“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

As it is rightly said, “Between the pages of a book, is a lovely place to be.” Books fit all the cliché surrounding them, they put dreams in your eyes and give wings to your dreams. Reading is an exercise like no other. It sweeps you into a magical universe and transmutes your mundane into a bewitching dream.

There is such diverse content available in the literary spectrum today that leaves ones mind in a state of bafflement and awe.

Today we explore some of the genera of the great literary abyss.

1. Mystery

• Murder on the Orient express – Agatha Christie

• Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

• The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

• The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe

2. Romance

• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

• Me before You – Jojo Moyes

• Beautiful Disaster – Jamie McGuire

• Red , White & Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston

• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

3. Fantasy

• A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle

• The Golden Compass – Phillip Pullman

• Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo

• Or What You Will – Jo Walton

• Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson

4. Sci-Fi

• The Time Machine – H.G Wells

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers

• Nineteen Eighty- Four – George Orwell

• To Sleep In a Sea of Stars – Christopher Paolini

• Children of Ruin – Adrian Tchaikovsky

5. Non- fiction

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck- Mark Manson

• A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

• Becoming – Michelle Obama

• We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

• Ghosts Of The Tsunami – Richard Lloyd Parry

“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

– Lena Dunham