Heavy rain, sound of pitter patter at your window, a cup of steaming coffee and a book in your hands. What can be more appealing than reading a book, sitting by your window this monsoon? For all the novel freaks, here's a list of top 5 novels of 2019 to dive in, this monsoon.

1) Ginger Bread by Helen Oyeyemi - Start reading this book and just when you'll be through a few pages, you'll find yourself in a maze. This exhilarating novel will simply not allow you to skim and be be lazy.

This is astory of Harriot and her daughter Perdita, a relationship you'll be bound to discover more about. Harriot tells her daughter about her origin story, from how she left Drushastrana to reside in New York, to how they struggled to survive and make a living. It's all about family and the 'Gingerbreads' Harriot bakes, which are often given out of friendship and occasionally spiked with death threats. Both Harriot and Perdita are very stubborn and mysterious characters in their own way. Literary fiction is often neglected for being plain and speculative but, Oyeyemi poves it through this novel, that it can be affirming, charming and fun to read, all at the same time.

Experience this tale of narrative breadcrumbs that will lead you to suspect, that you might learn the sory of Perdita's birth, by one the best English language authors in the world.

2) Normal People by Sally Rooney - How many times a day do you question your relationships? For people who like quirky and touching stories, with a tint of confusing and struggling relationships, this novel is one of the best reads.

A book, strewn with the conversations of two young adults, 'Marriane' and 'Connell', focuses on their struggling relationship, threatened by political upheaval and questions about viability of capabilities. It's a story of exciting and confusing relationship in question, of two teens which will at times make you want to pull your hair and lead you towards real time experiences of a teenage life.

A story of power and fame, brilliance and wealth, gratitude and fright. Relive those days of messed up young age through this story of on-again-off-again relationship of two most sympathetic you're likely to meet between the the pages.

3) Rules Of Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane - One of the most beautifully observed and deeply funny novel ever. Jessica brings out the generous nature of the female protagonist 'May Attaway' between the pages.

A university gardener, who finds pleasure in language, her work and keeps her neighbors at an arms length, sets out on an Odyssey to reconnect with her old friends. She plans to visit each one of them, one at a time. This journey leads her to explore friendship in this digital age.

Afternoon ice-creams, long lost friends, surprise postcards and unexpected crush, find all of this in one book. Be a part of Mays journey of exploration of power and limits of modern friendship and learn to master the art of visiting.

4) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert - Now, who wouldn't love a heartfelt, reckless and comic summer read? Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls has got all of this.

From reckless lovemaking to boozing to nightclubbing and comedy, this story is of a solitary women who's made an independent life as best as she can. This books a celebration of womanhood in itself. What appears to be a novel about sexual awakening, turns out be a warm and wise meditation on friendship, choices that women make and on the way that varied relationships and sexuality are far from being modern reasoning.

It's a book you won't be able to wait to get back to, onceyou get involved into the characters.

5) On the Come Up by Angie Thomas - For all the teens who love music, raps, beats and and that cool aura, Angie Thomas, the author of New York bestseller 'The Hate You Give', is back with a bang again.

A highly anticipated and recommended novel. It's a story of Bri, daughter of an underground hip hop legend, who passes aways before even hitting big. Bri is desperate to fill the shoes. She struggles after his death, her mother loses her job and being a low profile at school tops it up all. She pours her anger into her first song, which goes viral for all the wrong reasons and that strikes a controversy.The way this book explores the fright, love and friendships of the African American community, notifies the remarkability of it.

All of this might give a give a picture boring and violent story but it's actually a fight for dreams, it's joyous and funny. A story of passionate girl, who has knowledge, lyrics and talent, that can turn her life upside down.

These are a must read for all the teens. If you read them, you'll learn and you'll love it.

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Mast,very good