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Sultanbai kyzy Altynai
2025

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The novel touches on themes of self-love and self-discovery. Spiritual growth and personal growth. It was an easy, enjoyable and insightful read. But I admit, I could not fully understand Elizabeth Gilbert or, better to say, her frequent bouts of indulgent self-pity and bits and pieces of her acquired wisdom. She had the privilege of leaving everything and started her journey to find herself.
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Eat Pray Love I Elizabeth Gilbert
This book stole my heart and made me want to rip it out. It is one of the most brilliant, profoundly moving, challenging, upsetting novels I've ever read. This heartbreaking and emotional story is about love, friendship, losses, traumas, pain and shame. I could deeply feel the characters' emotions and experiences as they were so real. It is not a book I can recommend to anyone as it is difficult to read. Sometimes, I needed to take a break from reading because of the emotional pain the story put you through.
A little Life I Hanya Yanagihara
I wish every historical book could offer that engaging and digestible read. It is an extremely well-written, informative and provocative book that captures a unique retelling of all human history in a beautiful story. Oftentimes, it leads to personal reflections on man's tenancy on the planet and what kind of future might expect us.
The book is straightforward to read. It is a gentle story that delicately and poignantly captures the feeling of loss, isolation, sadness, and nostalgia. The book kept building the plot, and I thought everything would make sense. But all the questions I had were left unanswered.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind I Yuval Noah Harari
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage I Haruki Murakami
Steven King I Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep is an excellent and highly well-written chilling read with an engaging storyline full of excitement, thrills and suspense. It is very terrifying and creepy and can give a reader a nightmare for a while.
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There are many love stories, but there always will be only romance novels touching human nature and other issues between the lines. Well, classic is classic.
Jane Austen I Pride and Prejudice
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Viktor Pelevin I Snuff
Maybe predicting the future is not mission impossible, and someone has the power to see beyond our preset. I wish I could ask the author how he knew what he knew.
Agatha Christie I And Then There Were None
Every try to guess the truth makes you realise at the end that all you know is that you do not know anything.
I admit that Flowers for Algernon is the only book that made me cry. At first, you doubt your ability to read, and after a few pages, you're already crying and can’t stop tears from flowing. It is a powerful, brilliant, provoking and heartbreaking read that evokes many emotions and makes you critically reflect on intelligence, empathy, and humanity.
Daniel Keyes I Flowers for Algernon
Franz Kafka I The Metamorphosis
It is probably one of the books I will re-read, but not once. It's undoubtedly incredible, fascinating and terrifying, but it is hard to read because it is a depressing and hopeless book. It is a dystopian horror tale of a world that probably already expects us.
George Orwell I 1984
By the end of this book, I was crying. “The Metamorphosis” is a simple, straightforward and phenomenal story that makes you reflect on our society, human behaviours and the feelings of being a stranger. It is a difficult read because all the surreal occurrences and absurd themes described in the book are very real, which scares the most.
It is one of the world’s most beautiful and fascinating novels that touches your heart with its passionate and emotional love story. But It is not a classic love story. It also explores themes of love of the land, nature and family. It is also about customs and life despite the war.
Tschingis Aitmatow I Djamila
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov I Ward No. 6
It is a sad, poignant and thought-provoking short story that makes you question societal norms and reflect on the fragility of the human mind. It leads to the question of what normality and abnormality is and challenges the boundaries between sanity and insanity.
It is a thoughtful, moving and heartbreaking real-life story told by the young girl who captures the essence of survival and hope in her diary during the darkest period of human history. She shares her perception of war and human courage. While reading, I could not stop asking myself how much she knew and understood at a young age, what I did not understand even as an adult. She was much braver as a teenager than some of us can be.
Victor Hugo I Notre-Dame de Paris
This strong historical novel tells a beautiful, gripping, tragic story of love and sacrifice. This story is not about love and happily ever after. It seems to promise a happy ending, but only tragedy, suffering and heartbreak is all it gives.
Anna Frank I The Diary of a young girl
This is a good and gripping book that is hard to tear yourself away from reading. It is an incredibly epic, powerful and beautiful story about dreams, struggles, forbidden love and the tragic twists and turns of life. It makes you think it's hard to resist your desires, dreams and passion just as much as the twists and turns of fate.
Colleen McCullough I The Thorn Birds

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