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For copies of this bibliography, please contact Leita Kaldi Davis: [email protected] The U.S. Committee for the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM/USA) Gulf Coast Chapter launched a Book Club in 2005 that focuses, for the most part, on women writers from developing countries. Because the club’s well-read and well-traveled participants choose books that illustrate the challenges and strengths of such women, the club has become a friendly learning forum. Meeting at Sarasota’s North County Library every second Monday of the month, the following books provided memorable experiences. Abdi, Hawa/Robbins: Keeping Hope Alive Aboulela, Leila: Minaret The Kindness of Enemies Ackerman, Diane: The Zookeeper’s Wife Adams, Lorraine: Harbor Adichie, Ngozi Chimamanda: Half of a Yellow Sun Americanah Ahmed, Qanta: In the Land of Invisible Women Akallo, Grace: Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children Alexievich, Svetlana: Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War Ali, Monica: Brick Lane Allende, Isabel: Island under the Sea; Maya’s Notebook Alvarez, Julia: In the Time of Butterflies Ba, Mariama: So Long a Letter Banks, Russell: The Darling Bell, Beverly: Walking on Fire Belli, Giocanda: The Country under My Skin Betancourt, Ingrid: Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Bhutto, Benazir: Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West Blanche, Lesley: The Wilder Shores of Love Boo, Katherine: Beyond the Beautiful Forevers Boyle, T.C.: The Women Brooks, Geraldine: Caleb’s Crossing Buck, Pearl S: Peony Bulawayo NoViolet: We Need New Names Carr, Rosie: Land of One Thousand Hills Chang, Jung: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Chayes, Sarah: The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban Chen, Leslie: Factory Girls Cleave, Chris: Little Bee Clement, Jennifer: Prayers for the Stolen Cohen Corasanti, Michelle: The Almond Tree Cooper, Helene: The House at Sugar Beach: In Searach of a Lost African Childhood Danticat, Edwidge: The Farming of Bones Brother, I’m Dyinig Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work Claire of the Sea Light Dahmash-Jarrah, Samar: Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts Darke, Diana: My House in Damascus Demick Barbara: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Dennis-Benn, Nicole: Here Comes the Sun Desai, Anita: The Artist of Disappearance Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss Divakaruni, Chitra: Sister of My Heart Vine of Desire Ebadi, Shirin: Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran Erdrich, Louise: Round House Farna, Aminatta: Ancestor Stones Fonseca, Isabella: Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey Fong, Mei: One Child Fuentes, Sonia Pressman: Eat First – You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You Fuller, Alexandra: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Scribbling the Cat Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Leaving Before the Rains Come Gappah, Petina: The Book of Memory Garrels, Anne: Putin Country Geok-lin Lim, Shirley: Joss and Gold

Gilchrist, Ellen: A Dangerous Age

Gordimer, Nadine: Get a Life Green, Carol: The Spiritual Transformation of America Henderson, Nancy; Whitter, Reggie: Sewing with Hope: Joseph Kony Tore These Girls’ Lives Apart: Can She Stitch Them Back Together? Hirsi, Ayaan: Nomad Holloway, Kris: Monique and the Mango Rains Hoodbhoy, Nafisa: Aboard the Democracy Train: A Journey through Pakistan’s Last Decade of Democracy Hoppe, Kelsey (Ed): Chasing Misery An Anthology of Essays by Women in Humanitarian Responses Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner Ilibagiwa, Immaculee: Left to Tell: Discovering God admidst the Rwandan Holocaust Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Heat and Dust, The Householder, My Nine Lives, A Love Song for India Johnson Sirleaf, Ellen: This Child Is Great Joya, Malalai: A Woman among Warlords Kaldi, Leita: In the Valley of Atibon Kidd, Sue Monk: The Invention of Wings Kingsley, Mary: Travels in West Africa Kingsolver, Barbara: The Lacuna Lahiri, Jhumpa: The Lowland Laila Lalami: The Moor’s Account Levy, Andrea: Small Island Li, Yiyun: Kinder than Solitude Liebrecht, Savyon, Matalon, Ronit: Various titles Lightfoot-Klein: A Woman’s Odyssey into Africa Manicka,Rani: The Rice Mother Maathai, Wangari: Unbowed McBrien, Jody/Byers, Julia: Cold Water Mda, Zakes: The Madonna of Excelsior Marxsen, Patti M.: Helene Schweitzer: A Life of Her Own Miller, Carol: Lola’s Luck: My Life among the California Gypsies Min, Anchee: Empress Orchid Molloy, Aimee: However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph Moran, Michelle: Rebel Queen Muller, Hertha: The Land of Green Plums/The Appointment Ndiaye, Marie: Three Strong Women Nafisi, Azar: The Republic of Imagination Negev, Eilat, Yehuda Koren: The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer Nemirovsky, Irene: Suite Francaise Obreht, Tea: The Tiger’s Wife Ohanesian: Orhans’ Inheritance Pamuk, Orhan: My Name Is Red Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto Poniatowska, Elena: Here’s To You, Jesusa! Ratner, Vaddey: In the Shadow of the Banyan Rezvani, Amir: The Blood of Flowers Russell, Karen: Swamplandia Saadawi, Nawal El: Zeina Salak, Kira: Four Corners Salbi, Zainab: The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope Sanchez, Yoani: Havana Real de SasKropiwnicka, Alesandra Olenda: Olenka in Africa Sasoon, Jean: The Princess Schlink, Bernard: The Reader Scroggins, Deborah: Emma’s War See, Lisa: Peony Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Shanghai Girls Seierstad, Asne: The Bookseller of Kabul Shafak, Elif: The Bastard of Istanbul; The Forty Rules of Love Shepard, Sadia: The Girl from Foreign Shoor, Victoria: Backlands

Stroud, Elizabeth: Olive Kitteridge

Sundaresan, Indu: The Twentieth Wife Suri, Manil: The Age of Shiva Szabo, Magda: The Door Tan, Amy: Saving Fish from Drowning Vaddey Ratner: In the Shadow of the Banayn Umrigar, Thrity: The Space Between Us Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for Stone Viamontes, Betty: Waiting on Zapote Street: Love and Loss in Castro’s Cuba Vieux-Chauvet: Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy Von Bremzen, Anya: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing Janet Wallach: Desert Queen (Biography of Gertrude Bell) West, Tessa: The Reed Flute Wilson, G. Willow: The Butterfly Mosque Xinran: Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love Yousafzai, Malala: I Am Malala Zoepf, Katherine: Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who AreTransforming the Arab World July 2016