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 