Ten young readers from India (aged 8-15) recommend one book from amongst all the books they read in 2024. If you thought all recommendations would hover around the fantasy and adventure genre, be prepared to be surprised.

I have listed below the books they recommended. If you want to hear the whys and the whats of the book, give the episode a listen.

Books recommended

1. Atomic habits by James Clear

2. The Midnight Gang by David Walliams

3. The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi

4. Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5. One More Step : My Journey with the world’s largest contingent of school students to Everest Base Camp by Chandrashekar D P with K V Subramanyam.

6. The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling

7. The Island of Dragons (from Geronimo Stilton's Kingdom of Fantasy series)

8. Stellarlune (part of the Keeper of the Lost Cities) by Shannon Messenger

9. Vedas and Upanishads (for children) by Roopa Pai

10. Diary of a wimpy kid series by Jeff Kinney

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(00:00) Introduction

(07:44) Aadya's reco

(08:40) Abdul's reco

(09:47) Agastya's reco

(12:00) Darsh's reco

(15:08) Devansh's reco

(17:17) Kiaansh's reco

(18:27) Maanya's reco

(19:40) Prakriti's reco

(20:45) Shambhavi's reco

(22:28) Zuhair's reco