My love of reading is no secret. But my ever-growing TBR pile has been — until now.

Some of these are highbrow ‘classics’ and some are just plain fun. Because, for me, reading is about having fun. It’s about reading what you want, not what you ‘should’.

Of course, expect this collection to evolve between your visits. Literature in motion, if you will — fuelled by a health dose of your recommendations, too.

  • The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion

  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (one of my father’s favourite books)

  • The Disappearing Act, Florence de Changy

  • A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

  • Thank You, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse

  • Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon

  • Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi

  • Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

  • Heartburn, Nora Ephron

  • Animal Farm, George Orwell

  • Brick Lane, Monica Ali

  • Wow, No Thank You., Samantha Irby

  • The Little Book of Sloth Philosophy, Jennifer McCartney

  • Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

  • Jane Eyre, Jane Austen

  • The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

  • A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

  • A Promised Land, Barack Obama

  • White Teeth, Zadie Smith

  • The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday

  • Happy City, Charles Montgomery

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson

  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie

  • Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enríquez

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Do get in touch with a must-read or two of your own, and they may just find their way onto this (pretty tightly curated) list.

There are only a handful of activities that bring me as much joy as reading. Writing about reading is one of them.

Arm yourself with a warm mug of something comforting and curl up with a book-themed blog post of your choice:

Cover image captured in my secret spot amongst the hills of Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India.