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Abe List of 100 Essential Female Authors

My goal is to read 75 of the 100 essential female authors. (updated 11/16/21) DONE

76/100
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√Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists
√Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal Love Chase
√Isabel Allende - The Japanese Lover
√Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
√Margaret Atwood The Journals of Susanna Moodie
√Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
√Judy Blume - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Cynthia Bond - Ruby
√Charlotte Brontë - Villette
√Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
√Geraldine Brooks - March
√NoViolet Bulawayo - We Need New Names
√Octavia Butler - Kindred
√A.S. Byatt - Possession
Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
√Willa Cather - One of Ours
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries
√Agatha Christie - Murder in Mesopotamia
√Edwidge Danticat - Claire of the Sea Light
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
√Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
√Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars
√Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek
√Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
√Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad
√George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
√Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
√Louise Erdrich - The Round House
√Elena Ferrante - The Story of a New Name
√Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop
Anna Funder All That I Am
Diana Gabaldon - Outlander
√Roxane Gay - Ayiti
√Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love
Julia Glass Three Junes
Nadine Gordimer - July's People
√Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies
√Lauren Groff - Matrix
√Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
√Georgette Heyer - Envious Casca
√Georgette Heyer - The Unfinished Clue
√Keri Hulme - The Bone People
√Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
√PD James - Cover Her Face
√Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
√Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees
√Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
√Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
√Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
√Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
√Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger
√Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Alice McDermott - Charming Billy
√Ami McKay - The Witches of New York
Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children
√Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea
√Toni Morrison - Beloved
√Alice Munro - The View from Castle Rock
√Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
√Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
√Joyce Carol Oates - Them
√Edna O'Brien - Girls in Their Married Bliss
√Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard To Find
√Helen Oyeyemi - The Icarus Girl
√Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being
√Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
√Sylvia Plath - Ariel
Elizabeth Poliner - Sudden Fog
√Annie Proulx - Barkskins
√Marilynne Robinson - Home
√J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
√Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Karen Russell - Vampires in the Lemon Grove
√Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
√Mary Shelley - Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries
Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres
√Ali Smith - Autumn
√Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Susan Sontag - Illness as Metaphor
√Emily St. John Mantel - Station Eleven
√Emma Straub - All Adults Here
√Emma Straub - This Time Tomorrow
√Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
√Gertrude Stein - Paris France
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Palmetto Leaves
√Amy Tan -The Joy Luck Club
√Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows
√Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
√Alice Walker - The Color Purple
√Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
√Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
√Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
√Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
√Meg Wolitzer - The Female Persuasion
√Virginia Woolf -A Room of One's Own
Evie Wyld - All the Birds, Singing (hide spoiler)]

Lifetime Reading List
Started July 2018
√ - read

Authors A - E

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DNFChimamanga Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus, 2003
√Chimamanga Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006
√Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune, 1998
√Margery Allingham - The White Cottage Mystery, 1927
√Rudolfo Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima, 1972
√Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum, 1995
√Margaret Atwood - The Journals of Susanna Moodie, 1970
√Jane Austen - The Watsons, 1805
√Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey, 1817
√Jane Austen - Mansfield Park, 1814

B
√James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son, 1955
√Honore de Balzac - Eugénie Grandet, 1833]
√Miklos Banffy - They Were Counted (Transylvania Trilogy #1), 1934
√Miklos Banffy - They Were Found Wanting (Transylvania Trilogy #2), 1937
√Miklos Banffy - They Were Divided, 1940
√Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending, 2011
Margaret Ayer Barnes - Years of Grace, 1930
√L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900
√Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half, 2020
√E.F. Benson - Queen Lucia, 1920
√Isabella Bird - Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes, 1875
√Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris, 1935
Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies, 1943
√John Boyne - The Heart's Invisible Furies, 2017
John Boyne - A Ladder to the Sky, 2018
√Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret, 1862
√Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth, 1933
√Charlotte Bronte - Shirley, 1849
√Charlotte Bronte - The Professor, 1857
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights, 1847 (re-read)
John Bude - The Lake District Murder, 1935
√Mikail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita, 1967
√Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess, 1905

