From the beginning of 2022 till March 8, 2023, International Women’s Day, I have read 103 books. Thanks to Goodreads, I can meticulously keep track of all the books I read. I was initially astonished by the number and then curiosity overtook me – I wondered if I had read enough books written by women. I began noting down the titles and found that, barring books written by men and translated by women, 51 out of the 103 books I had read were written by women in English or in other languages and translated into English. That’s almost 50 per...