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Shashank Gupta Recommends 15 Books to Read

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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