Title : Malgudi Days
Author: R K Narayan
Genre: Short Stories
Reading Time : 16 Hours

Malgudi Days

R K Narayan was an Indian writer known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in Swami and Friends. Narayan’s The Financial Expert was hailed as one of the most original works of 1951 and Sahitya Akademi Award winner The Guide was adapted for film and for Broadway.

Narayan highlights the social context and everyday life of his characters. In a career that spanned over sixty years Narayan received many awards and honours including the AC Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan, India's third and second highest civilian awards. He was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's parliament.

The book Malgudi Days includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. The New York Times described the virtue of the book as "everyone in the book seems to have a capacity for responding to the quality of his particular hour. It's an art we need to study and revive."


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Title : The Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Genre: Fable
Reading Time : 16 Hours

The Jungle Book

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King". He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of short stories. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli. Another important theme is of law and freedom; the stories are not about animal behaviour, still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival, but about human archetypes in animal form. They teach respect for authority, obedience, and knowing one's place in society with "the law of the jungle", but the stories also illustrate the freedom to move between different worlds, such as when Mowgli moves between the jungle and the village.


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Title : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Author: Mark Haddon
Genre: Mystery
Reading Time : 20 Hours

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as "a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. The boy suffers from Asperger's syndrome and is a difficult child having typical traits and characteristics. He relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what's going on in other people's heads.

When his neighbor's poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will track down the killer. His investigations lead him to unexpected discovery that changes his life. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor.


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Title : Who Moved My Cheese
Author: Spencer Johnson
Genre: Self-help
Reading Time : 8 Hours

Who Moved My Cheese

Dr Spencer Johnson was an American physician and author, popular for his 1998 self-help or motivational book Who Moved My Cheese?, which recurred on the New York Times Bestseller list for almost 5 years, and on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover nonfiction list for over 200 weeks.

Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, is a motivational business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people", during their hunt for cheese. They live in a maze, a representation of one's environment, and look for cheese, representative of happiness and success.

Johnson also wrote the book "Yes" or "No": The Guide to Better Decisions (1992). He co-authored the One Minute Manager series of books with management writer Ken Blanchard. His latest book is Peaks And Valleys.


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Title : The Alchemist
Author:Paolo Coelho
Genre: Adventure
Reading Time : 21 Hours

The Alchemist

Paolo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist, writer and lyricist. He is widely known for “The Alchemist”, which was originally written in Portuguese. It has been translated and published in English in 1993.

The Alchemist follows the journey of a shepherd boy named Santiago who dreams that he will discover a treasure at the Egyptian pyramids. The book is about his adventures as he goes about in search of the treasure.

Santiago’s journey teaches us about the wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the signs along life’s path, and following our dreams.


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Title : My Man Jeeves
Author:P G Wodehouse
Genre: Humour
Reading Time : 21 Hours

My Man Jeeves

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short-stories. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (P G Wodehouse) was an English author known for novels and short stories with elaborate plots, and for a unique writing style based on a combination of very formal language, references to classical literature, and contemporary club-room slang. Extensive usage of similes, metaphors, epithets and clichés make for very interesting reading. This book will introduce the reader to a unique style of British humor.

The stories in this collection are built around Bertie Wooster and his resourceful and wise valet, Jeeves, who provides suggestions whenever Bertie or his friends are in trouble.

PG Wodehouse, though well known for his novels and short stories, was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies.


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Title : The Time Machine
Author:H G Wells
Genre: Science Fiction
Reading Time : 25 Hours

The Time Machine

H G Wells was an English writer, popularly known as “Father of Science Fiction”. His other popular science fiction works include “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, “The Invisible Man” and “The War of the Worlds”. He has written books in multiple genres like short stories, novels, social commentary, biography, satire.

The Time Machine is based on the concept of “time travel” where the operator uses a vehicle to travel purposefully into a time in the future and return. The term “time machine” coined by H G Wells is now commonly used to describe this concept. This novel describes the time travel and the adventurous experiences of a scientist and inventor who has invented such a machine. He comes across some imaginary characters that will transport the reader to a world of fantasy.


