December
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon
Karen Stote’s An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilisation of Aboriginal Women
Isabel Allende’s The House of Spirits
Irene Nemirovsky’s Daniel Golder
Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise
Margo Jefferson’s Negroland – a memoir
Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist
Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia
Jeanette Winterson’s Tanglewreck
Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking (reread)
Carrie Fisher’s Postcards from the Edge (reread)
Warsan Shire’s teaching my mother how to give birth
Dodie Smith’s It ends with revelations
November
Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching
*Isabel Allende’s of Love and Shadows
*Isabel Allende’s The City of Beasts
Gloria Wekker’s White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race
– Lucy Ribchester’s The Hourglass Factory
Isabel Allende’s Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Isabel Allende’s Forest of the Pygmies
Zen Cho’s The Terracotta Bride
Anne O’Brien’s The King’s Concubine
*Shannon Sullivan’s Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-racism
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust
October
Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron
Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words
Zadie Smith’s NW
*Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Sister of my Heart
*Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
Kamila Shamsie’s In the City by the Sea
*Sapphire’s The Kid
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
September
Essie Fox’s Elijah’s Mermaid
E.L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
August
Emilie Buchenwald, Pamela R. Fletcher & Martha Roth (ed.) Transforming A Rape Culture
Elana Ferante’ My Brilliant Friend
Angela Davis’ Women, Race & Class
July
Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy
Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
*Diane Athill’s Stet
JoAnn Gibson Robinson and David J Garrows’ Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Women who Started It
Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Kate Mosse’ The Taxidermist’s Daughter
*Marina Warner’s Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Jane Rogers’ The Testament of Jessie Lanb
June
Julia Alvarez’ In the Time of the Butterflies
Janet Fitch’s White Oleander
JD Robb’s Wonderment in Death
JD Robb’s Brotherhood in Death
Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One thousand and one nights
Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch
Stef Penney’s The Invisible Ones
Sophie Hannah’s Little Face
Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadow
Celeste Ng’s Everything I never told you
Emilie Richards’ Iron Lace
Alice Sebold’s Almost Moon
May
*Norah Loft’s Esther
Emma Donoghue’s Astray
Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune
Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife
bell hooks’ Feminism is for Everybody
April
Alison Weir’s Eleanor of Aquintane: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England
*Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
Nella Larsen’s Passing
Judith Herrin’s Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium
Rosie Thomas’ The Kashmir Shawl
Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
Lindsey Hilsum’s Sandstorm
Lisa Hilton’s Queens Consort: England’s Medieval Queens
Betty McLellan’s Unspeakable: A Feminist Ethic of Speech
March
Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography
Marian Keyes’ Making it up as I go along
*Linda A Porter’s Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Part
Elaine Brown’s A Taste of Power: A Black Women’s Story
*Helen Castor’s Blood & Roses
Antonia Fraser’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Anna Politkovskaya’s A Russian Diary
Audre Lorde’s Zami: A new spelling of my name.
Marina Nemat’s Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir
February
Meg Cabot’s Remembrance
Norah Lofts’ The Lost Queen
Margaret Forster’s Isa and May
Jeanette Winterson’s Boating for Beginners
January
* NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names
*Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim
Janice Raymond’s Not a choice, not a job: Exposing the myths about prostitution and the global sex trade
Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood
*Karen Boyle’s Everyday Pornography (reread)
*Miranda Kiraly & Meagan Tyler’s Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism
J.D Robb’s Devoted in Death
Kim Edward’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Pat Barker’s Union Street
* Marina Warner’s The Leto Bundle
Lisa O’Donnell’s Closed Doors
Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Thinking
Carrie Fisher’s Shockaholic
Jeanette Winterson’s Why be happy when you can be normal?
Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
Kathleen McGowan’s The Poet Prince
