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Bingo

B
1 - Published in the pre-1800s
2 - Fantasy
3 - Less than 5,000 Ratings on Goodreads
4 - Disability as Theme and/or Disabled Author
5 - Long Read - More than 600 Pages

I
1 - Nobel Laureate Author - Not Just For Lit
2 - Sci-Fi
3 - Translated from Language Other Than English/Not Originally Written in English
4 - Queer Theme and/or Author
5 - Less than 1,000 Ratings on Goodreads

N
1 - Mystery/Thriller
2 - Published in the 1900s
3 - Free Space
4 - Potential Classic Published After 1970
5 - Nonfiction

G
1 - Published in the 1800s
2 - Less than 10,000 Ratings on Goodreads
3 - Author Born in Latin America
4 - Play
5 - Short Story Collection

O
1 - Poetry
2 - Author Born in Africa
3 - Author Born in Asia
4 - Novella - Less than 200 Pages
5 - Published in the 2000s

Bingo Alternates (can be substituted for/combined with any category (even the free space!))
1001 BBYD
1000 Guardian
100 Classics by Women
100 Classics by POC
100 Modern Library
Virago
NYRB Classics
New Directions
Dalkey

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Quest for Women
Century: Read ten works by women, each published in a continually successive decade.
Decade: Read ten works by women, each published in a continually successive year.

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Old and New
Commit to a list of twelve works by women + two alternates that can substitute for any of the original twelve at any moment if necessary.
Three works from the pre-1900s
Three works from the 1900s
Six works from the pre-2000s
Two alternates (work must fall in the same chronological category as the work it is substituting, so think strategically about which works are likely to not work out for you)

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Personal Challenges
Read books by women!

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Example Challenge Layouts

Quest for Women: Century
1800s - Zofloya - Charlotte Dacre
1810s - Kelroy - Rebecca Rush
1820s - The Last Man - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1830s - Valentine - Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
1840s - Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
1850s - Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1860s - East Lynne - Ellen Wood
1870s - Who Would Have Thought It? - María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
1880s - I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, Vol. 1 - Marie Bashkirtseff
1890s - Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward

Quest for Women: Decade
1929 - Daughter of Earth - Agnes Smedley
1930 - The Shutter of Snow - Emily Holmes Coleman
1931 - Living My Life (V. 1-2) - Emma Goldman
1932 - Year Before Last - Kay Boyle
1933 - High Rising - Angela Thirkell
1934 - Company Parade - Storm Jameson
1935 - The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
1936 - Maria Zef - Paola Drigo
1937 - The Years - Virginia Woolf
1938 - The Squire - Enid Bagnold

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Old & New

1899 and earlier
1. Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna - Enheduanna (2270 BCE)
2. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan - Lady Sarashina (1050)
3. The Alexiad - Anna Comnena (12th c.)
1900-1999
4. The Story of My Life - Helen Keller (1902)
5. Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector* (1943)
6. River Ki - Sawako Ariyoshi* (1959)
My Wild Card Six
7. Selected Poems - Gabriela Mistral (1941)
8. The Book of Lamentations - Rosario Castellanos (1962)
9. In the Depths - Moo-Sook Hahn (1965)
10. When Rain Clouds Gather - Bessie Head (1969)
11. Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim (1898)
12. A Woman - Sibilla Aleramo (1906)

Alternates
A-1. Gunnar's Daughter - Sigrid Undset (1909)
A-2. Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)