Suggestions to balance out our male-dominated bookshelf!

Was looking at our bookshelves the other day and had a moment of ‘oh that’s like 80% dudes’. Would like to even things out.

Brief overview of bookshelf owners:

I’m 26M, she’s 30F, both doing PhDs – myself in writing and memory studies, her in clinical and forensic psychology.

Book I’ve really really enjoyed this year:

100 Years of Solitude, Hyperion 1+2, If on a winter’s night a traveller, Love in the Time of Cholera, Children of Time, Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Too Loud a Solitude, Dune 1-3, Foucault’s Pendulum,

Books she’s really enjoyed this year:

Memories of my Melancholy Whores, in the House of Spirits, Shantaram, a Sport and a Pastime, East of Eden

Parameters:

– non male authors!

– Indigenous/Latin American would be nice

– No modern romance, no fantasy, unless they’re exceptionally well written