#ReadWomen 2025 - Halfway mark!
We are over halfway through 2025 (already?!), here's where I stand with my annual #ReadWomen challenge
I have read 35 books so far this year (a mix of fiction and non-fiction), and I think 25 of these books were written by women. Full list of what I've read up until this point below!
- Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
- The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
- Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
- The Fetishist by Katherine Min
- My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (re-read)
- Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine
- They’re going to love you by Meg Howrey
- The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
- The Oracle of Cumae by Melissa Hardy
- Sweet Fury by Sash Bischoff
- The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor
- Midnight Room by Donyae Coles
- Run towards the danger: confrontations with a body of memory by Sarah Polley
- A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki
- Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
- Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World by Scott Shigeoka
- Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
- Dances by Nicole Cuffy
- Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
- yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics by bell hooks
- Babylonia by Costanza Casati
- A boy of good breeding by Miriam Toews
- The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
- Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir with Recipes from an American family by Kathleen Flinn
- Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
- Upon a Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar
- Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
- The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to change your life and achieve real happiness by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu
- Beerology: everything you need to know to enjoy beer…even more by Mirella Amato
- Wild Brews: the craft of home brewing from sour and fruit beers to farmhouse ales by Jaega Wise
- Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
- Endling by Maria Reva
- Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food edited by Jeff Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella
What is #ReadWomen and why is it important to me? Read more here.
At this point I have been doing #ReadWomen for over a decade! Here is everything I read in 2024/last year as an example