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1.A Room with a View (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster, Malcolm Bradbury August 31, 2006
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This charming little novel which has recently celebrated its centennary can be easily put down as a period piece. E M Forster foresaw it already in his note which he added to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first edition. Yet a prospective reader would be most wrong to do so. There is a lesson here which still needs to be learned by many. The title gives away some of the content - the main heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, needs to get away from the stuffy atmosphere of late Victorian England in which she was brought up - the symbol of which is for EMF the room. Her escape takes place in stages - the first of them is her trip to Italy where she finds landscapes and people most different from those she was accustomed to. It is also there ... Read More:

2.Howards End (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by: E.M. Forster, David Lodge April 27, 2000
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Really enjoyed this, got caught up in Forster's world of the Schlegel sisters. At times it is a very sad book, there seems to be a lot of compromising and misunderstandings, but the Schlegel sisters are marvellous. Margaret is a thoroughly modern lady, if sometimes lacking the passion of her sister. Through an escapade with an umbrella, they meet Mr. Bast, a young man trying to "better himself" (through literature and art). They decide to try and help this man, though the end results aren't what they expected. There is also the parallel entanglement with the Wilcox family, Helen has the briefest of engagements with the younger son, and again neither sister could have predicted the outcome.

3.The Longest Journey (Penguin Classics) by: E M Forster July 27, 2006
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Edward Morgan Forster expressed his special partiality for this particular book regretting that it was never as popular as "The Room with a View". It seems, however, that his readers knew better choosing either the lighter Italian novels or later works such as "Howards End" or "A Passage to India". Forster's partiality is comprehensible when we try to read the book through his biography. On the one hand he is able to reveal here his long-term infatuation with a fellow student and go back to his university adventures. On the other hand he uses his craft to draw for himself a life he would have had he decided to become straight. The image is far from pleasant - becoming straight means being imprisoned in a hapless marriage for which the hero has to pay with his academic ... Read More:

4.A Passage to India by: E.M. Forster July 28, 2005
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Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies not so much in representing it but in the fact that Forster offers a way out - personal contact. There is little chance people will suddenly like Muslims, Pakistanis, gays, lesbians, Moroccans, Turkish, Kurds etc etc - there is a chance (a very slim chance, Forster would be quick to add) that an American and a Muslim, a Turk and a Kurd, an Israeli and a Palestinian can be friends. The world may not want it, the people that surround them may not want it but the results depend on us alone. ... Read More:

5.Maurice (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster, David Leavitt July 28, 2005
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EM Forster's tale of forbidden love in the stuffy upper-crust world of interwar Britain deserves a wider readership. The book is, surprisingly, quite upbeat and not at all doom and gloom. The wonderful descriptions of Cambridge and the English countryside are so evocative I felt as if I could almost smell the freshly-cut grass and overhear the toffs of Cambridge. The book's characters feel very real and, with some notable exceptions, are quite likeable. It's a shame that Forster only allowed this book to be published after his death, thereby depriving a generation. Despite this and after so many years this love story retains every bit of its charm. Definitely worth reading!

6.The Remains of the Day by: Kazuo Ishiguro March 03, 2005
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Many of the best novels have essential qualities, they are thrilling, moving, highly readable and beautifully written. However, while The Remains of the day has ALL of the above, theres one major quailty that really made this novel resonate and touch me like no other book i have ever read. That quality is that this book allows you to re-evaulate your own life. It gives you a new perspective of life, and choices we make, and ultimately teaches us to follow our hearts and by what we feel its right. So that by the end of our days we can look back and not regret making such tragic choices as Stevens does. This book has truly touched me and moved me like no other. Althought the movie adaptation was terrific, you have to read this book to truly get a grasp of the genius this book is. In an era where the ... Read More:

7.Purple Hibiscus by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie February 07, 2005
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This is just a beautiful read! The writing is as clear as a bell and the characters are heartbreakingly real. Kambili is a 15-year old Nigerian girl who is caught between the old order and the new: as Nigeria is suddenly brutalised by a military dictatorship, she is forced to make her own choices, between previously unquestionned family life with her tyrannical father vs her free-thinking, liberated aunt and cousins. And just to complicate matters further, she falls in love..... It's an inspiring and wise mix of the political and personal, which manages to make you think and care deeply about the issues and the people. I have read it twice (rare for me) and it only gets better. Highly recommended reading.

8.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics) by: Muriel Spark February 24, 2000
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Was inspired to read Miss Brodie - for the umpteenth time - by seeing the film again on television last week. The first time I read this book, I was about the same age as her pupils ... now you might kindly describe me as in my prime! (Like Miss B, I'm not quite sure how long prime lasts!) This is a book I have enjoyed more each time I have read it. Spark's wonderful spare writing and dry observation (Whatever possessed you? said Miss B in a very Scottish way, as if Sandy had given away a pound of marmalade to an English duke ... ) Of course, she is a silly, preposterous, dangerous woman, but you know you would have wanted to be chosen as one of her girls. But this reading I grasped how her tragedy was rooted in World War I, that she was part of that generation of vigorous post-war ... Read More:

9.The Catcher in the Rye by: J. Salinger August 04, 1994
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This book has it all, humour, anger and brilliant observations of life and people, that all of us can identify with. The book is written in such an amateur style (but salinger knows what he is doing)that one has to warm to the character immediately. Great Book.

10.Aspects of the Novel (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass September 01, 2005
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The book which started as a series of lectures grew to become one of landmarks in history of literary criticism. Over eighty years after its original publication its value has not diminished. Quite on the contrary, Forster's lucid and rational approach to literature seem to become even more valuable with the publication of almost every book on literary criticism largely regardless of their authors theoretical agendas. A quarter of a century after the novel was recognised as literature (before Henry James' "The Art of Fiction" only poetry and drama deserved the name) and in the peak period of the modernism (this book was written exactly between the publications of "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake") Forster presented his personal view of fiction in a quiet and unassuming but clear and rational way. The resulting ... Read More:

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