Keeping up with the trending bucket challenges, here goes my list of books that were close to me as a kid:
1. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie [Pushed me towards reading a lot of other Agatha books, and got me hooked to stories with detectives in them]
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.'Nuff said!]
3. Harry Potter series- J K Rowling [Understood what going "viral" meant during the book releases; These books were just selling all over the place]
4. Treasure Island - R.L.Stevenson [Ships! Pirates! Treasures! Mutiny!]
5. Malgudi Days - R K Narayan [A beautiful collection of short stories set in a South Indian town,Malgudi. Classic!]
6. The Adventures of Asterix [Epic humour and stereotyping! It was about the fights between the villagers of the indomitable Gauls and the invading Romans. Asterix and Obelix just thumped the Romans and Caesar everytime.]
7. The Phantom - Lee Falk [NOTE: Phantom is one of the most badass characters ever. A signature of the Phantom is his two rings. One has four crossing sabres on it - "The Good Mark", that he leaves on visitors whom he befriends, placing the person under his protection. The other, "The Evil Mark" or "Skull Mark" has a skull shape, which leaves a scar of the corresponding shape on the enemies he punches with it. They are marked for life and should live in fear of the phantom. One of the first superheroes that I had liked; He was like the Batman of that time. No superpowers. But, never failed to kick ass. The entire comic strip was just amazing!]
8. Goosebumps - R.L.Stine [Those special editions where the reader could choose how the story proceeds and jump to pages based on this choice were too good!]
9. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling [Learned a few Hindi words for the first time! Baloo the bear,Bagheera the black panther,Shere Khan - Tiger King?]
10.The Arabian Nights [Sinbad,Aladdin,Genies and their wishes,Flying carpets,Arabian dancers!]
Apart from these, all those Indian classics on Akbar and Birbal,Tenali Raman and so many others, and the Secret Sevens,Famous Fives, and finally, the P G Wodehouse classics on Jeeves and Woosters.
Phew!
1. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie [Pushed me towards reading a lot of other Agatha books, and got me hooked to stories with detectives in them]
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.'Nuff said!]
3. Harry Potter series- J K Rowling [Understood what going "viral" meant during the book releases; These books were just selling all over the place]
4. Treasure Island - R.L.Stevenson [Ships! Pirates! Treasures! Mutiny!]
5. Malgudi Days - R K Narayan [A beautiful collection of short stories set in a South Indian town,Malgudi. Classic!]
6. The Adventures of Asterix [Epic humour and stereotyping! It was about the fights between the villagers of the indomitable Gauls and the invading Romans. Asterix and Obelix just thumped the Romans and Caesar everytime.]
7. The Phantom - Lee Falk [NOTE: Phantom is one of the most badass characters ever. A signature of the Phantom is his two rings. One has four crossing sabres on it - "The Good Mark", that he leaves on visitors whom he befriends, placing the person under his protection. The other, "The Evil Mark" or "Skull Mark" has a skull shape, which leaves a scar of the corresponding shape on the enemies he punches with it. They are marked for life and should live in fear of the phantom. One of the first superheroes that I had liked; He was like the Batman of that time. No superpowers. But, never failed to kick ass. The entire comic strip was just amazing!]
8. Goosebumps - R.L.Stine [Those special editions where the reader could choose how the story proceeds and jump to pages based on this choice were too good!]
9. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling [Learned a few Hindi words for the first time! Baloo the bear,Bagheera the black panther,Shere Khan - Tiger King?]
10.The Arabian Nights [Sinbad,Aladdin,Genies and their wishes,Flying carpets,Arabian dancers!]
Apart from these, all those Indian classics on Akbar and Birbal,Tenali Raman and so many others, and the Secret Sevens,Famous Fives, and finally, the P G Wodehouse classics on Jeeves and Woosters.
Phew!
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