Words, when spoken become our truth, written become education, unspoken become regrets, collated on paper become a book. Books are a personal experience, they enable different people to associate different feelings with them. But the one feeling they evoke in everyone, is of comfort—like visiting an old friend. Not to forget the layers it holds, much like its reader. Different literature brings amenity to different people, it doesn’t discriminate. It aids powerless to become powerful and powerful to become better individuals.
For a long time, I had forgotten about how ink on paper can make you feel at home. I forgot how it felt like being transported into worlds that existed only for you, how I learned lessons from characters that changed me, and how wisdom from those I always wanted to interview helped. There’s also a certain solace in knowing that whatever I want to learn, achieve or relearn in life, there exists a book that will guide me. What brought me back were some great recommendations that could end the worst of reading slumps. Ever since, I’ve been reading, however slowly or quickly, books that make me reflect, cry, laugh and just feel more than plain existence.
And so, we’ve gone above and beyond, to broaden our perspective and get you the best of the best. We talked to some cool, smart and weird people to scout for books that left a mark on them. These recommendations represent not only the countless hours spent writing but also the hours spent reading and thinking thereafter. In hopes to turn you, whoever you are, into picking up a book and making your world bigger.
