2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

#READWOMEN
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

#readwomen is a movement started by Joanna Walsh who was tired of the status quo. In her own words, this is what the movement is all about:

It’s a truth universally acknowledged, and confirmed by VIDA, that, though women read more books than men, and female authors are published in comparable numbers, they are more easily overlooked: a smaller presence in literary journals both as reviewers, and the reviewed, they also account for fewer literary translations.

It’s not whether women are published (because they are) but how they are published. Are men more likely to write what’s considered ‘important’ literary fiction, or could it be that more are regarded that way? I’ve heard female writer friends grouse when their books are given flowery covers though their writing’s not, when reviews, even press-releases, describe their work as “delicate” when it is forthright, “playful” when it is experimental, “delightful” when it is satirical, “carving a niche” when it is staking a claim (none of these examples is made up).

For this challenge, decide how many new-to-you female authors you would like to read. Once your goal is set, read! And come back and tell us who your favorites were to get great female authors more exposure. Each author can only count once.

This challenge will be led by Cassandra.

How to Participate
1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.

Participants

Alison | 1/10
Amy | 5/25
Amy F | 38/40*
Angela | 21/21
Anissa | 5/5
Annika | 20/20*
Ariel | 34/35**
Artemisia | 0/10
Auntie | 4/15
Beky | 17/25
Berit | 13/18
Beth | 25/25
Beth (Ducky) | 10/20
Brenna | 7/15
Brianna | 22/30
Brianna | 57/80*
Brindolyn | 9/10
Candiss | 20/20
Carine | 0/20
Caro | 13/10
Cassandra | 55/25
Charity | 30/30*
Cheri | 21/20*
Chloé | 9/10
Courtney | 12/24
Dana | 21/12
Danielle | 0/15
darkbuttrfly | 1/10
Delitealex | 20/20
Delta | 135/100*
Diana | 10/10
Diana | 39/30*
Dom | 20/20*
E | 0/40
Elsbeth | 13/40
Erika [erikarae] | 10/30
Erika [EriLynneK] | 0/10
EstaAmeliaR | 0/15
Fanny | 9/15
frugalitymom | 0/15
Genean | 0/50
Greg | 12/12
Heather | 9/30
Ian | 1/6
Ilona | 15/10
Izavel | 0/10
Jacqueline | 1/10
Jane | 10/10
Janet | 14/13*
Jayne | 13/30*
Jen | 20/20
Joanne♥~Bookworm Extraordinaire | 0/10
Jocelyn | 3/10
Joe | 10/10
Julia | 0/5
Julie | 0/12
Kadijah Michelle | 16/22
Kai | 0/12
Karena | 55/30
Kari Ramirez | 8/20
Karina | 15/15
Kathryn | 50/50
Katie | 3/15
Katy | 10/10
Kelsi | 71/55**
Kylie | 18/20*
Laura Jane | 8/15
Laurie | 25/25*
Libby | 0/10
Linda | 0/10
Lois | 0/10
Lorelei | 8/9
Louise | 10/10
Lulu | 33/25
Lyndi | 1/10
Margie | 0/10
Mari | 0/10
Maria | 20/10
Marina | 23/30
Marta | 2/10
Mary | 0/10
Mary | 68/40
Mary-Ann | 1/25
Mary Pat | 20/20*
Meg | 14/35
Meimei | 0/10
Merja | 4/10
Michelle | 10/15
Michelle (xalfoy) | 4/20
Nicole | 0/12
Nicole W | 18/5
Nitya | 0/25
Nurai | 16/25
Pat | 18/26
Paul | 47/40**
Rachel | 12/15
Rae | 15/12
Raluca | 0/10
Rebecca | 0/12
Renee | 21/20
Sakina | 27/30
Samantha (AK) | 9/10
Sarah | 10/10
ScarlettMi | 32/20
Scott | 22/20*
Sheryl | 13/13
SibylM | 12/12
Sirius | 4/25
Star | 3/25
Stefani - SpelingExpirt | 20/20*
Stephanie | 44/30
Sue | 0/10
Susan | 14/15*
Susan [sacorwin] | 27/25
Tasha | 16/15
Tearsa | 0/10
Theresa~OctoberLace | 12/10
Timothy | 0/10
Vanessa | 2/8
Vernice | 25/25
Victoria | 30/30*
Virginie (LaChouett) | 0/20
Voracious_reader | 15/15
Winter | 10/10

I'm so glad we decided to bring this challenge back this year. I can't wait to discover plenty of new women authors with all of you!

I am in with a goal of 10 for now. Enjoyed this challenge last year.

