Read Women discussion

Hello members,
This is our thread for October 2025 nominations.

Oct F: Horror or Gothic; NF: OC

You may nominate in both fiction and non-fiction.
One nomination per category.
No books that have been read in the previous three years.
Please use the ‘add book/author’ tab to avoid confusion.
Written by an author who identifies as a woman.
Please indicate whether you will be leading the discussion.

Nominations will close in about one week.

So my idea of horror is classified by Book Riot as "horror for wimps". A few days ago I learned that Edith Wharton wrote short stories that are classified as "horror" and I was intrigued. (I'm assuming it's for wimps.)

For fiction: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
I can lead

For nonfiction: Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
I can lead

For horror, I nominate Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions. I can lead.

@gail, I hear ya 🤣

I think we wanna say "an author who identifies as a woman" rather than "female" yes? To mean their gender identity and not what may be recognized as their sex/biological sex assigned at birth.

And yes, I'm here for horror for wimps please. I will likely be back with some nominations too :)

For nonfiction, I nominate Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney

Let’s do last call for nominations. Polls will go up this evening or tomorrow

Jen wrote: "I think we wanna say "an author who identifies as a woman" rather than "female" yes? To mean their gender identity and not what may be recognized as their sex/biological sex assigned at birth.

And..."

Yes, I can update that. Thank you for pointing that out and apologies if I’ve offended anyone as I surely don’t mean to.

I nominate Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre!

Anita wrote: "Hello members,
This is our thread for October 2025 nominations.

Oct F: Horror or Gothic; NF: OC

You may nominate in both fiction and non-fiction.
One nomination per category.
No books that have..."

Let's see: for horror or goth, "Kiss of Midnight" by Lara Adrian
For non-fic (open choice), "Born Free" by Joy Adamson

Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester

Polls are open through the 12th. Thank you everyone who nominated.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Just wanted to point out to voters that dark sisters hasn't been published yet (in the UK at least)

Could we get links for those without so we can read about them? Or am I just not seeing them cuz the app is annoying like that sometimes?

Jen wrote: "Could we get links for those without so we can read about them? Or am I just not seeing them cuz the app is annoying like that sometimes?"

There are links from the voting page if you click on details (I use desktop mode on my phone because the app drives me mad!)

Ah ja, disregard if no one else has the need.

Jen wrote: "Could we get links for those without so we can read about them? Or am I just not seeing them cuz the app is annoying like that sometimes?"

The app is trash. 😭😭

Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson
Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester

Jen wrote: "Ah ja, disregard if no one else has the need."

Np, Jen. I also find it challenging to work from the polling page and I doubt we’re the only ones.

Oh, BTW just discovered NYRB also has a version of The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton with slightly different title: Ghosts. I tend to love their covers :) And perhaps helpful to know you can search either and get the same content.