Read Women discussion

This is our discussion, tracking, recommendation and progress thread for our 2022 Read Women Challenge. This is the easy (conceptually) one, in terms of criteria. Read more, or a targeted number, or go goal-less, women authors between January 1 and December 31, 2022. Transgender women and non-binary authors (at your option) are included.

That's it. There are no other rules or limits. Read multiple books by a single author. Read around the world. Read poetry, academic works, reference materials, novels on the NYT bestseller list for 100 weeks and counting. Read from your county or state or province. Read in multiple languages or from small presses.

We'll create a widget you can use for tracking and make it available at the group landing page closer to the start of the new year. This thread is for sharing goals and favorite lists, for planning, inquiring, listing books read, posting links to your reviews of books you read for this goal and otherwise discussing qualifying books. Typically, members start and update, as the year progresses, a comment in this thread with the list of all challenge books read. Several members post individual comments per finished book as they read, and share links to their reviews (yay!). If you want to set up a separate thread in this Challenge folder to track and comment on your challenge reads, rather than do so in this thread, you may.

What are your reading plans for 2022? Have you started a list of new year reading? Has your reading permanently changed in this COVID era in a way that you don't see returning to some prior approach? Has it changed how you approach reading goals?

I took a long break from reading due too school and personal mental health things during the summer of protest. I have discovered booktube & booktok and Jack Edwards and have opened up my GoodReads to dive back into my bookshelves. I want to revisit some classic with a focus on Russian literature like Crime & Punishment, then there’s the Outlander series I have too finish (I’m a sucker for books set in Scotland). Then there’s Toni Morrison I really want to finish her books as well as the Brontë sisters. As for historical fiction I have Circe, Hamnet, She Who Became the Sun, & The Somg of Achilles. Contemporary literature I have This Close to Okay, It Ends With Us, & Firekeepers Daughter. But I’m most excited to read The Vanishing Half , just from reading reviews I relate so much to the concept. A wide range of genres but I’m excited to re kindle my love for reading. - Claire

One goal I have for the coming year is to read more "second books" by women authors. I went through my read books earlier this year and realized that one difference I had between male and female authors is that I had more male authors that I had read multiple of their books. I would like to keep my books at 70% women this year (Stephen King throws off my percentages - LOL). I also have a list of BIPOC women authors for this year. I don't know what my percentage was this year, but earlier in the year it was 64%. I think it's higher now.

Here's a link to the widget for this challenge, for those members who like to use it as a tracking device. It sits on our landing page.

https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

I would like to get 50% of my reading by women this year. Last two years I've read around 66 books so I will aim for 33 books by women for the moment. I don't know exactly what I will be reading but for a starter I will read some linked to mythology and fairy/folk tales ( for the quarterly challenge and because I have quite a few of them ).