Best of books, 2018

2018 was an amazing year for me especially in the department of reading. I read a lot of good books but instead of listing all of them down I am going to mention just the best of the best from my reading list of 2018(in no particular order)

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath : This book is brilliantly written. You don't realise what you have got yourself into.Since the book is narrated by a person who is depressed the reader is able to know the story from a point of view of such a person. Click here to read my full review 
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah : I fell in love with this book one page after the other. Set in France during World War II, this book traces the work done by women to help their country. No one really talks about what women did to help their country during the war, this book celebrates their work and them. Click here to read my full review.
3. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden :It's the second book in the Winternight Trilogy and it picks up right where The Bear and the Nightingale left off.  Vasya, potrayed as the modern women in mid fourteenth century Russia, decides to make her own rules and not give in to the society pressure. She runs away from the only home she has ever known to become a traveller. Fast paced and gripping writing style makes this book a work of art. Click here to read my full review.
4. Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra : There are good books. There are amazing books. There are books which make you laugh or/and cry, and then there are books which hit you hard and leave you numb.This book tells the history of partition of India with the help of objects left from the past with the survivors or their family. Click here to read my full review
5. When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy : For the first time with the help of this book I have come to know that strong, independent women can also be in an abusive marriage because yes, love blinds us all.This book is not for the faint hearted. Click here to read my full review
6. The Polar Bear Explorers Club by Alex Bell : There are just some books which are beyond your expectation and this book was as such for me. Read it to get a breath of fresh air from your life, get lost in the ice lands and leave your worry behind and lastly, if you believe in magic then definitely pick this book up. Click here to read my full review
7. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo : In Six of Crows we are introduced to the characters who are merely 15 to 19 years old and they are doing some serious stuff! One is a theif, one is a sharpshooter, one a convict, one a spy, one more or less a magician. What a combo Bardugo has weaved! We follow them on their impossible adventure and hope against all odds that they are able to achieve it and that's the beauty of this book. Click here to read my full review
8. Circe by Madeline Miller : he book maps the journey of Circe, daughter of Helios, a mighty Titan .The storytelling is effortless, each scene drifts into another so smoothly that the reader don't even realise it. A lot of Greek myths keep making an appearance regularly giving the reader a different point of view for that particular myth. Click here to read my full review
9. The Liberation of Sita by Volga : It a collection of short stories. Sita meets other famous (infamous) women of the myths - Surpanaka, Renuka, Urmila, Ahalya. It is basically a re-telling of Ramayana.The stories pose questions of who is right and who is wrong; why women were always silenced; how men see women and so on.
10. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes :A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication. 

        

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