LIST OF FAVOURITES

LIST: Books I liked and can’t stop thinking about [last updated on 25.06.2026]

Bindusmita Das

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Jun 25, 2026

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Like most people who have very few friends, and fewer people to recommend their favourite things to, I, too, have resorted to the internet to share unsolicited recommendations. And since this is technically my main social media platform, here is a basic list of my favourites among the books I’ve read so far. There is no order of preference among the titles.

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I’ll be treating this post as a Goodreads lists alternative and will be updating it time to time.
If you have recommendations that you’d like to force upon me, please feel free to do so in the comments:)

1. Lajja (Shame) by Taslima Nasrin (1993)
   [ political fiction, religious fanaticism, socio-political criticism ]
2. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
   [ magical realism, historical fiction, allegory, postcolonial literature ]
3. Black Holes (The Reith Lectures) by Stephen Hawking (2016)
   [ pop science ]
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
   [ allegory, political satire, dystopian fiction ]
5. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923)
   [ philosophy, prose poetry ]
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
   [ historical fiction, war literature ]
7. The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond (1974)
   [ children’s novella ]