21st Century Literature by Women Reading Challenge
List taken from a Book Riot Article by Cassandra Neace
I am a bit ashamed to say that I've only read three of these books. So, I'm adding this as one of my perpetual reading challenges. The ones I have read are bolded...
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- Megan Abbott – The End of Everything (2011)
- Diana Abu-Jaber – Crescent (2003)
- Diana Abu-Jaber -- Origin (2007)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus (2003)
- Chimananda Ngozi Adichie -- Half a Yellow Sun (2006)
- Isabel Allende – Portrait in Sepia (2000)
- Isabel Allende -- Ines of My Soul (2006)
- Julia Alvarez – Before We Were Free (2002)
- Julia Alvarez -- Saving the World (2006)
- Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin (2000)
- Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake (2003)
- Margaret Atwood -- The Year of the Flood (2009)
- Anita Rau Badami – Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2006)
- Aimee Bender – An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000)
- Aimee Bender -- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010)
- Jane Borodale – The Book of Fires (2010)
- A.S. Byatt – The Children’s Book (2009)
- Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004)
- Edwidge Danticat – The Dew Breaker (2004)
- Lauren B. Davis – The Radiant City (2005)
- Lauren B. Davis -- Our Daily Bread (2011)
- Lydia Davis – The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Short Fiction – 2009)
- Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss (2006)
- Anita Diamant – Good Harbor (2001)
- Anita Diamant -- The Last Days of Dogtown (2005)
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – The Palace of Illusions (2008)
- Emma Donoghue – Life Mask (2004)
- Emma Donoghue -- Room (2010)
- Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad (2012)
- Louise Erdrich – The Plague of Doves (2008)
- Lyndsay Faye – The Gods of Gotham (2012)
- Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl (2012)
- Kay Gibbons – The Life All Around Me (2005)
- Xiaolu Guo – Village of Stone (2003)
- Xiaolu Guo -- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers (2007)
- Lauren Groff – The Monsters of Templeton (2008)
- Lauren Groff -- Arcadia (2012)
- Carol Guess – Gaslight (2001)
- Jennifer Haigh – Mrs. Kimble (2003)
- Jennifer Haigh -- Baker Towers (2005)
- Jennifer Haigh -- Faith (2011)
- Melinda Haynes – Willem’s Field (2004)
- Alice Hoffman – The Dovekeepers (2011)
- Helen Humphreys – Wild Dogs (2004)
- Siri Hustvedt – The Summer Without Men (2011)
- Joshilyn Jackson – Between, Georgia (2007)
- Joshilyn Jackson -- A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (2012)
- Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees (2003)
- Sue Monk Kidd -- The Mermaid Chair (2005)
- Haven Kimmel – The Solace of Leaving Early (2002)
- Barbara Kingsolver – Prodigal Summer (2000)
- Barbara Kingsolver -- The Lacuna (2009)
- Elizabeth Kostova – The Historian (2005)
- Nicole Krauss – The History of Love (2005)
- Nicole Krauss -- Great House (2010)
- Aryn Kyle – The God of Animals (2007)
- Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake (2003)
- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Unaccustomed Earth (Short Fiction – 2008)
- Ursula K. Leguin – Lavinia (2008)
- Anne-Marie MacDonald – The Way the Crow Flies (2003)
- Claire Messud – The Emperor’s Children (2006)
- Lydia Millet – My Happy Life (2002)
- Lydia Millet -- Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005)
- Lorrie Moore – A Gate at the Stairs (2009)
- Laura Moriarty – The Chaperone (2012)
- Toni Morrison – Love (2003)
- Toni Morrison -- A Mercy (2008)
- Toni Morrison -- Home (2012)
- Kate Morton – The House of Riverton (2006)
- Alice Munro – Runaway (2004)
- Alice Munro -- The View from Castle Rock (Short Fiction – 2006)
- Eileen Myles – Inferno: A Poet’s Novel (2010)
- Sena Jeter Naslund – Four Spirits (2004)
- Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
- Audrey Niffenegger -- Her Fearful Symmetry (2009)
- Joyce Carol Oates – I’ll Take You There (2002)
- Joyce Carol Oates -- The Falls (2004)
- Joyce Carol Oates -- A Fair Maiden (2010)
- Heather O’Neill – Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006)
- Julie Otsuka – When The Emperor was Divine (2002),
- Julie Otsuka -- The Buddha in the Attic (2011)
- Helen Oyeyemi – The Icarus Girl (2005)
- Helen Oyeyemi -- Mr. Fox (2011)
- Ann Pancake – Strange As This Weather Has Been (2007)
- Ann Patchett – Bel Canto (2001)
- Ann Patchett -- State of Wonder (2011)
- Marge Piercy – Colours Passing Through Us (Poetry – 2003)
- Francine Prose – Blue Angel (2000)
- Nina Revoyr – Wingshooters (2011)
- Marilynne Robinson – Gilead (2004)
- Marilynne Robinson -- Home (2008)
- Mary Doria Russell – A Thread of Grace (2005)
- Mary Doria Russell -- Dreamers of the Day (2008)
- Diane Setterfield – The Thirteenth Tale (2006)
- Elissa Schappell – Blueprints for Building Better Girls (Short Fiction – 2011)
- Sarah Schulman – The Child (2007)
- Sarah Schulman -- The Mere Future (2009)
- Mary Ann Shaffer – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008)
- Lionel Shriver – We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
- Marisa Silver – The God of War (2008)
- Jane Smiley – Private Life (2010)
- Ali Smith - Hotel World (2001)
- Ali Smith -- The Accidental (2005)
- Ali Smith -- There But For The (2011)
- Zadie Smith – White Teeth (2000)
- Zadie Smith -- On Beauty (2005)
- Zadie Smith -- NW (2012)
- Kathryn Stockett – The Help (2006)
- Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge (2008)
- Donna Tartt – The Little Friend (2002)
- Jannette Walls – The Glass Castle (Non-Fiction 2005)
- Karen Thompson Walker – The Age of Miracles (2012)
- Sarah Waters – Fingersmith (2002)
- Kathleen Winter – Annabel (2010)
- Alissa York – Effigy (2007)