C
√Campbell, R.T. - Bodies in a Bookshop, 1946
√J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country, 1980
√Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring, 1962
√Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel, 1940
√Willa Cather -Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927
√Willa Cather - One of Ours, 1922
√Willa Cather - The Song of the Lark, 1915
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries, 2012
√Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe #1). 1939
√G.K. Chesterton - The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911
√Sandra Cisneros - , The House on Mango Street, 1984
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace, 1999
√Wilkie Collins - Armadale, 1866
√Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio, 1883
√James Fennimore Cooper - The Pioneers, 1823
√Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop, 1946
√Leesa Cross-Smith - This Close to Okay, 2021

D
Edwidge Danticat - Krik? Krak!, 1995
√Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, 1913
√Charles Dickens - Bleak House, 1853
√Charles Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth, 1845
√Charles Dickens - David Copperfield, 1849
√Charles Dickens - A House to Let, 1858
Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit, 1855
Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
√Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840
√Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers, 1837
√Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
Monica Dickens - The Winds of Heaven, 1955
√Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa, 1937
√Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars, 2020
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot, 1869
√Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845
√Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek, 1941
√Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn, 1935
Maria Duenas - The Time in Between, 2009
√Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar, 1958
√Lawrence Durrell - Clea, 1960
√Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive, 1958

E
David Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 2000
√George Eliot - Adam Bede, 1859
√George Eliot - Middlemarch, 1871
√George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss, 1860
√George Eliot - Romola, 1862
√Anne Enright - The Gathering, 2006
√Louise Erdrich - The Round House, 2011
√Louise Erdrich - The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, 2001
Louise Erdrich - The Bingo Palace, 1994
Louise Erdrich - Tales of Burning Love, 1996
Louise Erdrich - Four Souls, 2004
√Louise Erdrich - The Painted Drum, 2005
√Louise Erdrich - The Sentence, 2021 (hide spoiler)]

Lifetime Reading List
Started July 2018
√ - read

Authors F - K

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√Elena Ferrante - The Story of a New Name, 2012
√Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, 2013
√Elena Ferrante - The Story of the Lost Child, 2014
√Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary, 1856
√Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl, 2012
√Theodor Fontane - On Tangled Paths, 1887
Ford Maddox Ford - Some Do Not..., 1924
√E.M. Forster - A Passage to India, 1924
√E.M. Forster - Maurice, 1971
John Fox Jr. - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, 1908
√Laurie Frankel - This Is How It Always Is, 2017
√Tana French - In the Woods, 2007

G
√John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga 1921
√John Galsworthy - On Forsyte 'Change, 1930
√Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford, 1853
√Elizabeth Gaskell - The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857
√Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton, 1848
√Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South, 1855
Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth, 1853
√Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters, 1863
√Anna Gavalda - Hunting and Gathering, 2004
√Elizabeth George - A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley #1), 1988
√Natalia Ginzburg - The Things We Used to Say, 1963
Ellen Glasgow - In This Our Life, 1941
Julia Glass - Three Junes, 2002
√Gluck, Louise - A Village Life. 2009
√Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov, 1859
√Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers of the House, 1964
√Anna Katharine Green - The House in the Mist, 1905
Graham Greene - The End of the Affair, 1951
√Andrew Sean Greer - Less, 2017
√Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent Kingdom, 2020

H
√Knut Hamsun - Hunger, 1890
√Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874
√Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872
√Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders, 1887
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure, 1895

I


J
√Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House, 1959
√Henry James - The Ambassadors, 1903
√Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady, 1881
Henry James - The Bostonians, 1884
Henry James - The Wings of the Dove, 1902
√Tove Jansson - The Summer Book, 1972
√Tove Jansson - A Winter Book, 2008
√Sebastien Japrisot - The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, 1966
√Pam Jenoff - The Lost Girls of Paris, 2019
√Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat, 1889
√Daisy Johnson - Everything Under, 2018
Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November, 1934
√Elizabeth Jolley - Miss Peabody's Inheritance, 1983
√Alka Joshi - The Henna Artist, 2020
√James Joyce - Dubliners, 1914

