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Updated message #486 - 19/25

Finished Doomsday Book by Connie Willis today

Updated message #674 - 4/20

Oh, I completed 15/15 a little while ago. I'll keep counting, but, for the sake of other reading goals, I'll consider the challenge completed!

Can I be updated to 7/10 please? I've been keeping track on my comment but forgot to give updates in the comments, sorry!

Updated message 17

17/25

Added:
16. Emma Larkin - Finding George Orwell in Burma 6/29/15
17. Donna Tartt - The Secret History 7/5/15

No worries, Katy! Thanks for drawing my attention to it, otherwise I won't know to go look. :)

Congratulations Karina! I'll probably do the same thing when I finish my challenge.

I could have sworn I updated this list last month, but I guess not. Four more titles:


07: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
08: Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
09: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
10: Gila! by Kathryn Ptacek


my complete list

Updated message 21

DONE!!!

10/10 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - 3 stars

I must admit I've read TONS more female authors than just the 10 I committed to. I may add more later, but I'm kind of interested in joining some other challenges.

Updated message 156.

21/30

Updated message 486 - 20/25

Finished Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

UPDATE:


11/15 - 4 to go

Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

Vickie Leigh Krudwig - Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Cassandra Clare - City of Bones

Esther Earl - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Hi, Cassandra!

Would you please up my goal from 15 to 20? I am easily going to read five more! Thanks!

MP

Jane, congratulations on completing your challenge!

Sure thing, Mary Pat! You're doing great.

Greg, I may have missed your post, but you're updated now.

I'm leaving for a convention and may not have reliable computer access. I'll be checking my personal messages (so use that if you want to get in touch) but won't be updating challenges until I get back. Feel free to post away, though - I'll catch up!

Update message:
Just finished book 16/20, In the Woods by Tana French.

19/20 Anne Frank

12 by Joanne Fluke July 9

12/15

I wasn't sure if I should join this challenge, since I have a tendency to read a lot of women authors anyway, but it looks too awesome to ignore, so I'm going to jump in for 15! I think I probably have more than enough on my TBR shelf already, but maybe I'll get new inspiration from seeing what other folks post here.

Goal: 15

1. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker June 11
2. Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen June 24
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë August 24
4. Secret Son by Laila Lalami August 28

4/15 completed

Karina wrote: "Oh, I completed 15/15 a little while ago. I'll keep counting, but, for the sake of other reading goals, I'll consider the challenge completed!"

Karina, I just saw Memory of Water on your list and it caught my eye. What did you think of it?

Jeez, this is turning out to actually be a dangerous challenge for me, because I'm looking through everyone else's lists and finding TONS more books I want to add to my shelves, but I'm supposed to be reading books so I can take them *off* my shelves! Darn everyone for having such great taste! ;o)

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare.

Completed- 22/30

I'm late to sign up, but I'd like to join this challenge reading 25 new (to me) woman authors. I've already read some this year, so I'd like those to count as well.

1. Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Amy Poehler
3. Sophia Amoruso
4. Jillian Michaels
5. Marina Keegan
6. Marissa Meyer
7. Emily St. John Mandel
8. Rainbow Rowell
9. Abigail Barnette
10. Diana Wynne Jones
11. Eloisa James
12. Jojo Moyes
13. Jill Sanders
14. Michelle Duffy
15. Mary Ann Shaffer
16. Annie Barrows
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.

Still here!
Kimberly Chambers-The Wronged
Helen Fitzgerald-The Exit
Jessica Knoll-Luckiest Girl Alive

I finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill

(9/10)

UPDATE:


12/20* - 8 to go

Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

Vickie Leigh Krudwig - Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Cassandra Clare - City of Bones

Esther Earl - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Emily St John-Mandel - Station Eleven

I'm so glad to see people continuing to find this challenge (and increase their goals)!

Welcome to Katie and Vernice - you're certainly not too late.

I've finished! Except that I'd like to increase my goal to 20 if I may. I might end up increasing it further but 20 is a good one for now because a lot of the books I have planned for the rest of the year are male authors or repeat female authors.

ReadWomen2015

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell ★★★★
Tomb Raider Volume 2: Secrets and Lies by Gail Simone (not new to me) and Rhianna Pratchett ★★★★
The Paper Magician by Charlie N Holmberg ★★
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard ★★�
I Was Here by Gayle Forman ★★★★
Silverwood by Betsy Streeter �
Material Girls by Elaine Dimopolous ★★�
Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters ★★�
The Dark Victorian: Risen Volume One by Elizabeth Watasin ★★★★
Agnes Moor's Wild Knight by Alyssa Cole ★★�
Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton ★★★★
Edward Scissorhands Volume 1: Parts Unknown by Kate Leth ★★�
Hunting a Lady by Caitlin Ricci and Cari Z ★★�
Legend by Marie Lu ★★★★
The Woodcutter by Kate Danley �


15/20

Congratulations, Stefani! I've upped your goal for the rest of the year.

