To celebrate the publication of Watch Us Dance, Leïla Slimani shares some of her most recommended books. 

Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Portugal. Slimani is the chair of the International Booker Prize Judging Panel 2023.