Secret Life Of Bees

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#1 Water For Elephants

The bestselling author of Riding Lessons presents an atmospheric, gritty, and fascinating story of star-crossed lovers, situated in the circus world around 1932.

Jacob Jankowski, who has just become orphaned and is now stranded, boards a passing train and joins a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits. This second-rate circus is striving to survive the Great Depression by having one-night stands in countless towns. Jacob, a veterinary student who was on the verge of graduating, is tasked with taking care of the circus’s animal collection. There, he meets August, the charming but deranged animal trainer, who is married to Marlena, the stunning young star of the equestrian act. He also encounters Rosie, an elephant who at first seems impossible to teach until he finds a method to get to her.

#2 The Help

One unprecedented move is about to be taken by three regular women. Skeeter, who is twenty-two years old, graduated from Ole Miss and has since moved back home. Even though she may have a degree, it is 1962 in Mississippi, and Skeeter’s mother won’t be content until she has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would often seek comfort from the lady who reared her, her loving maid Constantine, but Constantine has vanished, and no one would tell Skeeter where she has fled.

Aibileen is a smart, regal black maid who is parenting her seventeenth child who is white. After losing her beloved son, who passed away while his superiors turned a blind eye, something inside of her changed. Despite knowing that both of their hearts might be crushed, she is dedicated to the young girl she tends after.

#3 Lovely Bones

American author Alice Sebold published “The Lovely Bones” in 2002. It is the tale of a young woman who, following her rape and murder, observes from her own special Heaven as her friends and loved ones strive to move on with their lives as she is confronted with her own passing.

“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.”

#4 The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner is a masterfully written book that is set in a nation that is about to be destroyed and tells the unforgettable, heartbreaking tale of the unexpected connection between a rich child and the son of his father’s servant. It discusses the influence of reading, the cost of betrayal, the potential for forgiveness, as well as the influence of dads upon their sons—their affection, their sacrifices, and their falsehoods.

The Kite Runner is the first Afghan book to be published in English. It recounts a grand tale of family, devotion, and friendships against a never-before-told historical backdrop, evoking the expansive canvases of nineteenth-century Russian writers. The catastrophic history of Afghanistan during the past 30 years is the focus of this narration, which is outdated in style. The Kite Runner is a unique and potent debut that is equally engrossing and sensitive on an emotional level.

#5 Books Like The Time Traveler’s Wife

This is the remarkable love tale of Clare and Henry, who were married at ages 22 and 30 respectively and met when Clare was six and Henry was 36. It’s impossible, but Henry has a disease that causes his genetic clock to periodically reset, causing him to be unexpectedly transported into the past or the future. Henry and Clare’s battle to conduct regular lives in the face of this force they can neither stop nor control is profoundly affecting and completely unforgettable.

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#6 Memoirs Of A Geisha

This magnificent debut novel, a literary sensation, and instant bestseller portrays one of Japan’s most famous geishas’ real confessions with perfect authenticity and exquisite lyricism.

Memoirs of a Geisha take us into a world where looks are everything, virginity is sold to the highest bidder, ladies are taught how to seduce the most powerful men, and love is ridiculed as a delusion. It is an original and outstanding piece of fiction that is thrilling, sexual, romantic, and absolutely unforgettable.

#7 The Red Tent

Dinah is her name. Her existence is only briefly and violently hinted at in the Book of Genesis passages that are more familiar about her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. This book describes the customs and conflicts of ancient womanhood—the red tent world—in Dinah’s words. The tale of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, the four wives of Jacob, is where it all starts. They care about Dinah and send her presents that help her get by during her hardworking youth, call to midwifery, and move to a new country. Dinah’s story establishes a close connection to the past by drawing on a spectacular time of early history. The Red Tent is incredibly moving because it blends intricate storytelling with an important contribution to contemporary fiction: a fresh perspective on biblical women’s society.

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#8 A Thousand Splendid Suns

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the brutality, fear, hope, and faith of this nation are expressed in intimate, human words against the turbulent backdrop of the past thirty years in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion to the Taliban’s rule to the post-Taliban rebuilding. The sad sweep of war brings two generations of characters together in this story, and their personal lives—the battle to survive, to build a family, to achieve happiness—are inextricably linked to the events unfolding all around them.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, powered by the same storytelling talent that made The Kite Runner a revered classic, is both a fascinating account of 3 decades of Afghan history and a profoundly emotional novel about family and friendship. A spectacular accomplishment, it is a powerful, heartbreaking novel about a merciless time, an unexpected bond, and unbreakable love.

#9 Glass Castle

A tender, poignant story of unwavering love in a family that gave the author the ferocious desire to build out a prosperous life on her own terms despite its obvious imperfections.