K
√M.M. Kaye - Death in Zanzibar, 1959
Sue Monk Kidd - The Book of Longings, 2020
√Jamaica Kincaid - Annie John, 1985
√Deszo Kosztolanyi - Skylark, 1924
√Nichole Kraus - The History of Love, 2005 (hide spoiler)]

Lifetime Reading List
√ - read

Authors L-R

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√Madame de Lafayette - The Princesse de Clèves, 1678
√Halldor Laxness - Independent People, 1934
√Rosamund Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz, 1932
√Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook, 1962
√Clarice Lispector - The Hour of the Star, 1977
√Valeria Luiselli - Lost Children Archive, 2019

M
√Naguib Mahfouz - Palace Walk, 1956
√Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, 1901
Olivia Manning - School for Love, 1951
√Sarah Ladipo Manyika - Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, 2016
√Alessandro Manzoni - The Betrothed, 1840
√Ngaio Marsh - Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn #7), 1938
W. Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, 1927
√W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon And Sixpence, 1919
√W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915
√W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge, 1943
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick or, the Whale, 1851
Caroline Miller - Lamb in His Bosom, 1933
√Patrick Modiano - Villa Triste, 1975
Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs, 2009
Alice Munro -Lives of Girls and Women, 1971
√Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman, 2016
√Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea, 1978
√Iris Murdoch - The Bell, 1958

N
√Trevor Noah - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, 2016

O
√Edna O'Brien - The Lonely Girl (Country Girls Trilogy #2), 1962
√Edna O'Brien - Girls in Their Married Bliss (Country Girls Trilogy #3), 1964
Kate O'Brien - The Land of Spices, 1941
Joyce Carol Oates - A Garden of Earthly Delights, 1968
Barack Obama - A Promised Land, 2020
√Michelle Obama - Becoming, 2018
√Yoko Ogama - The Housekeeper and the Professor, 2003
√Tommy Orange -There There, 2018
√Emmulska Orczy -The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905
√George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933

P
√Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red, 1997
√Orhan Pamuk - Snow, 2002
Ann Patchett - The Patron Saint of Liars, 1992
√Walker Percy - The Moviegoer, 1961
√Joseph Pla - The Gray Notebook, 1965
√Eleanor H. Porter -Pollyanna, 1905
√Richard Powers - The Overstory, 2018
√Terry Pratchett -Equal Rites, 1987
√Barbara Pym - An Academic Question, 1986
√Barbara Pym - Some Tame Gazelle, 1950

R
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929
Dorothy M. Richardson - Pilgrimage: Pointed Roofs, 1915
√Marilynne Robinson - Home (Gilead #2), 2008
√Marilynne Robinson - Lila, 2014
√Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, 1959
√Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things, 1997
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S-Z

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√Benjamin Alire Saenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, 2012
√Dorothy Sayers - The Nine Tailors, 1934
William Shakespeare - Richard III, 1593
√William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, 1601
√William Shakespeare - Othello, 1603
William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra, 1606
Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries, 1993
Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony, 1977
√May Sinclair - The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, 1922
Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres, 1991
√Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle, 1948
√Zadie Smith - White Teeth, 1999
√Zadie Smith - On Beauty, 2005
√John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962
√D.E. Stevenson - Music In The Hills (Dering Family #2), 1950
√Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886
√Mary Stewart -Madam, Will You Talk?, 1955
√Bram Stoker - Dracula, 1987

T
√Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons, 1918
√Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch, 2013
√Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, 1971
√William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair, 1847
√Henry David Thoreau - Walden, 1854
DNFColm Toibin - Nora Webster, 2014
Colm Toibin - The Master, 2004
√Amor Towles - Rules of Civility, 2011
√Anthony Trollope - The Warden (Chronicles of Baretshire #1), 1855
√Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Baretshire #2), 1857
√Anthony Trollope - Dr. Thorne (Chronicles of Baretshire #3), 1858
√Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Baretshire #4), 1860
√Anthony Trollope - The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Baretshire #4), 1864
√Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Baretshire #5), 1867
√Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons, 1862

