I haven't been much of a book reader, I'm more of a movie guy. But this summer I've worked on making a strong reading habit. I've started many titles, mostly fiction, but finished just a few. So, I can't really decide a favourite book yet coz I 've got so much more to read...

But what I can do is share my experience so far. So, my bookshelf looks something like this:

Harry potter one(read)
The alienist(read)
The handmaid's tale(read)
The kind worth killing(read)
The Shining(read)
Sharp objects(reading)
The angel of darkness(reading)
1984(reading)

So, these are the books I've started and finished only in this summer, apart from these I've read some other classics by Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens etc. but a long time ago. Out of the above that I've completed, I enjoyed almost each one but what really stayed with me is The Alienist. I was truly mesmerized by it. Caleb Carr did an exceptional job at crafting the characters, plot and the environment. Every character had a very definitive role in the story arc, characters were true to their nature. The book is a dark gritty tale of a psychologist and his team in pursuit of a dark and twisted killer of boy whores in New york, 1896. I don't wanna spoil it for anyone but the way they make a physical profile of a killer based on psychological assumptions made by examining the bodies is truly amazing.

But there is this book, 1984 by George Orwell, that I'm currently reading that is so well written and so full of horror and dread. I am reading this book and I am beginning to appreciate the freedom that I enjoy. George Orwell is really the master of political satire and fiction, an attribute well depicted in Animal Farm. 1984 is his take on a pure dystopian, totalitarian world where basic civil rights of privacy and freedom of speech are the biggest crimes. I'm so impressed by this book that it might become my favourite book.