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Title : The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Author:Agatha Christie
Genre: Mystery
Reading Time : 25 Hours

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie was an English writer, well-known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.

'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' is a murder mystery and Agatha Christie introduces the detective Hercule Poirot, Inspector Japp and Arthur Hastings in this book. Murder occurs in a country house and the potential suspects are limited by the circumstances and they are all concealing secrets. Death occurs due to poison, and the detective gathers all the suspects together one final time to unveil the solution to the mystery.


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Title : Animal Farm
Author:George Orwell
Genre: Fable
Reading Time : 16 Hours

Animal Farm

George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is characterized by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. In addition to Animal Farm, he has written books like Nineteen Eighty-Four, Coming up for air, Homage to Catalonia and other books.

Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell. The fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell believed that the Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when the UK was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany and the British people and intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem, a phenomenon Orwell hated.


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Title : The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Genre: Mystery
Reading Time : 22 Hours

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.


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Title : Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Author:R L Stevenson
Genre: Satire
Reading Time : 18 hours

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson was a British novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. Some of his most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, published in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson, is about a man who transforms between two personae: Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde.The novel has some horror elements of persona-changing potions, murders, and eventual suicide. The novel is frequently interpreted as an examination of the duality of human nature, usually expressed as an inner struggle between good and evil. It shows how the thoughts and desires banished to the unconscious mind motivate the behaviour of the conscious mind.

The novel had a major impact on the English language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" referring to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil instead.


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Title : The Gift of the Magi and other stories
Author:O. Henry
Genre: Short Stories
Reading Time : 19 Hours

The Gift of the Magi and other stories

O. Henry is the pen name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer who worked on a Texas ranch, then as a bank teller in Austin, then as a reporter for the Houston "Post." Adversity struck, however, when he was indicted for embezzlement of bank funds. Porter was tried, convicted and imprisoned for the crime. In prison he began writing stories of Central America and the American Southwest that soon became popular with magazine readers. After his release Porter moved to New York City, where he continued writing stories under the pen name O.Henry.

The work of O. Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful, real-life settings. This is a collection of sixteen of his best stories. It includes classics of the genre such as "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf," "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Voice of the City" and "The Cop and the Anthem".


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Title : Turning Points – A journey through challenges
Author: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Genre: Non-Fiction
Reading Time : 20 Hours

Turning Points – A journey through challenges

APJ Abdul Kalam was an aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied Physics and Aerospace Engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts.

Kalam has written many books - Wings of Fire, Ignited Minds, India 2020, You are born to blossom, Inspiring Thoughts, Forge Your Future, Advantage India, Turning Points and many more.

In Turning Points - A journey through Challenges, Kalam writes about his stint in Rashtrapati Bhavan, with details of his meetings with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other political leaders on many occasions.


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Title : Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Author: E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Genre: Short Stories
Reading Time : 18 Hours

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. Among Nesbit's best-known books are The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) and The Wouldbegoods (1901), which both recount stories about the Bastables, a middle-class family that has fallen on (relatively) hard times. She created an innovative body of work that combined realistic, contemporary children in real-world settings with magical objects – what would now be classed as contemporary fantasy – and adventures and sometimes travel to fantastic worlds.

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and telling William Shakespeare's plays in a way they could be easily understood. She included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a list of famous quotations, arranged by subject. Some of the plays are A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well That Ends Well.


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Title : Pandemic
Author: Robin cook
Genre: Thriller
Reading Time : 25 Hours

Pandemic

Pandemic is a 2018 medical thriller novel by Robin Cook. The book centers around the molecule called CRISPR/Cas9, which can be custom-tailored to find and alter genes in living organisms.A seemingly healthy woman with a transplanted heart suffers from acute respiratory distress and dies on the New York subway. Jack Stapleton, a medical examiner and a character frequently appearing in Cook's novels, does the autopsy and suspects that the death could be due to a flu-like virus. While investigating the mysterious heart transplant of the dead woman, he finds out a larger conspiracy. He meets Wei Zao, a Chinese billionaire businessman who holds a double Ph.D. in molecular biology and genetics. Further cases of flu-like virus get reported in many other parts of the world and Jack determines to stop the pandemic from spreading.


