Recs if you like The Bandit Queens...
Listening Is Reading
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.
Mysteries and Thrillers
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 💕
aanhpi book recs
spotlighting some incredible books by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors
Incredible India!
Indian writing starter pack - across various genres👋🏻✌🏻
Books where women kill men
Usually with blunt force
Killing the Men Who Deserve It (if only)
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.
Feminine rage and all things good.
Just books I thought helped show the primal feminine rage we are all experiencing right now in the dumpster fire 🔥 of a planet
Supporting Women’s Wrongs
Crime, obsession, feminine rage etc 🩷
Prose Before Bros [book club]
Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX
Books that aren't actually cozy but feel very cozy
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
The entire Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist
Complete! Every book longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction since it was founded in 1996, under its current title and previous sponsored titles of 'Orange' and 'Baileys' Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!
Hot Girls Hate The Patriarchy
Pretty covers, powerful women, zero apologies.
Fae & Flame Society Women’s Prize Nominations
2019-2026
Books that bring forth the desi dhamaka
Desi at heart, Desi as charged
allison paiges recommends…
masterlist of recommendations from booktuber allison paiges, THE cozy booktuber 💐 (list in progress; will be slowly adding as i rewatch their videos)
Desi Girl
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.
Women's fiction
Books that explore womanhood through the bad and the ugly
Feminine rage will NOT let you down!
If you have a strong sense of justice, these will hurt, but don't worry. Vengeance will be sweet.
Set in India
Fiction Books set in India
Chicks Being Chicks
Gross girls, girlhood, and the like
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