My summer book picks

Let's begin the important business of choosing what we're going to read this summer. Here are my choices (in no particular order):

THE POWER by NAOMI ALDERMAN
Teenage girls who can harm men with an electric shock... the world is turned upside down and inside out when this 'power' spreads to every female on the planet. We follow three women - Roxy, Allie and Margot - and one man - Tunde - as they learn to live in this new reality. The Power asks the question: what would the world look like if women had physical power over men? And the answer is not always good...
For fans of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel; The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey.
#speculativefiction
#thepower #naomialderman

THINGS A BRIGHT GIRL CAN DO by SALLY NICHOLLS
Set in 1914-8, three women - Evelyn, May and Nell are involved with the campaign for women to get the vote. Sacrifice, violence, imprisonment, war and love are the ingredients of this wonderful book.
For fans of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
#historicalfiction
#thingsabrightgirlcando #sallynicholls

THE WONDER DOWN UNDER by NINA BROCHMAN AND ELLEN STOKKEN DAHL
Written by two Norwegian medical students, The Wonder Down Under is a non-fiction book about the vagina - I know - right?! It covers everything: which holes are which, icky things like discharge and periods, pregnancy, contraception, sex, orgasms, masturbation, female health. This book is a right hoot: I laughed out loud several times at their no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is style. And the detail! Wow. They know they stuff - and now, so do I.
Everyone who has a vagina or who would like, at some stage in their life, to go near a vagina, should read this book. I can truly say that if I had read this book when I was in my teens, it would have changed my life for the better.
I first heard about this book through their Ted Talk.
For fans of A Book for Her by Bridget Christie; Sex and Lovers: A Practical Guide by Anne-Marlene Henning and Tina Bremmer-Olszewski.
#nonfiction
#thewonderdownunder #ninabrochman #ellenstokkendahl

FORCE OF NATURE by JANE HARPER
The follow up to Jane Harper's excellent The Dry, which made me feel hot and thirsty and sunburnt all the way through. I like a good murder mystery every now and then - and this one was particularly well written.
For fans of Tana French and Robert Galbraith.
#crimefiction
#forceofnature #janeharper

HOW TO BE FAMOUS by CAITLIN MORAN
I haven't even read this book yet but I loved How to Build a Girl (plus everything else that Caitlin Moran has written) and I know I'm going to love this - so it goes on the list.
By the way, a few years ago I lent someone my copy of How to Build a Girl and I never got it back. If I knew who you were, I'd never talk to you again.
#giveitback
#feministfiction
#howtobefamous #caitlinmoran

NO NUMBER NINE by ME
Sorry, just couldn't resist...
#nonumbernine #fjcampbell
​#summerreadinglist

So, if you like any of these books or you want to recommend other similar books, please post a comment below or go to Instagram or Twitter and leave a comment there - the more the merrier!