In my short, young life, I've already read so many I can't even remember all of the books I read. Still there is one series that changed my life and that's Harry Potter. I cannot tell you how much I love J.K. Rowling's writing! I started with the first book when I was about 9 end I read the last one when I was probably 17. I haven't read them all because my grandma bought me the books and she sometimes forget which one so she just bought several. I have watched every movie off course. The funny thing is that I genuinely felt empty when I finished the last book and the feeling was even worse after the last movie. I really feel like I grew up with the characters, they were with me for a significant part of my life. I'll probably get a tattoo one day or something. That's kinda nerdy but you know, that's just how I feel. I also signed up for Pottermore and I got sorted by the sorting hat in Ravenclaw. I'm so happy to know in which house I belong.
Harry Potter is definitely my number one. I still managed to read other books and lately I have been reading a little bit more to get my mind off of things. Here follows my list, without Harry Potter in it or I'll have to start at number 6 to get another book in there. I hope it provides you with some ideas about what to read, maybe during your next summer holiday! My top 5, here we go!
- To Kill A Mockingbird. by Harper Lee
This book is so so so great, I can't even tell you how much I love it. It's really beautiful. It's about racism in the fifties in Southern America, but told by a little girl. Just wonderful and sometimes heartbreaking.
- Ghost Child. by Torey L. Hayden
A book my mom read and she gave it to me afterwards so I could read it because I always wanted to be a psychologist. It's shocking in every single way. This is really heavy stuff about the horrors a little girl tells Torey, so horrific nobody wants to believe it. The worst part is that it's a true story, no fiction.
- The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. by John Boyne
I had to read this book for school when I started studying English and I literary cried at the end. It a fast-reading book, I think I'd read it in about a day. Many of you probably know the story but for those of you who don't, go on and read it! It's about WWII and Auschwitz.
- The Farm. by Tom Rob Smith
The book's about a son who gets a call form his dad saying his mom is imagining things and that she's believing in non-existing conspiracies. Minutes later his mom arrives with evidence and she explains everything. The son is judge, does he alarm the police and believe his mom or does he go with his dad and bring her to a hospital? Great story with a really unexpected ending!
- A Brave New World. by Aldous Huxley
This book was given to me by my teacher Dutch in my last year of high school. She knew I liked to read and I told her I wanted to read an interesting book for our next assignment and she suggested I read this one. It's a great book with some interesting theories about how men will evolve with technology that's ever-growing.
That's my top 5. I promise to extend this list if I ever come across other books worth mentioning! I still have some books to finish like a book from the writer of Sherlock Holmes, but about another detective. I got it from a second hand shop. I also still have to read The Great Gatsby and Portrait Of Dorian Gray, they're waiting to be discovered.
Love, Sinitta
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