The Bibliophile's Compass

1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | Nigeria | 224 | 🎥 2018 Fairview by Jackie Sibblies | US | 120 | 🏆 2025 Love Forms by Claire Adam | Trinidad and Tobago | 320 | 🏆 2025 The Sisters by Jonas Khemiri | Sweden | 656 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2025 How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle | US-Jamaica | 336 | 2025 The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey | US | 240 | 2025 Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda | US | 224 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

2020 Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch | UK | 288 | 2020 The Lightness by Emily Temple-Wood | US | 288 | 2020 The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine | FR-AUS | 336 | 2020 Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin | US | 304 | 2026 Voyagers by Meg Charlton | US | 320 | 2026 Good Company by Kate Christensen | US | 256 | 2026 We Are Gathered Here Today by Bobby Finger | US | 320 | 2026 Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh | US | 336 | 2026 Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood | UK | 367 | 🎥 2026 Liberty Street by Heather Marshall | CAN | 464 | 2026 Good at Being Alive by Elizabeth O'Roark | US | 368 | 2026 The Frenzy: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates | US | 316 | 2026 Given Away by Nahid Rachlin | US-Iran | 304 | 2026 The Three Coffin Problem by Lavie Tidhar | ISR | 306 | 2026 Together We See by Ari Tison | US | 320 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

1893 Beyond the Bayou by Kate Chopin | US | 12 | ⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 1974 All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward | US | 349 | 🎥 2021 The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris | US | 368 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2021 The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee | UK | 304 | 2021 Essays Two by Lydia Davis | US | 592 | 2023 Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan | Ireland | 224 | 2023 The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan | Ireland | 208 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

Title : Women without Men Author : Shahrnush Parsipur Publication Year: 1989 (translation 1998, 2011, 2026) Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 192 Source : ebook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, Magical Realism Awards : longlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men creates a magical world where the supernatural and the real intertwine to expose how women in 1950s Iran are suffocated by patriarchy, religion, and the confines of the domestic sphere. The novel follows five women from different social backgrounds whose paths converge in a garden in Karaj. Each woman suffers under patriarchy in a distinct way and each ultimately takes a different path and reaches a different kind of ending. The book does offer a form of closure for each character, but not an easy or triumphant emancipation. Some remain entangled in, or even complicit with, patriarchal structures—either by internalizing them or learning to manipulate them for survival. What I ...