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Title : Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Author:Jeffrey Archer
Genre: Thriller
Reading Time : 30 hours

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Jeffrey Archer is an English novelist, former politician, and peer of the realm. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–74),but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt. Archer wrote his first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, in the autumn of 1974. His best-selling novels include Kane and Abel, The Prodigal Daughter, Shall We Tell the President, First Among Equals, False Impression. Recently, he was written a series of 7 books under the collection Clifton’s Chronicles. He has also written many short stories.

In the book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Harvey Metcalfe, over 40 years, has mastered the shady deal in advancing from messenger boy to mogul. But by selling inflated oil stock, he has cheated the wrong men - Stephen Bradley, an American professor at the University of Oxford, Dr Robin Oakley, a Harley Street doctor, Jean-Pierre Lamanns, a French art dealer with a gallery in London, and James Brigsley, heir to an earldom. Each has bought stock and suffered when it failed. Bradley learns of Metcalfe's responsibility, and organizes the other three to get their money back. They come up with respective plans. Read on to know whether they are successful.


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Title : The Litigators
Author:John Grisham
Genre: Thriller
Reading Time : 30 hours

The Litigators

John Ray Grisham is an American novelist, attorney, politician, and activist, best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide. His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. Some of his other books include The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury. In 2010, Grisham started writing a series of legal thrillers for children aged 9 to 12 years. It features Theodore Boone, a 13-year-old who gives his classmates legal advice ranging from rescuing impounded dogs to helping their parents prevent their house from being repossessed.

The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller, his 25th fiction novel overall. The Litigators is about a two-partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a cholesterol reduction drug by a major pharmaceutical drug company. The protagonist is a Harvard Law School grad big law firm burnout who stumbles upon the boutique and joins it only to find himself litigating against his old law firm in this case. The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham's prior novels.


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Title : The nice guy who finished first
Author: Devendra Prabhudesai
Genre: Biography
Reading Time : 30 hours

The nice guy who finished first

The Nice Guy Who Finished First” is the biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai which encompasses the life and times of the great player. It throws light on his trials and tribulations, wins and losses and other elements that shaped his glorious cricketing career. How he came to be an inspiration to so many young and aspiring cricketers who look up to him till date. It tells the tale of a young man who has succeeded in his chosen profession through an ardent faith in the three ‘D’s of dedication, discipline and determination. The biography reconstructs the incidents and events that have contributed to making Rahul Dravid one of the greatest cricketers to have played the game, and an epitome of grace, humility and commitment to his team’s cause. It is a tribute to a role model who has refused to rest on his laurels, and remains an intense in his quest for perfection as he was when he started out. The book, narrates the epic battle, one that he eventually won, to break freed of the stereotypes that haunted him in his early years at the international level. His efforts to emerge from the intimidating shadows cast by his teammates and contemporaries are illustrated in great detail. The book highlights the physical, mental and of course, technical attributes that have elevated Rahul to legendary status. As a tribute to one of the greatest batsmen that the nation has witnessed, Rahul Dravid is the story of a man who never once lost his composure because of competition and gave the Indian cricket team their best years.


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Title : Rich Dad Poor Dad
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
Genre: Non-Fiction
Reading Time : 30 hours

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad is exactly the kind of personal finance advice you wish you’d been given when you were just starting out in the world. He has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. He is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor who believes that each of us has the power to makes changes in our lives, take control of our financial future, and live the rich life we deserve. With perspectives on money and investing that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned an international reputation for straight talk, irreverence, and courage and has become a passionate and outspoken advocate for financial education. Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his "rich dad" — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.


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