Jeannette Walls was raised by parents whose values and obstinate nonconformity served as both a curse and a blessing for them. Four kids were born to Rex and Rose Mary Walls. They initially led a nomadic lifestyle, traveling between Southwest desert settlements and camping in the mountains. When Rex was sober, he captivated his children’s attention by teaching them about physics, geology, and, most importantly, how to live freely. Rex was a captivating, bright man. Rose Mary, a writer and painter who couldn’t stomach having to support her family, referred to herself as an “excitement addict.” Making an artwork that would endure a lifetime was more appealing than preparing a dinner that would be eaten in fifteen minutes.

#10 All The Light We Cannot See

Marie-Laure, whose father works at the Museum of Natural History, resides in Paris close by. When Marie-Laure is twelve years old, the Nazis have taken over Paris, and her father and daughter leave for Saint-Malo, a walled city where Marie-great Laure’s uncle lives alone in a tall home by the sea. They may be transporting the most priceless and hazardous treasure in the museum.

Orphan Werner Pfennig grows up in a mining village in Germany with his younger sister, fascinated by a rudimentary radio they discover that transmits news and tales from locations they have never visited or imagined. Werner gains proficiency in creating and maintaining these essential new tools and is hired to use his skill to find the resistance. Doerr skillfully illustrates the ways people attempt to be kind to one another in spite of all circumstances by weaving together the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner.

#11 Life Of Pi

Yann Martel wrote the fantasy adventure book Life of Pi, which was released in 2001. Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, the main character and a Tamil child from Pondicherry, begins to investigate moral and practical questions at a young age. After being stuck on a ship in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days following a shipwreck, he makes it alive alongside Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger.

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#12 Eat Pray Love

The captivating, frank, and lyrical narrative of a renowned author’s quest for worldly pleasure, commitment to religion, and what she truly desired in life. Elizabeth Gilbert experienced an early-onset midlife crisis about the time she turned 30. She had a spouse, a home, and a fulfilling career—everything an educated, aspirational American woman was meant to want. But instead of experiencing joy and contentment, she was overcome by fear, grief, and perplexity. She experienced a divorce, a crippling depression, another failed relationship, and the destruction of all she had ever imagined herself to be.

Gilbert made a drastic decision in order to move past all of this. She got rid of her possessions, left her work, and started an unaccompanied year-long journey around the globe in order to allow herself the space and time to discover who she truly was and what she truly desired. The captivating history of that year is presented in Eat, Pray, Love. Her goal was to travel to three locations where she could investigate a single feature of her personality against the backdrop of a society that has historically excelled at that particular aspect of personality study. She learned the art of joy in Rome, where she also picked up Italian and put on the happiest 23 pounds of her life.

#13 Where The Crawdads Sing

Years of “Marsh Girl” rumors pervaded the sleepy fishing community of Barkley Cove. Kya Clark is wild and untamable; she has no business in a civilized society. Thus, when the well-known Chase Andrews is discovered dead in late 1969, the neighborhood quickly suspects her.

Kya, however, is not who they claim. She is a born naturalist who attended school for one day before learning from the countryside and observing the deceitful signals of fireflies to understand the true ways of the world. She has the ability to remain alone forever, but eventually, she starts to long to be caressed and loved. Kya discovers a brand-new and unexpected world after being drawn to two young guys from the area who are all taken by her untamed beauty—until the unimaginable occurs.

#14 The Beekeeper Of Aleppo

The heartwarming love tale of a woman who has lost her sight and her husband, who fights for their existence as they travel through Syria as refugees to Europe. Beekeeper Nuri and artist Afra are married. In the lovely Syrian city of Aleppo, they have a straightforward existence full of family and friends—until the unthinkable occurs. They are compelled to flee after the war destroys all they care about. However, Afra’s experience was so horrific that it caused her to lose her vision. As a result, they must go across Turkey and Greece at great risk in order to reach an unknown future in Britain.

Nuri is kept going on the journey by the knowledge that Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has established an apiary and is instructing other refugees in Yorkshire in beekeeping, will be waiting for them. In addition to the sorrow of their own unfathomable loss, Nuri and Afra must face perils that would weaken even the most courageous individuals as they journey through a ruined world. They must travel in order to reconnect, above all. The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a moving, potent, sympathetic, and exquisitely written example of how the human spirit may prevail. It is the kind of book that serves as a reminder of the importance of narrative.

#15 The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies established her as one of the most outstanding writers of her generation. Her stories are one of just a few debut works – and only a few collections – to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical acclaim for its grace, insight, and compassion in depicting lives transplanted from India to America were among the many other awards and distinctions it garnered.

Lahiri expands on the issues that made her compilation an international phenomenon, including the immigrant experience, cultural clashes, assimilation struggles, and, most poignantly, the braided relationships between generations. Lahiri’s fine touch for the exact detail — the fleeting instant, the turn of phrase — opens up huge worlds of feeling on display once more.