Wonderful, Janet! I'm glad you enjoyed it and are coming back for more.

I'm so happy this one is back. Please put me down for 20.


1. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (10/06/15, ****)
2. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (11/03/15, ****)
3. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (08/08/15, ****)
4. Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, aka Begum Rokeya (01/06/15 - ***)
5. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (04/04/15 - *****)
6. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (05/10/15 - ****)
7. The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (03/20/2015 - ****)
8. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (01/07/15 - ****)
9. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley (01/20/15 - *****)
10. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (06/16/15 - ****/4.5)
11. Queenpin by Megan Abbott (08/24/15, ****)
12. Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman (finally finished 11/28/15, ***)
13. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (09/19/15, ***/3.5)
14. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby (09/23/15, ****/4.5)
15. What I Didn't See: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (09/25/15, ****)
16. This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki (12/02/15, ***)
17. Gigi and The Cat by Collette (12/27/16, ***)
18. Transformations by Anne Sexton (12/24/15, ****)
19. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (12/28/15, *****)
20. The Library Window by Margaret Oliphant (12/31/15, ***/3.5)


Read: 20/20

I am in for 12.

CHALLENGE COMPLETED!

01: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
02: Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias by Marguerite Young
03: The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
04: Emily St. John Mandel by Emily St. John Mandel
05: Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
06: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
07: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
08: Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
09: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
10: Gila! by Kathryn Ptacek
11: Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
12: Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm

I'm in and will do 35 - for now, at least.

I am in for 15 plz 16/15 Completed


1) by Alison GoodmanJan26
2) by Rysa Walker Feb 4
3 ,Darynda JonesFeb 19
4 ,HollyBlackMar 9
5 byTana French March 28
6) ,Madeleine L'EngleMay 9
7) ,Libba Bray May 17
8) by Naomi Novik June 9/15
9) by Susan Ee June 15
10) by Lois LowryJune 17
11) byDiana Wynne Jones June 19
12 by Joanne Fluke July 9
13) by Rachel Caine July 25
14) by Rachel Hawkins Aug 1
15) by M.L. Stedman Aug 9
16) by Robyn Carr Aug 20

Actually, put me down for 40 - I already have over 35 female authors I want to read this year who I've never read before!

1. Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin

2. A Lancaster County Christmas by Suzanne Woods Fisher

3. Though the Bud Be Bruised by Jo Wanmer

4. Passion Play - the Oberammergau Tales by Valerie Volk

5. Oceans Apart by Karen Kingsbury

6. A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger

7. Miniskirts, Mothers & Muslims: A Christian Woman in a Muslim Land by Christine A. Mallouhi

8. Di Morrissey

9. Elianne by Judy Nunn

10. Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexandra

11. Family Secrets by Liz Byrski

12. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

13. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran

14. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

15. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

16. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

17. The Visitors by Sally Beauman

18. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

19. Fractured by Dawn Barker

20. Ronan's Echo by Joanne van Os

21. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

22. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

23. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

24. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

25. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

26. Pennies for Hitler by Jackie French

27. The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon

28. The Heavy: A Mother's Battle Against her Seven-year-old Daughter's Obesity by Dara-Lynn Weiss

29. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

30. Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light by Amy Thomas

31. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver

32. Passion Play - the Oberammergau Tales by Valerie Volk

33. The Lady's Maid: My Life in Service by Rosina Harrison

34. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

35. The Tea House On Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens

36. Longbourn by Jo Baker

37. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Please count me in, this challenge is one of my favourites!
I aimed at 45 this year but only read 41, so next year I will narrow it down a bit and set my goal at 30.

The hard part is the new-to-you requirement - I'll aim for 15 and see how that turns out!

Candidates from TBR pile:
Frances Hardinge
Nnedi Okorafor
Kij Johnson
Alena Graedon
(adding more later)

Welcome to the challenge, everyone!

I was initially going to set my goal higher for this challenge, but then I realized that I have a lot of repeat authors planned as well (male and female), so I dropped it down to 25. It's so much fun to discover new favorite authors, though.

Count me in for this, I'm already trying so add more female authors to my TBR list and there are some I definitely will read this year.
I think I'm gonna set my goal to 40 and I'll see how I do with that.

01/40

1. Katherine Mansfield - Something Childish But Very Natural 1/5/2015

I was surprised to see that I read 27 new female authors this year, but I won't try for that many in 2015 since I doubt I'll be able to manage to read nearly as many books total next year.

