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Reading engages the mind and therefore it is recommended to read daily as it reduces stress. Independent reading contributes to enhancing reading skills. Reading helps improve vocabulary, become more proficient. Reading non-fiction means enjoying the reality. Non-fiction has its own flavour. It\u2019s like having a conversation with the writer. It enables one to think outside the box and to create their own ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While fiction sometimes takes you to the imaginative world, non-fiction unfolds the reality you get to know real people and their lives. 2) Non-fiction enlightens one with a specific idea of subjectivity. It also gives knowledge in a specific subject which helps in learning new things. 3) It provides you with facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThere is something almost literary about the process of understanding deep history. There is, above all, the business of being able to read correctly what the different layers of rock and sediment tell us about life on Earth. There is the business of being able to read the signs around us of the living record, and to learn to think in the long, rather than short term. It is instructive to discover that we can date the concept of extinction to the year: 1795, when Georges Cuvier examined some recently removed mastodon bones from the graves and realised that the concept of a divinely ordered animal kingdom was invalid, and that species could be lost forever. It would seem now, though, that the panic is entirely down to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Author- Elizabeth Kolbert<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Publisher-Bloomsbury India<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price- Rs.449<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n From one of America\u2019s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage\u2014and a life, in good times and bad\u2014that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.This powerful book is Didion\u2019 s attempt to make sense of the \u201cweeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Joan Didion <\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-RHUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.799<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a book about that much-maligned, much-misunderstood generation coming up behind the slackers, who are being intelligent and active about the world in which they find themselves. It is a world in which all that is \u2018alternative\u2019 is sold, where any innovation or subversion is immediately adopted by un-radical, faceless corporations. But, gradually, tentatively, a new generation is beginning to fight consumerism with its own best weapons; and it is the first skirmish in this war that this abrasively intelligent book documents brilliantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Naomi Klein<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher- Fourth Estate<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.699<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes’s only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Ted Hughes <\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher- Faber & Faber<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.2470<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The son of a black African father and a white American mother, President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author- Barack Obama<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher- Random House<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.599<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Was there a beginning of time?Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Stephen Hawking <\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-Bantam<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.399<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Millions of words have poured forth about man’s trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves – in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Tom Wolfe<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-Picador<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.17494<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at- Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Very exciting this case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n John Leonard in The New York Times ,His most important book, Orientalism established a new benchmark for discussion of the West’s skewed view of the Arab and Islamic world. Simon Louvish in the New Statesman & Society .Edward Said speaks for interdisciplinarity as well as for monumental eruditionThe breadth of reading [is] astonishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fred Inglis in The Times Higher Education Supplement .A stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author- Edward W. Said <\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.499<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Michael Herr and Kevin Powers<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-Picador<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene’s eye view of evolution – a view giving center stage to these persistent units of information and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Richard Dawkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-Oxford University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.450<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consumer her. Originally entitled “A Solitary Soul,” this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin’s last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as “beautifully written.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author-Kate Chopin <\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher-RHUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price- Rs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy at – Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n2. The Year of Magical Thinking <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3. No Logo <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
4. Birthday Letters <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
5. Dreams from My Father<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
6. A Brief History of Time <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
7. The Right Stuff <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
8. Orientalism <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
9. Dispatches <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
10. The Selfish Gene<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
11. The Awakenings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n