the protagonist of the story, Prisha but in the worst possible way. To know about it do give the book a reading
12. The modern breakup
This book is written by Daniel Chidiac. It deals with the emotional misbalance we feel in our life these days maybe with friends, boyfriend, random people we meet, our expectations, and what we actually end up with.
13. The lost flamingoes of Bombay
This is the literary work by Siddhart Dhanvant Sanghavi. This book shows Star photographer Karan Seth is in Bombay to immortalize the city in a unique photo-record of its hidden faces until tragedy strikes and he is drawn into a Fitzgeraldian world of sex, crime, and politics.
Utterly disenchanted, he abandons the camera and Bombay and heads to England. Yet, like the flamingoes of Sewri, who unfailingly give in to the strange, haunting pull of the great metropolis, Karan too knows that he must return to his old loves.
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay is at once a razor-sharp depiction of contemporary urban society and an affecting tale about love’s betrayals and the redemptive powers of friendship.
14. Everything is F*cked
This is yet another creation of Mark Mansion. This book revolves around giving hope to individuals.
15. The Glass palace
The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. The novel is set in Burma, Bengal, India, and Malaya span a century from the British invasion of Burma and the consequent fall of the Konbaung Dynasty in Mandalay, through the Second World War to the late 20th century. This book keeps the reader’s attention glued to the last page.
16. IKIGAI
Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means “a reason for being.” The word “ikigai” is usually used to indicate the source of value in one’s life or the things that make one’s life worthwhile. The word translated to English roughly means “thing that you live for” or “the reason for which you wake up in the morning.” This book is the Japanese Secret to a long and happy life.
17. Where Rainbows End
Where Rainbows End is the second novel by Irish writer Cecelia Ahern, published in 2004. The book reached number one in Ireland and the UK and was a best seller internationally. Where Rainbows End is a story told through letters, emails, and instant messaging about the ever-changing relationship between the two main characters Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart. Rosie and Alex are close friends from childhood but one day they are suddenly separated when Alex and his family move from Dublin to Boston.
18. Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book. It is set in rural England in the early 19th century, and it follows the Bennet family, which includes five very different sisters. Mrs. Bennet is anxious to see all her daughters married, especially as the modest family estate is to be inherited by William Collins when Mr. Bennet dies.
19. Men without Women
Men Without Women is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death. The collection shares its title with Ernest Hemingway’s second short story collection. Here, we have seven stories with male characters, each with varying degrees of despair, dread, or loneliness from the lack or loss of women.
20. Bloodline
“Bloodline” is a dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community, but their past contains dark secrets that they hope remain buried. Paranoia and mistrust build as lies pile up, alliances are shattered, and an unthinkable crime takes place. The tight-knit family’s formerly harmonious relationship deteriorates, and good people are forced to consider doing very bad things.
21. Harappa
Harappa is the story of Vidyut and Vivaswan Pujari – two people separated by three millennia but joined by blood. The story of Vivaswan takes place in 1700 BC (Harappan times in the book) and the story of Vidyut takes place in 2017. 2017, Delhi – Vidyut’s dying ancestor summons him to Banaras. The old Brahmin chieftain of the Dev-Raakshasa Matth, or the God-Demon Clan, bears a chilling secret. Their bloodline carries an ancient curse that will plague mankind – towards its own violent extinction.
22. The Pregnant King
The Pregnant King is a book written by Devdutt Pattanaik. It follows the story of Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks the magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant.
23. The namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Namesake is a coming-of-age novel about an Indian boy who has been raised in America, feeling the struggles of fitting the demographic of his culture as well as the nation he was born in. It follows the journey of this boy as he becomes a man and the many hardships of life as well as its harsh lessons of reality. Lahiri’s book is good but it would be nice if she didn’t write the same fucking book 8 years later with a different title
24. The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. 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.” This story is about family, pies, love, and everything. You can travel through Kerala in your head as you read through.
25. A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Mariam is an illegitimate child and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along the abuse she faces throughout her marriage.
Here you will find the struggles of Mariam, the tender love of Laila & Tariq, and the nasty Rashid. The way Mariam and Laila become friends and then how strong their bond grows as mother-daughter is something we can just imagine.
The difficult times during the Taliban attack made this mother-daughter to take heroic steps and the stand they take for each other is just something that lets you with goosebumps.
This story is truly filled with emotions of joy, excitement, growing friendship, and unconditional love and understanding and how important is our motherland for all. This book will definitely make you emotional once you give it a complete reading.
26. The Girl he used to know
The Girl He Used to Know written by Tracey Garvis Graves is an uplifting novel full of surprising revelations that keep you turning the page. It is basically about “ what if you had a second chance at first love! ”
27. Catch and Kill
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators is a 2019 book by American journalist Ronan Farrow. He recounts the challenges he faced chasing the stories of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of the alleged rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse of women, and the case against him. This amazing book is a must-read.
28. The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train is a 2015 psychological thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins that gives narratives from three different women about relationship troubles and binge drinking. Read this book to know further.
29. The Wives
This book is written by Tarryn Fisher where “Thursday’s husband, Seth, has two other wives. She’s never met them, and she doesn’t know anything about them. She agreed to this unusual arrangement because she’s so crazy about him. But one day, she finds something. To know about this something does give it a read.
30. The Vacationers
This book is written by Emma Straub. The Vacationers is a beautifully told story that walks the tightrope of family angst and connection with hilarity and truth. Get ready for the Post family drama, where the near-empty nest collides with the dreams of the new generation. Do read it!
Hope these books help you freak out your boredom and also have a great time reading these amazing chosen books.
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