Odd ones on the left.
Author: André Aciman
Rating: 4/5
Updated Rating (31/10/18): 5/5
Seventeen-year-old Elio Perlman spends the summer in his family’s villa in Italy. Oliver, a graduate student, stays with the Perlman, working on his manuscript and helping out Elio’s father. Over the course of six weeks, a romance blooms between the two. But all things, whether good or bad, must come to an end.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rating: 5/5
This is the story of the little prince who leaves his home-asteroid and travels the universe. On his journey, the prince meets our narrator, a pilot stranded in the middle of the Sahara desert.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Stephen Fry
Rating: 4/5
Dive into the world of Greek myths and legends from the beginning of chaos to the rise of the primordial deities to the takeover of the gods to the kindling of humanity. It’s one heck of a ride.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Rating: 5/5
The Pianist is a memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman’s experiences during Germany’s occupation of Warsaw. I can’t say anything else. Just read the book.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Thanhha Lai
Rating: 5/5
When the Vietnam War reaches her home, Hà and her family flee to the States in search of a better life.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Katherine Addison
Rating: 2/5
Maia is not ready to be Emperor. All his life, he has lived in exile with an abusive uncle while his father, the late Emperor, pretended he didn’t exist. All this changes when Maia’s father and half-brothers are killed in an airship crash. Maia must rise up and take the helm of the kingdom.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Neal Shusterman
Rating: 5/5
Rowan has become a renegade, Citra has become an honourable scythe, and the scythedom is on the brink of ruin. Also, things get a lot more political.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Neal Shusterman
Rating: 5/5
When Citra and Rowan are offered an apprenticeship by a Scythe, they are less than ecstatic. Sure, their families will get immunity for a year if they ever become Scythes but who would want a lonely life filled with gleaning people?
Spoilers ahead.
Author: David Arnold
Rating: 2/5
Mim Malone is dragged to Mississippi to live with her father’s new family. When she hears that her mother is sick, Mim runs away from home, heading for Cleveland. Along the way, her life takes some detours, not all unwelcome, and Mim realises that perhaps there’s more to life than meets the eye.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Paula Yoo
Rating: 5/5
Patti Yoon is a perfect Korean daughter (or at least she strives to be)–perfect As, a music prodigy and bound for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. But as her senior year draws to an end, Patti questions all the decisions she has made. Is success synonymous to happiness?
Spoilers ahead.
Earnestly Eccentric 