Ten books that changed my life Megha Agarwal, would be 1. Alice In Wonderland. I decided Im not alone after reading that book. It made a lot of sense to me. When in doubt, I read it always. Read it more than a hundred times. 2. Euclids geometry. My love for math started with this. And I stopped sucking at math after this. Basically taught me not to be a douchebag always and that hardwork pays. 3. Irodov for physics. It taught me life isnt as easy. That sometimes hardwork and luck will both make things sound Greek to you and you should learn to let go and have fun in class 11 because Irodov is for a certain class of toppers. Taught me class distinction in a way. 4. Jane Austen. It taught me I have a Mr. Darcy out there somewhere. It also taught me to imagine a Mr. Darcy and lie to myself about how perfect he is even if he is a complete asshole in reality. 5. Mrs Dalloway. It succeeded in teaching me life is never right or wrong. Just to be taken as it is. Also it made me like flowers. Just the description of mrs dalloway choosing her own flower every morning was very enthralling in a way. Virginia Woolf made picking up her own flower sound fancy to me. Kudos Woolf! 6. Real Analysis by Raisinghania. I didnt understand batshit about it in college. So I picked it up after college and lost three months in it. It taught me to go after things just for the fun of knowing it. 7. Saddat Hasan Manto and Ismat Chugtais short stories. My love for them is well known in Facebook. Manto being my god and chugtai, my goddess. They inspire me to write. 8. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I can read it any day at any given time. It taught me how to rebel against and question the society and that happiness in spite of misery is possible. 9. The picture of Dorian gray. It taught me to justify all the wrong things I do. It taught me if I convince myself in a turncoat debate, I can be right always. On a day of guilt, what better than Oscar Wilde. It completely amused me and mesmerized me and made me put a lot of thought in justifying hedonistic pleasures of life. It helped me develop a lot of superiority complex too. A lot of it, yes. 10. Candy is Dandy by Ogden Nash. I learned a lot of funky new words from it. I use it till date in my conversations. I love using those words. I learned a lot of rhyming words too. Like, The cow is of bovine ilk One end is moo, the other, milk.
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