2019 Reading Women


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#ReadingWomenChallenge
I have seen other readers mention this challenge, but have never before participated.
That changes now! 
Okay, yes, I have already committed to at least 6 other reading challenges for 2019...
So...what's one more? LOL :)
Seriously, I am already having such fun creating lists and 
communicating with other readers for the other challenges:
2019 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge
2019 Back to the Classics
2019 Cloak and Dagger Challenge
2019 Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge (RHC)

There are 24 reading prompts and 2 Bonus prompts!

As of December 31, 2019
Prompts completed: 17/26
Books read: 98

Those completed in 2020
Prompts completed:
2 books total read as of January 5

*A book I own
**A book already scheduled for one of the book clubs in which I participate

1. A mystery or thriller written by a woman of color
    *A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
    *The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1) 
         by Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie
    Pleasantville by Attica Locke (Jay Pleasant #2)
         LOVED her debut Black Water Rising which is Jay Pleasant #1!

2. A book about a woman with a mental illness
     Two Can Keep a Secret-Sadie
     *Beautiful Bad
     *The Wife Between Us: A Novel-Vanessa's depression and...?
    *A High-End Finish-Penny
    *The Kiss Quotient-Autism spectrum disorder
    *Beloved
    *I Never Promised you a Rose Garden
     I first read this at age 13-14. It would be VERY interesting to reread it 50 years later!
    *Saving April by Sarah A. Denzil (the book that is supposed to be very very similar to 
    The Woman in the Window which I have already devoured!)

3. A book by an author from Nigeria or New Zealand
    *The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
    Purple Hibiscus by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
    Americanah by Chiminanda Ngozi Adichie

4. A book about or set in Appalachia
    *Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
    * **The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
    *Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver    
    *Serafina and the Splintered Heart by Robert Beatty

5. A children's book
    *One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
    *Emlyn's Moon
    *Ivy and Bean
    *Wonder
    *The Maltese Feline 
    *Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
    *Steel Magic (The Magic Series #1)
    *Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
    Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

6. A multigenerational family saga
    * **Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
    *Wise Children
    The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
    Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

7. A book featuring a woman in science
    *The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth Church
    *The Calculating Stars 
    *Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
    *A Closed and Common Orbit
    *Record of a Spaceborn Few-Eyas
    *The Kiss Quotient-Stella is an econometrician
   *Binti-math
    *To Be Taught, if Fortunate
    * **The Dress Shop of Dreams-both Cora and her mother
    *Hidden Figures:The Untold Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped 
     Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
         I heard her speak in 2017 and have a personally inscribed copy of the book! I have 
         been looking for an excuse to read it...and here it is! :) I loved the movie, but 
         according to Shetterly, there is even more in the book than was covered in the 
         movie.

8. A play
    *A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

9. A novella
    *Binti
    *To Be Taught, if Fortunate
    The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
    *There's No Such Thing as a Comfortable Bra
    *Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
    The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
    Doing Sixty and Seventy by Gloria Steinem

10. A book about a woman athlete
      The Fair Fight
      *Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince
      Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder

11. A book featuring a religion other than your own
      * **Chocolat-Catholicism
     * **Wait for Me, Jack
     * **Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
     * **The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
    *A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
     * **The Dress Shop of Dreams-Catholicism
    *There's No Such Thing as a Comfortable Bra
    *Excellent Women 
   Purple Hibiscus by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
      Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak

12. A Lambda Literary Award winner
      *George by Alex Gino
       Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult 2016
      Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
           Lesbian Fiction 2000
      Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
           LGBTQ Anthology 2019
      Bird-Eyes by Madelyn Arnold 
           Lesbian Debut Fiction 1989
      Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson (Cassandra Riley #1)
           Lesbian Mystery 1991
      Ninth Life by Lauren Wright Douglas (Caitlin Reece #2)
           Lesbian Mystery 1991
      Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest (Kate Delafield #4) 
           Lesbian Mystery 1992
      Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz
           Lesbian Fiction 1993
      A Small Sacrifice by Ellen Hart (Jane Lawless #5)
           Lesbian Mystery 1995
      Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
           Lesbian Biography/Autobiography 1996
      
13. A myth retelling
     *The Song of Achilles 
     *The Things She's Seen
     Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse 
           (based upon American Indian/Native American mythology/folklore)
      Children of Virtue and Vengeance 
      The Girl in the Tower, The Winter of the Witch
      The Winter of the Witch is due to be released 1/8/2019, but I really want to read the 
      second installment in this Winternight Trilogy, The Girl in the Tower first! I LOVED the    
      first installment, The Bear and Nightingale!
      The Silence of the Girls 

