Five page-turners to spark your awakening

This month, our TBR list gets a liberal makeover.

- Ria Singh

KNIFE: MEDITATIONS AFTER AN ATTEMPTED MURDER by SALMAN RUSHDIE

It is impossible to forget August 12, 2022-it was when author Salman Rushdie was stabbed by a masked man as he was about to give a lecture at New York's Chautauqua Institution. What followed was a horrific act of violence that sent shockwaves through the literary cosmos. For the first time after the attack, the author relives in unforgettable detail-the traumatic events of that day. This book is an ode to bouncing back, wrapped in a love letter to life, loss, and the magic of storytelling.

Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.