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Beauty with brains, Dia Mirza is a self-confessed book worm...here are the books that make her best reads

Enid Blyton�s The Faraway Tree
�Children�s book that is the most enchanting book ever... with all those funny lands arriving on top of the Faraway Tree heads the list of my all time favourite books.�

Che Guevara�s The Motorcycle Diaries
�This autobiographical book is about Guevara�s travels through South America on a 1939 Norton 500 motorcycle. His first expedition around, in which he details the role and life of natives including mine workers and persecuted fleeing their homes. The book concludes Che�s declaration to fight and die for the cause of the people in Latin America. It is a revolutionary book.�

Sue Monk Kidd�s The Secret Life of Bees
�In this gem of a first novel, Sue Monk Kidd creates a bee farm in Tiburon,USA and its eccentric yet endearing inhabitants, the black Boatwright sisters known as �calendar girls� as their names go - May, June, and August. The main character, Lily Owens, is a fourteen-year-old white runaway who finds safe haven with these nurturing honey-producing women as she tries to escape a violent father and confused, haunting memories of her past. Lily encounters a world of strong women who embrace her and mother, her back to life and a future of promise and hope. I recommend it to every female reader.�

Benazir Bhutto�s Daughter of the East
�This is the extraordinary life story of Pakistan�s first woman Prime Minister, I find it so inspiring that I keep going back to it all the time.�

Complete works of Philip Roth
�American novelist Roth is perhaps best known for his 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , his 1969 novel Portnoy�s Complaint, and for his late-�90s trilogy of the Pulitzer Prize -winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). All his works are totally endearing.�

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