Tasneem Rubayat



• Movies/Documentaries: 

~ Ask the Sexpart

~ 3 Body Problem 

~ Sharp Objects 

• Writers/Books mentioned:

~ Sidney Sheldon

~ Linda Goodman

~ Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary

~ Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing

• Easy reads: 

~ Sally Rooney - Normal People, Conversations with Friends, Intermezzo, Beautiful World Where Are You

~ Diana Evans - Ordinary People

~ Naoise (Nisha) Dolan- Exciting Times

~ Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!, Tell Me Everything  

~ Ann Patchett - These Precious Days, Tom Lake

~ Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

~ Elif Shafak - Forty Rules of Love

~ Jhumpa Lahari - In Other Words, Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies 

~ Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar

• Short, easy reads:

~ Zadie Smith - Intimations

~ Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These 

~ Annie Ernaux (Erno) - The Possession, The Years

~ Anita Desai - Rosarita

• Contemporaries 

~ Rachel Cusk - A Life’s Work, Aftermath, Outline

~ Miranda July - All Fours, No one belongs here more than you

~ Deborah Levy - The cost of living, Things I don’t want to know

~ Saba Sams - Send Nudes, Gunk

~ Bell Hooks - All about Love

~ Sheila Heti - Motherhood

~ Roxane Gay - Not that bad,  Difficult Women, Opinions, Hunger 

~ Chimamanda Adichie - We should all be feminists, Americanah, Notes on Grief 

~ Alain de Botton - The School of Life

~ Michelle Zauner - Crying in H Mart

~ Max Porter - Grief is the thing with feathers 

~ Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died

• Classics:

~ Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own

~ Sylvia Plath

~ Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex

~ Charles Bukowski - Women 

~ Stephen King - The Stand 

• Easy Read Short Stories & Essays:

~ Lydia Davis (Divas) - Our strangers

~ Cheryl Strayed - Tiny Beautiful Things

~ George Orwell - Animal Farm, Why I Write 

~ Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

~ Amanda Mortell - The Age of Magical Overthinking 

~ Amy Key - Arrangements in Blue

• On topics / Non-fiction:

~ James Altocher - The power of no (on people pleasing)

~ Olivia Laing (Lang) - The Lonely City, The Garden Against Time

~ Lori Gottlieb - Maybe you should talk to someone 

~ Natasha Lunn - Conversation on Love

~ David Goggins - Can’t Hurt Me

~ Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection

~ Austin Kleon - Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work

~ Tim Ferriss - Tools of Titans 

~ Mason Currey - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Daily Rituals: Women at Work

• Column/Articles/Blogs: 

~ Celine Nguyen (research as leisure activity- https://substack.com/@celinenguyen/p-145011020)
~ Santosh Desai (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GToVwA5WsAI6v0u?format=jpg&name=medium)

~ Rahul Desai

~ Rohan Joshi

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/08/reading-in-the-age-of-constant-distraction/ 

~ Pandora Skyes -  https://pandorasykes.substack.com/

~ Heather Havrilesky - https://www.ask-polly.com/ 

~ Anjali Mehta -https://happinessishomemadebyanjali.substack.com/ 

• Books Mentioned:

~ Carry on Jeeves

~ The Vegetarian - Han Kang

~ Mikki Brammer - Collected regrets of clover

• Newspaper/Magazine Stuff:

https://www.speakingtree.in/

Reader's Digest

The Paris Review

The Yale Review

The New Yorker

n+1 (https://www.nplusonemag.com/)

Jacket 2 (https://jacket2.org/)

• Book Clubs:

Dua Lipa (https://www.service95.com/tag/book-club)

• Book Podcasts/talks:

https://www.youtube.com/@service95

https://www.youtube.com/@amandamontellpodcasts 

https://youtu.be/hg3umXU_qWc 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocSk3PhGCkk 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngvOyccUzzY&feature=youtu.be 

• Genres:

Litfic = Literary Fictions (Sub genres: self-reflective, weird women trope)

Historical Fictions

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Memoir/Autobiography

Auto Fiction / Semi Autobiographical = Autobiography + Fiction

Novella (Short Novel)

Short Essays

• Booktube: 

Frankie’s Shelf

Slaggy Book Club

Jack Edwards 

Kitaabi Cabins 

Fashion Neurosis 

• Book Insta:

Trivana Hariharan 

Fossilized Flowers 

The Lit Archives

Irshad Poetry 

The Language Nerds 

Service95

• Stationaries:

Faber Castle Supergel Highlighter 

Paper tiger - erasable highlighters 

• Places:

Trilogy Bookstore, Mumbai

Paper Tiger, London

Dount Books, London

Waterstones, London

Notting Hill Bookshop, London