As the winter months approach, the idea of curling up in a warm, cozy spot with a good read becomes more and more attractive. Below we've listed 2013's most powerful women writers according to the New York Times Bestseller List, Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Read and get inspired by their stories of overcoming adversity.
Here is the list:
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
By Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (March 11, 2013)
The Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and former vice president of Google’s global online sales operations, Sandberg found her way onto the New York Times Bestseller List and Barnes & Noble Top 100, with her new book, 'Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead.'
Sandberg occupies a leadership position in a chiefly male-dominated workplace. Her book is a leading voice for young women geared towards addressing the self-doubt that holds women back in the workplace.
“I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table,” says Sandberg.
In addition to sharing her role models and the insecurities and successes of other powerful women, she opens up to the readers with her own doubts and fears.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (October 8, 2013)
Where grown men feared to tread, young Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban. Between the ages of 11 and 12 she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about her life in the Swat Valley, promoting her views on women’s right and education. Nearly murdered for her beliefs, on Tuesday October 9, 2012, the 15-year-old activist was shot at point-blank range and against all the odds, lived.
Now the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize tells her story, sharing her life under the terrorism of the Taliban, her fight for girls' education and tales of her brave parents, who championed a daughter in a society the prized sons.
If you ever had any doubts that a single voice could inspire the world, Malala thinks otherwise.
Wave: A Memoir of Life after the Tsunami
By Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher: Knopf (March 5, 2013)
Sonali Deraniyagala, beloved daughter, wife, and mother of two sons lost her whole world in an instant when the tsunami devastated the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004. In this heartbreaking and achingly beautiful account of a woman orphaned, widowed and rendered childless all at once.
Deraniyagala shares her journey in the ensuing months from fury and a depressive break with reality to mourning, acceptance, and ultimately, recovery in the next seven years. Her memoir is in turns frank, unsentimental, and painful, but as she describes those first moments of loss and the months and years since, she is above all, brave.
Deraniyagala shares that it is the capacity to open one’s self to memory, and to the reality of loss every day that has proved most successful in the survivor’s courageous ability to live with grief.
The Lowland
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Knopf; First Edition edition (September 24, 2013)
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri is at it again. National Book Award Finalist and Shortlist for the Man Booker Prize, 'The Lowland,' tells the story of two brothers bound by tragedy, a woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution and a love that transcends death.
Subhash and Udayan Mitra are brothers, fifteen months apart and inseparable to the point of being mistaken for the other as they grow up. Set between Calcutta and the United States during the radical 1960s. Ms. Lahiri shares the story of Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—as he becomes embroiled in the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty and the risks he is willing to take for his beliefs. This is also the tale of Subhash, the quiet and dutiful brother who leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in America, but is called home to pick up the pieces of a broken family.
A sweeping masterpiece, Ms. Lahiri’s impact as a storyteller and her insight into the complexities of the human condition are revealed in this beautifully gripping tale that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity, as to make you wonder whether this was ever a work of fiction at all.
Let us know which is your favourite and why?
Sources & Images: New York Times Bestseller List, Barnes & Noble Top 100, Amazon.com, goodreads.com
Feature Image: www.telegraph.co.uk
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