Duration: 1st January – 31st December 2020
Number of books: 26
Hosted by: Reading Women
All books read for this challenge must be by or about women.
(Please note that the spirit of this challenge is to read books that aren’t by men.)
- A Book by an Author from the
Caribbean orIndian descent – Cherish Hand by Nalini Singh - A Book Translated from an Asian Language – Human Acts by Han Kang
- A Book about the Environment – Wilding by Isabella Tree
- A Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author – The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson
- A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction
- A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian – The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
- A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism – Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- An Anthology by Multiple Authors – Hot in Handcuffs by Sylvia Day, Shayla Black & Shiloh Walker
- A Book Inspired by Folklore – Red Winter by Annette Marie
- A Book about a Woman Artist – Stealing Home by Sherryl Woods
- Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation – The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
- A Book about a Woman Who Inspires You – Becoming by Michelle Obama
- A Book by an Arab Woman – We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
- A Book Set in Japan
or by a Japanese Author– Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn - A Biography – Truganini by Cassandra Pybus
- A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability – The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (in this story, her humanness is treated as a disability)
- A Book Over 500 Pages – The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (578 pp.)
- A Book Under 100 Pages – Poison Dance by Livia Blackburne
- A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- A Feel-Good or Happy Book – Never Been Witched by Annette Blair
- A Book about Food – Cleaving by Julie Powell
- A Book by Either a
Favorite ora New-to-You Publisher – The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Corvus) - A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author – The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O’Neill
- A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists or Honorable Mentions
BONUS
- A Book by Toni Morrison
- A Book by Isabel Allende
I am planning to do this one and am very excited about it!
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I did it for the first time last year and didnt quite finish it… hoping to do all 26 this year!!!
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Good luck to us both!
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