The novel is set during the Emergency in the mid-1970s, a period marked by huge political unrest and human rights violations, including detention, torture and forced sterilisation. Indira Gandhi is never named, just referred to as the "prime minister", but she is a sinister presence.

Love in the Time of Cholera tells the story of an epic love triangle, set in a fictional city in Marquez's home country of Colombia in the late 1800s / early 1900s. Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall in love in their early twenties, but a combination of uncontrollable and unforeseen circumstances prevent them from getting married.

The 51 short stories collected in Bitter Fruit are considered by Khalid Hasan (the translator) to be Manto?s best works. Almost all of Manto's stories discuss topics that continue to be considered too seditious even today. It is for this reason the subject matter is not for the faint-hearted.

Atticus Finch is a white lawyer hired to defend Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. A coming-of-age story of an intelligent, unconventional girl To Kill A Mockingbird portrays Scout's growing awareness of the hypocrisy and prejudice prevelant in the adult world.

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher?s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

The protagonist of Book Thief Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb

Mitch Albom's professor Morrie Schwartz became a philosophical guide and mentor to him in his college years, but they lost touch after he graduated. Fifteen years later, Albom rediscovers Morrie, who is in the last stages of his life, also rediscovering the guide and friend he knew and valued years ago. Morrie resumes his role as a teacher in Mitch?s life, although this time the lessons are not academic in nature, but rather about life itself.