500 Great Books By Women discussion

Bingo


B
1 - Published in the pre-1800s - The Blazing World and Other Writings, Margaret Cavendish
2 - Fantasy - A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
3 - Less than 5,000 Ratings on Goodreads - Owls Do Cry, Janet Frame
4 - Disability as Theme and/or Disabled Author - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg
5 - Long Read - More than 600 Pages - The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

I
1 - Nobel Laureate Author (Bingo alternative, 100 Classics by Women) - North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
2 - Sci-Fi - Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
3 - Translated from Language Other Than English/Not Originally Written in English - The Braid, Laetitia Colombani
4 - Queer Theme and/or Author - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , Jeanette Winterson
5 - Less than 1,000 Ratings on Goodreads - Vagina: A Re-education, Lynn Enright

N
1 - Mystery/Thriller - Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay
2 - Published in the 1900s - A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
3 - Free Space - The Power, Naomi Alderman
4 - Potential Classic Published After 1970 (Bingo alternative, 1001 BBYD) - Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
5 - Nonfiction - The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World, Janice Kaplan

G
1 - Published in the 1800s - The Mill on the Floss, Mary Ann Evans
2 - Less than 10,000 Ratings on Goodreads - The Glorious Heresies, Lisa McInerney
3 - Author Born in Latin America - Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
4 - Play - Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
5 - Short Story Collection - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

O
1 - Poetry - Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
2 - Author Born in Africa - We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3 - Author Born in Asia - Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
4 - Novella - Less than 200 Pages - The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
5 - Published in the 2000s - The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak

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Read: 25/25

Welcome to the challenges, Kayleigh. I hope your choices go well for you.

I'm thinking of doing a 1960's decade challenge, any suggestions or recommendations would be welcome

Some of my current ideas are:

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks (1960)
Tell me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen (1961)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965)
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble (1965)
Wide Sargasso sea by Jean Rhys (1966)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967)
Picnic at hanging rock by Joan Lindsay (1967)
Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968)
Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

Kayleigh wrote: "I'm thinking of doing a 1960's decade challenge, any suggestions or recommendations would be welcome

Some of my current ideas are:

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks (1960)
Tell me a Riddle b..."

Looks like a great lineup, Kayleigh. I can personally attest to the quality of the works by Lessing, Haushofer, Rhys, and Angelou. Others I'd recommend include:

The Book of Lamentations by Rosario Castellanos (1962)
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt (1963, nonfic)
The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector (1964)
Journey into the Whirlwind - Evgenia Ginzburg (1967, nonfic)
The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf (1968)

Hope that helps!

I like your plans so far! If you need any backups, here are a few from the 60's that I've enjoyed:

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor (1960)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (1964)
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Thank you so much for the recommendations. I've just picked up The passion according to G.H, We have always lived in the castle and Ariel from the library.

Glad to hear it, Kayleigh. I look forward to your thoughts.

Only six more books to go for the BINGO challenge

My favourite reads up to now have been
Owls Do Cry
Station Eleven
A Room of One's Own
We Should All Be Feminists
The Glorious Heresies

To be honest I've enjoyed the majority of my reads for this challenge.

It's a shame I didn't get around to doing the decade challenge, I've decided to postpone it till next year now, but I'm still thinking of keeping it 60's.

Lots of good reads this year, Kayleigh! What did you think of Convenience Store Woman and Station Eleven? I’ve thought about adding both to my TBR.

literally just finished reading Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, completing this challenge by the skin of my teeth.

Nell, I would definitely recommend you put both books on your TBR pile.

Nell wrote: "Lots of good reads this year, Kayleigh! What did you think of Convenience Store Woman and Station Eleven? I’ve thought about adding both to my TBR."

I read both of those this year! I think they are worth reading.