In celebration of International Women’s Day, I would like to recommend 25* (okay, now 30 because I decided to add non-fiction and poetry) of my favorite women writers from around the globe:
Jang Eun-Jin – No One Writes Back
Barbara Comyns – Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Claudia Rankine – Citizen: An American Lyric
Assia Djebar – A Sister to Scheherazade
Elizabeth McCracken – Thunderstruck and Other Stories
Fatima Mernissi – Dreams of Trespass
Jacqueline Baker – The Broken Hours; The Horseman’s Graves; A Hard Witching and Other Stories
Ahdaf Soueif – A Map of Love
Mary Swan – The Boys in the Trees
Valeria Luiselli – Faces in the Crowd
Nuala Ní Chonchúir – Mother America
Kjersti Skomsvold – The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
Alissa York – Effigy
Park Wan-Suh – Lonesome You
Tiffany Murray – Diamond Star Halo; Sugar Hall
Aglaja Veteranyi – Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta
Jenny Offill – Dept. of Speculation
Clarice Lispector – The Hour of the Star; A Breath of Life; The Foreign Legion
Lucy Wood – Diving Belles and Other Stories
Nawal El Saadawi – God Dies by the Nile
Kate Atkinson – Life After Life
Anna Gavalda – I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere
Helene Wecker – The Golem and the Jinni
Kiran Desai – Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Karen Russell – St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half a Yellow Sun
Missy Marston – The Love Monster
Roxane Gay – Bad Feminist
Leslie Jamison – The Empathy Exams
The Wandering Bibliophile 
A good list! Who Was Changed and Who was Dead is one of my favourite books.
It is a marvelous book, isn’t it? I’m actually really looking forward to your book, Our Endless Numbered Days! The title caught my attention last fall, and I’ll have my copy in my hands soon. Best of luck with the launch! Will you be touring? I’ll be sure to include it on next year’s International Women’s Day list!
Thank you so much for buying it! I hope you like, do let me know what you think. No plans to come over to the States unfortunately, currently just doing some events in the UK