Shah Rukh Khan, also known by the initialism SRK and referred to in the media as the “Baadshah of Bollywood” and “King Khan,” is well-read and always encourages his fans to read good books as much as possible. This article will discuss 10 books recommended by SRK that you should read.
#1 Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer
About the book
Title: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 386
Goodreads Rating: 3.86/5
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren’t the fairies of bedtime stories—they’re dangerous! Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure full of unexpected twists and turns. These books recommended by SRK are a must-read.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“[For kids] my favourite is [this book series].”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer now:
#2 Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
About the book
Title: Fatherhood
Author: Bill Cosby
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Pages: 192
Goodreads Rating: 3.9/5
Fatherhood is a 1986 book attributed to Bill Cosby and published by Doubleday & Company. Humorist Ralph Schoenstein ghostwrote the book. American psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint wrote the introduction and afterward. From one of America’s most beloved funnymen comes a hilarious look at the lighter side of fatherhood.
So, what is fatherhood…? It is pretending soap on a rope is the present you love most. It’s helping your children learn English as a second language. It’s asking your son to make a name rather than tell anyone who he is. Knowing that “Everything’s okay, Dad!” means “I haven’t killed anyone!” It’s the book every father will love. It’s Bill Cosby at his wittiest, wisest, and warmest.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
Shah Rukh Khan mentioned this book in an interview
To buy Fatherhood by Bill Cosby now:
#3 Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
Marcelo Figueras
About the book
Title: Kamchatka
Author: Marcelo Figueras
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Pages: 320
Goodreads Rating: 3.99/5
Kamchatka is the last word that Harry hears from his father’s lips. The ten-year-old boy will take mental refuge to cure his wounds in that fantastic, inaccessible territory. Due to the abductions during Argentina’s coup d tat, and knowing they are being chased, his parents decide to hide away. Through the story of this boy forced to contemplate the dark side of reality, Figueras tells a story full of sweet and humorous characters, which is also an adventure.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“Charming book. In the end we always become what we were.”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras now:
#4 Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
About the book
Title: Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Nation Books
Pages: 391
Goodreads Rating: 4.37/5
Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”
Mirrors, Galeano’s most ambitious project since ‘Memory of Fire,’ is an unofficial history of the world seen through history’s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first to see the two oceans at once from a summit in Panama. Were the people who lived there blind?”
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“Eduardo Galeano’s writing has the most interesting take on world and human possibilities.”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano now:
#5 The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody Allen
Woody Allen
About the book
Title: The Complete Prose of Woody Allen
Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Wing Books
Pages: 473
Goodreads Rating: 3.98/5
Although Woody Allen is best known for his cult movies, he is also a writer of great wit and skill. Dip into this collection of fifty-two pieces for hilarity, deadpan weirdness, and some highly outlandish ideas. Do you want to hear about the time Hitler went for a haircut? Or why does Woody revere Socrates? Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the Impressionists had been dentists?
You can learn much about history—the piece on the invention of sandwiches is eye-opening—or modern life in this laugh-out-loud collection of thoughts, observations, diaries, and stories from one of the most original minds and wonderfully comic voices of our time. It’s no secret that Allen’s short stories are just as entertaining and accomplished as his films. Allen’s witty stories satirize contemporary society and classic modern literature in a characteristically breathless, off-the-cuff, and brilliant style.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“I have the entire Woody Allen collection.”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody Allen now:
#6 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
About the book
Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages: 196
Goodreads Rating: 3.97/5
From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller ‘Tuesdays with Morrie,’ a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it’s an answer.
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an older man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It’s a place where your life is explained to you by five people. Eddie’s five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his “meaningless” life and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: “Why was I here?”
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“I’m also reading [this book], a novel about how every person on earth matters.”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom now:
#7 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
About the book
Title: The History of Love
Author: Nicole Krauss
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 255
Goodreads Rating: 3.92/5
Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother’s loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York, an older man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn’t know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations and changing lives.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“Read The History of Love.”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy The History of Love by Nicole Krauss now:
#8 The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps by Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
About the book
Title: The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Ecco
Pages: 375
Goodreads Rating: 4.08/5
This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author’s take on squabbling neighbors, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiraling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom. Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-selling, best-loved, and most widely-read poets.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“Find it & read it all. [Especially the poem ‘Gamblers All’].”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps by Charles Bukowski now:
#9 The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
About the book
Title: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 1166
Goodreads Rating: 4.62/5
The Oxford edition of Shakespeare’s Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition are freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and each work has a brief introduction and an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play ‘The Reign of King Edward the Third,’ as well as the full text of ‘Sir Thomas More.’ This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare’s language by David Crystal and a bibliography of foundational works.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“Everyone should read some of William Shakespeare’s work. It’s important…”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare now:
#10 Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps by Allan Pease
About the book
Title: Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps
Author: Allan Pease
Publisher: Harmony
Pages: 272
Goodreads Rating: 3.75/5
Have you ever wished your partner came with an instruction booklet? This international bestseller answers everything you’ve ever wondered about the opposite sex. For their controversial new book on the differences between the way men and women think and communicate, Barbara and Allan Pease spent three years traveling around the world, collecting the dramatic findings of new research on the brain, investigating evolutionary biology, analyzing psychologists, studying social changes, and annoying the locals. The result is a sometimes shocking, always illuminating, and frequently hilarious look at where the battle line is drawn between the sexes, why it was drawn, and how to cross it. Read this book and understand—at last!—why men never listen, women can’t read maps, and learning each other’s secrets means you’ll never have to say sorry again.
Shah Rukh Khan’s opinion:
“After reading [this] very interesting book, I have realized that men and women are physiologically different, and therefore you can make certain generalisations about them.”
Shah Rukh Khan
To buy Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps by Allan Pease now:
Undoubtedly, Shah Rukh Khan is the Baadshah of book recommendations too. Have you read any of his favorite books, or which book will you read next that is recommended by SRK? Do tell us in the comment section!
| 1 | Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer | Buy now |
| 2 | Fatherhood by Bill Cosby | Buy now |
| 3 | Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras | Buy now |
| 4 | Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano | Buy now |
| 5 | The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody Allen | Buy now |
| 6 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom | Buy now |
| 7 | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss | Buy now |
| 8 | The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps by Charles Bukowski | Buy now |
| 9 | The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare | Buy now |
| 10 | Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps by Allan Pease | Buy now |
Articles you might like:
- 10 Inspiring books recommended by Jordan Peterson will change your life
- The 4 Best Books Suggested By Peyush Bansal-Favbookshelf
- 10 Books Suggested By Priyanka Chopra (Amazing reads) – Favbookshelf
- 10 Best Shakespeare Books You Need To Read – Favbookshelf
Videos you might like:
- 7 Best Fiction Books for Beginners | Short and Easy Language
- 10 Must-Read Fiction Books of All Time | Awesome Reads
Are you an author or a publisher? If yes, then you must check our services for promotions and marketing. They will undoubtedly benefit you.
Disclosure: All our recommendations are honest; most importantly, some links in this post are affiliate links (i.e.) we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something we recommend.
What are your favorite books recommended by SRK? Leave a comment below. We would love to know your favorite one!
Subscribe to our newsletter to never miss our updates and book recommendations.
Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Facebook, and Goodreads to learn more about us.
P.S. If you share it, it will make our day.
Happy Reading, and Keep Smiling!!
Have a nice day ahead.🙂
