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<h2 class="center" id="title">AWESOME BOOKS</h2>
<h6 class="center">20 APRIL 2025</h5>
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<div class="threecol justify"><p>This article contains a list of my favourite books.</p>
<h2 id="cloud-atlas">Cloud Atlas</h2>
<p>This highly creative novel rekindled my love of fiction. Cloud Atlas is a
collection of six tales linked across time. As the novel unfolds, each story
riffles over the previous ones, like a pack of playing cards.</p>
<h2 id="enders-game">Ender’s Game</h2>
<p>In this sci-fi novel, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a young boy, is drafted to lead a
squad of young children in an offensive against an alien race. It’s a complex
story that touches upon various political and philosophical issues. Those
perceived as gifted by others (and alienated for it) will likely connect with
Ender.</p>
<h2 id="flowers-for-algernon">Flowers for Algernon</h2>
<p>This novel, written as a series of progress reports, tells the story of Charlie
Gordon, a developmentally disabled man who acquires superhuman cognitive
abilities through an experimental medical procedure. For some reason, I felt a
deep connection with Charlie. If I had to pick a favourite book on this list,
that would be this.</p>
<h2 id="dead-souls">Dead Souls</h2>
<p>Nikolai Gogol is one of the most original authors I’ve read. Dead Souls is the
story of Ivanovich Chichikov, a traveling merchant who trades dead serfs.
Instead of simply describing them, Gogol develops realistic characters in
minute detail by employing theatrical clashes between them.</p>
<h2 id="the-overcoat">The Overcoat</h2>
<p>Gogol’s The Overcoat is one of the finest short stories I’ve read. Akaky
Akakievich, an impoverished government clerk, must buy a new overcoat. I
recommend reading Gogol before Dostoyevsky. What Gogol invented, Dostoyevsky
perfected.</p>
<h2 id="demons">Demons</h2>
<p>After reading Demons, a story about an attempted revolution, I realized that
Dostoevsky’s reputation is well-deserved. Dostoyevsky was a great observer of
the human psyche. The depth with which he depicts his characters is
unparalleled. Demons is a book that anyone aspiring to bring about change
through revolution must read.</p>
<h2 id="the-outsider">The Outsider</h2>
<p>Camus’s 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. To
appreciate the philosophical elements of this absurdist novel, you may also
want to check out The Myth of Sisyphus.</p>
<h2 id="frankenstein">Frankenstein</h2>
<p>I’m not sure why I found this story so charming. Perhaps it’s a deep-felt
empathy for Victor Frankenstein. Maybe it’s the rustic descriptions of places
I’d never seen. After reading the book, I traveled Frankenstein’s trail from
Germany through Lucerne, Geneva, and Scotland.</p>
<h2 id="strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde">Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="brave-new-world-and-nineteen-eighty-four">Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="memoirs-of-a-madman">Memoirs of a Madman</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<p class="post-author right italics">by W. D. Sadeep Madurange</p>
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