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Fantastic collection of stories. Takes you back to Tamil Nadu. The two narrators have done an incredible job.
One of the type of book that will get you thinking. This book is about a Butler who reminisces about his work, time at his master's place and asks if he did the right things and have lived a worthy life. Ishiguro won the Noble Prize.
Another sci-fi book out of the left field. About two companions on a long journey. The interesting part of this story is about the world where there is no male or female. Everyone is neutral and 3-4 days in a month they turn in to one of the sexes. And it is not a fixed transformation either - so one could very well be Father to a few children as well as a Mother to a few. She has all sci-fi awards (Hugo, Nebula, Locus) and a lifetime achievement award from National Book Foundation.
This is the grand-daddy of them all futuristic dystopian world. Written in the 1930s. Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut, Rand, Nabokov all wrote works inspired by this.
A nice coming-of-age love story.
Alexander and Alexie are incredibly talented writers. Their works bring out lot of lols. I like them.
This is an awesome work and supposedly in a new genre (at least to me) called LitRPG. So there is a massively multi-player online role playing game. Except that our hero goes to sleep and wakes up inside the game. He has to start off at level 1 and slowly build skills, gather essential things, make friends, go for raids, claim a home (village) and so on.
Not sure why I felt compelled to add it here since this is mostly a autobiographical narration but still it's all about bees. Loved it.
Well, once I started including a bio, cannot leave out Jane. MUST READ!
An author I only recently discovered. Seems to have got the "middle school" genre down pat. Very interesting stories with good morals.
Ungifted: An average student ends up in a gifted school program.
Restart: A former school jockey/bully has amnesia after a fall and now behaves good and makes new friends.
Slacker: A lazy student who starts a fictional club to evade work ends up in position to do lots of good work after the club becomes unexpectedly popular.
An incredibly moving story inspired by true life events. Ivan is a silver-back Gorilla who lives in captivity.
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's epic tragedy. Very very nicely done. I was able to enjoy the original version much better after listening to this.
A marine who is framed for a crime he didn't commit. Goes rogue to vindicate himself. Jason Bourne meets Jack Ryan meets Jack Bauer.
- Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Book 4: Dog Days]
- Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Book 5: Cabin Fever]
- Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Book 10: Old School]
- Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Double Down]
- Annie Barrows: Ivy and Bean [Book 2: The Ghost That Had to Go]
They are all hilariously entertaining. Need I say more?