What Authors Love To Read

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    • Publish Date: Nov 12 2016 6:05PM
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What Authors Love To Read

Shashi Tharoor 
Author of 15 books, Member of Parliament and former bureaucrat, Dr Shashi Tharoor is said to be an "eclectic reader". So in a recent interview when we asked Dr Tharoor to tell us his personal favourite books and the ones which he would recommend others to read, no wonder, his list was endless! "Gosh, there are too many! I still enjoy the classics, from the Mahabharata to Shakespeare, from Kalidasa to Dickens. I’m a rather eclectic reader who loves P.G. Wodehouse and Gabriel Garcia Marquez almost equally. And there’s terrific work being done by a lot of Indian writers, both in English and in Indian languages (which are benefitting from increasingly readable translations). There’s just so much to read that you can’t go wrong wherever you start!," he said.


J K Rowling 

Best-selling children's book author J.K Rowling shared that Jo March from Little Women is her favourite literary character, when she was asked about it in an interview. "It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer," Rowling told the New York Times.

Paulo Coelho
"Topic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Miller is the writer who gave me the initial stimulus to write... Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. I read one of Borges’ short stories in a science-fiction magazine when I was 20, and I immediately fell in love with his style and his universe... Or I’ll Dress You in Mourning by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins... Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado... The Stranger by Albert Camus- I read it in my 30s and was fascinated by Camus’ simple and direct language... 1984 by George Orwell- was impressed by its visionary quality," Paulo Coelho revealed to The Week. Coelho is best known for his books The Alchemist, Veronica Decides To Die, among others.

Aravind Adiga
Man Booker Prize winning author Aravind Adiga shared that he is impressed with Arjun Subramaniam's book India's Wars. In an interview with The Times of India, he said, "Over the past few years, I've made a concerted effort to read novels that were originally written in three Indian languages — Kannada, Tamil, and Marathi. How can one not admire the intelligence and daring of writers like S L Bhyrappa and Vijay Tendulkar?... This is not to say we don't have extremely fine writers in English; I admire Adil Jussawalla, Amitav Ghosh, and Ram [Ramachandra] Guha very much. Excellent new writers are always emerging, and often from unexpected places. Air vice-marshal Arjun Subramaniam's 'India's Wars' has impressed me with its lucid analysis of our military conflicts with Pakistan and China." 

Oprah Winfrey

Talk show host, actress, producer and philathropist, Oprah Winfrey has also penned down books which includes a memoir. When asked about her 10 favourite books from the 2000s in an interview in O Magazine, she mentioned these: Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Night by Elie Wiesel, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and The Known World by Edward P. Jones.


Which one is your favourite?

 

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Palaash Agarwal DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL ROHINI

I like Paulo Coelho books because they are really interesting and transparently shows lessons of life,like to follow your destiny & to become a content person.

Payal Taparia BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

I like J. K .Rowling books because the plots always turns to be exhilarating and thrilling. She inspires me to write and imagine.....

Ambuja Rani Ryan International School

HARRY POTTER ! FAMOUS FIVE! J.K Rowling and Enid Blyton are my inspiration

Ambuja Rani Ryan International School

Even Roald Dahl writes good though charlie and the chocolate factory and Matilda are good.They are must read books

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