So I set my initial goal at 15. Updated to 25 (6/13/15)

25/25

1. Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain 1/3/15
2. Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford 1/4/15
3. Maya Angelou - Letter to My Daughter 1/15/15
4. Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 1/16/15
5. Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven 1/25/15
6. Lisa See - Shanghai Girls 1/30/15
7. Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 2/21/15
8. Shannon Hill - Crazy, VA 2/22/15
9. Emma Hooper - Etta and Otto and Russell and James 3/13/15
10. Diane Ackerman - The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us 4/9/15
11. Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4/28/15
12. Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank 5/3/15
13. Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind 5/18/15
14. Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall6/7/15
15. Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things 6/12/15
16. Emma Larkin - Finding George Orwell in Burma 6/29/15
17. Donna Tartt - The Secret History 7/5/15
18. Louise Erdrich - The Round House 7/17/15
19. Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog 8/10/15
20. Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 8/28/15
21. Alexis M. Smith - Glaciers 9/12/15
22. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus 9/22/15
23. Nadine Gordimer - July's People 10/20/15
24. Lily King - Euphoria 11/4/15
25. Kate Chopin - The Awakening 11/16/15

I'm going for 30 for now!

05/30

#READWOMEN2015.
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Goal: To read 10 biographies writen by women
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I'll sign up for 10. 12/10 completed.

1. Restoration by Rose Tremain 1/4/15
2 The Good Girl by Mary Kubica 2/9/15
3. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee 2/10/15
4. A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison 2/14/15
5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2/21/15
6. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 2/28/15
7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 3/4/15
8. Story of O by Pauline Réage 4/8/15
9. The Secret by Julie Garwood 5/7/15
10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 6/15/15
11. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 6/20/15
12. The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig 8/1/15

Favorite to date is Kristin Hannah.

I'm in! I will aim for 10.

10/10 DONE!


1. The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
2. Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
3. From Here by Jen Michalski
4. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
5. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
6. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
7. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
8. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
9. Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife by Gioia Diliberto
10. No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood by Henriette Mantel

Welcome to the challenge!

I'm in for 10. I just graduated grad school and am not entirely sure how much time I will have. I'm new, do I post what I want to read here?

I like this challenge. I have at least 30 different women in my TBR that I had never read before. But I will not aim that high, instead I will try to relax a little bit more. Please put me with ten, and once I have read them I will put the list.Maybe later I manage more, but I think 10 is a good start.

Linda, Some members post a list of their planned reading for this challenge either here or in a member corner. You can keep track of it however you like, but the important part is that you'll need to post what books you've finished for this challenge in this thread at some point so I can update your count! You can do that after each book you read for the challenge, or once monthly, or any combination that works well for you. Does that make sense?

Caro, that sounds great. You can always increase your goal later, if you'd like.

Can you sign me up for 25 to start with please, I already have 22 planed so I thought I would round it off.

1/25

1. Jung Chang – Empress Dowager Cixi
2. Elizabeth Kolbert - Number: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
3. Helene Wecker – The Golem and the Jinni
4. Veronica Roth – Divergent
5. Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones’s Diary (04/01/2015)
6. Anne Sewell – Black Beauty
7. Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
8. Zadie Smith – NW
9. Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush Hush
10. Cassandra Clare – City of Bones
11. Dori Jones Yang – Daughter of Xanadu
12. Tabitha Suzuma – Forbidden
13. Joanne Harris – The Gospel of Loki
14. Gemma Malley – The Killables
15. Louise Penny - The Long Way Home
16. Veronica Rossi – Under the Never Sky
17. Veronica Rossi – Flowers In The Attic
18. Leigh Bardugo – Shadow and Bone
19. Alivia Anders - A Shard of Ice
20. Charlaine Harris – Midnight Crossroad
21. Julie Kagawa – The Iron King
22. Holly Black – White Cat
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There's no way for me to skip this challenge, count me in!

I'll go only for 10 this year, because I took more classes this winter. I'll probably have a bunch of reading to do because most of them are literature's classes.

I'll go for 12

I'd be worried if you didn't participate in this challenge, Chloé!

Welcome Mary-Ann and Rae.

Here is the list I plan to read:
8/9

1.I've Got Your Number*** READ 1.12.15
2.The Handmaid's Tale*** READ 9.7.15
3.The Inn at Eagle Point***READ 5.17.15
4.The Incredible Journey***READ 8.13.15
5.Death Of A Gossip***READ 3.22.15
.The Beekeeper's Apprentice ***READ 7.24.15
7.Orphan Train***READ 1.16.15
8. Big Little Lies*** READ 3.6.15
9. Crocodile on the Sandbank

I'm happy to see this challenge back for another year! Sign me up for 12 for now please :)

I'm going to do 10 for this challenge, since I've gone a little overboard on all the other challenges...

