In a year that kept us at home, the Forbes India team found, or made, more time to read. Here's a compilation of our favourite books of the year
With most of us working from home for close to 10 months, we have finally taken some time to read books that were on our list for a long time or we, admittedly, finally finished those books that we had started reading a while back. In 2020, the Forbes India team has read books across genres, from Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine to Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi and It's All In Your Head, M by Manjiri Indurkar to Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. 2020 is nearly over (phew!), but you might consider adding this to your reading list for 2021:
Ruchika Shah’s picks
10 minutes 38 seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
Are you really dead when you die? Elif Shafak’s protagonist Tequila Leila is dead, but her brain takes 10 minutes, 38 seconds to shut down completely. In that time, building upon the adage, ‘your life flashes before your eyes as you die’, Tequila Leila tells us the story of her estranged family, the woman she could never call mother, her best friends in the world—The Five—and the despair of lying dead in a dumpster yet to be discovered.