Recs if you like Women Without Men...

books about people transforming into, or being reincarnated as, plants 🌱 (or trying their best to)

suggestions welcome!

Writing and voices from outside of the white Western canon. Fiction and Non-fiction with an emphasis in diaspora, decolonization, global history, and resistance narratives from around the world. Features African, Asian, Central American, South American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern voices.

Began with many recommendations from Jamin Anderson (@jaminanderson__ on Instagram) and has expanded with the help of the Pagebound community.

Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.

I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋

An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

Long list for International booker prize 2026

Short story collections in any genre, all stories by a single author.

kids are great. however as a person who doesn’t want kids, I have fatigue around how many novels position motherhood as the epicenter of women’s lives. i’m gathering books here about women in their late twenties and older that don’t focus on motherhood or children. I haven’t read all these fyi!! plz share recs; i’m mostly looking for lit fic.

the longlist for the international booker prize

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

literary fiction/general fiction books with a speculative twist some lean more on the literary side, some more speculative. these books are more likely to be marketed as lit fic than speculative/sci-fi/fantasy.

Persian culture and history, home and abroad

Stories by women from across the world, brought to us through translation.

longlists of every year from 2016 onwards

13 books translated from 11 languages, by authors and translators representing 14 nationalities

A curated reading guide to translated fiction, featuring novels and short stories from around the world that reflect diverse cultures, histories, and literary genius.

Longlist for the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, featuring stories of witchcraft, warfare, trauma, transformation and more

20th/21st century persian fiction in translation

Britta Bohler, an Austrian booktuber who solely posts on books written by women, made a list of 1001 books to read before you die written by only by female authors ,as a response to all the lists that were being released at the time by critically acclaimed sources and included in the list about 70-90% male authors. This is me slowly reading that list.