In 1922, an Austrian writer named Hugo Bettauer published a novel set in Vienna called The City Without Jews. In 1925, a young man tried to assassinate him for his work.

My first year was just grappling with the fact that the designation of the business card doesn’t mean much and there are real things you have to do. -Radhika Gupta

In her book, Gadsby offers a complex and nuanced account of life in small-town Tasmania in the 1980s and 90s, with heartfelt portraits of people who mattered to her.

A trip to Morocco left Anna Delvey’s friend Rachel DeLoache Williams footing a bill of 62,000 dollars. She later wrote a book about being conned by her “friend”.

Here is a list of some of the classics by Ruskin Bond which can definitely be part of your kids reading list.

“No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much,’” bell hooks once wrote, “Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’… No woman has ever written enough.”

On a stamp, really, the nerve… How ever will I live it down… How cringe. How eye-rolling: Margaret Atwood.

The book is inspired by the martyrdom of 76 CRPF personnel who were killed in a Naxalite attack in Dantewada, in April 2010.

Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and many other books of the genre prioritise unhelpful stereotypes over more subtle psychological states.

Amidst the crisis, here are some books that might help you brighten up your mood.