Looking for suggestions to add to your ‘books to read’ list? Check out these book reviews by Indian author Jyoti Arora. You’ll discover books that have stood the test of time and have won readers’ heart all over the world.
All the Light We Cannot See (2014) by American author Anthony Doerr is an expansive World War II novel. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. The novel follows the life of a French girl and a German boy. Yet, it is not their story….
Our Mutual Friend is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in a serialized form consisting of 19 monthly installments appearing during the years 1864–65. It has an intricate plot involving several different sets of characters. Like Dickens’ other novels, Our Mutual Friend too throws light on several dark aspects of the…
If ever there was a book in which the setting becomes an additional character, then ‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett is one. Through the coming alive of the setting, the author not only displays her love for Nature, but she will make you fall in love with it too. Setting of The Secret…
Wuthering refers to the blowing of strong winds. As the book itself says about the name Wuthering Heights, “Wuthering” being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.” And indeed, the book bears within its pages some very strong winds, even amounting to storms at…
The last review that I published was of the celebrated self-help book called The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. I love reading novels (check out my 10 reasons why novels are so awesome!) but am not a big fan of self-help books. Even The Monk… book was picked up by me because it was so…
It’s been many years since I first heard of the book called ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.’ The title always intrigued me. But somehow I fell into the impression that this was a book about better management practices. Don’t ask me how that happened. I have no idea. Anyway, thinking that it was a…
