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-title: Awesome books
-date: 2025-04-20
-author: Wickramage Don Sadeep Madurange
-layout: post
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-
-## Cloud Atlas
-
-This highly creative novel rekindled my love of fiction. Cloud Atlas is a
-collection of six tales linked across time. As the book unfolds, the stories
-riffle over one another like a pack of cards. David Mitchell brings the Cloud
-Atlas world and the characters in it to life with beautiful, vivid
-descriptions. The novel explores themes ranging from social to spiritual,
-including the struggle for freedom against oppression, interconnectedness, and
-rebirth.
-
-## Ender's Game
-
-In this sci-fi novel, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, an 11-year-old boy, is drafted to
-lead a squad of young children in an offensive against an alien race. Ender's
-Game is a complex story that explores themes of war, leadership, and the
-challenges gifted individuals must face as they navigate a lonely life marked
-by envy, alienation, and, sometimes, much-needed friendship. 
-
-## Flowers for Algernon
-
-This novel, written as a series of progress reports, tells the tragic story of
-Charlie Gordon, a developmentally disabled man who acquires superhuman
-cognitive abilities through an experimental medical procedure. Charlie's birth
-family abandons him because he is not smart enough; his friends abandon him
-because he is too smart. In the end, to spare everyone's feelings, Charlie must
-end up in the Warren Home.<sup><a href="#footnote-1">1</a></sup> This is my
-favourite book in the list.
-
-## Dead Souls
-
-Dead Souls is the story of Ivanovich Chichikov, a traveling merchant who trades
-dead serfs. Gogol's writing style is similar to Dostoyevsky's. Considering how
-Gogol's work predates Dostoyevsky's, Gogol is one of the most original authors
-I've read. Instead of simply describing them, Gogol develops realistic
-characters in minute detail by employing theatrical clashes between them.
-
-## The Overcoat
-
-Gogol's The Overcoat is one of the finest short stories I've read. Akaky
-Akakievich, an impoverished government clerk, buys a new overcoat. I recommend
-reading Gogol before Dostoyevsky. What Gogol invented, Dostoyevsky perfected.
-
-## Demons
-
-After reading Demons, a story about an attempted revolution, I realized that
-Dostoyevsky’s reputation is well-deserved. Dostoyevsky was a great observer of
-human nature. He depicts characters in profound detail. Dostoyevsky's writing
-can feel long and meandering at times. However, as character development goes,
-Dostoyevsky wastes no stroke of the brush. Demons is a book that anyone
-aspiring to bring about change through revolution, especially in the name of
-someone else's ideals, must read.
-
-## The Outsider
-
-Camus's own quote, "In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's
-funeral is liable to be condemned to death," summarizes the book quite well.
-The book is about the philosophy of the absurd: the contention between our
-propensity to seek meaning in a seemingly silent and indifferent universe. To
-appreciate the philosophical elements of this novel, check out The Myth of
-Sisyphus.
-
-## Frankenstein
-
-I first got to know the Frankenstein story through its popular derivatives. The
-book changed my impression of the story from one about a familiar monster to
-one about a poignant genius deserving empathy. Mary Shelley's intricate writing
-style is singularly captivating. In this list, Frankenstein is the most
-beautifully written book.
-
-## Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
-
-The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde needs no introduction. I'm drawn to
-Stevenson's writing style the same way I am to Mary Shelley's. Both writers
-evoke deep feelings and paint vivid images using simple language. The economy
-of their language lacks neither precision nor power. If I could write like any
-author, I would choose Mary Shelley or Stevenson.
-
-## Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four
-
-Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 are inseparable, visionary novels
-that depict dystopian futures from two extremes. For some reason, I felt Brave
-New World lacked something despite being the more prescient of the two. It may
-be Orwell's eloquence overshadowing Huxley's brilliance. In any event, these
-two books are more relevant today than they've ever been.
-
-## Memoirs of a Madman
-
-Another one of Gogol's brilliant short stories. Presented in the form of
-Aksenty Ivanovich's diary, the story documents the government clerk's descent
-into madness. His obsession with social status and self-aggrandizement leads
-him on a trajectory of envy, wounded pride, and outright insanity.
-
-<div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes">
-  <ol>
-    <li>
-      <a href="https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/flowers-for-algernon/about-flowers-for-algernon"
-        class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Cliff's Notes </a>
-    </li>
-  </ol>
-</div>
-