Gillian Flynn made “domestic noir” a thing with Gone Girl. And ever since the normal household has become the setting for many thrillers. There are no great detectives or scheming villains – just your seemingly normal everyday family members dealing with seemingly normal everyday family issues.
One of the biggest challenges one faces while reading a book is coming across words and terms one does not understand. Of course, one can always consult a dictionary for meaning or dig out a reference ebook like an encyclopaedia or a Who’s Who or an atlas to find out more about a particular subject.
Time to pick up a book to read – but which one? Here is a list for 2021 for you – cutting across genres and selected since the beginning of mass publishing.
May 22 marks the birth anniversary of perhaps the greatest crime fiction writers of all time. Or well, definitely the creator of the most famous detective in literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created Sherlock Holmes was born on this day in 1859.
Fiction is packed with eccentric detectives. From Sherlock Holmes with his penchant for odd questions and drug habits to Poirot and his obsession with his moustache to Lindsey Davis’ Falco with his remarkable lack of morals…fiction has more than its share of detective oddballs.
Rage is easily the most devastating book anyone has written about a US President for a while.
Into Thin Air is perhaps the most readable book you will read about Everest and mountaineering.
Napoleon by Emil Ludwig does not give us just an idea of a person and his impact, but actually lets you wander inside his head for a while.
When you have read the last page of the book, you will know Jerusalem better than you could have figured out from any other book or video.
The series is based on a fantasy flay world (a disc) that is being carried by four elephants placed on the back of a turtle and it is hilarious.