Google says there are 129,864,880 books in the world. Oscar Wilde asked once “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? “ Well… the idea of happiness is a question to ponder. But, if it involves books, we can take a step towards our library and let our phones buzz for a while. 

To mark, #BookLoversDay we have come with a list of books. The ninth day of August is celebrated each year to encourage bibliophiles with their reading pursuits. 

Days such as these become important to celebrate reading and literature. Not just adults but for children also, this day might serve as an opportunity to pursue a new hobby.

1. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
   
   
   

2. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

   

    

3. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

   

    

4. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

   

5. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

   

    

6. 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

   

    

7. 1984, George Orwell

   

    

8. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

   

    

9. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

   

    

10. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

    

     

11. Life of Pi, Yann Martel

    

     

12. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

    

     

13. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

    

     

14. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

    

     

15. The Stranger, Albert Camus

    

     

16. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

    

     

17. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

    

     

18. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee

    

     

19. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

    

     

20. Maus, Art Spiegelman

    

     

21. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

    

     

22. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

    

     

23. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

    

     

24. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi

    

     

25. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright

    

     

26. Beloved, Toni Morrison

    

     

27. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

    

     

28. The Art of War, Sun Tzu

    

     

29. Gender Trouble, Judith Butler

    

     

30. Freedom from Fear, Aung San Suu Kyi

    

     

31. Nationalism, Rabindranath Tagore

    

    Have you read any of these books?