Time to get back to reading, here are some of the best books you can read during this quarantine
The one good thing about this current period is having all the time in the world to get back to reading. Generally, we don’t find much time to delve into an enticing book and enjoy one of life’s simplest pleasures. Literature has the ability to take you to a different world. Here’s a list of books you should read to make yourself feel good and get some much-needed distraction from the pandemic:
- To Kill A Mockingbird: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a Pulitzer prize-winning story based on racial tensions, unfairness, and prejudice in Southern America. The story follows how the white lawyer Atticus Finch attempts to save the life of a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. The story is narrated through the lawyer’s daughter Scout Finch’s perspective.
- Great Expectations: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is widely considered as one of the greatest books of all time. It is the story of an orphan named Pip who wants to win the love of an upper-class girl, Estella.
- Lord of the Flies: Written by William Golding, a Nobel prize-winning author, Lord of the flies talks about a group of British boys stranded on a deserted tropical island and their disastrous attempt to get to civilization. A deep study into human nature, this novel explores what might happen if we are left without the framework of societal norms showing how humans can also behave like animals at times.
- Pride and Prejudice: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was published in the year 1813. Based on the Regency era, this novel talks about the importance of manners, education, and money. All the characters are very delicately introduced by Jane in this novel which is quite appealing to the readers.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: Nineteen Eighty-Four is the last novel written by George Orwell. Published in the year 1949, this book revolves around the mechanism of totalitarianism and society with mass surveillance. Basically, this book tries to examine the importance of truth and factual information in the political arena.