What happened to Michelle Obama as she stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her super-powerful husband? This is essentially what her autobiography ‘Becoming’ seeks to capture.

'The Far Field' gets richer by the page, as Madhuri Vijay chronicles the story of a woman in the troubled lands of Jammu and Kashmir.

Elif Shafak’s ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ is an ode to the space a woman occupies in this world with light play of words, but the plot lacks finesse.

The past decade has been a reader’s delight in Nepal, as writers continue to innovate and push the envelope.

Numair Atif Choudhury’s maiden ‘Babu Bangladesh!’ unfurls into a cornucopia of symbols, motifs and metaphors.

Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half the Night is Gone’ is an ode to life itself, with its infinite layers and mysteries.

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Gun Island’ creates a world of an all-engulfing dystopia with layers of revelations, mysteries, and inexplicable occurrences.

Tara Westover’s ‘Educated’ recounts the extremity of her upbringing and her efforts to find liberation through formal education.

The Man Who Saw Everything is a novel that treads into the unknown and fantastic, it has fun with its own form but fails to create a coherent narrative for the reader.

In Jan Carson’s second book, the setting exists as an exquisite character, but the disparate threads refuse to weave together.

Shankari Chandran shows atrocities, horror, and senseless violence of the Sri Lankan civil war in ‘Song of the Sun God’.

Wading through love, through the eyes of a problematic protagonist.

In the fractured, imperfect interactions of Sally Rooney’s novel, our own ruptured attempts to carry forward our thoughts to another end is reflected, often with completely undesirable results.

Anukriti Upadhyay’s Daura is an interesting work that reveals layers of possibilities and meanings under its folksy cloak.

This critically-acclaimed novel is an adaption of ancient Greek myth, and its gritty female protagonist is still one for the ages.