Nicola Sturgeon's Top Book Recommendations
Want to know what books Nicola Sturgeon recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Nicola Sturgeon's favorite book recommendations of all time.
Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring... more
Recommended by Nicola Sturgeon, and 1 others. Nicola SturgeonIf you’re looking for a great book to read over Easter, I recommend this one that I finished last night. Set in Oman, shortlisted for the international @ManBookerPrize and published by Scotland’s very own @sandstonepress , it’s a beautifully written and very moving story. https://t.co/jOguz8fHyo (Source)
The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is... more
Nicola Sturgeon@HannahB4LiviMP And what a present...best book of 2019 IMO (Source)
Trisha GreenhalghThis is a great book. https://t.co/iOLKPuiUsc (Source)
Peter FlorenceI cannot imagine anyone not enjoying this novel. As an author she possesses a prolific voice; she’s got 12 voices, all of which are distinct and engaging and vulnerable in different ways and utterly compelling. (Source)
From Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any moment, to end everything.
Diana Jager is clever, strong, and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism in medicine. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet...
Recommended by Nicola Sturgeon, and 1 others. Nicola Sturgeon@farrell_katrina @Beathhigh @valmcdermid @cbrookmyre @BookWeekScot Yes I have (don’t know where it is - it might have been during my brief kindle phase!) - great book. (Source)
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...'
For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight... more
Nicola SturgeonThis is the book I’m most looking forward to over the next few weeks. @Elif_Safak is one of my favourite contemporary writers and this is a brilliant review in @FT - “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - lush, rich, lucid” https://t.co/jNww8EtC7e (Source)
Jonny GellerThis beautiful book by the inspiring Elif Shafak is published today. Please: Buy it. Read it. Recommend it. You won’t regret it! https://t.co/UgATb1Ihre (Source)
Peter FlorenceI’m intrigued by the fact that this is a second or third language; she seems to have absolute control of the poetry, and at the same time the ability to conjure characters who, in a way, absolutely don’t feel at all like characters. They feel like people. It’s a great trick of fiction, and she does it beautifully. (Source)
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt,... more
Recommended by Nicola Sturgeon, and 1 others. Nicola Sturgeon@JB_VisualArtist Great book - I’m a huge Chimamanda fan. Enjoy. (Source)
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and... more
Recommended by Nicola Sturgeon, and 1 others. Nicola SturgeonA post #SNP19 book recommendation - this by @rebeccamakkai is brilliant. Set in mid 1980s Chicago and modern day Paris, it’s a very moving story about the devastation of the AIDS crisis. https://t.co/8pzDEdwrhx (Source)
Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against... more
Konnie Huq@FenTiger697 @WokingAmnesty @CCriadoPerez @Hatchards @radioleary Brilliant book by the brilliant @CCriadoPerez 😍 (Source)
Feminist Next Door@Rockmedia Awesome book (Source)
Nigel ShadboltInvisible Women is an exposé of just how much of the world around us is designed around the default male. Deploying a huge range of data and examples, Caroline Criado Perez, who is a writer, broadcaster and award winning campaigner, presents on overwhelming case for change. Every page is full of facts and data that support her fundamental contention that in a world built for and by men, gender... (Source)
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