My 2014 #ReadWomen Reading List

2014 was my first year of #ReadWomen. 


 That year I read eighteen books by women, here they are listed alphabetically by the author's last name.

 You can read more about my commitment to #ReadWomen here.
  1. Naamah’s Blessing by Jacqueline Carey
  2. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
  3. Kushiel’s Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
  4. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  5. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  6. The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  7. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil
  8. Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
  9. The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
  10. Tampa by Alissa Nutting
  11. The Bride’s House by Dawn Powell
  12. Come Back to Sorrento by Dawn Powell
  13. My Home Is Far Away by Dawn Powell
  14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
  15. Women in Clothes by Leanne Shapton, Heidi Julavits, and Sheila Heti
  16. The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente
  17. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
  18. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A version of this post was posted on my previous blog, The Closet Feminist.

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