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Shashank Gupta Recommends 15 Books to Read

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We asked our host of the month, Shashank Gupta, to recommend some books that he loves. Check out his lists below!

  1. THE SHADOW OF THE SUN by Ryszard Kapuściński: A brilliant report on post-colonial Africa with its blazing sun and bitter moments of change.

 

  1. PARADAIS by Fernanada Melchor: Brave writing and unfettered story that feels no shame in its nakedness.

  

  1. A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O’Connor: A packet of short and crisp tales, each of which could be an entire movie.

  

  1. DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON by George Orwell: I still don’t know if it was real or fiction, but what astounding detail.

  

  1. GLORY by Vladimir Nabokov: His earlier and lesser known work perhaps and, therefore, fresh as a brook.

  

  1. SANCTUARY by William Faulkner: Breaks all the rules if there are any, and does away with heroes.

  

  1. OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck: Salinas Valley and its ups and downs with a relationship between two men that socks us in the gut.

  

  1. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather: A beautiful breathtaking story of settlers on the unending untamed unforgiving piece of earth.

  

  1. OBLOMOV by Ivan Gonchorov: Actually the life of a nobody, and you end up really wanting to know more about nothing.

  

  1. A THOUSAND ACRES by Jane Smiley: See the farm at close quarters and feel the heart of that hard life, told by a woman.

  

  1. DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens: When a book opens with ‘I am born’, you know the genius will simplify life to a thorn.

  

  1. THE COUNTRY LIFE by Rachel Cusk: Nothing happens and we know not why we come away enchanted.

  

  1. DRIVE YOUR PLOW by Olga Tokarczuk: Driven by a plot most crime-writers would have only dreamt of navigating some day.

  

  1. DAILY RITUALS by Mason Curry: Perhaps a blog that became a book on the idiosyncrasies of so-called creative people.

  

  1. SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN by Haruki Murakami: Not another of his emotional whodunits, just a frank tale of love.

 


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