2023 Bookish with Carla & Feriel - hosted by translatedgems

August - #FeministLitAugust
" A feminist novel, however, is not only about who we are; it must also be about how we live. It is a novel where the concerns of women and womanhood are the alpha and the omega of the narrative but it also deals explicitly with stories, with the lives of women. It is unlikely that there could ever be a consensus on what makes a novel a feminist novel because, let’s be honest, there’s little consensus about what makes a novel a novel. But many books do come to mind, including Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying, Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, and Tayari Jones’s Silver Sparrow. " by Roxanne Gay
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Father May Be an Elephant, and Mother Only a Small Basket, But... by Gogu Shyamala

Father May Be an Elephant, and Mother Only a Small Basket, But...

Gogu Shyamala

219 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Sultana's Dream: And Selections from the Secluded Ones by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Sultana's Dream: And Selections from the Secluded Ones

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

104 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh

Passage to the Plaza

Sahar Khalifeh

224 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha

Apple and Knife

Intan Paramaditha

192 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark medium-paced
Farewell, Ghosts by Nadia Terranova

Farewell, Ghosts

Nadia Terranova

224 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran

More Than a Woman

Caitlin Moran

285 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman

The Witches of Vardø

Anya Bergman

385 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

Fear of Flying

Erica Jong

11 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction classics erotica challenging funny reflective slow-paced
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