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Recommended books are preceded with a *
Highly recommended books are in bold
Books I loathed are preceded with a –
December:
Sarah Dunant, In the Company of the Courtesan
November:
Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
Sarah Forsyth’s Slave Girl
Rahila Gupta’s Enslaved: The New British Slavery
Sophie Hayes’ Trafficked
October:
Annabel Pitcher’s My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece
*Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and selected short stories
Sue Eckstein’s Interpreters.
September:
J.D Robb’s Taken in Death
J.D Robb’s Concealed in Death
J.D Robb’s Thankless in Death
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin ands the Wellspring of Death
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wykhadden
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Days the Flood Came
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell
M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
August:
Maggie O’Farrell’s The distance between us
Susan Fletcher’s Eve Green
Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories
*Lynn Harne’s Violent Fathering
*Lorraine Radford & Marianne Hester’s Mothering Through Domestic Violence
*Julie Bindel’s Straight Expectations
*Lori Lansen’s The Girls
*Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the nightbird call?
*Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem
Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
*Gillian Slovo’s Black Orchid
July:
*Kate Mosse’ Citadel
Kate Mosse’ The Mistletoe Bride and other haunting tales
*Marilyn French’s War Against Women
Carola Dunn’s The Winter Garden Mystery
Carola Dunn’s Requiem for a Mezzo
Carola Dunn’s Murder on the Flying Scotsman
Valerie Martin’s A Recent Martyr
Maggie O’Farrell’s My Lover’s Lover
Isabel Wolff’s forget me not
*Maggie O’Farrell’s After You’d Gone
June:
* Lydia Cacho’s Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
* Jenny Kitzinger’s Framing Abuse: media influence and public understandings of sexual violence against children
Emma Donoghue’s Life Mask
Meg Cabot’s Awaken
* Sarah Dunant’s The Birth of Venus
Lucretia Grindle’s The Lost Daughter
– Elizabeth Caroline Grey’s The Skeleton Count
* Helen Forrester’s Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Sara Paretsky’s Indemnity Law
* Gillian Bagwell’s The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn
May:
* Meg Medina’s The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
Jane Mendelsohn’s I was Amelia Earhart
Carol Ryrie Brink’s Caddie Woodlawn
* Amber E. Kinser’s Motherhood and Feminism
Susan Coolidge’s Clover
Susan Coolidge’s In the High Valley
* Stella Duffy’s Theodora
* Stella Duffy’s The Purple Shroud
Pat Craven’s Living with the Dominator
April:
* Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses
Arlie Russell Hochschild’s The Second Shift
Fatima Bhutto’s The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americana
* Bella Pollen’s Hunting Unicorns
* Beatrix Campbell’s End of Equality
* Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
* Anna Politkovskaya’s A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
March:
* Maya Angelou’s Letters To My Daughter
Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women
* Maya Angelou’s Mom & Me & Mom
February:
* Denise Thompson’s Radical Feminism Today
Mary Beard’s Parthenon
* Gerda Lerner’s The Creation of Patriarchy
January:
Joumana Haddad’s Superman is an Arab