U-V
√Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter 3: The Cross, 1922
√Elizabeth von Arnim - The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen, 1904
√Elizabeth von Arnim - In the Mountains, 1920
Elizabeth von Arnim - The Pastor's Wife, 1914

W
√Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing, 2017
√Patricia Wentworth - Grey Mask (Miss Silver #1), 1928
√Rebecca West - The Fountain Overflows, 1956
√Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth, 1905
√Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country, 1913
√Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence, 1920
√Edith Wharton - Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year's Day, 1924
√Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad, 2016
√Kate Douglas Wiggin - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 1903
√John Williams - Stoner, 1965
√Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985
√P.G. Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves, 1919
√Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

Y-Z
√E.H. Young - Miss Mole, 1930
√E.H. Young - Jenny Wren, 1932
√Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, 2014
√Emile Zola - The Fortune of the Rougons, 1870
√Emile Zola - Thérèse Raquin, 1867
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100 Black Novelists You Should Read (USA Today)
√ - have read

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√Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Tola Rotimi Abraham
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - Stay with Me
√Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -Americanah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Uwem Akpan - Say You're One of Them
Afia Atakora
√James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son
Natalie Baszile - Queen Sugar
√Paul Beatty - The Sellout
√Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half
Connie Briscoe - Big Girls Don't Cry
Kalisha Buckhanon
Gabriel Bump
√Octavia E. Butler - Kindred
Bebe Moore Campbell
Maisy Card - These Ghosts Are Family
Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie
David Chariandy
Charles W. Chesnutt
Pearl Cleage
√Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me
Alyssa Cole - When No One is Watching
J. California Cooper
√Edwidge Danticat - Breath, Eyes, Memory
Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice
Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn -Patsy
Eric Jerome Dickey
Nicky Drayden
Ralph Ellison
Akwaeke Emezi - Freshwater
√Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
Percival Everett
Angela Flournoy - The Turner House
√Aminatta Forna - Happiness
Ernest J. Gaines - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
√Roxane Gay - Ayiti
Anissa Gray - The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Jasmine Guillory
√Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
Alex Haley
James Hannaham
E. Lynn Harris
Talia Hibbert - Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Langston Hughes - The Collected Poems
√Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Uzodinma Iweala
Marlon James
N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season
Beverly Jenkins
Mat Johnson
√Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
√Jamaica Kincaid - Annie John
√Nella Larsen - Passing
Raven Leilani
Tracey Livesay
Attica Locke
Imbolo Mbue - Behold the Dreamers
James McBride - Deacon King Kong
Bernice L. McFadden - Sugar
Jeni McFarland
Terry McMillan - How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Francesca Momplaisir
√Toni Morrison - Beloved
Bethany C. Morrow
√Walter Mosley - Devil in a Blue Dress
Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place
Chigozie Obioma - An Orchestra of Minorities
Tochi Onyebuchi
√Helen Oyeyemi - The Icarus Girl
Ann Petry
Regina Porter
Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
Kimberla Lawson Roby - Casting the First Stone
Farrah Rochon - A Perfect Holiday Fling
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Sapphire
Rion Amilcar Scott
Iceberg Slim
√Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Rivers Solomon
Mia Sosa
Sister Souljah
Brandon Taylor
Elisabeth Thomas - Catherine House
Jean Toomer - Cane
A.J. Verdelle
Kawai Strong Washburn
√Alice Walker - The Color Purple
√√Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing Salvage the Bones
Bryan Washington - Memorial
Catherine Adel West
√Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
Rita Woods
√Jacqueline Woodson - Brown Girl Dreaming
Richard Wright
Steven Wright
Zane (hide spoiler)]

