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I would really recommend Little Women!

Cassandra, I have 1 done. My school book was written by a woman. And just to double check since I haven't been on here in a while, they have to be women authors that you haven't read before, right?

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7/20

Chambers Kimberly-The Wronged- a romp-read in one go account of a horrible London crime family shaking itself to death......

I read Death Of A Gossip and updated msg 31.
4/9

I would love to join this challenge. Please put me down for 20 new authors. This should be a great way to get out of any reading ruts.

So far in 2015

New Goal 38/40

1. Susan Gloss - Vintage
2. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
3. Kate Morton - The Secret Keeper
4. Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon
5. Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank
6. Stephanie Bond - Body Movers
7. Donna Woolfolk Cross - Pope Joan
8. Julia Spencer-Fleming - In the Bleak Midwinter
9. Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
10. Laurie Halse Anderson - Fever 1793
11. Jacqueline Woodson - Brown Girl Dreaming
12. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
13. Charlaine Harris - Shakespeare's Landlord
14. Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs
15. Donna Carrick - The Noon God
16. Cristina Henriquez - The Book of Unknown Americans
17. Mary Daheim - Just Desserts
18. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey - A Woman Of Independent Means
19. Cheryl Strayed - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
20. Kaitlyn Dunnett - Kilt Dead
21. J.A. Jance - Desert Heat
22. Rainbow Rowell - Eleanor & Park
23. Miranda Beverly-Whittemore - Bittersweet
24. Amy Poehler - Yes Please
25. Jodi Picoult - The Storyteller
26. Lorna Barrett - Murder is Binding
27. Sandra Dallas - Tallgrass
28. Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies
29. Dana Stabenow - Fire And Ice
30. Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
31. Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
32. Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
33. Harriet Scott Chessman - Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
34. Leslie Budewitz - Death al Dente
35. Phoebe Damrosch - Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
36. Barbara O'Neal - The All You Can Dream Buffet
37. Linda Rodriguez - Every Last Secret: A Mystery
38. Robin Oliveira - My Name Is Mary Sutter

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March update

I'm 9/20 having completed

Elizabeth Chadwick The Summer Queen
Louise Doughty Apple Tree Yard

The Elizabeth Chadwick book was especially brilliant!

Full list at page 3 message 126

5th book done byTana French

Update: 13 of 15

1. Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Maggie-Now)
2. Dorothy Parker (Stories)
3. Ann Waldron (Eudora: A Writer's Life)
4. Carolyn J. Brown (A Daring Life: a Biography of Eudora Welty)
5. Marissa Meyer (Cinder: The Lunar Chronicles #1)
6. Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
7. Helen Oyeyemi (Boy, Snow, Bird)
8. Alice Hoffman (Green Heart: Green Angel & Green Witch)
9. Amy Poehler (Yes Please)
10. Marie Rutkoski (The Winner's Curse)
11. Judith Guest (Ordinary People)
12. Sue Grafton (A is for Alibi)
13. Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

FINISHED !! 13/13

Count me in for 13
I tend to read a lot of women anyway, but this will maybe get a few more new authors on my list.

I've adjusted my plan - read some not on my original list and didn't get to some that were.

� 1. [bookn Untamed State|22782119] An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Completed 26 August 2015

� 2. The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi Completed Thu 15 October 2015

� 3. Talon by Julie Kagawa Completed Sun 08 November 2015

� 4. Mozart's Wife by Juliet Waldron Completed Wed., 12 August 2015

� 5. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas completed 16 July 2015

� 6. The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan Complete 25 May, 2015

� 7. Ticker by Lisa Mantchev completed Thur 01 June 2105

� 8. Timebound by Rysa Walker Completed Fri 01 May 2015

� 9. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr Completed Thu 22 October 2015

� 10. Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Completed 28 March 2015

� 11. The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg Completed Sat, Feb 7, 2015

� 12. The Woodcutter by Kate Danley Completed 20 Feb 2015

� 13. House of Bathory by Linda Lafferty Completed 17 April 2015

Welcome to the challenge, Amy and Sheryl!

That's correct, Alison - women authors that are new-to-you.

I've finished my 6th book, Flowers in the Attic. Thanks!

Portes Andrea-Bury This-a collection of small-town murder cliches but so beautifully written and with a couple of extraordinary characters that I read it in one sitting.....

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16. E. Lockhart
17. Mary Kubica
18. Gabrielle Zevin

Please update 14/10

Jamie McGuire-Beautiful Disaster

I'm at 11/15. Will probably end up increasing this although a lot of the authors I've read for this will probably end up in my pile again this year.

