10. Fahrenheit 451
9. Midnight’s Children
8. Where The Sidewalk Ends
7. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Humans of New York
5. Milk and Honey
4. The Great Gatsby
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
1. Life of Pi
Do you ever want to just escape reality, even if it’s just for a little bit? I do. In order to do this, I read. There are millions of amazing books out there and it took me forever to select to just 10.
I chose the 10 that I did for certain reasons as they are so special to me yet obviously in different ways and for different reasons.
When selecting a book, I like to keep the following in mind: I want to be entertained, I want to escape and I want to feel something. Whether I hate the characters or love them; feel sadness or happiness; if I laugh, cry, question life, etc.; I need to feel something. If this happens, the author did their job.
F451 and Midnight’s Children make you think… about everything. Where The Sidewalk Ends is brilliant and Milk and Honey is pure and raw. TKAM is a classic about courage and empathy and The Great Gatsby is an obsessive and passionate story about idealism and social upheaval. It’s tragic, yet mysteriously beautiful. Anne Frank is a legacy. Humans of New York is so real and introduces you to strangers who are more like you than you think. Five People is a philosophical novel about life and death and teaches you “there are no random acts in life”. Life of Pi shows you that you can choose your own story in life. It’s truly magnificent.
Want to escape? Read one of these. I promise you that you will fall in love.
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