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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorErotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal · 320 pages
After her father's death, Nikki, who has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community, takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community. Nikki has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community. After her father's death she takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi
Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea · 304 pages
A bold new voice from Saudi Arabia spins a fascinating tale of four young women attempting to navigate the narrow straits between love, desire, fulfillment, and Islamic traditionIn her debut novel Rajaa Alsanea reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Originally released in Arabic in 2005, it was immediately banned in
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 274 pages
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula
The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Tough
Neta Jackson
Skunk Girl
Sheba Karim · 231 pages
Nina Khan is not just the only Asian or Muslim student in her small-town high school in upstate New York, she is also faces the legacy of her "Supernerd" older sister, body hair, and the pain of having a crush when her parents forbid her to date.
Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged
Ayisha Malik
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 416 pages
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
G. Willow Wilson · 120 pages
Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak · 384 pages
"The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground -- an old polaroid of three young wom
Black Album (Faber Classics)
Hanif Kureishi · 276 pages
The Inn at Lake Devine
Elinor Lipman · 253 pages
Huda F Would Love You?: A Graphic Novel
Huda Fahmy
The Sunday Wife
Cassandra King · 537 pages
She's been married to a Methodist minister for 20 years, but Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of a "Sunday wife." When she becomes friends with Augusta Holderfield, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change
The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant · 322 pages
A story "about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's in
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume · 149 pages
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can b
The Milk of Birds
Sylvia Whitman
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fifteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
Blue Shoe
Anne Lamott · 319 pages
"Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. And her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding (and she's a perfect size 12 model at Sears), she has a crush on a married man, and her two young children are behaving the way young children in the midst
The Story Hour
Thrity Umrigar · 317 pages
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Determined
Written in the Stars
Aisha Saeed · 294 pages
This heart-wrenching novel explores what it is like to be thrust into an unwanted marriage. Has Naila s fate been written in the stars? Or can she still make her own destiny? Naila's immigrant Pakistani parents have made it clear that they will choose the man she marries. When she is caught at prom with her secret boyfriend, Naila's whole future changes. The plot contains sexual references and gr
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes: A Novel
Naomi Ragen · 384 pages
A novel on 16th century Jews who escaped the Spanish Inquisition by converting to Christianity. It is told through the eyes of two New York sisters, researching their roots in Europe to please their dying grandmother. In the process, the women discover their heritage and each finds love with a man.
Prayers and Lies
Sherri Wood Emmons · 312 pages
When seven-year-old Bethany first meets six-year-old cousin Reana Mae during a yearly family trip to West Virginia's Coal River Valley, it's the beginning of a kinship of misfits that saves both from a bone-deep loneliness. But as Bethany grows older, secrets in the small, close-knit community start coming to light with devastating effect.
Vivian Versus the Apocalypse
Katie Coyle · 287 pages
Peaches for Father Francis
Joanne Harris
Saints and Misfits
S.K. Ali · 328 pages
Janna Yusuf knows a lot of people can t figure out what to make of her an Arab Indian-American hijabi teenager who is a Flannery O Connor obsessed book nerd, aspiring photographer, and sometime graphic novelist is not exactly easy to put into a box. And Janna suddenly finds herself caring what people think. Or at least what a certain boy named Jeremy thinks. Not that she would ever date him Muslim