HOME QUARANTINE LIST FOR BIBLIOPHILES

In this hour of world’s biggest crisis, all you need to do is lock yourself up at home. Well, things aren’t that simple when you have to kill the time. After doing all you can, watching all the movies you could, you might just need to relax. And what is more relaxing than jumping into a quiet corner of your room and getting submerged in the world of imagination with your most loved authors and their masterpieces. Here’s a list of 5 books for our bibliophiles that you may download and read to make your quarantine time useful and memorable.

1. To Kill a Mocking Bird: A novel by Harper Lee, the book was published in 1960. One of the most popular book of its time, it was translated in over 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. In 1961, it won a Pulitzer Prize. The novel is praised for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism and prejudice in the American South. The book won laurels and was filmed into an American drama, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1962. The e-book as well as the audio-book is available in Google Play:

Link:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=To%20kill%20a%20mocking%20bird&hl=en

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A light-hearted novel by Gail Honeyman, it will surely brighten you up. It is a humorous account of a fictional character Eleanor Oliphant who has ‘no socializing’ skills and tends to speak her mind at ‘odd times.’ Eventually, she meets a male colleague with whom she develops a deep friendship. And that’s how she meets a partner to bring her out of isolation. Well, the book seems perfectly written for this day when the entire world is submerged in negativity. The e–book is available in ebooks.com:

Link: https://www.ebooks.com/en-in/searchapp/searchresults.net?term=eleanor+oliphant+is+completely+fine

• Quichotte: Written by British Indian novelist, Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, the novel was published in the year 2019. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ classic novel, Don Quixote, Quichotte (pronounced as ‘kee-SHOT’) is a metafication that tells the story of an addled Indian American man who travels across America in pursuit of a celebrity television host with whom he has been obsessed. The story prompts the issues of United States including racism, the opioid epidemic, familial love and the impact of popular culture. The novel was shortlisted for 2019 Booker Prize. The e-book is available in www.kobo.com.

Link: https://www.kobo.com/in/en/search?query=Quichotte

• Raag Darbari: If you are fond of reading Hindi novels, Shrilal Shukla’s masterpiece, ‘Raag Darbari’ is all you were waiting for. The story of a contemporary India, the book is full of conversations that will compel you to pause for a laugh. You can get a copy of the book from Amazon.in or listen to the audiobook and read the e-book from Google play book.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/search?c=books&q=raag+darbari

• Godan: A story of stark realism, it is Munshi Premchand’s last completed novel originally published in 1936. The story brings out the realistic interpretation of Indian village society. The story is about people, hunger and starvation, yet full of hope and optimism. You may read the e-book from kobo.com.

Link: https://www.kobo.com/in/en/search?query=godan

Keep reading the interesting books and you may also put suggestions of your favorite books/novels in the comment section.