The Nightingale solves the problem of history overlooking the “women’s war,” shedding light on the brutal, silent battles fought on the domestic front while men were on the battlefield. Two … Read more
The problem The Silver Book solves: How do you live, make art, and love freely when fascism, homophobia and spectacle are all closing in on your body at once? When … Read more
If you’ve ever felt like you were handed a polished, pastel life that somehow left you hollow inside, The Book Club for Troublesome Women is the novel that finally names … Read more
When a patient dies on your watch and the country freezes to a halt, how do you keep a marriage, a conscience—and a village—alive? Miller’s novel The Land in Winter … Read more
If you’ve ever been told to smile through exhaustion or “keep up appearances,” The Mad Wife shows the hidden bill of that performance—on bodies, marriages, neighborhoods, and minds. It solves … Read more
Grief is the riddle most families never solve; Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell turns that riddle into a life-sized map of loss, art, and the strange bargains love makes with death. … Read more
For readers seeking an escape into a world of grand ambition, ruthless romance, and the complex moral fabric of the antebellum South, Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow provides a … Read more
Written by Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age is the debut work of Anam and the opening volume of her Bengal Trilogy, followed by The Good Muslim (2011) and The Bones … Read more
Shame, a novel by Salman Rushdie, was first published in 1983. The novel is a crucial part of Rushdie’s literary portfolio, following the success of Midnight’s Children and preceding his … Read more
Midnight’s Children is a highly acclaimed novel by the Indian-British author Salman Rushdie, first published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and by Alfred A. Knopf in … Read more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious and intricately woven novels, first published in Japan in three volumes between 1994 and 1995, later combined and translated … Read more
Desertion is a critically acclaimed novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Gurnah, the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (2021), is celebrated for his profound portrayals … Read more
Afterlives is a 2020 novel by Nobel Prize–winning Tanzanian-born author Abdulrazak Gurnah, published by Bloomsbury. Set against the turbulent backdrop of German colonial East Africa in the early 20th century, … Read more
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1994 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK, stands as one of the most significant works in postcolonial literature. This novel, which earned a … Read more
Arrow of God, written by Chinua Achebe and published in 1964 by Heinemann as part of the African Writers Series, is the third and final instalment of his African Trilogy … Read more
The Hunger Angel (original title: Der Hungerengel) is a novel written by Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German author and Nobel Laureate in Literature. Published in 2009, it follows the life … Read more
The Book Thief, written by Australian author Markus Zusak, was originally published in 2005 by Picador in Australia and Knopf Books for Young Readers in the United States. Since then, … Read more
The Alchemist is a philosophical novel by Paulo Coelho, first published in Portuguese in 1988 under the title O Alquimista. It was originally released by a small Brazilian publishing house, … Read more
Titanic 1997 film, directed by James Cameron, is one of the most successful and iconic films in cinematic history. The film tells the story of the ill-fated voyage of the … Read more