Books...Books... and Books... is what you must have thought before reading this article, but I guarantee you that after reading this article you will develop 'love' and 'curiosity' for them. So let's begin by taking the Top-10 must read books of the year that you can enjoy by reading in the winter season inside your blanket with a cup of hot coffee.
Let's start the countdown -
10. Celestial Bodies
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi is a International Booker Prize–winning novel in 2019. The story is about three Omani sisters of Al-Awafi village. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. This book represents a society of the slaves of Oman making money and adding advent wealth.
9. Edison
By the celebrated Biographer 'Edmund Morris', who died in May, 2019 leaves his last work to the world "Edison". The story of Thomas A. Edison’s life is recounted in an unusual manner in this biography. Told from the perspective of the man’s fascinations with different fields, electricity, sound, light, chemistry, and botany, it does not follow the normal life’s progression found in most biographies. This book in no-doubt is the one of the best biographies of 2019.
8. Curious Toys
The book is one of the finest mystery thrillers of 2019, by Elizabeth Hand it give you a felling that you have to read it until and unless the mystery is solved. A story of two teens - one a 14-year-old tomboy and another a daughter of a fortune-teller discovers murder in a amusement park. Both try to crack the case in early 1915 Chicago. With this atmospheric historical thriller, Elizabeth Hand conquers another genre and makes it her own.
7. The Testaments
By one of the finest authors 'Margaret Atwood'. A sequel to another fine book 'The Handmaid's Tale', The novel is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale. It is narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel; Agnes, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada. The Testaments was joint winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize, alongside Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other. There have only been two other occasions on which this award has been shared.
6. Whose Story Is This?
In 20 beautiful essays, the firebrand feminist thinker 'Rebecca Solnit'. It focuses on women, immigrants, and the earth (think climate change) -- stories that we usually discount or people that some may move off-stage. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
5. The World That We Knew
Berlin, 1941: the summit of Nazi power and brutality. A mother must spirit her child away from certain death with the aid of a rabbi’s daughter and a female golem; together they raise a torch against history’s darkest night. This is also an instant New York Times bestseller and long-list recipient for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal. For readers who enjoy beautifully written historical fiction and those who harbor a love of fairy tales, Alice Hoffman's 'The World That We Knew' is the next book.
4. Face It
Debbie Harry is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool. The author tells tales of her growing up in New Jersey amid raccoons. A heart-wrenching bankruptcy, and Blondie’s break-up as a band to her multifaceted acting career in more than thirty films, a stunning solo career and the triumphant return of her band, and her tireless advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights, Face It is a cinematic story of a woman who made her own path, and set the standard for a generation of artists who followed in her footsteps – a memoir as dynamic as its subject.
3. Inland: A Novel
From Tea Obreht comes this spooky novel of the West. It is about Nora, a frontierswoman who is trying to survive drought while awaiting the return of her husband. The story also follows Lurie, a former outlaw haunted by ghosts, who's on the run from his past. When the two stories collide, the results are harrowing.
2. American Spy
One of the best spy novels of the decade this novel is mysterious and smart. You may see glimpses of yourself in the heroine of this thriller wrapped up in the family drama. Lauren Wilkinson compiles everything to make this novel as living as it can be. A must read detective novel for all generations.
1. The Silent Patient
THE SILENT PATIENT is immersive and hypnotic—the kind of confidently drawn suspense story that doesn't need big, flashy twists to keep you hooked, and take the number 1 spot in our list. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. Well...that's enough for the insight of the story.
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