Let's ride the wave of popular fiction this month with The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone and This Is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill. 

This Is Pleasure Free Online: https://www.newyorker.com/books/novellas/this-is-pleasure

Nobody on this Earth looks forward to reading long books but this month we are facing that fear head on with four 500+ page books. Let's discuss The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington, Emma by Jane Austen, The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang and Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin. 

Emma Audiobook: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GPOv72Awo68

2008 Financial Crisis Crash Course: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4ccAKGgnA

As described in title, I rank every book I read in 2021. For those of you who are only interested in my new favourites, skip to 54:56. (For a quick summery of all the books check out my Instagram: Ten Pages In).

Despite reading Classics until I wished for death in 2021, I'm reading more in 2022. Let’s discuss: East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft and Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.

Let's talk about some classics: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Dracula by Bram Stoker, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer, Description of a Struggle and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. 

Resources:

Khan academy video: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/ancient-medieval/hinduism/v/varnas-and-caste-sytem

Netflix's Indian Matchmaking: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/putting-caste-system-in-its-place

Article: https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/globalcaste/caste0801-03.htm

Let's discuss some contemporary fiction: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.

Surprise! I read five books this month. Let's discuss Lost Hills By Lee Goldberg, Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, The Silence of Bones by June Hur and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.

For August we're going to look at The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman and Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman.

Discussion on Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien.