Books are a passion.But sometimes I read too much and forget the details - except that it was a nice book. Some books that I have/had access to and have read several times and no regrets. So, my list is more or less those books that I have not tired of and though it is several years since I read them last, wouldn’t mind doing so again. There is no order, because each has a class and style of its own.
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
This is a sweet, heart-warming novel about the killing of innocence of two white children. This is said from the perspective of the children, the younger one, in fact, and carries all the innocence that children that age have. Right from the way they comment on their father, to the little adventures they have and to facing facts of life - namely, racial discrimination.
One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kasey
Oh what a book! Nail biting and at the same time sets your blood boiling with some people! You wish the hero, a convict pretending to be mad and so in an asylum, success and are miserable at every failure. The book has you gripped. And you do wonder if this isn’t the microcosm of what happens in life.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
This is my all time favourite -a mystery? a romance? or just the story of a girl who is unsure of what her husband thinks of her. You identify with the girl easily and feel her loneliness the first time. And the next time onwards, you want to tell her - fool. Can’t you see! All with feelings.
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
A must read for all, this book is an exploration of man’s self-worth and his emotions. How love can drive you to touch basest and the noblest of emotions. How the choice between what is base and what is noble is not easy to come by. How you can grow or detroy yourself.
How green Was my Valley by Richard Llewlyn
Set in coal mines, this is a beautiful tale of agony and ecstasy in their lives. It touches very deep emotions.
I have tried to list books that I have not reviewed in Mouthshut - except Rebecca. And I know several other books that I have not mentioned here but deserve a separate shelf-space.