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Lekha Murali

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20 authors you’d recommend to a friend in no particular order,

#booksky #books #bookchallenge #readingchallenge

Hermann Hesse
(English Translators: Michael Roloff, Hilda Rosner)

Cover image of Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse. Illustration of a man’s face, a bespectacled man with mustache and beard.

July 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

20 authors you’d recommend to a friend in no particular order,

#booksky #books #bookchallenge #readingchallenge

Cover of the book Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Red illustration on cream background. Cover artwork of a snake wound around a basket with two infants.

July 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#19 A long way gone, Memoirs of a boy soldier, by Ishmael Beah

Screenshot of the cover image of the book, a long way gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah.
Image of a young boy walking with guns and ammunition slung over him, with his hands holding some kind of long weapon resting behind his neck and shoulders, looking down gloomily, walking with broken straps of Hawaiian sandals.

December 23, 2024 at 4:44 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#18 Odessa File, Fourth Protocol, Icon by Frederick Forsyth

Screenshot of the cover image of the novel Icon by Frederick Forsyth. Silhouette of a running man with the gold-grey text of the title all around.

Screenshot of the novel The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth, large white text on burgundy background with barbed wire graphic running through the title.

Screenshot of the cover image of the novel, Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth. White lettering on black background, with the SS in the Odessa in red color.

December 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#17 Tintin Collection, Herge

Cover images of Tintin comics collection.

December 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#16 Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Cover image of the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, the cover is a rich red with black lettering with with highlights on the lettering.

December 18, 2024 at 4:35 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

# 15 Peter Camenzind, Hermann Hesse, translated by Machael. E. Roloff

Cover image of the book Peter Camenzind, by Hermann Hesse, translated from German to English by Michael Roloff.
The cover is an illustration of a man with spectacles, with mustache and beard with bands of transparent red and yellow running through the cover image.

December 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

20 days, 20 book cover challenge.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#13 Bharathiyar poems, an anthology of poems written by well renowned Tamil language poet, whose poems are full of passion and energy that I feel I should complete all procrastinated tasks, right then and there.

December 12, 2024 at 3:09 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#13 How to Build a Better Vocabulary, by Maxwell Nurnberg and Morris Rosenblum

Cover of the book How to Build a Better Vocabulary by Maxwell Nurnberg and Morris Rosenblum. The cover is medium blue with yellow block letters for the title and the authors’ name in white.

December 6, 2024 at 12:47 AM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#12 Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuff

Cover image of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Black and white image of city or town square with a tall street lamp, with horse drawn carriages and sleighs with people in winter garbs.

December 4, 2024 at 6:51 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#11 The Prophet, Khalil Gibran

Cover image of the book, The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran. The cover image is a sketch of a man’s face with long white hair and a dark mustache.

December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#10 Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

Cover image of the fairy tales anthology titled Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Anderson.
The cover is a painting of a princess or a queen in a grand grey dress holding a walking stick standing in a snowy forest looking at a couple of hares that’s looking back at her.

December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#9 Short Stories, Oscar Wilde

Red cloth covered cover image of Oscar Wilde story collection with the letter, capital W in the middle with decorative elements around it in gold color.

Book spindle in red with gold lettering that says SHORT STORIES in all caps followed by Oscar Wilde in Italics. The word SHORT is missing from the posted image on account of image size limitations.

December 1, 2024 at 2:57 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#8, The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom with Elizabeth and John Sherrill

Cover of the memoir “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom with Elizabeth and John Sherrill. It is the story of a middle aged Christian woman and her family who were captured by the Nazis for helping the Jews escape the Nazis, suffered in the concentration camps, where she would lose some of her family members.
The color of the cover is red with barbed wire, partial image of swastika and part of her family photograph, with a view of their house which is a museum in Netherlands.

November 30, 2024 at 1:42 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#7 Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
Hilarious turn of the century travelogue.

Cover image of the book, Three Men on a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome. A hilarious turn of the century adventures of three friends and a dog going on river Thames for a holiday. Strung together with hilarious anecdotes and their own experiences, it’s a light read.
The cover is an illustration of three men in colorful costumes with one of them at the oars, another waving at another boat with a third gazing at the shore while the dog is looking down into the water.

November 29, 2024 at 2:08 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#6 Tin Drum, by Gunther Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

Cover of the novel Tin Drum, by Gunther Grass. Cover art also done by the author of a little boy playing a red drum.

November 28, 2024 at 2:31 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Screen shot of a poem from my personal blog. It contains a poem titled, “Comfortable Silence”.
The poem goes like this: Where human bonds run so deep, To have withstood the test of attrition, time and time again That discord and harmony could co-exist peacefully, When substantive conversations dissolve pretense and insecurities That neither has the need to coddle the other emotionally, Where one is at ease with the other as with oneself, Is when, the uttered word becomes redundant Shared silence becomes comfortable.

November 27, 2024 at 10:27 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#5 Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
A great book to understand India.

Cover image of the novel, Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, 25th Anniversary edition.

November 27, 2024 at 3:57 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

#4 One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cover image to the classic novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

November 26, 2024 at 2:21 PM

Lekha Murali

@lmexpressions.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
#blueskybookclub

The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck