Books we've read: Women and Gender Book Club
A growing list of books we've read, discussed and loved over the last few months!
Year 1, 2023:
June- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Classic fiction)
July- bell hooks, All about love (Non fiction classic)
August- Amrita Pritam, Pinjar (Partition/Independence Theme, fiction)
September- Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex (Non fiction, academic)
October- Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Ji Young, Born 1982 (International Fiction, Korea)
November- Caroline Perez, Invisible Women (Non fiction, STEM)
December- Vivek Shaunbaug, Sakina’s Kiss (Fiction, masculinities theme)
Year 2, 2024:
*January- Sohini Chattopadhyay, The Day I Became A Runner (Non fiction, Sports, memoir)
*February- Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shahrukh (Non fiction, Economics)
*March- Volga, Liberation of Sita (Fiction, Mythology)
*April- Hansda Sowvendra Shekher, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (Fiction, Marginalised histories)
*May-Manish Gaekwad, The Last Courtesan (Non fiction, Memoir)
*June- Shilpa Phadke et al, Why Loiter & Yaari (Non fiction, Friendship and Resistance stories)
July- Jerry Pinto (Translator), Cobalt blue (Fiction, Pride month read)
*August- Farah Bashir, Rumours of spring (Non-fiction, Memoir, 'Home and Belonging' theme)
*September- Nilanjana Bhowmick, Lies Our Mothers Told Us & How Not to be a Superwoman (Non-fiction, Women & Work)
October- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Gramus (Fiction, Women in STEM)
*November- Neha Dixit, The Many Lives of Syeda X (Non-fiction, Working class women histories/memoir)
December- Asako Yuzuki, Butter (Fiction, True crime inspired, theme ‘Food’)- [rollover to January]
(Note: Months marked with an Asterix* include author conversations. Recordings for some of these author interviews can be found on our YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/@WomenandGenderBookClub )
Year 3, 2025:
January- Asako Yuzuki, Butter (True crime inspired fiction, theme ‘Food’, Japan)
February- Alison Espach, The Wedding People (Fiction, Romcom theme)
March- Iravati Karve, Yuganta & Urmilla Deshpande, Thiago Barbosa IRU (Non-fiction, mythology critical text, memoir, India)
April- Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman (Series) (Fiction, Interpersonal drama, India)
May- Han King, Vegetarian (Dystopian fiction, Nobel Winner, South Korea)
June- Samantha Harvey, Orbital (Science-Fiction, Booker Winner, USA)
July-V.V. Ganeshanathan, Brotherless Night (Historical fiction, Civil War literature, Women’s Prize winner, Sri Lanka)
August- Ravikant Kisna, Meet the Savarnas & Shailja Paik, The Vulgarity of Caste (Non-Fiction, Academic, Caste politics, India)
September/October- Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost (Historical fiction, Art/Drama/Play-centric, Palestinian literature, Women’s Prize winner)
November- Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me (Non-Fiction, Memoir)
December- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Fiction, Classic, celebrating Austen’s 250th Birth Anniversary!)
