Orbital
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is a reflective literary novel set aboard a space station, where astronauts observe Earth and think about humanity, nature, memory, and the fragility of life.
Fiction
Human Acts
Han Kang’s Human Acts is a powerful novel about the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, state violence, grief, trauma, memory, and survival.
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a promising young woman whose life slowly gives way to alienation, depression, and a crisis of identity.
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a quiet, reflective novel about a middle-aged woman who leaves Sydney, returns to her childhood town, and lives in an abbey.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny explores loneliness, relationships, family dynamics, and literary realism across India and America, along with thoughts on pacing, class, and detailed storytelling.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian by Han Kang—an unsettling novel about patriarchy, silence, and the cost of saying no.
Greek Lessons
Han Kang’s Greek Lessons is a quiet, unsettling novel about silence, language, loss, memory, and the fragile ways human beings try to reach one another.
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending is a quiet, beautifully written novel about memory, remorse, ageing, friendship, and how we reshape the story of our own lives.
Heart Lamp
Heart Lamp is an emotional and evocative read. It is a portal that takes the readers into a world where we see it through the eyes of women. And it is not a gentle and just world – though the stories are of Muslim women, but they hold true for the poor and marginalized women of all religions.
The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain is a reminder of the times we are living in, exploiting nature for profit.