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Sometimes when you read a book, you can feel it. That’s the effect HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi had on me. It is her debut novel, published...

SO YOU WANT TO KEEP A PET. Your kids are pestering you. But you don’t have much time to spare, and you don’t want too much trouble...

When you read a book that is a classic, and much of it you dislike, you ought to know there is something special about it, some catch you...

A book that sets you thinking about Afghanistan and its people. The turmoil the Afghans have gone through in recent times and the ravages...

A great classic written in the eighteenth century by Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, is a masterpiece in the genre of horror. But, what might...

Dystopian theme, unnerving as well. Like George Orwell’s ‘1984’. American society has come under an autocratic or totalitarian rule....

Deservedly a Booker prize winner. Read this book when Arundhati Roy won the Man Booker (1997). Loved it then. Read it a second time now...

What are the similarities between Stevenson’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE and Oscar Wilde’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY? Both are...

I will remember ‘A Monster Calls’ as one of the best books I have in several years. I can barely recall another tale so gripping from the...

“If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you,” says Natalie Goldberg, popular author on how to write books....