Recs if you like Mother Mary Comes to Me...

A list with (your!) recs ✍🏻📚, because i am tired of searching on social media and finding nothing. We have to solve that.

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 💋

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

Hii, everyone ♡ I am a very big fan of the booktuber @caricanread so I thought I would make a list of all the books she has read this year! ✰

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

(famous) authors writing about their mothers (or their (complicated) relationships with their mothers)

memoirs & non-fiction

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

memoirs, anthologies, or essays from or about south asia or south asians

the complicated inheritance of being someone's daughter. maternal wounds, generational trauma, inherited neuroses, impossible expectations, and the many ways love can leave a mark. mothers we love, resent, misunderstand, and spend a lifetime trying to figure out. daughters caught between becoming their mothers, disappointing them, and figuring out who they are without them. // some family issues require a little more than a family group chat.

— suggestions always welcome!

Nonfiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list

Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026

Books written by Indian authors

with the exception of books i think are important to the diaspora or asian americans in general!

all genres!! pls scroll 🥁

Books about grieving loved ones. Main themes or death adjacent. Books that helped me through the grieving process. "I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us." —Joan Didion.

16 books that make up the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist. A hopeful longlist that reflects the belief that every woman’s voice has the power to elicit and inspire change, the sixteen captivating titles span politics, memoir, science, history, biography, art and more, in an extraordinary, international celebration of women’s writing. - womensprize.com

a working list of history, memoirs, and scientific communication from authors based in or who had significant life experience in what's considered the global south. the goal of this list was to read more nonfiction from alternate global perspectives, open to edits or suggestions!

A book club where storytelling is at it’s heart. To feel for characters in stories as we might for ourselves or our friends.

Nobel, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Women’s Prize, Lambda Literary Award, etc. winners

Books I stumbled across on the library’s website that look good