My Ultimate Best Books 2025 | A Top 10
Now that we’re entering the holiday season, it’s an excellent time for reflection. And what a year it’s been. I changed jobs, got married, and bought a house. Unsurprisingly, these changes made my long-standing goal of reading around 25 books a year a bit more challenging. I still came close, though, and was lucky to […]
Top 8 Books about Cambodia To Read Now
I went to Cambodia in 2025. Although it’s a cliché that people are friendly in the countries you go to, Cambodians are truly exceptionally friendly. Perhaps it’s because of the terribly tragic history. One guide said to us, we had so much suffering and death. Everyone has ears, eyes, and a mouth. Let’s use them […]
Best Thai Books To Read Now | A Top 10
Literature of any country is associated with its past and present. Thailand is no exception. Despite its beauty, great food, and marvelous temples, it also has its internal challenges. It’s always at a political crossroads due to divisions among the monarchy, parliament, and the military. Despite its fame for mass tourism, unfortunately, it also deals […]
The Ultimate Best Cat Fiction Books | A Top 10
We often take dogs as our best friend, as we can’t question or doubt their loyalty and affection. But loyalty doesn’t always create strong characters in fiction. After all, fiction thrives on uncertainty, contradiction, and tension. Interestingly, cats, the eternal nemesis of dogs, have quite a presence in cat fiction books. It is probably because […]
Why You Should Read The Greek Classics Now
Why spend time with texts written more than two thousand years ago? The answer is simple: Greek classics provide us with a vivid glimpse into the life, thoughts, and emotions of the ancient world by posing questions that remain deeply relevant today. The Greeks explored timeless dilemmas — law versus morality, duty versus love, fate […]
10 Quantum Theory Books To Make the Complex Simple
Every now and then, I write about topics that I think can spark imagination, inspire self-reflection, and appreciation of our world and beyond. In the past, I have covered topics like spiritual books, self-development books, and books about plants. This time, I’ve been thinking about quantum theory books. Why? Because it inspires us to imagine […]
12 Great Irish Books You Should Read This Year
How many of you know that James Joyce was/is an Irish writer, not British? Or similarly, U2 and Snow Patrol are Irish bands, not British ones? The point is, it happens all the time with Irish people. People often mislabel or identify Irish writers and musicians as British. But let’s just get over that and […]
10 Beautiful Book Stores In Barcelona For Book Shopping
As they say, never judge a book by its cover. But you can certainly judge a book store by the way it looks. If you are a booklover, you will never find a bookstore boring or less charming. After all, the crisp smell of books is always enticing when you enter the book store. If […]
The Best Egyptian Books | A Top 10
It’s amazing how we read about different countries and cities being destroyed by war and natural calamities, etc. And then people rebuilt everything into something entirely new. This somehow shortens the history span in our collective memory. But Egypt is different. Despite wars, calamities, and the passage of centuries, Egypt remains old in its true […]
Ultimate List of Native American Books To Read Now
Recently, I wrote about Indigenous books, discussing different Indigenous authors from around the globe. In that post, I focused on Indigenous communities that many people might not be familiar with. I didn’t cover any Native American books (from North America), despite Native Americans belonging to some of the most well-known Indigenous peoples with a rich […]
