My 2018 #ReadWomen Reading List

In 2018 I read forty-three books by women.
As you can see, I also went through a major Phryne Fisher phase and read most of the books in the series by Kerry Greenwood.

 As I write this post, it's 2020. I have been doing #ReadWomen since 2014! Read why here.

  1. Murder in the Dark: A Phryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood
  2. The Lightworker’s Way by Doreen Virtue
  3. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Duguyan
  4. Urn Burial: Phryne Fisher #8 by Kerry Greenwood
  5. The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
  6. Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood 
  7. The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford
  8. Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Dismembered Torso by Kali Nicole Gross
  9. Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood
  10. Away with the Fairies: Phryne Fisher #11 by Kerry Greenwood
  11. Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee 
  12. Queen of the Flowers: A Phryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood
  13. Signs from Above by Doreen Virtue and Charles Virtue 
  14. The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
  15. Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys into Shadow by Tanith Lee
  16. Walden (incl. Civil Disobedience) by Henry David Thoreau
  17. Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
  18. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey
  19. A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery 
  20. Cast a Cold Eye by Alan Ryan 
  21. Raisins and Almonds: Phryne Fisher #9 by Kerry Greenwood
  22. Lettres d’un Voyageur by George Sand
  23. Space Opera by Catherine M. Valente
  24. I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane
  25. House-bound by Winifred Peck 
  26. Dead Man’s Chest: Phyrne Fisher #18 by Kerry Greenwood
  27. Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey
  28. Greenery Street by Denis McKay
  29. Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery
  30. 21 days to improving communication with your angels by Doreen Virtue
  31. Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
  32. Angels on Toast by Dawn Powell
  33. Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood
  34. Sung in Shadow by Tanith Lee
  35. Snow Falling by Jane Gloriana Villanueva 
  36. The Path of a Christian Witch by Adeline St. Clair
  37. Mistress Pat by L.M. Montgomery 
  38. The Home-maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  39. Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
  40. Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente
  41. Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
  42. Our Tarot guidebook by sarah shipman
  43. Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaskaya
  44. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
  45. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  46. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  47. Starless by Jacqueline Carey
  48. Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis 


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

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