14. A translated book published before 1945
      *Gigi, Julie Carneilhan and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
      After Midnight (may have to read in eformat)
      The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky
      Claudine at School by Colette
      After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
      Heidi by Johanna Spyri
      The Wreath (Kristin Lavsrandatter #1) by Sigrid Undset
      Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
      Himself: The Autobiography of a Hindu Lady by Ramabai Ranade

15. A book written by a South Asian author (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhatan, India, 
           Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
      *The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
      I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up and Was Shot by the Taliban 
           by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

16. A book by an indigenous female
     *The Things She's Seen-Ambelin Kwaymullina and her brother Ezekiel Kwaymullina
      An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
      Or another Louise Erdrich book--I have read and loved The Round House.
      Perhaps The Antelope Wife which I just picked up for $1 at my local library sale.
      Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

17. A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist
      *Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
      *Educated by Tara Westover

18. A romance or love story
      * **Wait for Me, Jack by Addison Jones
      * **The Night Circus       
      * **On Turpentine Lane
      *Becoming-love story between Michelle and Barack and a long-term marriage 
            surviving and thriving despite many challenges
      *The Calculating Stars
     *Butterflies, Flowers, Vol. 2
      *The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 
      *Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens-Kya and Tate
      * **The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek-Cussy Mary and Jackson
      *The Girl Who Chased the Moon
     *The Song of Achilles
      *The Kiss Quotient
      *Beloved      
      * **The Home-Maker 
     * **The Dress Shop of Dreams
     * **One Day in December
     *Black Panther: World of Wakanda
     *The Starless Sea
     *Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

19. A book about nature
      *Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
      *Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
      *The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
      Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

20. A historical fiction book
      *The Atomic Weight of Love
      * **The Night Circus
     * **The Truth According to Us
      *One Crazy Summer
      * **Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
      *The Calculating Stars
      *The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 
      *Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
      * **The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
      *A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
      *The Song of Achilles
       *Beloved
      *Wise Children
      *Washington Black
      * **The Home-Maker 
      *To Kill a Mockingbird

21. A book you bought or borrowed in 2019
      Two Can Keep a Secret
      * **They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
      * **The Dry by Jane Harper
      * **Wait for Me, Jack
       *The Witch Elm
      *Beautiful Bad
      * **The Truth According to Us
      *One Crazy Summer 
      *Emlyn's Moon
      *This Is How It Always Is
      *Becoming
      *The Calculating Stars
      *Butterflies, Flowers, Vol. 2
      *The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
       *The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 
      *Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
       * **The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
      * **The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
       *A Closed and Common Orbit
       *The Maltese Feline
       *A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
       *Little Fires Everywhere
       *Flowers for Algernon
      *Record of a Spaceborn Few
      *Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
      *The Song of Achilles
      *The Things She's Seen
      *The Kiss Quotient
      *My Best Friend's Exorcism
     *Wise Children
     *Binti
     *Love, Lucy
    *Steel Magic (The Magic Series #1)
    *Asymmetry
    *The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future
    *Washington Black
      * **The Home-Maker 
    * **The Dress Shop of Dreams
    * **One Day in December
    *Black Panther: World of Wakanda
    *The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
     *To Catch a Cat
     *The Starless Sea
    *Excellent Women


22. A book you picked up because of the cover
      *Nose Down, Eyes Up by Merrill Markhoe

23. A book from a series
       *One Crazy Summer
      *Emlyn's Moon
      *Sorcery & Cecelia: or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate #1) 
      *Ivy and Bean (Ivy + Bean #1)
      *The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1)
      *Butterflies, Flowers, Vol. 2
      *The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
      * **Them Bones
      *Wonder
      *A Closed and Common Orbit
      *The Maltese Feline
      *Record of a Spaceborn Few
      *Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
     *The Handmaid's Tale-a sequel was just released 
     *A High-End Finish
     *The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
     *The Kiss Quotient
     *Buried Bones
     *Binti
     *Steel Magic (The Magic Series #1)
     *Black Panther: World of Wakanda
     Pleasantville by Attica Locke (Jay Pleasant #2)
      *Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
      A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King
      Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson (Cassandra Riley #1)
      Ninth Life by Lauren Wright Douglas (Caitlin Reece #2)
      Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest (Kate Delafield #4) 
      A Small Sacrifice by Ellen Hart (Jane Lawless #5)      

24. A young adult book written by a female of color
      *Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

BONUS
25. A book by Jesmyn Ward
      *The Fire This Time 
      (This would be my choice since I just read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time!)
      Men We Reaped 
      Salvage the Bones

26. A book by Jhumpa Lahiri
      *The Lowland (This would be my choice since I've read the other three!)
      Interpreter of Maladies
      The Namesake
      Unaccustomed Earth

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