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Recommended books are preceded with a *
Highly recommended books are in bold
Books I loathed are preceded with a –
December
Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone
Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Catherine Johnson’s The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo
Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls
Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman
November
Gabriella Gillespies’ A Father’s Betrayal
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s We are not in Pakistan
Esmeralda Santiago’s When I was Puerto Rican – A Memoir
Yejide Kilanko’s Chasing Butterflies
October
Chanda Hahn’s Unenchanted
Chanda Hahn’s Fairest
Chanda Hahn’s Fable
Chanda Hahn’s Reign
– Chanda Hahn’s Forever
– Pauline Francis’ Raven Queen
Anita Anand’s Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
* Tamara Winfrey Harris’ The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Sandi Toksvig’s Heroines & Harridans: A Fanfare of Fabulous Females
Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road
– Iris Murdoch’s The Bell
Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers
Jackie Kay’s Fiere
September
Andrea Levy’s Every Light Burning in the House
Andrea Levy’s Never Far From Nowhere
Andrea Levy’s Uriah’s War
Sarita Mandana’s Tiger Hills
Laila Ibrahim’s Yellow Crocus
August
Andrea Levy’s The Fruit of Lemons
Sarah Dunant’s Blood & Beauty
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
*Jamaica Kincaid’s The autobiography of my mother
July
Ruiyan Xu’s The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
– A.S Byatt’s Ragnarok: The End of Gods
Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy. Snow. Bird
Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters who walk this path
*Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Tiger Claw
Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field
Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown’s Geisha, A Life
Sadie Jones’ The Outcast
Nancy Richler’s The Imposter Bride
Tatiana De Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key
Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guave Orchard
Padma Viswanathan’s The Toss of a Lemon
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Janet Evanovich’s Takedown Twenty
Sadie Jones’ The Uninvited Guest
June
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Friendship
Bucha Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
Maggie Harris’ Kissadee Girl
Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their eyes were watching
– Suzanne Joinson’s A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
* Ethel May Dell’s The Obstacle Race
Ruth Joseph’s Remembering Judith: A True Story of a Shattered Childhood
*nayyirah waheed’s salt
* shilpi somaya gowda’s Secret Daughter
Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk
*Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the body remembers
Meg Cabot’s Royal Wedding
Janet Evanovich’s Top Secret
May
Sofka Zinoviesff’s The House on Paradise Street
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists
Kamaria Muntu’s A Good Lynching Should be Enjoyed
*Pat Murphy’s The Falling Woman
J.D. Robb’s Obession in Death
– JoJo Moyes’ The girl you left behind
April
*Sara Marcus’ Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrl Revolution
A.S Byatt The Song of Solomon
*Kathryn Hughes’ The Letter
*Marian Keyes’ The Woman Who Stole My Life
*Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
Mhairi McAlpine’s You had me at hello
Anna McPartlin’s Pack up the moon
Madeleine Miller’s The Song of Achilles
Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love
*nayyirah waheed’s nejma
*Carolyn Wall’s Playing with Matches
J.D Robb’s Festive in Death
M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an Englishman
Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now
Sylvia Waugh’s The Mennyms
Sabrina Mahfouz’ The Clean Collection
Elizabeth Laird’s Kiss the Dust
Georgie Ellis’ Ruth Ellis, My Mother
March
Muriel Jakubait & Monica Weller’s Ruth Ellis: My Sister’s Secret Life
Carol Ann Lee’s A Fine Day for Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story
Jeanne Theoharis’ The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth
*Assata Shakur’s Assata: An Autobiography
Helen Keller’s The Story of my Life
Petra Kelly’s Fighting for Hope
February
*Helen Castor’s Joan of Arc
Larissa Juliet Taylor’s The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc
Kathleen McGowan’s The Expected One
Kathleen McGowan’s The Book of Love
Sabina Khan’s The Realm of the Goddess
January
Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life
* Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist
*Michelle De Kretser’s The Hamilton Case
– Clara Sanchez’ The Scent of Lemon Leaves
*Carol Birch’s The Naming of Eliza Quinn
