Reading Women Challenge 2021

 Doing this one again.

Here’s the rundown: complete as many challenges as you can from the list below. If you have one book that covers two categories (or more!), feel free to count it for both. It's not a contest. Our goal is to encourage you to read widely (and fight the patriarchy, but that was probably a given), so just have fun with it!

This year, we’re focusing on reading international authors (authors from countries other than your own). We’re also encouraging participants to read books by trans women and people of other marginalized genders who are comfortable being included in feminine-coded initiatives.

My Books:

1. Nonfiction Book About Social Justice: Me and White Supremacy--Layla F. Saad
2. Woman In Politics: The Truths We Hold--Kamala Harris
3. About Incarceration: Assata: An Autobiography--Assata Shakur
4. Muslim Middle Grade: Other Words For Home--Jasmine Warga 
5. Reread a Favorite: Brown Girl Dreaming--Jacqueline Woodson
6. Cookbook by a Woman of Color: From Scratch--Tembi Locke
7. Poetry by a Woman of Color: Sister Outsider--Audre Lorde
8. YA Novel by a Latinx Author: Never Look Back--Lilliam Rivera
9. Biracial Protagonist: The Vanishing Half--Brit Bennett
10. Cover Designed by a Woman: The Lowland--Jhumpa Lahiri
11. Trans Author: If I Was Your Girl--Meredith Russo
12. Crime Novel in Translation: The Terrorists--Maj Sjowall
13. About the Natural World: Lab Girl--Hope Jahren
14. Longlisted for the JCB Prize: A Burning--Megha Majumdar
15. Protagonist Older Than 50: Olive Kitteridge--Elizabeth Strout
16. Queer Love Story: Black Sun--Rebecca Roanhorse
17. Rural Setting: Drive Me Crazy--Erin Downing
18. Memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native or Aboriginal Woman: Men We Reaped--Jesmyn Ward
19. South American Author in Translation: Of Love and Shadows--Isabel Allende
20. Author From Eastern Europe: Voices From Chernobyl--Svetlana Alexievich
21. Short Story Collection by a Caribbean Author: The Dew Breaker--Edwidge Danticat
22. Neurodivergent Author: Let's Pretend This Never Happened--Jenny Lawson
23. Fantasy Novel by an Asian Author: Jade City--Fonda Lee
24. Arab Author in Translation: The Dove's Necklace--Raja Alem

 

BONUS:

1. This Mournable Body--Tsitsi Dangarembga
2. Carpentaria--Alexis Wright
3. Bird Summons--Leila Aboulela
4. The Diving Pool--Yoko Ogawa

Challenge completed on November 5