I've read Cinder (amaaaaaaaazing) so I've updated message 453.

8/25

Cassandra wrote: "Chloe, how did you like Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference?

Welcome to the challenge, Sue and Esta!"

Suggestions needed please-women authors surnames beginning I,J Q,S,V,XY,Z.Crime,horror or dark fantasy or literary fiction.
Thanks-getting a bit desperate but also interested in all your selections.
Pat.B.

Here are a few books from my lists that fit that criteria:
Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Malala Yousafzai - I Am Malala (this one is biography)
Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Not the perfect fit for those genres, but if you are looking for X, this book by Xinran, The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices is an easy, short read, kind of a collection of mini-biographies of women in contemporary China. Fascinating and X seems like a hard letter to find. ;o)

Read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

7/10

Wouldn't you know it-this is in my pile of library books-
Knitting for Anarchists-Anna Zilboorg.....

There truly is a book for everything, isn't there?

Hello - update to message 645
I am now at 17/25

1. Sarah J Maas - Throne of Glass series & Court of Thorn and Roses
2. Alice Pung - Laurinda
3. Samantha Shannon - Bone Season & Mime Order
4. Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
5. Mindy Kaling - Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me?
6. Erin Jade Lange - Dead Ends
7. Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky
8. Cilla Borjlind - Spring Tide
9. Shira Glassman - The Second Mango
10. Marie Rutkoski - Winner's Curse & Winner's Crime
11. Fionnuala Kearney - You, Me & Other People
12. Elizabeth Knox - Dreamhunter
13. Kiera Cass - The Selection Series
14. Kathryn Stockett - The Help
15. Sarah Raasch - Snow Like Ashes
16. Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
17. Emily Perkins - A Novel About My Wife
:)

Cassandra-the writer was just being awkward for awkward's sake-added nothing to my growing knitting skill-set!!!!!

Updated message 17

18/25 complete

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.

Completed- 23/30

10 of 10 completed my challenge, but I'll add others as I read them this year. Now at 11.

1. Restoration by Rose Tremain 1/4/15
2 The Good Girl by Mary Kubica 2/9/15
3. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee 2/10/15
4. A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison 2/14/15
5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2/21/15
6. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 2/28/15
7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 3/4/15
8. Story of O by Pauline Réage 4/8/15
9. The Secret by Julie Garwood 5/7/15
10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 6/15/15
11. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 6/20/15

Pat wrote: "Suggestions needed please-women authors surnames beginning I,J Q,S,V,XY,Z.Crime,horror or dark fantasy or literary fiction.
Thanks-getting a bit desperate but also interested in all your selections..."

For S
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin (fiction)

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (fiction), but you probably read it already.

Z
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mist of Avalon series.

Actually have a copy of "The Help"-on my Clearthe shelves list!
Thanks for the suggestions.....Another knitting nutnen-have read All I've Learned from Knitting-ordered the others...

UPDATE:


13/20* - 7 to go

Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Diana Gabaldon - Outlander
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Vickie Leigh Krudwig - Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People
Lois Lowry - The Giver
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
Esther Earl - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Emily St John-Mandel - Station Eleven
Jennifer Roberson - Sword-Dancer

Read The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

8/10

Just finished The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins to make my total 17.

The Story of Awkward by R.K. Ryals puts me at 12/30.

I've finished my target of 10 books!

10/10
1. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang
2. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
3. The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen
4. Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
5. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
6.Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
9. How to Be Both by Ali Smith
10. The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Won't be setting a new target but will continue to read new female authors and record them here.

Congratulations on reaching your goal, Louise! What did you think of Nimona? I have it on order from the library.

Update on message 464: 16/22

13) by Rachel Caine July 25

13/15

Cassandra wrote: "Congratulations on reaching your goal, Louise! What did you think of Nimona? I have it on order from the library."

I really liked it. Love the art style and enjoyed the story a lot.
It was originally a serialised webcomic and (like most collected volumes of monthly comics too actually) when the story's all put together and I'm reading it in one sitting, I do end up wishing a bit that I had been given a little more time to know the characters better. Overall though I really liked it. It was cute.