The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth was the first novel I read, at sixteen, picked at random from a bookcase in Bhilai during a summer too hot for cricket.

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed asks whether removing government actually makes anyone free. On unwritten rules, groupthink, and growing up in India.

Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, published in 1993 and set in 2025, reads like today's news. A review.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes tells you everything that will happen on page one. Knowing doesn't help. A personal take on one of the strangest, saddest novels ever written.

Stoner by John Williams, the 1965 novel about an ordinary academic life that I read in six days in February 2024 and couldn't stop thinking about.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons is one of the best science fiction novels ever written. Vast worlds, dark pilgrimage, and six stories that don't let go.