Women Author Recommendations

Here is a listing of some women authors and their popular works. Both Indian and International perspectives have been included in these lists and are by absolutely no means exhaustive. The lists will continue to be updated both in variety and descriptions as my knowledge improves. We welcome recommendations that you’ve found interesting that can be added to these lists. Please Tweet at us at @bibliophilesblr or @bibliophilesblr.

(PS - This is a work in progress. The names of books associated with many authors is still to be added.)

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : Purple Hibiscus, Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun
  • Hiromi Arakawa : Full Metal Alchemist :
  • Elena Ferrante :
  • Arundhati Roy :
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni : The Lives of Strangers, The Palace of Illusions : A Novel,One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl,Before We Visit the Goddess ,The Forest of Enchantments, The Last Queen (2021)
  • Kamila Shamsie :
  • Emma Donoghue :
  • Krishna Udayasankar : The Aryavarta Chronicles, Three, Beast, The Cowherd Prince
  • Lavanya Lakshminarayan : Analog/Virtual
  • Deepti Srivatsan : The Hauntup
  • RajaRajeshwari Arenga : Thus She Spake : Creative Telling of Mythology
  • Madhura Banerjee : Monsoon Arrives at the Junction Crossing
  • Vijayalakshmi Harish : Strangely Familiar Tales
  • Mary Roach :
  • Mary Beard :
  • Madeline Miller :
  • Hiromi Arakawa :
  • Nisha Susan : The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories
  • Anushka Jasraj :
  • Jenny Bhatt :
  • Anuja Chauhan : The House That BJ Built, Those Pricey Thakur Girls
  • Salma : Cursed :
  • Meena Kandasamy : When I hit you
  • Jhumpa Lahiri : Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth ,The Lowland
  • Gillian Flynn :
  • Jane Austen :
  • Agatha Christie :
  • Nnedi Okarafor :
  • Ann Leckie :
  • N.K. Jemisin :
  • Manjiri Indurkar :
  • Rheea Mukherjee :
  • Minal Hajratwala :
  • Sharanya Manivannan :
  • Anuradha Roy :
  • Celeste Ng :
  • Mary Oliver :
  • Sara Teasdale :
  • JK Rowling :
  • Enid Blyton :
  • Elif Shafak :
  • Katherine Applegate :
  • Anita Nair :
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni :
  • Sudha Murty :
  • Anita Desai :
  • PD James :
  • Betty Mahmoody :
  • Shanta Shelke :
  • Jhumpa Lahiri :
  • Daphne Du Maurier :
  • Ismat Chugtai :
  • Bronte Sisters :
  • CS Laksmi :
  • Nabaneeta Dev Sen :
  • Mahasweta Devi :
  • Namita Gokhale :
  • Irawati Karve :
  • Lalithambika Antharjanam :
  • Diana Wynne Jones :
  • Katharine Arden :
  • Erin Morgenstern :
  • Susanna Clarke :
  • Alix E Harrow :
  • Ursula K. Le Guin :
  • Patricia Cornwell :
  • Ismat Chughtai :
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie :
  • Leesa Gazi. Jane Harper :
  • Liane Moriarty :
  • Dorothy Parker :
  • Deepti Kapoor :
  • Nighat M Gandhi :
  • Austen :
  • Amrita Pritam :
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie :
  • Kiran Desai :
  • Annie Zaidi :
  • Jumpa Lahri :
  • Amrita Mahale :
  • Sumana Roy :
  • LM Montgomery :
  • Joanne Harris :
  • Janice Pariat :
  • Avni Doshi :
  • Ayn Rand :
  • Ismat Chughtai. :
  • Charlotte Brontë :
  • Harper Lee :
  • Maya Angelou :
  • Michelle Obama : Becoming
  • Julia Donaldson :
  • Hilary Mantel :
  • Phillipa Gregory :
  • Margaret Mitchell :
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe :
  • Ruth Rendell :
  • Sue Grafton :
  • Ruth Reichl :
  • Sophia Kinsella :