I came across this interesting Women Unbound Reading Challenge, and interested to participate.
Since I wanted to do a female author short story collection reading challenge this year, I think maybe I can combine both challenges together.
Here is some details of the challenge:
Here is some details of the challenge:
The challenge runs from November 2009-November 2010, but you may join in the fun whenever you wish! Participants are encouraged to read nonfiction and fiction books related to the rather broad idea of ‘women’s studies.’ The definition according to Merriam-Webster
the multidisciplinary study of the social status and societal contributions of women and the relationship between power and gender.
Interested in participating? Great! There are three levels you can choose as a reader:
Philogynist: read at least two books, including at least one nonfiction one.
Bluestocking: read at least five books, including at least two nonfiction ones.
Suffragette: read at least eight books, including at least three nonfiction ones.
Here are some of books I'm considering:
Fiction
1. The complete stories by Flannery O'Connor
2. My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected work of Jane Bowles
3. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
4. The Real Thing by Dorris Lessing
5. The things around your neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
7. Woman Hollering Creek and other Stories, by Sandra Cisneros
8. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
9. The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak
10. And the World Changes, Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women, ed. by Muneeza Shamsie
11. Women of Sand and Myrrh, by Hanan al-Shaykh
12. Other Fire: Short Fiction by Latin American Women, ed. by Alberto Manguel
13. Any work by Virginia Woolf
14. The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
Non-Fiction
1. Things I've been silent about:Memories, by Azar Nafisi
2. The Silence Cry:One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan by Ana Tortajada
3. A Russian Diary by Anna Politikovsaya
4. Imagining Characters: Six conversations about women writers, by A.S.Byatt & Ignes Sodre
5. The Sum of Our Days, by Isabelle Allende
6. Aphrodite by Isabelle Allende
7. Louise Michel, ed. by Nic Maclellan, Rebel Lives series
8. Haydee Santamaria, ed. by Betsy Maclean, Rebel Lives series
9. Helen Keller, ed.byJohn Davis, Rebel Lives series
10. The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolfe
I have only ten months left to finish the challenge, better kickstart now!
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