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The Book Babes
Margo Hammond (l) and Ellen Heltzel.
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Two veteran book critics have collaborated to recommend more than 600 books for women who love to read. Their aim was to create a list of books that reflect the different phases in women's lives, and the way that women read.

Books recommended this hour:

  • "The Blythedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  • "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa" by Peter Gowdwin

  • "There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children" by Melissa Fay Greene

  • "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn

  • "What is the What" by Dave Eggers

  • "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman

  • "Run" by Ann Patchett

  • "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

  • "The Last report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel" by Louise Erdrich

  • "Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative" by Ignatia Broker

  • "Walking the Rez Road" by Jim Northrup

  • "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

  • "Afghanistan, or The Perils of Freedom" by Stephen Dupont

  • "The Places in Between" by Rory Stewart

  • "A Severe Mercy" by Sheldon Vanauken

  • "Dance Lest We All Fall Down" by Margaret Willson

  • "Beautiful Shadow: A life of Patricia Highsmith" by Andrew Wilson

  • "The Color of Water" by James McBride

  • "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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The Book Babes
Margo Hammond (l) and Ellen Heltzel.
Image courtesy of The Book Babes