Science Fictions always make a great reading choice. The books that Navtej Kohli savor are full of wit and wonder. If you too think in same vein, here are some great science fictions that you must read.
AMARYLLIS by TRICIA McGILL
SOUL OF A HUNTER by ANGELA VERDENIUS
THE KEY by PAULINE BAIRD JONES
SLEEPER AWAKE by Dr. BOB RICH
THE SOUL CAGES by NICOLE GIVENS KURTZSO, how many of these have you read?
If you’re fond of reading medical fiction, Navtej Kohli enlists some really good reads for the season.
1. Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
A woman’s intense belief that her husband will recover from a coma, and her ways of keeping in touch with him - and with the beauty of life - as she visits, works, and waits, comprise this emotionally satisfying story by the author of Talk Before Sleep. “Steeped in grace, with and compassion…so compelling you wish it would never end”. — Barbara Lazear
2. Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, is being destroyed by the act of saving people. Addicted to the thrill, Frank is nevertheless drowning in five year’s worth of grief and guilt. His wife has left him, he’s drinking on the job, and just a month ago he “helped to kill” an 18-year-old asthmatic girl. Now she’s become the waking nightmare of al his failures. In a narrative that moves with the fierce energy of an ambulance run, listeners follow Frank through two days and nights of excitement and dread.
3. Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying out of control - and in space.
4. The World I Made for Her by Thomas Moran
James Blatchley breathes and eats through tubes, slipping in and out of a coma. Nuala is the Irish immigrant nurse who coaxes him toward survival. The odd synergy of their relationship serves as both his link to reality and his inspiration to fantasy, in this hypnotic story by the author of The Man in the Box.
5. Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish diseases and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for the National Book Award. ” Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare is describes”.
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Navtej Kohli blog is a rich source of valuable information. This time Navtej Kohli compiles a list of 2007 bestsellers. If you still haven’t read any, go get one today!
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer
4. Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
5. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden
6. Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life
7. The Secret
8. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer
9. The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About
10. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
11. Lone Survivor
12. Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa
13. The 4-Hour Workweek
14. Twilight (Twilight, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
15. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life
16. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
17. Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets
18. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
19. The Road (Oprah’s Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
20. The Game by Neil Strauss
21. Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah’s Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenidis
22. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
23. Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
24. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace
25. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Dr. Navtej Kohli’s List of reading resources features books from the 19th Century:
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Eugènie Grande
Browning (Robert), Poems
Byron, Poems
Chekhov, Plays
Darwin, The Origin of Species
Dickens, David Copperfield
Dickinson, Poems
Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov
Eliot, Middlemarch
Emerson, Essays
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Goethe, Faust
Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Hugo, Les Misèrables
Ibsen, Dramas
Keats, Poems
Marx, Capital
Melville, Moby Dick
Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Poe, Stories
Shelley, Poems
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Walden
Tolstoi, War and Peace
Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Wordsworth, Poems
Zola, Germinal
Dr. Navtej Kohli’s List of reading resources feature books from the 17th and 18th centuries:
Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
Burns, Poems
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Descartes, Discourse on Method
Donne, Poems
Fielding, Tom Jones
Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hamilton, et al., Federalist Papers
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Locke, Essay Concering Human Understanding
Malthus, Principle of Population
Milton, Paradise Lost
Molière, Comedies
Paine, The Rights of Man
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Spinoza, Ethics
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Voltaire, Candide
Dr. Navtej Kohli gives a list of Reading resources from the Middle ages and Renaissance Period.
The Arabian Nights
Bacon, Essays
Boccaccio, Decameron
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Dante, Divine Comedy
Machiavelli, The Prince
Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur
Montaigne, Essays
More, Utopia
Muhammad, Koran
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Shakespeare, Complete Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories
Dr. Navtej Kohli compiles a list of the most significant books from different eras. Here is a list of the best books from the Ancient Times.