Fatima Taha
Fatima Taha, a master’s student in English literature at Georgetown University, discovered her true love at the age of five: books. Twenty years later, her passion has only increased much like the popularity and lengths of J.K. Rowling’s texts. After an exhausting day of studying or working, she enjoys picking up a warm book instead of a hot cup of coffee. Being a student, she rarely has money to travel across the world so she takes a quick trip to her extensive bookshelf or that of the nearest library to visit places across the globe or those that can only be found in a well-penned fantasy/sci-fi novel. Writing cast its spell on her a few years after reading did. Beginning with scribbling short silly stories for friends, she eventually began writing full length novels and short stories for magazines and journals. She hopes one day that her words will transport her readers to exciting realms as other authors have done for her.
17 entries by Fatima Taha
The Ocean in Winter: A Novel
By Elizabeth de Veer

A mother’s long-ago suicide reverberates in the lives of her daughters.
Gerta: A Novel
By Kateřina Tučková; translated by Véronique Firkusny

The quiet, wrenching tale of a Czech-German woman grappling with guilt and nihilism in the aftermath of WWII.
Wake, Siren
By Nina MacLaughlin

The women of the Metamorphoses reclaim their stories.
Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
By Kathleen Williams Renk

This epistolic imagining of the charismatic Mary Shelley stumbles more than her fictional monster did.
Broken Ground
By Val McDermid

A young couple, searching for a buried inheritance, instead unearth a decades-old murder victim in this largely unsatisfying whodunit.
Whistle in the Dark
By Emma Healey

A troubled daughter's sudden disappearance and return further inflame her already-fissured family.
99 Nights in Logar: A Novel
By Jamil Jan Kochai

An American boy tries to reconnect with his family and culture in war-torn Afghanistan.
Broken Ground: A Novel
By Val McDermid

A young couple, searching for a buried inheritance, unearth a decades-old murder victim instead in this largely unsatisfying whodunit.
Whistle in the Dark: A Novel
By Emma Healey

A troubled daughter's sudden disappearance and return further inflame her already-fissured family.
Hotel Silence: A Novel
By Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir; translated by Brian FitzGibbon

A man contemplating suicide accidentally finds meaning in his life.
Good Me Bad Me: A Novel
By Ali Land

While readying to testify against her murderer mother, a teen worries that evil may run in the family.
The House at Bishopsgate: A Novel
By Katie Hickman

In 17th-century London, a cursed diamond causes trouble for a wealthy merchant and his semi-estranged wife.
The Ridge: A Novel
By John Rector

A Chicago transplant unearths disturbing secrets about her new suburban community.
The Comet Seekers: A Novel
By Helen Sedgwick

Unconventional structure aside, this story of family turmoil — and family secrets — has much to recommend it.
Lexicon
Max Barry
Barry’s latest terrifyingly believable sci-fi novel dissects how a single word can control minds and obliterate civilizations.