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Ballet Shoes (other topics)A City Inside (other topics)
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (other topics)
Cuckoo Song (other topics)
In Memoriam (other topics)
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Miss Meredith
The Half Sisters
The Little Lame Prince (With Original illustrations by Josephine Wheeler Weage): Illustrated Children's Classic
2. Author is of African descent, living anywhere
Maud Martha
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Post-Traumatic
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
1000 Coils of Fear
Kibogo
On a Woman's Madness
3. Fairy Tales and/or Retellings
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales
Kibogo
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The Little Lame Prince (With Original illustrations by Josephine Wheeler Weage): Illustrated Children's Classic
The Doll's Alphabet
The Snow Spider
Cuckoo Song
4. Speculative Fiction
The Visitors
The Candy House
Sea of Tranquility
The Men
Scattered All Over the Earth
Owlish
Saha
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Cuckoo Song
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
A City Inside
5. In translation
Witches
Family Lexicon
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales
Mothers Don’t
A Woman
The Picture Bride: A Novel
Our Share of Night
Bad Handwriting
Still Born
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Panics
All the Lovers in the Night
Gentlemen Callers
The Pachinko Parlour
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
New and Selected Stories
Scattered All Over the Earth
Solo Dance
Concerning My Daughter
1000 Coils of Fear
Owlish
Diary of a Void
Dark Spring
Kibogo
Branded: A Diary
Idol, Burning
The Tortoises
Daughters Beyond Command
Saha
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
The Doll's Alphabet
Weasels in the Attic
The Thorn Puller
On a Woman's Madness
The Easy Life
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
Siblings
6. LGBTQ+ Theme and/or Author
Concerning My Daughter
A Scatter of Light
Solo Dance
Briefly, A Delicious Life
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Ruth & Pen
Acts of Service
Yerba Buena
A Lesson in Vengeance
After Sappho
1000 Coils of Fear
Pathetic Literature
Green Smoke
Miss Meredith
Branded: A Diary
The Half Sisters
Pointed Roofs, Backwater, Honeycomb
Pilgrimage, Volume 2: The Tunnel and Interim
Pilgrimage, Volume 3: Deadlock, Revolving Lights, The Trap
On a Woman's Madness
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
Winter in the Air, and Other Stories
In Memoriam
A City Inside
Ballet Shoes
7. Author over 50
Gentlemen Callers
Index Cards: Selected Essays
Self-Portrait
Burnt Diaries
My Life as a Godard Movie
Wayward
Dark Spring
Pathetic Literature
Daughters Beyond Command
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Miss Plum and Miss Penny
The Witches and the Grinnygog
Ghosts
The Thorn Puller
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
8. Published between 1900 – 1970
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940
Family Lexicon
Living Alone
From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907-1945
The Bloater
Latchkey Ladies
The Castle of Yew
The Years
The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938
Dark Spring
Branded: A Diary
Just William
Green Smoke
Miss Plum and Miss Penny
Pointed Roofs, Backwater, Honeycomb
Pilgrimage, Volume 2: The Tunnel and Interim
Pilgrimage, Volume 3: Deadlock, Revolving Lights, The Trap
Marianne Dreams
Ghosts
The Easy Life
Siblings
Winter in the Air, and Other Stories
Ballet Shoes
9. Nature and/or the Environment
Fifty Words for Snow
Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
The Children of the Anthropocene: Stories from the Young People at the Heart of the Climate Crisis
10. Author is of indigenous descent
Stolen: A Novel
11. Neurodivergence - author, main character or subject matter
TBD
12. Author is of Asian descent, living anywhere
Love Marriage
Somebody Loves You
All the Lovers in the Night
The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, Other Writings
Chinatown
A True Novel
Disorientation
Nori
Solo Dance
Concerning My Daughter
Sue & Tai-chan, Vol. 1
The Picture Bride: A Novel
Scattered All Over the Earth
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Owlish
Diary of a Void
Idol, Burning
The Fervor
Saha
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Weasels in the Attic
The Thorn Puller
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
13. MENA - Author born in or resides in/story takes place predominately in a MENA country
TBD
14. Feminism or feminist perspective
A Woman
Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe
Ill Feelings
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Enjoy me among my ruins
After Sappho
After Agatha: Women Write Crime
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940
Diary of a Void
Branded: A Diary
Daughters Beyond Command
The Fervor
The Half Sisters
Saha
The Doll's Alphabet
Doll
The Thorn Puller
On a Woman's Madness
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Ballet Shoes
15. Author born in or resides in a Nordic country (Scandinavia + Finland + Iceland + Greenland + the Faroe Islands + the Åland Islands)
The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories
Stolen: A Novel
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
16. Immigration/displacement (F or NF)
The Picture Bride: A Novel
Chinatown
A True Novel
Scattered All Over the Earth
When We Were Birds
The Woman Warrior / China Men
1000 Coils of Fear
The Tortoises
The Fervor
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
17. Author is a contributor to Margaret Busby Daughters of Africa collection
Maud Martha
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
On a Woman's Madness
18. Memoir or biography
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past
Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Self-Portrait
It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II
Dandelions
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Doll
19. Monsters of any kind - Stalin, those living under the bed, fantastic, historical …
Our Share of Night
The Tortoises
The Fervor
Green Smoke
The Doll's Alphabet
The Snow Spider
Cuckoo Song
20. Ancient World – the subject can be a (real) heroine of the ancient world, or the novel takes place in ancient times, or the author is a woman writing about ancient history, culture etc. (ideas: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Green Smoke
The Snow Spider