1. We Were Liars E. Lockhart read 1/2/2015
2. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Susannah Cahalan read 1/9/2015
3. The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg read 1/10/2015
4. My Accidental Jihad Krista Bremerread 1/11/2015
5. The Pecan Man Cassie Dandridge Selleck read 1/16/2015
6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin read 1/25/2015
7. Still Alice Lisa Genova read 1/30/2015
8. Landline Rainbow Rowell read 2/3/2015
9. Lost Lake Sarah Addison Allen read 2/10/2015
10. Divergent Veronica Roth 2/16/2015
11. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See read 2/19/2015
12. The History of Love Nicole Krauss read 2/22/2015
13. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain read 2/23/2015
14. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Jenny Wingfield read 2/26/2015
15. Dead Politician Society Robin Spano read 2/1/2015
16. We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo read 3/13/2015
17. Painter of Silence Georgina Harding read 3/14/2015
18. Dance of the Winnebagos Ann Charles read 3/15/2015
19. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine Boo read 3/17/2015
20. Early Decision: Based on a True Frenzy Lacy Crawford read 3/17/2015
21. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath read 3/25/2015
22. The Weight of Blood Laura McHugh read 4/6/2015
23. Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard Laura Bates read 4/6/2015
24. Chocolat Joanne Harris read 4/11/2015
25. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor Lucy Christopher read 4/13/2015
26. Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War Helen Thorpe read 4/14/2015
27. Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case Debbie Nathan read 4/19/2015
28. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 5/4/2015
29. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett read 5/6/2015
30. Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons read 5/10/2015

Increasing my goal from 10 to 25

Challenge completed (but I will keep updating my list as I read more women)

I read 36 new-to-me female authors this year, so I'll be conservative and say 25 for this challenge.

25/25 completed

1. Cracked by Eliza Crewe (1/4)
2. Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken (1/6)
3. What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran (2/1)
4. Marked by Sarah Fine (2/2)
5. Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives by various female authors (2/3)
6. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2/22)
7. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2/28)
8. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (3/10)
9. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (4/22)
10. The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (4/25)
11. Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (5/4)
12. Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (6/18)
13. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (6/23)
14. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (7/5)
15. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (7/6)
16. Uprooted by Naomi Novik (7/7)
17. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (8/11)
18. Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa (9/4)
19. Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre (10/4)
20. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (10/13)
21. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (10/29)
22. Boundary Crossed by Melissa F. Olson (10/31)
23. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (11/1)
24. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō (11/18)
25. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (11/22)

I just did a back count and I read 27 new female authors in 2014. I will aim to up that to 35 for 2015 - count me in to this challenge :)

#readwomen Challenge
10/10

Possible List:
✔ 1. The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham (1/17) ****
✔ 2. Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (4/8) ****
✔ 3. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (6/4) ****
✔ 4. Chocolat by Joanne Harris (6/13) ****1/2
✔ 5.The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (7/12) *****
✔ 6. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (8/22) ****
✔ 7. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (8/31) ****
✔ 8. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (10/6) ****
✔ 9. Malice Domestic by Mollie Hardwick 11/19 ***1/2
✔10. The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi 11/29 ****
Potential List
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The House of the Spirits by Isabell Allende
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Updated to here!

Put me down for 10.

I'm in for 20 books, here 10 but the year is unpredictable
Rooms - Lauren Oliver
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
Side Effects May Vary - Julie Murphy
Love and Other Foreign Words - Erin McGahan
Anatomy of a Misfit- Andrea Portes
Love Hurts - Malorie Blackman
Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
We Were Liars- E. Lockhart
Hate List - Jennifer Brown
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

I'm so glad this challenge is back! Sign me up for 24, please!

I'll add a layer to this also - I want at least 12 to be either debut authors or books published in 2014 or 2015.

0/24 Completed

I'm in. I will say 30 for now.

30/30

1. Lorrie Sprecher Pissing in a River 1/2 √
2. Tiffany Reisz The Siren 1/6 √
3. Marie-Helene Bertino2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
4. Zadie Smith White Teeth
5. Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
6. Denise K. Lajimodiere Dragonfly Dance
7. Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told You
8. Liz Rosenberg The Moonlight Palace
9. Roni Loren Crash into You
10. Shayla Black Wicked Ties
11. Cherise Sinclair Club Shadowlands
12. Shanna Germain As Kinky as You Wanna Be: Your Guide to Safe, Sane and Smart BDSM
13. Mallory Ortberg Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
14.Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming
15.Jenny Nordberg The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
16. Indu Sundaresan The Twentieth Wife
17.Caitlin Doughty Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
18. Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
19. Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower
20. NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names
21. Issa Rae The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
22.Veronica Chambers Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
23. Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation
24. Ursula K. Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven
25. Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things to Me
26. Nayomi Munaweera Island of a Thousand Mirrors
27. Shan Sa Empress
28. Anna Freeman The Fair Fight
29. Ellen Oh Prophecy
30. Terry Tempest WilliamsWhen Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Done

Courtney, that's a great idea!

