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.
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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.
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women exposes how gender data bias shapes everyday life, from healthcare and workplaces to transport, technology, public policy, and design.
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.
Phantom Plague
Vidya Krishnan’s Phantom Plague traces the history and present crisis of tuberculosis, showing how stigma, poverty, drug resistance, pharma patents, and public-health failure continue to shape the disease.
India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
Audrey Truschke’s India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent offers a broad overview of Indian history, political myths, social reform, caste, women, and historical debates.
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Faith and Fury
Jyoti Yadav’s Faith and Fury documents the human cost of Covid in India’s villages and small towns, focusing on migrant workers, rural distress, state failure, and lives left out of the national narrative.
Forensics
Forensics – What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid is a fascinating exploration of the science behind criminal investigations.
Somanatha – The Many Voices of History
Romila Thapar’s Somanatha – The Many Voices of History dismantles the popular myths surrounding the Somnath temple, showing how medieval chronicles, colonial historians, and modern narratives have shaped its story. A deeply researched work, the book reveals multiple perspectives, from Turko-Persian accounts of Mahmud of Ghazni’s raid to Sanskrit inscriptions and Jain texts, offering readers a nuanced view of history beyond simplistic binaries of conqueror and victim.”
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian by Han Kang—an unsettling novel about patriarchy, silence, and the cost of saying no.