7 books Sonam Kapoor really wants you to read
Sonam's hobbies extend beyond fashion
By ELLE team August 9th, 2017
If Sonam Kapoor’s Koffee With Karan interviews are anything to go by, she’s tried to drop a hint that she’s not just highly fashionable, she’s also an incurable book worm. Not the type that tries to pass off airport thrillers as her favourite reads either. Sonam’s a straight-up nerd. It doesn’t matter what genre or author, if it’s got compelling words, Sonam will find it and read it.
While stalking through her Instagram, we discovered that the only thing she gets gifted more than bags is books. Like that time she was sent Deepak Chopra’s version of the Kama Sutra along with some Jane Austin favourites and a book on Hollywood’s most infamous murders.
If you love her fashion choices, we’re guessing you’ll fall in love with her personal library too.
Sonam Kapoor’s favourite books
The book was a gift from designer and photography enthusiast, JJ Valaya. the gift package also included his book Decoded Paradox, a coffee-table book featuring his photos.
For a change, this was a book inspired by a movie (though, not one that starred Sonam herself). Khambatta wrote The Village of Pointless Conversation after working on Homi Adajania's Finding Fanny. Just in case you missed the movie.
If you've been invited to Sonam Kapoor's birthday, you already know what to gift her: bags or books. Or a bag filled with books. Aware of her insatiable reading appetite, her godfather sent Sonam this mini-library to devour:
Bitter Fruit: The Very Best Of Saadat Hasan Manto
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Coctaeu
Present Laughter: Anthology of Modern Comic Fiction edited by Malcolm Bradbury
The Vision Of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
Ideal by Ayn Rand
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Sonam seems to have tapped into the powers of the universe with this how-to guide.
Between confessing that the Bhagavad Gita is one of her favourite books and posting quotes from this philosophical classic, it seems that Sonam has had more than one existential crisis.
For some light holiday reading, Sonam picked a collection of short stories from Uttar Pradesh to take with her to Paris