Any Bibliophile here?

Nice to see a bibliophile thread. Returning to the Indiforum after what feels like ages (and possibly might be). Love to read, and I still consider myself a voracious reader. I'm reading Theodor Boone - The Scandal at present. :) 

One of the reasons why I joined Goodreads was for their giveaways. Back in 2008, I got many great books from those giveaways. However, as the number of users has increased many folds now, those have become hard to win. I won books from authors like Sandra Brown. I rely on libgen and freebookspot for ebooks. 

Hello Brown Potato! I don't write book reviews and neither am I  a bookworm. But I like reading books at my own pace, kind of slow reader who has picked up the pace only recently! :) I am currently reading The fault in our stars. And finished 'No man is an island' by Ruskin Bond before that. I really loved that one, short stories based on friendship and bonding, emphasizing on the human values and goodness in life. Have you read that book? I would love to have some recommendations for similar kind of books.

The usual suspects in this genre are Malgudi Days and any other RK Narayan book. Bond himself wrote a ton of them and you can pick up any book written by him to find any and all values you mentioned.

If you still want to feel good, try Khushwant Singh also, he wrote a good one in Train to Pakistan. Also Khaled Hosseini is not bad at all, probably a bit soapy, but effective if you want to feel 10 pounds heavier.

I'd also add Shantaram to this list. Definitely soapy and terribly feel-good

Happy Birthday by meghna pant. a collection of short stories celebrating the complex, mysterious inner lives of our fellow human beings is a great read. 

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.