The White Book
Han Kang’s The White Book is a poetic and meditative work about white objects, grief, memory, loss, healing, and the sister she never met.
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is a reflective literary novel set aboard a space station, where astronauts observe Earth and think about humanity, nature, memory, and the fragility of life.
Human Acts
Han Kang’s Human Acts is a powerful novel about the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, state violence, grief, trauma, memory, and survival.
Marginlands
Arati Kumar-Rao’s Marginlands takes readers through India’s vanishing landscapes, showing how climate change, development, and ecological neglect affect ordinary people.
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a promising young woman whose life slowly gives way to alienation, depression, and a crisis of identity.
India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
Audrey Truschke’s India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent offers a broad overview of Indian history, political myths, social reform, caste, women, and historical debates.
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Faith and Fury
Jyoti Yadav’s Faith and Fury documents the human cost of Covid in India’s villages and small towns, focusing on migrant workers, rural distress, state failure, and lives left out of the national narrative.
Forensics
Forensics – What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid is a fascinating exploration of the science behind criminal investigations.
The Inconvenient Indian
Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian examines Indigenous history in North America through colonialism, land dispossession, treaties, identity, and popular culture.
The Making of Canada
A concise and engaging review of The Making of Canada by Greg Koabel, tracing the country’s formation from early European exploration to Confederation through the lives of the individuals who shaped its history.