Mine is Sweetness in the belly by Camilla Gibb. The story just touched my heart! It was the first time I was reading something so amazingly uplifting and beautiful.
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Why? Because it felt like Pynchon had reached into my brain and given it a good hard shake.
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Playboy.
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Mysti asked for a book, not series. Unless you have a particular edition in mind, your answer is void.
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The one with Marilyn Monroe on the cover.
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I have a few but classics wise it's The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. The struggles this poor chinese family goes through reminds me of the struggles many desis have dealt with back home and when moving abroad. Think about the movie Mother India but a chinese book version and that's what you will have. Stories of triumphs and tragedies, of hard working and family traditions that limit desires or roles one can play.
Others I highly recommend is The Hundred Secret Senses from Amy Tan, Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen, A thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseni, The Wentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan (loved the 3 part series and finished the last book while i was visiting pakistan for the first time so it was amazing to read about mughal love being found at shalimar gardens and then actually walk through there and the big forts and such). Memoirs of a Geisha will always be a favorite because I love it when the underdog triumphs. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho will inspire you to concur the world, yet I haven't done that so hmm maybe it just gives us more liberty to dream something we loose as we get older.
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Its really hard to name one but I will soon.:)
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Sweet_LiL_Hunnie, I really liked The Good Earth. Did you read the sequels? I didn't, because after the fate of the poor first wife, O-Lan, I couldn't bring myself to care for any of the other characters.
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Quran. It is amazing, uplifting , beautiful and guiding light.
Read about amazing Quran here: Amazing Quran.
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The rice mother by Rani Manicka.
It's a fantastic family saga. It's such a great story. You can taste, smell and feel everything throughout the book.
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You can , smell the book.
Only if you bought the book from a fish market. :)
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Only if you bought the book from a fish market. :)
Ha! It is perfectly possible to be able to smell a book. Provided the writer is evocative enough, and you let the book deep enough into your imagination. :P
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lol mirch im sure it wasnt meant literally :)