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Summers are all about sitting indoors, sipping ice tea and reading good books. If this is your ideal summer vacay plan, then you’ve to check out this list that we’ve especially curated for the scorching season.
1. The Time Traveller’s Wife
Claire Abshire, a librarian’s wife, finds her marital life in a fix when she learns that her husband Henry possesses a gene that allows him to time travel
Author | Audrey Niffenegger
Goodreads Rating | 4/5
2. The Kite Runner
Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashtuns. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. Their uncommon bond is torn by Amir’s choice to abandon his friend amidst the increasing ethnic, religious, and political tensions of the dying years of the Afghan monarchy, wrenching them far apart.
Author | Khaled Hosseini
Goodreads Rating | 4.3/5
3. Train To Pakistan
Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war.
Author | Khushwant Singh
Goodreads Rating | 3.8/5
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behaviour – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humour and pathos.
Author | Harper Lee
Goodreads Rating | 4.2/5
5. Men Without Women
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
Author | Haruki Murakami
Goodreads Rating | 3.7/5
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