Read Women discussion

I am in general trying to read women, and to read outside the anglo-american sphere, though I do make exceptions for wonderful writers :D

I have enough thematic & geographic (Europe & Africa) bingo challenges elsewhere, so I think I just use this for "more great women" reading ambitions.
Also I'll try to do some TBR-busting with titles / authors I've meant to read / had on my shelves for years...

Nobel:
I've read most of the female winners, but have two more ladies to go:
Jelinek & Morrison
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Read the world:
Having just finally finished Africa (YAY!), I think it's time to fill in some missing countries https://ucph.padlet.org/anetq/

Taiwan 🇹🇼 Qiu Miaojin Last Words from Montmartre

- I'll try to add some female writers from the Americas:
(I ordered some from my libraries, will add later)

Thing, I just want to read
Deborah Levy The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies - which may spawn reading of her hero(ine)s - female authors like Duras & Colette.
As well as: Swallowing Geography & Beautiful Mutants, Swimming Home, Hot Milk, The Unloved

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria 🇳🇬 )
I looooved Half of a Yellow Sun, but still haven't read Americanah or Purple Hibiscus AND she has a new novel coming out in march Dream Count

Inger Christensen: Azorno

Women read so far in 2025:
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Playboy (Semiotext By Constance Debré
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (Berlin 1931)
Den anden datter by Annie Ernaux
Empusion by Olga Tokarczuk
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (inspired by Deborah Levy)

I love your awards reading list. Maybe you can nominate one of your two remaining Nobel women (or any other prize winning women) when the group does that theme in June.

Anita wrote: "I love your awards reading list. Maybe you can nominate one of your two remaining Nobel women (or any other prize winning women) when the group does that theme in June."

I'd love to :)
All the female winners I've read have been great - which I guess is par for the course, as there are so few, so to be a woman AND win the not very female-friendly Nobel prize, you have to be more than great :)
A favorite surprise was the Polish 1996 winner Wisława Szymborska

Anetq wrote: "Anita wrote: "I love your awards reading list. Maybe you can nominate one of your two remaining Nobel women (or any other prize winning women) when the group does that theme in June."

I'd love to ..."

I've really wanted to read her. I'm glad you reminded me of her. I've carried around from home to home for years a poem of hers I printed out cuz a poet roommate had it on the fridge and I just loved it.

Jen wrote: "Anetq wrote: "Anita wrote: "I love your awards reading list. Maybe you can nominate one of your two remaining Nobel women (or any other prize winning women) when the group does that theme in June."..."

<3 Love it! And her poetry - I just ordered her essays Nonrequired Reading from a library yesterday.

Read lately:
Shorts stories by contemporary Danish authors: Ida Jessen, Helle Helle & Adda Djørup in Fire noveller af Jessen, Ejersbo, Helle og Djørup

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan
-> I love her work, so condensed, so precise!

A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
-> Death, up close, and spoiler: not easy...

Spænd by Dorthe Nors
-> New novel by the amazing Nors - read all of her earlier work, which is out in English