2026 Reading Challenge

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Bad Animals by Sarah BraunsteinKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-JooWith Teeth by Kristen ArnettI Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye WatkinsWe Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
fictional moms not doing okay
21 books — 6 voters
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonActs of Service by Lillian FishmanThe Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí ClarkOutline by Rachel Cusk
short books for the girls
21 books — 6 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,154 books — 2,272 voters
Normal People by Sally RooneyConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca SolnitMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghPlay It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Disillusioned Twenty Something Starter Pack
58 books — 13 voters

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghMilk Fed by Melissa BroderBunny by Mona AwadThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Vegetarian by Han Kang
sad, post-modern indie girls
46 books — 10 voters
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataBunny by Mona AwadLuster by Raven LeilaniNormal People by Sally Rooney
She's Not Feeling Good at All: Sad Female Characters
201 books — 333 voters

The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph FasanoSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelVioleta by Isabel AllendeThe Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok LeeElizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
Anticipated 2022 Literary Fiction
416 books — 388 voters
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghBoy Parts by Eliza ClarkEileen by Ottessa MoshfeghAnimal by Lisa TaddeoQueenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Women Trying To Figure It All Out
34 books — 9 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The ZORA Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women
100 books — 205 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeBeloved by Toni MorrisonSula by Toni Morrison
Lemonade Syllabus - A Collection of Works Celebrating Black Womanhood. Inspired by Beyonce
224 books — 72 voters

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyBoy Parts by Eliza Clark
women vs the void
234 books — 586 voters