See earlier two posts for context…
11. A book about someone with a chronic illness
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman
12. A true crime book
American Fire by Monica Hesse
Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Death Row: The Final Minutes by Michelle Lyons
13. A book by an African American woman about civil rights
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan Cullors
14. A classic novel written by a woman (bonus points if not Austen or Bronte)
The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlof
15. A poetry collection
The Agonist by Shastra Deo
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
Women of Resistance edited by Danielle Barnhart
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
16. A book where the characters are traveling somewhere
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Binti by Nnedi Okarafor
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos (translated by Hildegarde Serle)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Severance by Ling Ma
The Air You Breathe by Frances De Pontes Peebles
17. A book with a food item in the title
The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks
Farewell, My Orange by Iwaki Kei (translated by Meredith McKinney)
Jello-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
Meaty by Samantha Irby
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
18. A book written by a female Nobel Prize winner
The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlof
19. A book from the Reading Women Award 2017 shortlists
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
20. A memoir by someone who lives in a country different from yours
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes
Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
21. A book inspired by a fairytale
The End of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell
22. A book by a local author or recommended by your local bookstore
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Speak of the Devil by Britney King
Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
23. The book that has been on your TBR the longest
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
24. A book in a genre you have never read
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
