Hello! Today I wanted to share with you 10 of my favorite books of all times. A bit of backstory for this post. A month back I won one of those Facebook raffles, where the winner would get a book given by a book blogger called Libros de Pastel (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-which is my fav), and a handcrafts page called Clover, who would give away a hand painted and framed picture of the winner’s 10 favorite books. I was really excited to have won, but the choice of my top 10 was a really difficult one, so I tried to choose from different genres. Here they are from top to bottom:
- The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl (Crime and Mystery, 424 pages)
If you’ve read the Divine Comedy and loved it, this book is for you. Our story takes place on the streets of nineteenth-century Boston and we follow a group of scholars who are reading, translating and discussing Dante Alighieri’s work. It’s interesting to note that Matthew Pearl used real historic figures, such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields, and Longfellow did get help from the Dante Club in finishing the translation of the Divine Comedy from Italian to English.
All around the city there’s been a series of grisly murders and they soon come to realize that they resemble the punishments sinners receive in death in the first book of the Divine Comedy: Inferno. At this time, the Divine Comedy was not known and so, afraid that they would be the prime suspects due to their intimate knowledge of the books or that it would poison the public’s perception of the poet, the scholars decide against going to the police. They are determined to catch the murderer themselves. The book reads like a Victorian Era detective story and it’s really great.
2. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan (Young Adult, Mythology – 377 pages)
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