Classic

  • Night by Elie Wiesel

     999

    Night is a powerful memoir by Elie Wiesel that recounts his harrowing experiences as a teenager during the Holocaust. Deported from his home in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie is sent with his family to Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. As he endures unimaginable suffering, loss, and brutality, Elie struggles with his faith, identity, and humanity.
    The book is a deeply personal and haunting testimony of survival and a powerful reminder of the horrors of genocide and the resilience of the human spirit.

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel by George Orwel

     649

    Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian society ruled by the Party and its omnipresent leader, Big Brother. The story follows Winston Smith, a government employee who secretly despises the regime and dreams of freedom and truth. As he begins a forbidden romance and questions the Party’s control over reality, Winston is eventually captured and subjected to brutal psychological manipulation. The novel explores themes of surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and the loss of individual freedom.

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Novel by Harper Lee

     349

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a powerful coming-of-age novel set in the racially charged American South of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of young Scout Finch, it follows her father, Atticus Finch, as he defends an innocent Black man falsely accused of a crime. The novel explores deep themes of justice, prejudice, empathy, and moral growth.

  • Umrao Jaan Ada / امراؤ جان ادا by Mirza Hadi Ruswa

     699

    Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Hadi Ruswa is a classic Urdu novel that tells the fictional memoir of a courtesan and poetess in 19th-century Lucknow. Kidnapped as a child and sold into a kotha (courtesan house), Umrao Jaan grows into a cultured, intelligent, and emotionally complex woman. The novel explores themes of love, loss, identity, and the intricate social fabric of a fading era in Indo-Muslim history.