My 2017 #ReadWomen Reading List

In 2017 I read thirty-eight books by women. 
This year I also read a lot of poetry! You can learn more about why I #ReadWomen here.

  1. The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe
  2. Deathless by Catherine M. Valente (again)
  3. Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees
  4. It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright
  5. The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
  6. Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers who Changed History by Sam Maggs
  7. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
  8. Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford
  9. The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff 
  10. Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada
  11. Kushiel’s Justice (again) by Jacqueline Carey
  12. Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual For a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett
  13. Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist  by Emily Carr
  14. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
  15. A Lonely Lady by Willa Cather
  16. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  17. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
  18. The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi 
  19. How To Be A Heroine (Or, what I’ve learned from reading too much) by Samantha Ellis
  20. Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell
  21. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
  22. Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery
  23. Oneida: From Free-Love Utopia to a Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith
  24. Emily’s Quest by L.M. Montgomery
  25. The Professor by Charlotte Brontê
  26. The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery 1889-1900
  27. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  28. Light is the New Black by Rebecca Campbell
  29. Murder and Mendelssohn: A Phryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood
  30. Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages by Katie Roiphe
  31. My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
  32. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  33. Death by Water: Phryne Fisher #15 by Kerry Greenwood
  34. Dark Sparkler by Amber Tamblyn
  35. Memories by Lang Leav 
  36. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  37. Teaching my Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire
  38. #IndianLovePoems by Tenille K. Campbell

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

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