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### 5. Room by Emma Donoghue

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Imagine you are born in a room, and you have to stay there for God knows how long! This moving story by Emma Donoghue is about a 5-year-old boy Jack and his mom, who have been living in a room for 7 years. Old Nick comes every Sunday and provides them with the necessities. There is not a single window except a skylight on the ceiling. The room was lead shielded, and the door was code locked. This room becomes Jack’s world to the extent that the outer world seems alien to him.

But by the time a baby grows up, he is taught by his elders. During the course of time, his raw perspective is somewhat diluted by what others think. But just for a minute, envisage the contrary; what if you got to know the perspective of a 1-year-old baby who is able to communicate in the form of a 5-year-old boy? The book is interesting but an emotional read. It will teach you the importance of adapting to the changes around you. Don’t just stick to the point from where you originate, get up, explore, discover, adapt, and evolve! 【38†You can get the book here!†book.sv】

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### 6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine Saint-Exupery is an attempt to find your inner child. The story will remove the worn-out layers of your soul and will take you to a land that existed before memory. While trying to repair his crashed airplane in the middle of the Sahara Desert, the narrator meets a little boy – a dweller of asteroid B-612. The narrator calls him ‘little prince’. On his way to earth, he visits different small asteroids and planets occupied by uncanny people who are symbolic of the variability in human nature. If a king lived on one planet, a conceited man on another. If a tippler occupied one, a businessman thrived on another. The conversation that took place between them and the little prince is worth pondering upon for hours.

This book is a Satire on how grown-ups fail to appreciate and acknowledge the finer things in life. The storyline changes according to the age of the reader; that’s the magic of it. It may seem like we are intellectually progressing, but in reality, we are becoming more mainstream. The book contains illustrations and takes the assistance of “magical realism” to charge a new assault on “realism” by wisely interpreting human nature. 【39†You can get the book here!†book.sv】

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### 7. The Humans by Matt Haig

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‘The Humans’ is a sci-fi novel written by the universally acclaimed author 【40†Matt Haig】. To be precise, ‘sci-fi’ would be a generalized term because this book has many more layers to it. It is funny, a bit philosophical, and highly thought-provoking as Matt provides a breath of fresh air through his intelligent writing and perspective toward humans. This book gives a new dimension to the existing concepts which govern our day-to-day lives. An extra-terrestrial and unnamed creature assassinate Prof. Andrew Martin, a genius mathematician at Cambridge University. After taking his body, the alien’s account of humans is devastatingly hilarious. 

Being a dweller of an immortal and technically advanced utopian society, the concepts like love and companionship totally astonish him. However, his initial disgust for humans gradually thaws when he starts to bond with the family of Andrew Martin. Matt’s razor wit makes us chuckle when the human ways puzzle the alien. His gradual realization of the innate quality of love and brotherhood in humans is heart-warming. The book can also be used as a toolkit to improve our ways of living life. Through his imagination, Matt gives us a critique in the form of an alien! 【41†You can get the book here!†book.sv】

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### 8. Undertow by Jahnavi Barua

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Undertow by Jahnavi Barua is a family saga. The Assamese Goswami family casts out Rukmini, on the orders of her mother, Usha, for an inter-cast marriage with a Christian Malayali, Alex Gorge. The marriage survived only for a short span of 12 years as Alex married Sugandhi. 25 years later, Loya (Rukmini’s daughter) returns to Assam to seek answers for the injustice done to Rukmini. Loya is angry, and due to the generation gap, the initial exchange between her and Torun (her grandfather), remains rough, but eventually, they develop an understanding. She gets a deeper sense of “being”, in Assam, which she calls home, and understands it is the true meaning.

Different characters provide different perspectives towards life, and that is what makes this book a champion. The story fluctuates between present and past, but still, it doesn’t break the flow. Most importantly, it teaches us how to resist the relentless undertowing of emotions. The novel has a strong sense of place and character. This book paints such a lucid picture that it felt like I grew up in that yellow house in Assam amidst the ever-flowing Brahmaputra and Frangipani trees. A fantastic piece of Northeast Indian literature. 【42†You can get the book here!†book.sv】

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### 9. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is a slice of life itself. This book found its place in this list because it is all things bright and beautiful. It will teach you the art of living in the most lively way possible. Nothing in this book feels forced or intentional. The writing style is fluent and captures the lyricism of the magically realistic world of Klune. Linus Baker, a caseworker, is deployed by a certain ‘Extremely Upper Management’ to review orphanages, where magical children are kept as society deems them ‘harmful’.

One such quiet infamous orphanage is in the cerulean sea, where he meets mysterious magical children and far more mysterious Arthur Parnussus. This book is about Linus’s transition from a seemingly colorless life that is solely fabricated by strict rules to a lively and happy one. The children teach him how to live life not just for the sake of living but to actually enjoy this wonderful gift and decorate it with souvenirs of as many experiences as one can manage. 【43†You can get the book here!†book.sv】

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