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In celebration of Women’s Month, we take time to explore books written by women–stories that inspire, educate, and tell unique stories told from the female perspective.
From fiction, real-life-experiences to fantasy, here are recommendations you can read to honor women writers this March.
Sally Rooney’s second novel is a story of mutual fascination, love, and friendship. It follows two deeply damaged people who develop an intense relationship that is beyond the norms—from their first conversation to the years beyond.
Paris: Through a Fashion Eye by Megan Hess
One of the world's most-successful fashion illustrators, Megan Hess, takes readers on a super stylish adventure through the French capital, showing the best places for a fashionista to eat, sleep, shop and play – all illustrated in her inimitable, elegant style.
Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Award-winning author Danielle Evans introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history—about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight.
Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest and most ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across 18th century Europe–it captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Susanto
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of. You get four meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! Jesse Q. Susanto writes a hilarious, heartfelt romp of a novel about romance paired with accidental murder and the bond of family.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness tells the story of loss, growing up, and our relationship with things; it is classic Ruth Ozeki–bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Gail Honeyman balances the heavy with humor and hope; taking readers on a journey right along with Eleanor. Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open your heart.
Yōko Ogawa writes a hypnotic, gentle novel that begins as a surveillance-state dystopia and ends as something more existential: a surreal and haunting meditation on our sense of self. First published in Japan 25 years ago, and newly available in English translation, this novel has a timeless feel.
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol
Gina Apostol’s riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary, tracing his childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of writer and fellow revolutionary, Jose Rizal. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling, anarchic modes of narrative.
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
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Emily St. John Mandel
A National Book Award Finalist
A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
Get Station Eleven (Paperback) by Emily St. John Mandel and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreMegan Hess
Paris is an illustrated guide to one of the world's most-loved fashion cities by one of the world's most-successful fashion illustrators. In the second of her series of books on classic fashion destinations, Megan Hess takes you on a super stylish adventure through the French capital, showing you the best places for a fashionista to eat, sleep, shop and play – all illustrated in her inimitable, elegant style.
Get Paris: Through a Fashion Eye (Hardcover) by Megan Hess and other Fashion books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreSusanna Clarke
Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?
Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.
Get Piranesi (Hardcover) by Susanne Clarke and other science fiction and fantasy books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreYoko Ogawa
Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.
Get Memory Police (Paperback) by Yoko Ogawa and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreSally Rooney
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •
TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson
AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country
Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life-changing begins.
Get Normal People: A Novel (Hardcover) by Sally Rooney and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreGina Apostol
In telling the contested and fragmentary story of Mata, Apostol finds new ways to depict the violence of the Spanish colonial era, and to reimagine the nation s great writer, Jose Rizal, who was executed by the Spanish for his revolutionary activities, and is considered by many to be the father of Philippine independence. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling, anarchic modes of narrative.
Get The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Export Edition (Paperback) by Gina Apostol and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreDanielle Evans
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history.
Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’
Get The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories (Hardcover) by Danielle Evans and other short stories books online at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreJesse Q. Sutanto
You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers.
Get Dial A for Aunties (Paperback) by Jesse Q. Sutanto and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Get Notes on Grief (Hardcover) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and other biography and memoir books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreOlga Tokarczuk
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs.
Get The Books of Jacob: A Novel, Export Edition (Paperback) by Olga Tokarczuk and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
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Ruth Ozeki
A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things
With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
Get The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel (Hardcover) by Ruth Ozeki and other fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
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