Category: Female Experience
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Tessa Prophet Song is set in an alternative Dublin where a tyrannical government is weaving its way into people’s lives, the rebels are rising up and society is slowly collapsing. It focuses on one family who suffer in many ways and… Continue Reading “Prophet Song – Paul Lynch”
Category: Booker Prize, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Family drama, Female Experience, Irish, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Realist, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Bristol, 1962, post-war optimism is fading, and a new, modern world forming. Two young couples live next to each other: a doctor and his wife in a beautiful cottage, a farmer and his wife in a rundown, under-heated farmhouse. Both women… Continue Reading “The Land In Winter – Andrew Miller”
Posted on September 17, 2025
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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel In a climate ravaged dystopian future where robots (Hums) take the every day jobs of humans and surveillance is at an all time high, a woman undergoes experiental facial surgery in order to pay her bills and treat her… Continue Reading “Hum – Helen Phillips”
Category: AI, Climate Fiction, Climate Fiction Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, Realist, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, Thriller, US fictionTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Three women – a maverick biologist and two sisters embroiled in the Russian bride industry and searching for their missing mother – kidnap 13 hopeful bachelors and race across Ukraine trying to find a mate for a last-of-its-kind Lefty… Continue Reading “Endling – Maria Reva”
Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Climate Fiction Prize, Environmental fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Political, Postmodern Literature, Satire, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChaired by Sally Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy’s clothing and sharing the burden of head of the household with her father. Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells her… Continue Reading “Before The Queen Falls Asleep – Huzama Habayeb”
Category: Coming of Age, Cultural, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Immigrant story, Literary fiction, Political, Translated, War storyTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZEA coming of age about Nila, a girl born in Berlin to Afghan immigrants. For Nila there is a constant negotiation between her inherited grief and her desire to belong in a culture that doesn’t reflect her. As a result she… Continue Reading “Good Girl – Aria Aber”
Category: Art, Coming of Age, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Female Experience, Immigrant story, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Women's Prize
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Nadia Amin, a PhD graduate, publishes an article on deradicalisation, and ends up with a job rehabilitating Isis brides in Iraq. Relishing the opportunity to escape her claustophobic mother and broken relationship she realises she needs to heal herself as… Continue Reading “Fundamentally – Nussaibah Younis”
Category: Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Humour, Literary fiction, Political, Queer, Satire, UK author, Women's PrizeTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Women's Prize
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE The story of an Iranian family, some of whom flee to the US during times of conflict, and some who stay. Five women from three generations of the Valiat family narrate their past and present as members of the Iranian… Continue Reading “The Persians – Sanam Mahloudji”
Category: Cultural, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Humour, Immigrant story, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Women's Prize
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth and the lives of women during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini. Originally published in 1949, it is a timeless portrayal of the complexity of the female… Continue Reading “Her Side Of The Story – Alba De Cespedes”
Category: Classic literature, Coming of Age, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Italian fiction, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, Translated, War storyTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Three neighbouring families in a small New Zealand town become acquaintances, some get along, others are suspicious of each other. Some share an attraction, another has a strange gift for premonition and another is acting cagey and has secrets… Continue Reading “The Mires – Tina Makereti”
Category: Climate Fiction, Colonisation, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Immigrant story, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Māori Fiction, NZ Book Awards, Political, Realist, Speculative FictionTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Kiwi Fiction, Ockham NZ Book Awards
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