Welcome to the challenge.

I'm aiming for six fiction and six non-fiction. I've pretty much picked out all the fiction and half the non-fiction, so will be on the look out biography, history, or philosophy by women.

Put me down for 10!

1. Lisa Genova: Still Alice
2. Maia Sepp: Irish Drinking Socks - A Novel Excerpt
3. Diana Gabaldon: Outlander
4. Lauren Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada
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That's awesome, Greg. I really like that idea.

The new to you bit is the tricky bit here! I think I'm in for 15.

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Tomb Raider Volume 2: Secrets and Lies by Gail Simone and Rhianna Pratchett. Pratchett is new to me although I have read plenty of Simone before.
The Paper Magician by Charlie N Holberg
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
I Was Here by Gayle Forman
Silverwood by Betsy Streeter
Material Girls by Elaine Dimopoulos
Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters
The Dark Victorian: Risen Volume One by Elizabeth Watasin
Agnes Moor's Wild Knight by Alyssa Cole
Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton

11/15

Greg wrote: "I'm aiming for six fiction and six non-fiction. I've pretty much picked out all the fiction and half the non-fiction, so will be on the look out biography, history, or philosophy by women."
Greg here's the non fiction I read by women this year:
A House in the Sky
Glitter and Glue
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
The Compact Reader: Short Essays by Method and Theme

I think you already read A house in the sky last year.

Glitter and Glue, is about travel and familly.

Delusion of gender is about the stereotype and the sexism in neuroscience.

Bi: is a text about sexual orientation, and label, and LGBTQ movement. No matter the orientation of the reader, I think it's an interesting read. It will make you think about labels you use, stereotypes view you might have...

The compact reader is learn redaction trough essay.

What a lovely challenge. I read a lot of woman authors, and like series, so I'll aim for 10 new ones.
10/10. So increase to 10/20
January 2015
1. Ruth Dugdall - The Woman Before Me
2. Emma Healey- Elizabeth Is Missing
3. Lisa Genova - Still Alice
4. Sabine Durrant - Remember Me This Way
5. Esther Freud - Mr Mac and Me
6. Sarah Hilary - Someone Else's Skin
7. Naomi Wood - Mrs. Hemingway
February:
8. Amanda Coe -Getting Colder
9. Zoë Ferraris. -Finding Nouf
10. Laura Kasischke. - Laura Kasischke

I did this challenge this year and found a lot of new-to-me female authors. I want to participate again this year, but as I also want to read the back catalogues of authors I have found in 2014 this will limit finding new authors.

I shall aim for 15.

4/15 completed

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Chloe, how did you like Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference?

Welcome to the challenge, Sue and Esta!

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 10/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets Go With 10
#READWOMEN2015
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015


1. The Outsiders by SE Hinton READ 1/5 4/5 Stars
2. Smile by Raina Telgemeier READ 1/18 4/5 Stars
3. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros READ 2/1 3/5 Stars
4. Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee READ 2/20 5/5 Stars
5. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell READ 3/20 5/5 stars
6. 37 Things I Love by Kekla Matula READ 3/24 3/5 stars
7. The Mother Daughter Book Club by Heather Frederick Vogel READ 4/10 4/5 Star
8. Parenting: Illustrated with crappy pictures by Amber Dusick READ 4/15 4/5 Stars
9. Please Write in This Book by Mary Amato READ 4/15 3/5 Stars
10.Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up by Grace Helbig READ 6/22 4/5 Stars

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Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

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Cassandra, it is certainly an interesting topic. It is also an issue which I got familiar with during my studies (psychology), though it is not exclusive to neuroscience/neuropsychology.

Mostly it's about gender's stereotypes, and sexist ideas transmitted and/or validated by badly done researches or erroneous reasoning.

Something that really annoys me in my field is that psychometric tests were, and still often are, built and validated by men on men and boys, and we use those tests to define or make diagnostics on girls and women.

I think the topic certainly fits the challenge. It's a nice book for lovers of science and feminism. However, you don't need to be science savvy to understand it.