books that have shaped or informed me

  • A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry

  • Bright Shiny Morning | James Frey 

  • The Problem of Pain | CS Lewis 

  • The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri 

  • Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri

  • A Tale For The Time Being | Ruth Ozeki 

  • Snowdrops | AD Miller 

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini

  • One Amazing Thing | Chitra Banarjee Devakurani 

  • 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami 

  • Half of A Yellow Sun | Chimamande Adichie 

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer 

  • The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night Time | Mark Haddon 

  • Prep | Curtis Settenfield 

  • In Cold Blood | Truman Capote

  • Go Set A Watchman | Harper Lee

  • Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things | Gilbert Sorrentino 

  • A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth 

  • The Reader | Bernhard Schlink

  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy 

  • Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Doestoyevsky 

  • here i am | jonathan safran foer

  • everything is illuminated | jonathan safran foer

  • extremely loud and incredibly close | jonathan safran foer

  • beloved | toni morrison

  • i am the messenger | markus zusack

  • all the light we cannot see |

  • and the land lay still |

  • kairos |

  • i, who have never known men |

  • the dangers of smoking in bed |