Read Your Age - Started August 2016, finished August 2021 DONE

1955-1989
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1955 - Madam, Will You Talk? - Mary Stewart
1956 - Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
1957 - The Fur Person - May Sarton
1958 - The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
1959 - Thrush Green - Miss Read
1960 - The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
1961 - The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie
1962 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
1963 - The Things We Used to Say - Natalia Ginzburg
1964 - A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie
1965 - Airs Above the Ground - Mary Stewart
1966 - Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
1967 - Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
1968 - Under the Glacier - Halldor Laxness
1969 - Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie
1970 - The Journals of Susanna Moodie - Margaret Atwood
1971 - Selected Poems - Marina Tsvetaeva
1972 - Tied Up In Tinsel - Ngaio Marsh
1973 - Borrower of the Night - Elizabeth Peters
1974 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre
1975 - Villa Triste - Patrick Modiano
1976 - Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
1977 - The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
1978 - The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
1979 - Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
1980 - A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
1981 - The Curse of the Pharaohs - Elizabeth Peters
1982 - Light Thickens - Ngaio Marsh
1983 - The Witches - Roald Dahl
1984 - The Bone People - Keri Hulme
1985 - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
1986 - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 - Frank Miller
1987 - Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
1988 - Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
1989 - Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George
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Read Your Age DONE

1990-2021
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1990 - Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
1991 - A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George
1992 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
1993 - The Vicious Vet - M.C. Beaton
1994 - Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
1995 - Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
1996 - Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
1997 - The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
1998 - The Archivist - Martha Cooley
1999 - A Dish Taken Cold - Anne Perry
2000 - White Teeth - Zadie Smith
2001 - Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
2002 - The Beach House - Mary Alice Monroe
2003 - The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
2004 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
2005 - The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
2006 - From the Land of the Moon - Milena Agus
2007 - The Cruelest Month - Louise Penny
2008 - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny
2009 - Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones - Phil Foglio
2010 - The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72 - Molly Peacock
2011 - Farewell, Miss Zukas - Jo Dereske
2012 - The Shoemaker's Wife - Adriana Trigiani
2013 - Longbourn - Jo Baker
2014 - Kamikaze Kangaroos!: A trip around Oz in a van called Rusty - Tony James Slater
2015 - The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - Bill Bryson
2016 - America's First Daughter - Stephanie Dray
2017 - A Piece of the World - Christina Baker Kline
2018 - Everything Here Is Beautiful - MIra T. Lee
2019 - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
2020 - In a Field of Blue - Gemma Liviero
2021 - Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage - Anne Lamott
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Goals for 2022

Read 20 books from my Lifetime List.
Read 7 authors from the ABE list.
Read 5 authors from the 100 Black Authors list.

How I did on my goals for 2022

Read 20 books from my Lifetime List
Austen, The Watsons
Campbell, R.T., Bodies in a Bookshop
Collins, Armadale
de Lafayette, Madame, The Princesse de Clèves
Dickens, Oliver Twist
Du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
Erdrich, The Painted Drum
Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
Joshi, The Henna Artist
Joyce, Dubliners
Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Manzoni, The Betrothed
Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
Shakespeare, Othello
Stevenson, Music In The Hills
Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Trollope, The Small House at Allington
Zola, Thérèse Raquin

Read 7 authors from the ABE list
We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo
Matrix - Lauren Groff
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub
The Unfinished Clue- Georgette Heyer

Read 5 authors from the 100 Black Authors list
I only read three:
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo

I'm going to include either books set in that country, or books written by an author from that country. Started August 2021.

