Six books you absolutely have to read before you die.

Books are more than just tools for passing time. They are mediums through which one can escape reality. A good book rids you of the worries of the world and introduce you to different alternate universes and allows you to lose yourself in them. These ten books changed the way I see the world. Though they are all fiction their effect are very real


10. Sleeping Beauty By Phillip Margolin

Seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer learned what true horror was the night a serial killer invaded her home and brutally murdered her father and her best friend. But the terror did not end there . . .
A year after the unspeakable events, Ashley is still trying to piece together what is left of her life. But the nightmare is reawakened at the elite private school that had appeared to be a safe haven for Ashley and her mother, Terri, when a new book called Sleeping Beauty hits the national bestseller lists—a shattering true account of the crimes that ripped Ashleys world apart.
And now Ashley must run for her life

9. All Around The Town By Mary Higgins Clark

 College student, Laurie Kenyon has been accused of murdering her English professor. She claims to have absolutely no memory of this, and is at a loss to explain how her fingerprints are all over the murder scene and the murder weapon.
Laurie's sister is an attorney and she brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly to help with the defense. Justin learns that Laurie was kidnapped at age four and reunited with her family two years later. Those two years have been lost to Laurie as she has repressed horrible memories.
Laurie begins to suffer strange emotional states and unexplained anxiety attacks since beginning her therapy. Nearing a breakthrough, Laurie begins to fear she may have actually killed the English professor. Justin Donnelly feels Laurie's lost years can unlock the present mystery. He is close to uncovering the truth but it may not be in time

8. If Tomorrow Comes By Sidney Sheldon

If tomorrow comes is a memorable novel. As everybody say you won't leave this novel until and unless you would finish it. The story revolves around The protagonist Tracy. Who was about to be married and ended up being a prisoner. The novel truly depicts the hardships of prison life. How she was being bullied by other prisoner. Her baby was also being aborted because of she was raped by other prisoner. How she learnt to survive in this hard life. Her release from the prison made her decide to take revenge from her family and friends who forced her in to this prison. The rest of the novels revolves around her skillfulness in burgalary as well as stealing expensive things like jewelary, paintings etc. In this high course she met another top ranked burglar Jeff. Though both hated each other but at the end they fell in love. There is also a psychotic insurance detective who was obsessed with the idea of catching Tracy. How she managed to escape from this detective as well as Interpol and FBI.

It is by far my favourite SIdney Sheldon novel.The pace of the story is really fast. Not at a single instance you feel that the writer is wasting the space. Though writer has promoted stealing and cheating that is not good for teenage mind. But once you read sydney sheldon you would fall in love with him. Do grab one copy of this novel to get a taste of his writing.

7. The Fault In Our Stars By John Green

He’s in remission from the osteosarcoma that took one of his legs. She’s fighting the brown fluid in her lungs caused by tumors. Both know that their time is limited.

Sparks fly when Hazel Grace Lancaster spies Augustus “Gus” Waters checking her out across the room in a group-therapy session for teens living with cancer. He’s a gorgeous, confident, intelligent amputee who always loses video games because he tries to save everyone. She’s smart, snarky and 16; she goes to community college and jokingly calls Peter Van Houten, the author of her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, her only friend besides her parents. He asks her over, and they swap novels. He agrees to read the Van Houten and she agrees to read his—based on his favorite bloodbath-filled video game. The two become connected at the hip, and what follows is a smartly crafted intellectual explosion of a romance. From their trip to Amsterdam to meet the reclusive Van Houten to their hilariously flirty repartee, readers will swoon on nearly every page. Green’s signature style shines: His carefully structured dialogue and razor-sharp characters brim with genuine intellect, humor and desire. He takes on Big Questions that might feel heavy-handed in the words of any other author: What do oblivion and living mean? Then he deftly parries them with humor: “My nostalgia is so extreme that I am capable of missing a swing my butt never actually touched.” Dog-earing of pages will no doubt ensue.

Green seamlessly bridges the gap between the present and the existential, and readers will need more than one box of tissues to make it through Hazel and Gus’ poignant journey.


6. The Long Road Home By Danielle Steele

 how strong can a person be in a life so filled with horror, pain and triumph? Gabriella Harrison is truly an inspiration to us all in "The Long Road Home."

As a small child, the main character, Gabriella Harrison knew her life was not like other children's. Eloise, her mother, was a self-centered women, never spent anytime with Gabriella, unless to criticize or beat her. Her father, John Harrison, weak and timid, did nothing to defend his daughter or stand up to his wife. Her father used the excuse he was afraid of how serious the beatings would get if he opened his mouth. Eventually, her father left them. Eloise finally met another man, Frank Waterford. With the thought of Gabriella getting in the way of her new found happiness, she left Gabriella on the doorstep, as a small child, of the local convent to stay in the care of the sisters. Never speaking with her parents again, she found safety. In her teen years, she met a young priest, Father Joe Connors, who made her feel like a women, after no longer being able to deny their feelings, they went against what the church stood for. Upon her dismissal from the church and a tragedy that would change her world forever, she was put into an unfamiliar world and there her "Long Road Home" began. She took up residence at a local boarding home where she discovered a new family. Professor Thomas became her mentor and showed her the way in her writings to become a published author. After starting a relationship with a new boarder, her horror of the past became an open wound. Her strength allowed her to pull through and with this strength met a doctor, Peter Mason who stood by her side through her ordeal. With love again on the horizon, she had to close the doors that haunted her past before beginning her future.