3/10

11/18 Colleen Hoover, Maybe, Someday,

Stephanie Perkins, Anna and The French Kiss, the trilogy, I really liked the entire trilogy, very adorable!

13/18 Colleen Masters, Stepbrother Billionaire

Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different, super cute, fun, and light read!

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Updated message 21.

5/10 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach - 3 stars

This book was HILARIOUS. I rarely laugh out loud when reading, but there were definitely several times I couldn't help myself. It wasn't exactly the most scientifically sound thing I've read and I don't think it's meant to be taken that way either. Roach knows she's writing funny pop science. There were interesting random facts though that I wasn't aware of and many stories and descriptions that literally had me closing my legs because my genitals hurt. The lack of scientific creditability is what brought it down to just an average 3 stars for me.

I'm uping my challenge to 30 as I'm already on 13.

13/30
8. Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward
9. Murder Offstage: A Posie Parker Mystery by L.B. Hathaway
10.Rock the Viper by Sammie J.
11.Club Luxe 1: The Private Room by Olivia Noble
12. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
13. The Upheaval by Erica Stevens

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.

Completed- 7/30

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19. Jennifer Niven
19/30

Updated!

Hi, I've just finished my 7th book, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Thanks!

My goal for 2015 is 15, I have surprised myself by reaching 10 already :-)

1. Barbara Schmidt, The Practice
2. Linda Howard, Open Season
3. Chelsea Cain, One Kick
4. Wendy Ruderman, Busted
5. Aline Templeton, Night And Silence
6. Belinda Jones, The Travelling Tea Shop
7. Wendy Webb, The Fate of Mercy Alban
8. Anna and the King of Siam
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10. Folly

I updated message #6.

5. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (04/04/15 - )


Read: 5/20

updated message 297. My first Austen!

Written in Red by Anne Bishop.

Completed- 8/30

I'd like to read 25.

1. Grace: A Memoir
2. Burial Rites
3. Insurgent
4. The Night Circus
5. Yes Please
6. Cinder
7. Inkheart
8. The Goldfinch
9. The 100
10. Love Letters to the Dead: A Novel
11. Me Before You
12. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
13. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
14. The Girl on the Train
15. All the Bright Places

15/25

I've made it part of the challenge NOT TO but if a book covers a couple of bases I otherwise wouldn't bother with,why not?

Nurai, you are certianly allowed to count a book for multiple challenges, but some people choose to make it a little harder and count a book for only one challenge (like Pat mentioned). It's totally up to you!

Winter, how did you enjoy your first Austen work? I'm hoping to read either Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility (or both!) this year.

Welcome, Nurai! Several of those are on my list as well. I highly recommend The Night Circus - it's a great book with a truly beautiful world.

Thank you! I think I'll remove the titles that I also have for other challenges. It is a challenge, after all!
I'll edit the original post (message 453).

A friend of mine recommended The Night Circus, and it's already on my bedside table so hopefully I have a chance to read it soon!

I finished Insurgent, so 1 book down, 24 to go!

13/35

10. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
11. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
12. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
13. Canterbury tales by Susanna Davidson

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My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut - Hannah Hart
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
9 More authors to complete this challenge!
21/30

Anolik Lili-Dark Rooms-hard to like any of these teenaged priveleg screwups.Wild child is killed and sister finds out who.

Updated message 156.

8/20

Updated Msg. 138

10/10 finished!

10. Allie Brosh- Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Yea! I reached my goal of 10. I would like to now raise my goal to 15.

I can't count it because it's not a new to me author, but I've finish . I really liked it and "How to be a women." If you like funny, blunt writting you should look up Cailteen Moran.

I'm would like to join up. I make an effort to read mostly female authors so I am going to go for 22.

So far this year I have read:
#1. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
#2. Jane Eyre's Husband - The Life of Edward Rochester by Tara Bradley
#3. Hooked on Murder by Betty Hechtman
#4. UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn
#5. Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
#6. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
#7. The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us by Martha Stout
#8. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
#9. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
#10. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
#11. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
#12. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
#13. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
#14. Between Sisters, Svp! by Papatia Feauxzar
#15. The Marriage Bargain by Jennifer Probst
#16. The Haunting of a Duke by Chasity Bowlin

16/22

The Duff: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger.

Completed- 9/30

14/35
14. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Fantastic book!

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Updated message 17

10/15

10. Diane Ackerman - The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us 4/9/15

Updated message 156.

9/20

Please update read 15

I guess I underestimated how much I would read. Especially women authors. I just got into romance novels this year, so this explains a lot!

Lashell Collins - Pierced by Love

UPDATE:

Goal: 15 - Progress: 3 complete, 12 to go

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

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl