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Author: Marie Lu
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780142422076
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Legend is a young adult dystopian debut novel by a Chinese- American author, Marie Lu. It is the first book in the trilogy and will be followed by Prodigy and Champion. The story is told from two alternating points of view: June who is a 15 year old Nobel citizen ,who  has a perfect score in her trial exam and is trying to avenge her brother’s death,  and Day who is also 15 but is a notorious criminal who is only trying to survive after escaping death. In my opinion, he should get the award for the most tortured YA hero! They are born on opposite sides of an ongoing war in a futuristic Los Angeles in the Republic of America.

Fans of Swedish crime fiction can look forward to a treat in Johan Theorin’s Echoes from the Dead. It has all the requisite criteria of a gripping thriller. A story stretched across time and an eerie atmosphere all infuses a timeless tale of betrayal and deceit. Add to it the setting: the island of Oland set in the Baltic Sea. Unsurprisingly, the island has its fair share of tales of strange happenings.

Author: Piyush Jha
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788129124272
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Bollywood director Piyush Jha’s new crime novel, Compass Box Killer, targets casual readers and appears to be adapted straight from a typical Bollywood masala thriller – ample pulpiness enmeshed in the broad canvas of crime, suspense, romance and revenge.

Revisionism is not a popular style when it comes to Indian Literature. There has never been many champions who had thought ‘what if a certain story of old’ was not how it actually happened and tried to look at the same story from a different perspective. Hence ‘Randamoozham’ or The Second Turn penned by Jnanpith award winner M.T.Vasudevan Nair, one of the living legends of Kerala literature, has to be held in high esteem.

Author:Milkha Singh and Sonia Sanwalka
Publisher:Rupa Books
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788129129109
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‘The Race of my Life’ is an autobiography of the world renowned athlete, ‘Milkha Singh’. The book is written by him, together with his daughter Sonia Sanwalka. The introduction is penned by JeevMilkha Singh (his son) and the foreword is graced by the words of popular director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The book encapsulates the journey of his life. It opens with Milkha’s birth and subsequently his family is introduced.

The Lowland starts as the tale of two brothers; Udayan the iconoclast, and Subhash the conformist.  Udayan becomes a revolutionary and ends up doomed, Subhash chooses to be just a regular guy in the pursuit of happiness – but with one exceptional action – the reverberations of which affect him deeply, all his life.

Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9781408844441
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" Mariam was 5 years old the first time she heard the word harami." and so begins Khaled Hosseini's saga about the lives of two women and how they are at the discretion of the fickle finger of fate.

Author: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788129124913
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, better known as A.P.J Abdul Kalam not only has a long name, but also a long legacy. This is the first time I picked up his one of his books, out of sheer curiosity. ‘My Journey’ was an introduction into the personal life of this dynamic ex-president of our country.

When supermodel Lula Landry (Cuckoo) was found dead on the pavement in front of her own building, everyone assumed it was a case of suicide. A few months later, her still unconvinced half-brother John Bistrow hires a private eye, Cormoran Strike, to re-investigate the case.

Author: John Marsden
Publisher: Joy Street Books
Year: 1987
ISBN: 978-1-84428-946-2
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Written in the form of a diary, John Marsden’s first young adults’ fiction So Much to Tell You is a beautiful narration of a young girl who is so affected by her past that she has become mute by choice. A praiseworthy feature here is that though the backdrop of this book hints at a depressing tone; this story proves to be an anomaly in this aspect.