Description
In our last episode for the season, we're doing things a little differently. Instead of talking you through books she's read, Marina explores a list of titles and authors she's yet to peruse -- some that she may add to her reading list in the future and some she may not despite how popular they are.
Mentioned this episode:
Harold Robbins - The Carpetbaggers, The Adventurers
Mario Puzo - The Godfather
William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
William Shakespeare
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Augustine of Hippo
Lytton Strachey
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Amina Wadud - Qur'an and Woman, Inside the Gender Jihad
Kecia Ali - Sexual Ethics and Islam
Fatema Mernissi
Riffat Hassan
Asma Lamrabet
Mona Eltahawy
Seema Yasmin - Muslim Women Are Everything
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet
Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
Hilary Mantel
Margaret Atwood
Keggie Carew - Dadland
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