The Left Hand of Darkness
★★★★★
In a world far away, and a culture even further away, one human works to bridge the chasm of differences
Good Omens
★★★★★
The end of times is upon us; the date for the apocalypse has been set, and the antichrist has been primed (sort of...). It’s up to one sympathetic pair, an angel and a demon, to calm things down and save the world.
The Bullet That Missed
★★★★★
The four senior citizen detectives are at it again, this time solving a ten year old case of a murdered TV journalist... while other events happen around them
The Devotion of Suspect X
★★★☆☆
Tokyo police detective Kusanagi has a perplexing case on his hands; he has a body, but is unable to piece together the events leading up to the death...
The Three Body Problem
★☆☆☆☆
Set in the backdrop of the Chinese cultural revolution, an alien civilization on the brink of extinction plans to invade earth, and works to stagnate scientific progress on earth till they reach.
The Guest List
★★★★★
A celebrity destination wedding is happening on a remote island off Ireland. Following a blackout, a body is discovered, but every guest has a secret to hide...
River of Smoke
★★★★☆
The Ibis completed its maiden voyage, taking labourers to Mauritius. The narrative shifts to Canton, and talks about the events that lead-up to the first Opium War
Fahrenheit 451
★★★★★
Guy Montag burns books, and all other such illegal commodities. But when he is exposed to a world where people didn’t live in fear, Montag re-examines his life
A Murder is Announced
★★☆☆☆
Miss Marple decodes a very complicated murder which is preceded by an announcement of the murder in the local newspaper, replete with location, date and time.
Roman Stories
★☆☆☆☆
A set of short stories set, or rather, woven around the eternal city of Rome
The Scarlet Letter
★★☆☆☆
In Puritan America, a young woman is accused of adultery, and is sentenced to wear the letter “A” on her outfit...
The Stepford Wives
★★★★★
Joanna moves to beautiful Stepford with her family, it seems almost too good to be true. It is.
A Christmas Carol
★★★★★
A classic which has lent so much to our everyday parlance, and likely started the very concept of “Christmas Spirit”
Life of Pi
★★★★☆
A grand novel blending several different concepts and themes; philosophy, religion, and, above all, the enduring human spirit in the face of adversity
The 39 Steps
★★★★★
The original spy-thriller; a mining engineer on vacation is caught up in an international conspiracy involving assassinations, disguises, shady backroom dealings and shifty Germans
Sea of Poppies
★★★★★
The first book of the Ibis trilogy, a delightful epic set in the 1830’s, telling the stories of several people whose lives intersect with the ocean-going vessel “Ibis”