Raja Sharma: 465 books

“The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold was first published in 2002. The story revolves around a teenage girl. Having been raped and murdered, the girl finds herself in her personal heaven.From her personal heaven, she watches the struggles of her family while trying to move on with their lives....

“Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler was first published in 1979. It is one of the bestselling science fictions. It is partly the story of time travel and partly a slave narrative. The book has continued to become more and more popular since its first publication.It is noticeable that “Kindred”...

“The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers was first published in 1940. It was the author’s debut novel. When the book was published, Caron McCullers was only twenty-three-year old.The story revolves around John Singer who can neither speak nor listen. The novel details his life...

“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster was first published in 1961. It is a highly successful children’s adventure novel. It is also categorized as a modern fairy tale. The illustrations in the book have been provided by Jules Feiffer.The story revolves around a young boy named Milo....

“The View from Saturday” by E. L. Koningsburg was first published in 1996. It is a children’s novel. The book was the winner of the Newberry Medal for Excellence in American Children’s Literature in 1997.The book has a highly significant narrative form. The narrative keeps shifting...

“Untouchable” by the Indian novelist and short story writer Mulk Raj Anand was first published in 1935. The novel brought the author both name and fame, and consequently he got established as one of India’s leading English writers.Once, Mulk Raj Anand’s aunt had a meal with a Muslim...

“The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton was first published in 1967. It is a coming-of-age novel. The author had started writing this novel when she was only fifteen years old, but she wrote the major part of the book in the sixteenth year of her life when she was a junior in high school.When her...

“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett was first published in the year 1910. The first publication of the book was in the form of a serial. Eventually, it was published in the form of a complete novel in 1911.It is considered as one of the most popular novels written by Burnett....

“The Golden Ass” was originally titled ‘The Metamorphoses of Apuleius.’ St. Augustine later named it as “The Golden Ass.” It happens to be the only Ancient Roman novel in Latin that has survived in its entirety.It is a highly allegorical an amusing novel, not only known for its...

“Left to Tell” by Immaculée Ilibagiza was first published in 2006. This memoir describes in complete details how she went through an ordeal to survive the Rwandan Genocide.The Rwandan Genocide had taken place in 1994. The book was published 12 years after that tragedy.The genocide...

"Nisa" by Marjorie Shostak was first published by Harvard University Press in 1981. The book is subtitled "The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman."The book brought a lot of name and fame to the author. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She successfully completed her major course in English Literature...

Although it is a complete novel, it is divided into five short stories or novella. There is a preface written by the author in the second edition of the novel.The novel has three major narrators. The first narrator is an unnamed young officer in the Russian army. He happens to be travelling...

“The City of Ember” by Jeanne DuPrau was first published in 2003. It is a post apocalyptic science fiction novel. The story is about an underground city called Ember. The citizens of the city have never seen nor heard about the world that exists on the surface of the earth. The infrastructure...

“Atlas Shrugged" was Rand’s fourth and last novel. It was first published in 1957. It was her longest novel. Rand considered “Atlas Shrugged” to be her magnum opus in novel writing. Its working title was “The Strike.” The plot of the story revolves around a dystopian United...