9 Bollywood Celebs & Their Favourite Books

You know what are the best insect species? Bookworms.

You know what are the best celeb species? Stars who like to read.

Bookworms let the world pass them by while their noses are stuck in a book, their love of reading will serve them well. And it is a  biblo-pleasure when you find out your favourite Bollywood celeb is a bookworm too. Let’s check out what’s in your fellow bookshelves or what books they like to carry for their airport leisure reading. Here are some books that the stars recommended at  some point.

Deepika Padukone- Kite Runner by Khaleed Hosseni

 Plot Summary- The Kite Runner is the story of Amir, a Sunni Muslim, who struggles to find his place in the world because of the aftereffects and fallout from a series of traumatic childhood events. 

Purab Kohli- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Marukumi

Plot Summary-Norwegian Wood is a fictional coming-of-age memoir of Toru Watanabe during his college years in 1969-1970 that explores the concept of loss and the need to overcome one's struggles with grief.

 Parineeti Chopra- Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Plot Summary-The Girl on the Train is a mystery and suspense novel by Paula Hawkins. It follows the lives of three women – Rachel, Anna, and Megan – and the events surrounding Megan’s murder, ultimately bringing the lives of the three women together.. 

Sushant Singh Rajput- Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Plot Summary-John Berger’s seminal text on how to look at art. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series

Sonam Kapoor- Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Plot Summary-The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Parague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the  Invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath

Kareena Kapoor- The Kind of Worth Killing by Peter  Swanson

Plot Summary-Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?

Katrina Kaif- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Plot Summary- All The Light We Cannot See is an award winning book about  a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Priyanka Chopra-Letters From A Father To His Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru

Plot Summary-Letters from a Father to His Daughter is a collection of 30 letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1928 to his daughter Indira Gandhi when she was 10 years old, teaching about natural history and the story of civilisations. During summer, Nehru wrote several letters to tell her stories about when and how the earth was made, how animal and human life came into existence, and how societies and civilisations evolved throughout the world.

Anushka Sharma- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Plot summary- Holden Caufield recounts the days following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a private school. After a fight with his roommate, Stradlater, Holden leaves school two days early to explore New York before returning home, interacting with teachers, nuns, an old girlfriend, and his sister along the way.