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Recommended books are preceded with a *
Highly recommended books are in bold
Books I loathed are preceded with a –
December:
M.C. Beaton’s Perfecting Fiona
M.C. Beatons’ Hell’s Bells
M.C.Beaton’s Animating Maria
M.C Beaton’s Enlightening Delilah
M.C Beaton’s Finessing Clarissa
M.C Beatons’s Marrying Harriet
M.C Beaton’s Our Lady of Pain
M.C Beaton’s Refining Felicity
M.C Beaton’s Sick of Shadows
M.C Beaton’s Hiss and Hers
M.C. Beaton’s Annabelle
November:
* Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Cath Staincliffe’s The Kindest Thing
Karin Slaughter’s Snatched
Karen Dolby’s Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes from the Past
Ali Bee’s Trying to Make Sense of Things
M.C Beaton’s Refining Felicity
Jennifer Handford’s Daughters for A Time
October:
Samantha Geimer’s The Girl
Shirley Chisholm’s Unbought & Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self
* Precious Williams’ Precious
* Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
September:
Valerie Martin’s Mary Reilly
August:
Jane Eagland’s Wildthorne
Edie Claire’s Never Buried
Elizabeth Day’s Home Fires
– Tara Shuler’s Blood Haze
Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes & Susie Orbach’s Fifty Shades of Feminism
* Joan Smith’s The Public Woman
July:
Emma Chapman’s How to be a Good Wife
Francesca Brill’s The Harbour
Rumer Godden’s China Court
Roma Tearne’s Bone China
Margaret Forster’s Keeping The World Away
June:
* Valerie Solanus’ Scum Manifesto
* Hannah Richelle’s Secrets of the Tides
Charlaine Harris’ Dead Ever After
Elizabeth Buchan’s Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman
Diane Chamberlain’s The Lost Daughter
May:
J.D. Robb’s Calculated in Death
* Lynne Harne & Elaine Miller’s All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism
April:
Kate Summerscale’s Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace
* Bettany Hughes’ Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Joanne Harris’ Runemarks
Sandrine Hayashi Danas & Leveque’s Stripped: The Bare Reality of Lap Dancing
Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams
Jennifer Donnelly’s A Gathering Light
Trine Rogg Korsvik & Ane Sto’s The Nordic Approach: Feminists Talk Candidly about the Nordic Battle to Ban the Purchase of Sex
* Karen Boyle’s Everyday Pornography
* Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Linda Lovelace’s Ordeal
Linda Lovelace’s Out of Bondage
* Kathleen Barry’s The Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women
March:
* Aminatta Forna’s The Devil that Danced on the Water
Barbara Black Koltuv’s The Book of Lilith
Barbara Kingsolver’s Pigs in Heaven
Rose Tremain’s The Way I Found Her
* Rumer Godden’s The Doll’s House
Liz Jensen’s War Crimes For the Home
Jewly Hight’s Right By Her Roots: Americana Women and their Songs
* Helen Castor’s She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Siri Mitchell’s She Walked in Beauty
Hilary Boyd’s Thursdays in the Park
* Rosalind Miles’ The Women’s History of the World
Rumer Godden’s Black Narcissus
February:
Lisa Gardner’s The Other Daughter
Anne-Marie Conway’s Butterfly Farm
* Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones
M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance
* Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider
Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street
* Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Chibundu Onuzo’s The Spider King’s Daughter
January:
Meg Cabot’s Size 12 and Ready to Rock
Janet Evanovich’s Notorious Nineteen
Janet Evanovich’s Wicked Business
* Nina Power’s One Dimensional Woman
