North America
Canada
Agg, Jen – I Hear She’s a Real Bitch
Atwood, Margaret – Hag-Seed
Awad, Mona – 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
O’Neill, Heather – The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Sun, Jomny – everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too
Thien, Madeleine – Do Not Say We Have Nothing
United States of America
Attenberg, Jami – All Grown Up
Auster, Paul – 4321
Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time
Barrett, Andrea – Ship Fever
Batuman, Elif – The Idiot
Beatty, Paul – The Sellout
Bechdel, Alison – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Bennett, Brit – The Mothers
Bond, Cynthia – Ruby
Bosker, Bianca – Cork Dork
Brownstein, Carrie – Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl
Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo – Harmless Like You
Butler, Octavia – Kindred
Butler, Octavia – Parable of the Sower
Bulter, Octavia – Unexpected Stories
Carmon, Irin and Shana Knizhnik – Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Chambers, Becky – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Chang, Jade – The Wangs vs. the World
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Clemmons, Zinzi – What We Lose
Cline, Ernest – Ready Player One
Coates, Ta-Nehisi – We Were Eight Years in Power
Collins, Kathleen – Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Craig, Charmaine – Miss Burma
Crane, Elizabeth – The History of Great Things
DeWees, Shelley – Not Just Jane
Drayden, Nicky – The Prey of Gods
Ellison, Ralph – Juneteenth
Englander, Nathan – Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Erdrich, Louise – The Round House
Fink, Sheri – Five Days at Memorial
Foster, Patricia ed. – Minding the Body
Franks, Julia – Over the Plain Houses
Gaitskill, Mary – The Mare
Gay, Roxane – Difficult Women
Gay, Roxane – Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
George, Margaret – The Confessions of Young Nero
Gephart, Donna – Lily and Dunkin
Gino, Alex – George
di Giovanni, Janine – The Morning They Came for Us
Glass, Julia – A House Among the Trees
Goldsmith, Barbara – Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
Greenidge, Kaitlyn – We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Groff, Lauren – Fates and Furies
Gyasi, Ya’a – Homegoing
Halasa, Malu – Mother of All Pigs
Hannah, Kristin – The Nightingale
Harrison, Jamie – The Widow Nash
hooks, bell – Feminism is for Everybody
Hustvedt, Siri – What I Loved
Hustvedt, Siri – A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Irby, Samantha – We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Iweala, Uzodinma – Speak No Evil
Jemisin, N.K. The Fifth Season
Jerkins, Morgan – This Will Be My Undoing
Kalanithi, Paul – When Breath Becomes Air
Kendi, Ibram X. – Stamped From the Beginning
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and asha bandele – When They Call You a Terrorist
Ko, Lisa – The Leavers
Lawson, Jenny – Furiously Happy
Leavitt, Sarah – Tangles
Lewis, John – March
Lewis, Robin Coste – Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems
Link, Kelly – Get in Trouble
Locke, Attica – Pleasantville
Ludwig, Benjamin – Ginny Moon
Marshall, Tim – Prisoners of Geography
Massey, Sujata – The Widows of Malabar Hill
May, Jamaal – The Big Book of Exit Strategies
McFadden, Bernice L. – The Book of Harlan
McFadden, Bernice L. – Sugar
McKenzie, Elizabeth – The Portable Veblen
McLain, Paula – Circling the Sun
Moore, Lorrie – Birds of America
Morgan, C.E. – The Sport of Kings
Morrison, Toni – Jazz
Morrison, Toni – The Origin of Others
Nelson, Jandy – I’ll Give You The Sun
Ng, Celeste – Little Fires Everywhere
Norris, Mary – Between You & Me
Offill, Jenny – Dept. of Speculation
Ozeki, Ruth – All Over Creation
Ozeki, Ruth – A Tale For the Time Being
Ozick, Cynthia – The Shawl
Parker, Dorothy – Complete Stories
Patchett, Ann – Commonwealth
Pennypacker, Sara – Pax
Phillips, Delores – The Darkest Child
Pla, Sally J. – The Someday Birds
Powers, Richard – The Time of Our Singing
Purchia, Barbara and E. Ashley Rooney – Glass Art
Rhimes, Shonda – Year of Yes
Rankine, Claudia – Citizen: An American Lyric
Rowell, Rainbow – Eleanor and Park
Ryan, Pam Munoz – Esperanza Rising
Saunders, George – Lincoln in the Bardo
Shaffer, Mary Ann – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shapiro, Laura – What She Ate
Shelby, Ashley – South Pole Station
Shetterly, Margot Lee – Hidden Figures
Silber, Joan – Improvement
Singer, Margot – Underground Fugue
Slater, Dashka – The 57 Bus
Smith, Clint – Counting Descent
Smith, Danez – Don’t Call Us Dead
Solnit, Rebecca – The Faraway Nearby
Solnit, Rebecca – Hope in the Dark
Solnit, Rebecca – Men Explain Things to Me
Sontag, Susan – In America
Spence, Annie – Dear Fahrenheit 451
Steinem, Gloria – My Life on the Road
Strout, Elizabeth – My Name is Lucy Barton
Swain, Kelley – the naked muse
Swift, Vivian – Gardens of Awe and Folly
Symmes, Patrick – The Day Fidel Died: Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones
Thomas, Angie – The Hate U Give
Verble, Margaret – Maud’s Line
Volmer, Mary – Reliance, Illinois
Ward, Jesmyn – Salvage the Bones
Ward, Jesmyn – Sing, Unburied, Sing
Watts, No One is Coming to Save Us
Weissman, Elissa Brent – Our Story Begins
