My 2015 #ReadWomen Reading List

In 2015, I read forty-two books. All of them were written by women.


You can learn more about #ReadWomen and why I do it here.

  1. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
  2. Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
  3. Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
  4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
  5. The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
  6. Get In Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
  7. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  8. People I Wanted to Be by Gina Ochesner
  9. Kushiel’s Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
  10. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World edited by Kathleen Ragan
  11. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
  12. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  13. The Wisdom of the Beguines by Laura Swan
  14. The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
  15. Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey
  16. Ripening Seed by Collette
  17. Around the world in 72 days by Nellie Bly
  18. Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman 
  19. Hild by Nicola Griffith
  20. The Woman Who Cut off her leg at the Maidstone Club and other stories by Julia Slavin
  21. bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
  22. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
  23. Kushiel’s Justice by Jacqueline Carey
  24. The Girl With Brown Fur: Tales & Stories by Stacey Levine 
  25. The First Collection of Criticism by A Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper 
  26. The True & Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters by Michelle Lovric
  27. Dwellings by Linda Hogan
  28. Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lei
  29. Vilette by Charlotte Brontë
  30. Mr. Fox by Helen Oyemi
  31. In Transit by Mavis Gallant 
  32. Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements eds. adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha
  33. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  34. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  35. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
  36. Joss and Gold by Shirley Geok-lin Lim 
  37. The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente
  38. boy, snow, bird by Helen Oyeyemi 
  39. The Bohemian Girl: Stories by Willa Cather
  40. In the country: Stories by Mia Alvar
  41. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  42. Spinster by Kate Bolick


A version of this post was posted on my previous blog, The Closet Feminist.

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