✔ = Done

Countries

AFRICA
Algeria
A Bookshop In Algiers - Kaouther Adimi
Angola
Benin
Botswana
✔The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #14) - Alexander McCall Smith 9/13/21
Burkina Faso
American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
✔A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell 8/7/24
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Passage of Tears - Abdourahman A. Waberi
Equatorial Guinea
Palm Trees in the Snow - Luz Gabas
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
✔Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese book
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Last Seen in Lapaz(Emma Djan Investigations #3) - Kwei Quartey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
The House at Sugar Beach - Helene Cooper
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Tropic of Violence: A Novel - Nathacha Appanah
Mayotte
Morocco
✔Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie
The Storyteller of Casablanca - Fiona Valpy
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
✔Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9/29/21
Reunion
Rwanda
All Your Children, Scattered - Beata Umubyeyi Appanah
When Hoopoes Go to Heaven - Gaile Parkin
Saint Helena
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
✔So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba 9/8/22
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
✔The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner 4/3/25
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Obligations to the Wounded: Stories - Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Zimbabwe
✔We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo 6/30/22

ANTARCTICA
✔How the Penguins Saved Veronica - Hazel Prior 2/15/23

ASIA
Abkhazia (partially recognized state)
Afghanistan
Sparks Like Stars - Nadia Hashami KU ebook
Armenia
✔Three Apples Fell from the Sky - Narine Abgaryan
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Burundi Darussalam
Cambodia
China
✔Anecdotes of Destiny - Isak Dinesen (The Immortal Story) 10/23/21
Cyprus
Georgia
Hong Kong
✔The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham 5/5/22
India
✔Black Narcissus - Rumer Godden 8/5/23
Indonesia
✔The Paradise Guest House - Ellen Sussman 3/6/24
The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Dermout
Japan
✔Inspector Imanishi Investigates - Seicho Matsumoto 11/18/21
Kyrgyzstan
Jamilia - Chingiz Aitmatov
Laos
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun #2) - Colin Cotterill
Malaysia
Old Filth - Jane Gardam ebook
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
South Korea
✔The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See 4/18/22
Sri Lanka
Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan
Taiwan
Tajikistan
The Lioness - Chris Bohjalian
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
✔The Lover - Marguerite Duras 4/9/25
Elevator in Saigon - Thuận

EUROPE
Albania
✔The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman 2/27/23
Andorra
The Road to Andorra - Shirley Deane (1960)
Austria
✔The Third Man - Graham Greene 8/11/21
Belarus
✔The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft
Belgium 1/15/25
✔Austerlitz - W.G. Sebold
Bosnia and Herzegovina
✔Kate & Frida - Kim Fay 3/24/25 part set in Sarajevo
The Cellist of Sarajevo- Steven Galloway
Bulgaria
✔The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
A Ballad for Georg Henig - Viktor Paskov
Channel Islands
Croatia
Love Novel - Ivana Sajko
Czechia (Czech Republic)
✔The Lifted Veil - George Eliot 2/23/22
Denmark
✔Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M.R. James 9/19/21
Greenland - territory of Denmark
✔Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy 7/30/21
England
✔Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope 2/1/22
Estonia
Finland
✔The Year of the Hare - Arto 6/25/23
France
✔Indiana - George Sand 4/14/22
Germany
✔Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann 6/14/22
Greece
✔Medea - Euripides 5/2/22
Hungary
✔Embers - Sandor Marai 3/11/23
Iceland
✔Gunnar's Daughter - Sigrid Undset 9/11/22
Ireland
✔Dubliners - James Joyce 6/21/22
✔The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright 2/2/24
Italy
✔The Betrothed - Allesandro Manzoni 5/2/22
✔The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James 1/28/24
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Ludmila: A Story Of Liechtenstein - Paul Gallico
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Kinderland - Liliana Corobca
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
✔Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
✔Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngston
North Macedonia
Norway
✔The Bridal Wreath (Kristen Lavransdatter #1) - Sigrid Undset 8/26/21
Poland
✔Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk 7/27/22
✔Salt to the Sea - Ruth Sepetys 4/7/24
Portugal
✔The Maias - Jose Maria Eca de Queiros 12/10/21
Romania
✔The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1) - Olivia Manning 10/8/23
Russia
✔Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov 8/20/21
San Marino
Scotland
✔Sunset Song (Scots Quair #1) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon 2/12/22
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
✔Our Last Days in Barcelona - Chanel Cleeton 8/11/22
Sweden
✔The Man Who Went Up in Smoke - Maj Sjwall 7/22/22
Switzerland
✔A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman 9/15/24
Ukraine
✔"St. Olga," GLOBETROTTING: Writers Walk the World - Duncan Minshull 3/6/25
The Lost Year - Katherine Marsh (Middle Grade)
83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary - Don Brown (YA Graphic novel)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
Vatican City
Wales
The Murder of My Aunt - Richard Hull 4/2/24

MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain
The Peacock and the Sparrow - I.S. Berry
Egypt
✔Death Comes As the End - Agatha Christie 2/2/22
Iran
✔The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali 2/23/25
Iraq
✔The Woman on the Orient Express - Lindsay Jayne Ashford 9/11/22
Israel
✔The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman 7/17/22
Jordan
Kuwait
Mama Hissa's Mice - Saud Alsanousi
Lebanon
The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
Oman
Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi
Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip)
Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
✔The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar 9/9/22
Turkey
✔The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman 3/31/23
✔My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk 3/24/24
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

NORTH AMERICA
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
✔A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid 88p 12/21/24
Aruba
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
✔The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way- Diana Marcus 2/27/22
British Virgin Islands
Canada
✔Glass Houses - Louise Penny 11/2/23
Cayman Islands
Costa Rica
✔Memories from Limón - Edo Brenes 5/24/22
Cuba
✔When We Left Cuba - Chanel Cleeton 7/26/21
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
✔Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo 5/25/22
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
The Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston
Jamaica
Mexico
✔Aura - Carlos Fuentes 3/6/23
Martinique
Montserrat
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and Grenadines
Sint Maarten
Trinidad and Tobago
✔A House for Mr Biswas - V.S. Naipaul 1/13/23
✔Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge 2023
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States
United States Virgin Islands

Canadian Provinces:
✔Ontario - Tempest-Tost (Salterton Trilogy #1) - Robertson Davies 12/8/21
✔Quebec - The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11) - Louise Penny 8/8/22
Nova Scotia - Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
New Brunswick - The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor - Sally Armstrong
Manitoba - The Tricking of Freya - Christina Sunley
British Columbia -Swamp Angel - Ethel Wilson book
✔Prince Edward Island - Anne's House of Dreams - L.M. Montgomery 3/6/22
✔Saskatchewan - As for Me and My House - Sinclair Ross 8/3/23
✔Alberta -Birdie - Tracey Lindberg 3/15/24
✔Newfoundland and Labrador -The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim DeFede
1/1/24

Territories:
✔Yukon - The Call of the Wild - Jack London 6/24/23
Northwest - Late Nights on Air- Elizabeth Hay
✔Nunavut - Split Tooth - Tanya Taqaq 11/23/24

SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina
✔The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato 2/9/24
✔Heartbreak Tango - Manuel Puig 2/29/24
✔Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1/10/24
Bolivia
✔The Puma Years - Laura Coleman 2/13/23
Brazil
✔The Air You Breathe - Frances de Pontes Peebles 6/6/23
Chile
✔Violeta - Isabel Allende 3/15/22
Colombia
Tidal Waters - Velia Vidal
Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Ecuador
The Spanish Daughter - Lorena Hughes
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Cordova
The Queen of Water - Laura Resau
Guyana
The Secret Life of Winnie Cox - Sharon Mass 1910 British Guiana
Paraguay
Peru
Undiscovered - Gabriela Wiener
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time - Mark Adams
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
Suriname
Uruguay
✔Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis 9/25/24
Venezuela
✔The Caiman - Maria Eugenia Manrique 6/25/23
✔Green Mansions - William Henry Hudson 11/5/23

