500 Great Books By Women discussion

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Does anyone know if there are any legally free eBook download sites that aren't Project Gutenberg out there?

feedbooks?

Apologies for the lateness of my response, Algernon, and thanks for the tip. I'm going to stick a link to this in the directory page itself so people can check it out themselves until I get around to processing it.

OpenLibrary has some: https://openlibrary.org/. The library is a work in progress. Please consider adding content!

I've been trying to find older works by women of color, so I've been looking back and forth between the directory by date and the directory for women of color, but I keep tripping over my own feet. Anybody aware of a resource for finding women authors of color that is organized by date of publication? Thanks for any suggestions!

I have no suggestions but I hearby upvote your question

Alexa, I'm fairly certain my review for 'Daughters of Africa' lists authors in chronololgical order. Otherwise, that'll be my next directory project, leastwise for the authors the group's included so far. I'm thinking of adding birth/death dates to the current WoC directory, rather than creating an entirely new one in a different order. As for resources outside the group and various texts that usually eaech concern themselves with a single ethnicity, I haven't come across any. It'd be a worthy undertaking.

Thanks for the thoughts! The back-and-forthing can be fun, although time consuming!

(Oh, and I meant to mention earlier Aubrey, the first link under the timeline directory isn't working.)

Thanks for all your work! These are such magnificent resources!

It is definitely chronological but as I recall, Daughters of Africa is in order of author birth date as far as can be determined, rather than date of publication, although the effect is similar!

Alexa wrote: "Thanks for the thoughts! The back-and-forthing can be fun, although time consuming!

(Oh, and I meant to mention earlier Aubrey, the first link under the timeline directory isn't working.)

Thanks ..."

My pleasure, Alexa. Thank you for letting me know about the improper html layout.

Wow, you've been busy! Thanks!

Alexa wrote: "Wow, you've been busy! Thanks!"

Ha ha, yes I have. Apologies for not letting you know. Working on html layouts and notifying people about recent changes require vastly different sections of my brain.

With regards to The House on Mango Street, though, I'd advise you keep a further eye out for incorrect publication dates, as I got that date from the directory.

I have a shelf of Aboriginal (Indigenous Australian) women authors. So far my collection is regretfully small but it would be fantastic to add them to the list.

Please let me know if I can post them here...or somewhere