West, Lindy –Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Whitehead, Colson – The Underground Railroad
Williams, Joy – The Visiting Privilege
Woodson, Jacqueline – Another Brooklyn
Woodson, Jacqueline – Brown Girl Dreaming
Yanagihara, Hanya – A Little Life
Latin America: Central and South America
Barbados
Omotoso, Yewande – The Woman Next Door
Brazil
Lispector, Clarice – Family Ties and The Foreign Legion
Chile
Allende, Isabel – Daughter of Fortune
Haiti
Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
Mexico
Luiselli, Valeria – Faces in the Crowd
Luiselli, Valeria – Tell Me How It Ends
Trinidad
Nunez, Elizabeth – Even in Paradise
Europe
Belgium
Nothomb, Amelie – The Character of Rain
Croatia
Novic, Sara – Girl at War
England
Alderman, Naomi – The Power
Atkinson, Kate – A God in Ruins
Copleton, Jackie – A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
Elliott, Rachel – Whispers Through a Megaphone
Fletcher, Susan – Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
Flint, Emma – Little Deaths
Gibbons, Stella – Cold Comfort Farm
Grant, Linda – The Dark Circle
Gray, Clio – The Anatomist’s Dream
Harrison, Melissa – at hawthorn time
Hoby, Hermione – Neon in Daylight
Lessing, Doris –The Real Thing
McGregor, Jon – Reservoir 13
Melrose, Fiona – Midwinter
Moran, Caitlin – Moranifesto
Moss, Sarah – The Tidal Zone
Moyes, Jojo – After You
Mozley, Fiona – Elmet
Oyeyemi, Helen – What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Perry, Sarah – The Essex Serpent
Pym, Barbara – Excellent Women
Riley, Gwendoline – First Love
Rochester, Julia – The House at the Edge of the World
Rothschild, Hannah – The Improbability of Love
Seiffert, Rachel – A Boy in Winter
Shukla, Nikesh ed. – The Good Immigrant
Smith, Ali – Autumn
Smith, Ali – The Whole Story and other stories
Smith, Ali – Winter
Smith, Zadie – Swing Time
Tremain, Rose – The Gustav Sonata
France
Binet, Laurent – The Seventh Function of Language
Bordas, Camille – How to Behave in a Crowd
Sizun, Marie – Her Father’s Daughter
Germany
Hegi, Ursula – The Vision of Emma Blau
Hungary
Krasznahorkai, László – The World Goes On
Iceland
Sjón – Moonstone
Ireland
Enright, Anne – The Green Road
McBride, Eimear – The Lesser Bohemians
McInerney, Lisa – The Glorious Heresies
Northern Ireland
O’Farrell, Maggie – This Must Be the Place
Norway
Undset, Sigrid – Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Bridal Wreath
Italy
Ferrante, Elena – My Brilliant Friend
Ginzburg, Natalia – The Little Virtues
Tamaro, Susanna – Follow Your Heart
Russia
Uliskaya, Ludmila – The Big Green Tent
Scotland
Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Serbia
Goldsworthy, Vesna – Gorsky
Spain
Laforet, Carmen – Nada
Sweden
Backman, Fredrik – My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Ukraine
Nemirovsky, Irene – Suite Francaise
Sub-Saharan Africa
Cameroon
Mbue, Imbolo – Behold the Dreamers
Congo
Mabanckou, Alain – Black Moses
Ghana
Aidoo, Ama Ata – No Sweetness Here
Gyasi, Ya’a – Homegoing
Kenya
Wainaina, Binyavanga – One Day I Will Write About This Place
Nigeria
Adebayo, Ayobami – Stay With Me
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Dear Ijeawele
Adichie, Chimamanda Negozi – Purple Hibiscus
Arimah, Lesley Nneka – What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Omotoso, Yewande – The Woman Next Door
Popoola, Olumide and Annie Holmes – breach
Popoola, Olumide – When We Speak of Nothing
Senegal
Ba, Mariama – So Long a Letter
Sierra Leone
Hollist, Pede – So That The Path Does Not Die
Somalia
Mohamed, Nadifa – Black Mamba Boy
South Africa
Dala, Z.P. – The Architecture of Loss
Marais, Bianca – Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Melrose, Fiona – Midwinter
Omotoso, Yewande – The Woman Next Door
Sudan
Aboulela, Leila – The Kindness of Enemies
Uganda
Baingana, Doreen – Tropical Fish
Zambia
Popoola, Olumide and Annie Holmes – breach
Zimbabwe
Gappah, Petina – The Book of Memory
Popoola, Olumide and Annie Holmes – breach
North Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey
Egypt
El Saadawi, Nawal – Woman at Point Zero
Israel
Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet – Waking Lions
Morocco
Lalami, Laila – Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Pakistan
Hamid, Moshin – Exit West
Shamsie, Kamila – Home Fire
Palestine
Alyan, Hala – Salt Houses
Saudi Arabia
Alsanea, Rajaa – Girls of Riyadh
Turkey
Erdogan, Asli – The City in Crimson Cloak
Asia
China
Guo, Xiaolu – A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Randel, Weina Dai – The Moon in the Palace
India
Basu, Diksha – The Windfall
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee – The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Malladi, Amulya – A House for Happy Mothers
Roy, Arundhati – The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Japan
Kawakami, Hiromi – The Nakano Thrift Shop
South Korea
Kang, Han – The Vegetarian
Lee, Min Jin – Pachinko
Sri Lanka
Sindu, SJ – Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Vietnam
Bui, Thi – The Best We Could Do
Nguyen, Viet Thanh – The Sympathizer and The Refugees
Oceania
Australia
Barrett, Shirley – Rush OH!
Brooks, Geraldine – The Secret Chord
Schmidt, Sarah – See What I Have Done
New Zealand
Hulme, Keri – The Windeater
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