Recs if you like The Bandit Queens...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

spotlighting some incredible books by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors

Usually with blunt force

Look, they just can’t help it. Sometimes they stumble into it. Sometimes it’s an addiction. Sometimes it heals something inside them. Sometimes they’ve investigated, gathered evidence, and prepared well in advance. Sometimes the law just isn’t doing its job. Sometimes…it just has to happen. Sorry not sorry.

Just books I thought helped show the primal feminine rage we are all experiencing right now in the dumpster fire 🔥 of a planet

Indian writing starter pack - across various genres👋🏻✌🏻

Crime, obsession, feminine rage etc 🩷

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Books that don't really fit my definition of a cozy book (low stakes, relaxed pace, etc) but still feel very cozy, entirely based off of vibes and my personal opinion

Pretty covers, powerful women, zero apologies.

2019-2026

Desi at heart, Desi as charged

masterlist of recommendations from booktuber allison paiges, THE cozy booktuber 💐 (list in progress; will be slowly adding as i rewatch their videos)

Books by Desi authors about being a desi girl. whether that be a desi girl in love, a desi girl fighting against community norms, a desi girl in myths.

Books that explore womanhood through the bad and the ugly

If you have a strong sense of justice, these will hurt, but don't worry. Vengeance will be sweet.

Fiction Books set in India

Gross girls, girlhood, and the like

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