Jenny Bhatt

Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, and book critic. She was the founder of Desi Books, a global multimedia forum that showcased South Asian literature. She teaches creative writing at Writing Workshops Dallas. Find her at https://jennybhattwriter.com. Sign up for her popular, free, weekly newsletter, We Are All Translators, or her latest free newsletter, Historical Fiction Craft Notes.

 

These lists are book recommendations as featured in Jenny Bhatt's newsletters, reviews/publications, and writing workshops. For Desi Books featured books, go to the Desi Books bookshop.

South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
The Dark Waves of Winter
The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021
Each of Us Killers
Why Translation Matters
Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation
Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice
This Little Art
Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context
Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories
Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Dying Words
The Story of Be: A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language
Essays One
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success
Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Several Short Sentences about Writing
This Year You Write Your Novel
Exercises in Style
How to Write Stunning Sentences
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writers Guide
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar's Greatest Films
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
Silent Winds, Dry Seas
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
A Passage North
The Startup Wife
Curb
The City of Good Death
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Exquisite Cadavers
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Night Theater
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
Identitti
The Book of Everlasting Things
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
When We Were Sisters
In Sensorium: Notes for My People
The Immortal King Rao
Mother Ocean Father Nation
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Curb
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
China Room
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
The City of Good Death
Wolf Hall
Jazz
War and Peace (Revised)
Midnight's Children (Anniversary)
The English Patient
The Corner That Held Them
A Suitable Boy
Homegoing
The Women of Troy
The Silence of the Girls
Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition
Silent Winds, Dry Seas
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great
Beloved
The Circle of Reason
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics
Literature After Feminism
Uses of Literature
Hooked: Art and Attachment
The Limits of Critique
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
Seven Modes of Uncertainty