OCEANIA
Australia
✔The Botanist's Daughter - Kayte Nunn 5/13/22
Cook Islands
Fiji
A Disappearance in Fiji (Akal Singh #1) - Nilima Rao
Micronesia
* Kiribati (part of Micronesia)
Food of Ghosts (The Scottish Lady
Detective Mysteries #1) - Marianne Wheelagan
*Palau and Federated States of Micronesia
*Marshall Islands
*Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, US
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
✔Fires of Change (Fire Blossom Saga #2) - Sarah Lark 3/28/22
✔The Bookseller at the End of the World - Ruth Shaw 1/24/25
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
✔Somerset Maugham's Rain: A Philosophical Journey - W. Somerset Maugham 3/15/22
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

United States Finished 10/23/23

✔Alabama - Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe - Heather Webber 11/8/22
✔Alaska - Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Velma
Wallis 9/12/22
✔Arizona - These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - Nancy E.
Turner 7/24/22
✔Arkansas - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 10/16/23
✔California - Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace - Anne Lamott 2/13/22
✔Colorado - Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf 7/30/22
✔Connecticut - A Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill 9/17/22
✔Delaware - As Close as Sisters - Colleen Faulkner 9/18/22
✔Florida - An Appetite for Murder (Key West Food Critic #1) - Lucy Burdette 2/24/22
✔Georgia - Lost Lake - Sarah Addison Allen 3/4/22
✔Hawaii - Six Months in the Sandwich Islands - Isabella Lucy Bird 7/27/23
✔Idaho - Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner 1/24/22
✔Illinois - The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai 10/25/22
✔Indiana - The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington 5/1/22
✔Iowa - Son of the Middle Border - Hamlin Garland 10/23/23
✔Kansas - Doc - Mary Doria Russell 11/3/22
✔Kentucky - The Giver of Stars - JoJo Moyes 1/28/22
✔Louisiana - Deconstructed - Liz Talley 6/28/22
✔Maine - Haven Point - Virginia Hume 8/7/22
✔Maryland - Mary Jane - Jessica Anya Blau 1/7/23
✔Massachusetts - Upstream: Selected Essays - Mary Oliver 4/5/22
✔Michigan - The Firekeeper’s Daughter - Angeline Boulley 3/3/22
✔Minnesota - Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal 1/30/22
✔Mississippi - Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward 10/8/22
✔Missouri - Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell 8/7/23
✔Montana - Montana 1948 - Larry Watson 12/7/22
✔Nebraska - The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles 8/25/22
✔Nevada - Northline - Willy Vlautin 10/22/23
✔New Hampshire - The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich 5/1/22
✔New Jersey - Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn, Jonathan Levithan 5/28/22
✔New Mexico - Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya 3/13/23
✔New York - The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict 1/20/22
✔North Carolina - Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens 11/17/21
✔North Dakota - The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich 8/12/21
✔Ohio - The Trees - Conrad Richter 5/25/23
✔Oklahoma - Poet Warrior - Joy Harjo 4/9/22
✔Oregon - Death Bee Comes Her (Oregon Honeycomb Mystery #1) - Nancy Coco 10/30/22
✔Pennsylvania - The House in the Mist - Anna Katharine Green 9/9/21
✔Rhode Island - A Hundred Summers - Beatriz Williams
✔South Carolina - Haunted Hibiscus (Tea Shop Mystery #22) - Laura Childs 10/14/21
✔South Dakota - The Speed of Light - Elissa Grossell Dickey 9/26/22
✔Tennessee - Stillhouse Lake - Rachel Caine 8/13/22
✔Texas - Broken (in the best possible way) - Jenny Lawson 4/7/22
✔Utah - The Fire and the Ore - Olivia Hawker 2/19/23
✔Vermont - A Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill 9/17/22
✔Virginia - Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson - S.C.
Gwynne 3/26/22
✔Washington - Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love - Kim Fay 5/3/22
✔Washington D.C. - Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott 11/1/21
✔West Virginia - The Truth According to Us - Annie Barrows 9/23/22
✔Wisconsin - Quilters of the Door - Ann Hazelwood 1/4/22
✔Wyoming - Days Without End - Sebastian Barry 8/24/22
✔Washington, D.C. - State of Terror - Clinton and Penny 3/5/23

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