My 2020 #ReadWomen Reading List - Halfway!

We are nearing the halfway mark on 2020, here are all the books I have read so far this year.
So far this year I have read twenty-five books total, twenty-three of them written by women. I have also read a lot of non-fiction, which is a bit unusual for me. 

 I have been doing #ReadWomen since 2014! Find out why here.


  1. Roughing it in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
  2. What it means when a man falls from the sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah
  3. Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson 
  4. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
  5. Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
  6. Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor
  7. The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier 
  8. Little Reunions by Eileen Chang
  9. Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe
  10. Expiation by Elizabeth von Arnim 
  11. Electra by Kerry Greenwood 
  12. As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto edited by Joan Reardon
  13. Unsettling Canada by George Manuel
  14. Insight by Tasha Eurich
  15. Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
  16. Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson 
  17. The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn
  18. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 
  19. Consequences by E.M. Delafield
  20. Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
  21. Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
  22. The Far Cry by Emma Smith 
  23. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
  24. Light is the new black by Rebecca Campbell
  25. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir

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