Reading Women Challenge 2020
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthI completed the Reading Women Challenge 2020. Some books are better than other books, and some books are more to my taste than other books ...but this has really broadened my reading this year.
Links are to my reviews on this Dreamwidth blog.
I recommend this as a reading stretch: you don't have to be on Goodreads / listen to the 'Reading Women' podcast to do it. Next year's is here ... I am already planning!
√ 1) by an Author from the Caribbean or India - The New Moon's Arms -- Nalo Hopkinson
√ 2) Translated from an Asian Language -- Strange Weather in Tokyo -- Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Allison Markin Powell)
√ 3) About the Environment - Surfacing -- Kathleen Jamie
√ 4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author - Sulwe -- Lupita Nyong'o (illustrated by Vashti Harrison)
√ 5) Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Museum of Modern Love -- Heather Rose
√ 6) Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian - Women & Power: A Manifesto -- Mary Beard
√ 7) Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism - The Stone Sky -- N K Jemisin
√ 8) Anthology by Multiple Authors - Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic -- ed. Iona Datt Sharma
√ 9) Inspired by Folklore - The Silver Bough -- Lisa Tuttle
√ 10) About a Woman Artist - Blood Water Paint -- Joy McCullough
√ 11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation -- Little Women (Alcott) and Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation.
√ 12) About a Woman Who Inspires You - Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis -- Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg
√ 13) By an Arab Woman - A Pure Heart -- Rajia Hassib
√ 14) Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author -- Convenience Store Woman -- Sayaka Murata
√ 15) Biography - The Perfect Gentleman: The remarkable life of Dr. James Miranda Barry - June Rose
√ 16) Featuring a Woman with a Disability - Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected -- Nnedi Okorafor
√ 17) Over 500 Pages - The Lost Future of Pepperharrow -- Natasha Pulley
√ 18) Under 100 Pages - Madame Two Swords -- Tanith Lee
√ 19) Frequently Recommended to You - The Ten Thousand Doors of January -- Alix E Harrow
√ 20) Feel-Good or Happy Book - Network Effect -- Martha Wells
√ 21) About Food - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking -- T Kingfisher
√ 22) By Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher -- The Wild Swans -- Peg Kerr
√ 23) By an LGBTQ+ Author -- Tentacle -- Rita Indiana
√ 24) From the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions - Frankissstein: A Love Story -- Jeanette Winterson
Bonuses:
√ 25) Toni Morrison - Beloved
√ 26) Isabelle Allende - A Long Petal of the Sea
Links are to my reviews on this Dreamwidth blog.
I recommend this as a reading stretch: you don't have to be on Goodreads / listen to the 'Reading Women' podcast to do it. Next year's is here ... I am already planning!
√ 1) by an Author from the Caribbean or India - The New Moon's Arms -- Nalo Hopkinson
√ 2) Translated from an Asian Language -- Strange Weather in Tokyo -- Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Allison Markin Powell)
√ 3) About the Environment - Surfacing -- Kathleen Jamie
√ 4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author - Sulwe -- Lupita Nyong'o (illustrated by Vashti Harrison)
√ 5) Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Museum of Modern Love -- Heather Rose
√ 6) Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian - Women & Power: A Manifesto -- Mary Beard
√ 7) Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism - The Stone Sky -- N K Jemisin
√ 8) Anthology by Multiple Authors - Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic -- ed. Iona Datt Sharma
√ 9) Inspired by Folklore - The Silver Bough -- Lisa Tuttle
√ 10) About a Woman Artist - Blood Water Paint -- Joy McCullough
√ 11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation -- Little Women (Alcott) and Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation.
√ 12) About a Woman Who Inspires You - Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis -- Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg
√ 13) By an Arab Woman - A Pure Heart -- Rajia Hassib
√ 14) Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author -- Convenience Store Woman -- Sayaka Murata
√ 15) Biography - The Perfect Gentleman: The remarkable life of Dr. James Miranda Barry - June Rose
√ 16) Featuring a Woman with a Disability - Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected -- Nnedi Okorafor
√ 17) Over 500 Pages - The Lost Future of Pepperharrow -- Natasha Pulley
√ 18) Under 100 Pages - Madame Two Swords -- Tanith Lee
√ 19) Frequently Recommended to You - The Ten Thousand Doors of January -- Alix E Harrow
√ 20) Feel-Good or Happy Book - Network Effect -- Martha Wells
√ 21) About Food - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking -- T Kingfisher
√ 22) By Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher -- The Wild Swans -- Peg Kerr
√ 23) By an LGBTQ+ Author -- Tentacle -- Rita Indiana
√ 24) From the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions - Frankissstein: A Love Story -- Jeanette Winterson
Bonuses:
√ 25) Toni Morrison - Beloved
√ 26) Isabelle Allende - A Long Petal of the Sea
