a not-at-all-exhaustive work in progress…
MOTHERHOOD, OTHERHOOD, WOMANHOOD
Motherhood – Sheila Heti | Olive – Emma Gannon | The Vegetarian – Han Kang | Indelicacy – Amina Cain | The Dutch House – Ann Patchett | We should all be feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Unattached – Angelica Malin | Rootless – Krystle Zara Appiah | The bloody chamber and other stories – Angela Carter | Living Dolls – Natasha Walter | Three women – Lisa Taddeo | Women of Sand and Myrhh – Hanan al-Shaykh | A room of one’s own – Virginia Woolf | expectation – anna hope | a history of the world in 21 women – jenni murray | selfish, shallow and self-absorbed – meghan daum | the age of the child – kristen tsetsi | wild egg – jennifer flint | the once and future witches – alix harrow | the handmaid’s tale – margaret atwood | convenience store woman – sayaka murata | Hush – Kate Maxwell | others like me – nicole louie | women without children – ruby warrington | Herland – Charlotte Perkins GilmaN | Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata | The Mercies – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
BOOKS & BEYOND
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy | Tess of the D’Urbevilles – Thomas Hardy | Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston | Beauty is a Wound – Eka Kurniawan | The power of a single story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The house of the spirits – Isabel Allende | Jane the Virgin | A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth | The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri | A Whole Life – Robert Seethaler | The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford | The Hours – Michael Cunningham | alice’s adventures in wonderland – lewis carroll | the magician’s nephew – C.S. lewis | the lottie project – jacqueline wilson | harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban – jk rowling | the edge chronicles – paul stewart & chris riddell | the age of miracles – karen thompson walker | the underground railroad – colson whitehead | restoration, merivel, music & silence – rose tremain | reading lolita in tehran – azar nafisi | chinese cinderella – adeline yen mah | dangerous liaisons – choderos de laclos | silk – alessandro baricco | Beloved – Toni Morrison | Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | isaac and the egg – bobby palmer
ON WRITING
A swim in the pond in the rain – George Saunders | Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott | On writers and writing – Margaret Atwood | Grit – Angela Duckworth
TBR
Nightbitch – Rachel Yoder | The Lost Daughter – Elena Ferrante | Still Born – Guadalupe Nettel | Metamorphosis and other stories – Franz Kafka | People Like Us – Hashi Mohammed | Hopscotch – Julio Cortazar | my little friend – donna tartt | robber bride – margaret atwood | the virago book of witcHes | second self – chloe ashby