Recommendations- The Reading Women Challenge|Prompts #11-#20

Yes, I am back with the second recommendation post and this includes prompts #11-#20 of The Reading Women Challenge.

You can read more about the challenge and my excitement about it here. Do join me and a community of readers and show lots of support to some incredible female authors.

#11 A book featuring a religion other than your own

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza     |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Shakti: The Feminine Divine by Anuja Chandramouli    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Erotic Stories by Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#12 A Lambda Literary Award winner

• Hunger by Roxane Gay    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• The Gift by Barbara Browning    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|

#13 A myth retelling

• The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Circe by Madeline Miller    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Penelopaid by Margaret Atwood    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Home Fire by Kamila Shamshie    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#14 A translated book published before 1945

• Lifting the Veil by Ismat Chughtai    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Stung With Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho     |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• The Tales of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu     |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang      |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|

#15 A book written by a South Asian author

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Sun and her Flowers by Rupi Kaur    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Poison of Love by K R Meera    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Star Touched Queen by Roshni Chokshi    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#16 A book by an Indigenous woman

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• My Place by Sally Morgan    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Laburnum for My Head by Temsula Ao    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#17 A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist

• Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras    |Goodreads|
• All the Names they Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|

#18 A romance or love story

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• P.S I Love You by Cecilia Ahern    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dressen    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• You by Caroline Kepnes    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|

#19 A book about nature

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Winter by Ali Smith     |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#20 A historical fiction book

• The Immortalist by Chloe Benjamin    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Milkman by Anna Burns    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|

We have only 6 more prompts left and that will be a part of the final installment. Followed by which, I’ll let you know what books I will be picking for each prompt. And, as always, let me know if you have any other books in mind for the above prompts in the comments below.