Between the covers

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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