500 Great Books By Women discussion

So long overdue and odds are I won't be able to actually finish it but this is too terrific a challenge not to try! So here goes:

Progress:
25/25

B
1 - Published in the 1900s: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
2 - Sci-Fi: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
3 - Author Born in Latin America: De amor y de sombra
4 - Queer Theme and/or Author Tipping the Velvet
5 - Potential Classic Published After 1969: The Color Purple byAlice Walker

I
1 - Translated from Language Other Than English: As Pessoas Felizes by Agustina Bessa-Luís.
2 - Play: Desdemona by Toni Morrison.
3 - Disability as Theme and/or Disabled Author: Olive by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
4 - Published in the pre-1800s: The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox.
5 - Novella - Less than 200 Pages: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.

N
1 - Published in the 2000s: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride.
2 - Long Read - More than 600 Pages: Adam Bede by George Eliot
3 - Free Space: Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia by Paulina Chiziane.
4 - Less than 1,000 Ratings on Goodreads: Heavy Wings by Zhang Jie.
5 - Fantasy: Bestiary by K-Ming Chang.

G
1 - Published in the 1800s: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
2 - Nobel Laureate Author - Not Just For Lit: The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
3 - Author Born in Africa: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
4 - Less than 5,000 Ratings on Goodreads: Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
5 - Mystery/Thriller: Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe.

O
1 - Less than 10,000 Ratings on Goodreads: Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai.
2 - Author Born in Asia: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
3 - Poetry: Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
4 - Nonfiction: Fátima - Milagre ou construção? by Patrícia Carvalho.
5 - Short Story Collection: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro.

Welcome to the challenge, Nocturnalux. You've a number of good books planned, and I look forward to your thoughts on them.

Thanks, Aubrey. The ones with a link attached and the category in bold are those I have already read. In brackets are the titles I have picked to read, most of which I and already own.

Still have to sort out some categories but thus far it has been great fun and I'm just getting started.

Welcome, Nocturnalux! I read The Dispossessed recently and loved it. Enjoy your planning and reading.

Thanks, Kathleen. I also really enjoyed The Dispossessed. I need to read more Le Guin, hopefully I can slot more of her books into this challenge.

And I am almost done and settled on an Asian American title for the fantasy bracket, Bestiary.

And done! This is a fun, fun, wild ride. I got around to reading titles that had been languishing on my tr list for far too long as well as others I had either not even heard of or were only recently published.

Nocturnalux wrote: "And done! This is a fun, fun, wild ride. I got around to reading titles that had been languishing on my tr list for far too long as well as others I had either not even heard of or were only recent..."

Congrats! And yes, finally getting to some books and discovering ones you might not have encountered otherwise are some of the best things about reading challenges. Now that you're done, be sure to check out this group's 2021 plans when you get the chance if you haven't already ;)