2020 #ReadWomen End-of-Summer Update
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Painting above: The Reader (c.1795-1800) by Marguerite Gérard |
While we're not technically at the end of Summer, I know September is the start of a new season for many folks. Looking back over the warmest months, here's what I have read since my last update.
- Roughing it in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
- What it means when a man falls from the sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Few eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson
- The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
- Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
- Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor
- The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier
- Little Reunions by Eileen Chang
- Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe
- Expiation by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Electra by Kerry Greenwood
- As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto edited by Joan Reardon
- Unsettling Canada by George Manuel
- Insight by Tasha Eurich
- Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
- Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson
- The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Consequences by E.M. Delafield
- Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
- Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
- Light is the new Black by Rebecca Campbell (re-read)
- Tarot for Troubled Times by Teresa Reed and Shaheen Miro
- The Far Cry by Emma Smith
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
- Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
- Cocaine Blues: Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries #1 by Kerry Greenwood
- Flying Too High: Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries #2 by Kerry Greenwood
- Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul’s Wisdom by Linda Yael Schiller
- Murder on the Ballarat Train: Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries #3 by Kerry Greenwood
- Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte
- The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
- Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell (re-read)
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
- Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi (re-read)
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
- The Great Work: Self-Knowledge and Healing through the Wheel of the Year by Tiffany Lazic
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Secret History of Dreaming by Robert Moss
- Presence: Bringing your Boldest Self to your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy
- What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (re-read)
- The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine by Dr. Barbara Tedlock
I have been doing #ReadWomen since 2014! Find out why here. Want to know what I've read in previous years? Links below!
2019 books
2018 books
2017 books
2016 books
2015 books
2014 books