Now this is a treat! Get ready for a fun, frank and fascinating conversation with the great Balli Kaur Jaswal! Balli is the author of five award-wining, bestselling novels, translated into fifteen languages. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, Sugarbread was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize and her new novel Now You See Us has just been released to international acclaim. We talked to her about formative reading adventures in Russia, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, stories of female solidarity, the book that made her want to build worlds and the unfortunate consequences of starting your own detective club.
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BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Limelight
Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us
Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Roald Dahl - The Twits
Roald Dahl - The Witches
Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins
Judy Blume - Forever
Beverly Cleary - Ramona Forever
Beverly Cleary - Fifteen
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie
Various - The Bookworm Club
Various - The Bookworm Gang
RL Stein - Goosebumps
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
RL Stein - Fear Street
Judith Krantz - Scruples
Shirley Conran - Lace
Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile
Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar
Abigail Burdess - Mother's Day
Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls
Kent Haruf - Plainsong
Coco Mellors - Cleo and Frankenstein
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
Patrick deWitt - French Exit
Ann M. Martin - Babysitter's Club
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Kayla Rae Whitaker - The Animators
Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Hema Sukumar - Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice
Madhuri Vijay - The Far Field
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