Reading is one of the best habits that a person can develop. The benefits are many and your soul keeps getting enriched. However, our favorite thing about reading is that one always has a companion and is never lonely. They do say “A good book is the best friend you can have”. Here we handpicked five books that everyone should read at least once.
The Harry Potter Series
Yes, the entire series. The best way to go through this series is to start the first book on your twelfth birthday and read the next in each consecutive year till you are eighteen. It feels like you grew up with golden trio. However, it is never late to read or re-read these books written by J.K. Rowling. The book is filled with magic and love.
The love between friends, the love a teacher has for the students and vice versa and the most dominating theme of the books, the love of a mother. These are some books that everyone should read at least once. And notice we say at least once, cause this is something you are guaranteed to fall in love with.
Kane and Abel
This book written by Jeffrey Archer is definitely one of the books that everyone should read at least once as it will get you hooked in the first line of the novel itself. This is a story of two men born on the opposite side of the globe on the same day and how their paths intertwine.
Spanning across decades, the story will ensure that you keep turning the pages and the book feels like a drug that you can neither give up nor get enough of. The class work by the author is one of a kind that will make sure that you read the story again and again and still be thrilled every time you do.
1984
This is a well-known classic by George Orwell and a book that is widely hailed as well ahead of its time. 1984 is a vision of a nightmarish “utopian” society inhabited by the mindless frantic followers of the “Party”, where the government exercises ultimate control over every aspect of an individual’s life. Not only is this one of the books that everyone should read at least once, it is a necessity in the collection of every book lover.
To Kill a Mockingbird
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee is one of those books that will force you to sit down and think. This book has a capability of jittering your soul. It is a book that explores the tragedy of racism in a tiny sleepy town and the dramatics of the ‘Great Depression’.
What sets this book apart from every piece ever written is that these tragedies are explored through the innocent eyes of six-year-old who doesn’t really get the fine technicalities of the things happening around her.
Doctors
The author, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School’s class of 1962. The stunning story-line not only deals with the making of doctors but its intricately woven rich characters make sure that this is a novel that deals with issues of racism, sexism, depression, euthanasia and almost all those topics that pose a debate before mankind. This novel is on the list of books that everyone should read at least once for a reason. Not only is it a page-turner but is also one of the most enriching experiences one can ever have.
“If you do not like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” -J.K. Rowling
