Women of the World discussion

This seems incredibly early to post a thread asking for your suggestions for 2020 group reads, but I have found from past experience that it often takes some time to finalise the list. With that in mind, please suggest as many group reads as you'd like. Nearer the time, and once we have had as many responses as possible, I will set up a poll or something similar, so that we can narrow down the list.

Please also suggest as many female authors as you would like. Rather than the monthly author, which we have at the moment, I would like to put in place bimonthly authors, one of whom will be relatively contemporary, and the other either a classic female author, or a 'neglected' writer. Expanding the discussion time to two months will hopefully ensure that as many people as possible can join in with our discussions.

Does anyone have any authors and books to suggest?

Nice proposition 😊 I list down here some suggestions, I hope you’ll find some interesting things..

Female authors : Leïla Slimani (Morocco/France), Magda Szabó (Hungary), Xinran (China), Elif Shafak (Turkey), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Elena Ferrante(Italy), Irène Némirovsky (Ukraine/France), Clarice Lispector (Brazil), Yōko Ogawa (Japan), Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Isabel Allende (Chile)

Group reads : Rebecca by Daphné du Maurier, Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles, Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, The Good People by Hanna Kent, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Storiesby Lucia Berlin

Such great suggestions; thank you!