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.
Brilliant compilation yet again.
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