Ae Mere Dil Mubarak Ho // MV // Indian Girl's Love Story // Ragini & Gayatri

A heartbreaking love story told from the perspective of Rosie Fischbach. It takes place in a hospital where, despite the eerie veil of death, there is more life ...

Ae Mere Dil Mubarak Ho // MV // Indian Girl's Love Story // Ragini & Gayatri

Trapped in an abusive marriage, struggling musician Renay finds salvation in the arms of a wealthy woman who whisks her away to a new life—but not one without its problems. Shockley’s gripping first novel, involving a relationship between one white woman and one black woman, analyzes racial and sexual politics in a satisfying way.   

Most lesbian romance novels of the 1950s and 60s were exploitative pulp schlock, but Bannon’s five-part Beebo Brinker Chronicles changed all that. One of the first American novels to feature a lesbian protagonist who embraces her sexuality, Odd Girl Out marked a sea change in pop fiction, and the Beebo Brinker series remains iconic to this day.  \

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Ae Mere Dil Mubarak Ho // MV // Indian Girl's Love Story // Ragini & Gayatri

Patricia Highsmith wrote this novel after being captivated by a blonde woman in a mink coat. According to the New Yorker, Highsmith later said “Perhaps I noticed her because she was alone, or because a mink coat was a rarity, and because she was blondish and seemed to give off light.” 

Later retitled Carol and made into a movie of the same name starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Highsmith’s 1952 tour de force was the book that made Beebo Brinker possible, and it’s one of the few novels she wrote with a happy ending.