Reading Women Award Winners

Established in 2016, the Reading Women Award recognizes outstanding books written by or about women. Awarded annually, the prize is given to one ficti ...more

Winners

	Educated by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 340,368 ratings Reading Women Award for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 2,677 ratings Reading Women Award for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 56,167 ratings Reading Women Award for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 4.26 avg rating — 122,060 ratings Reading Women Award for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shelter by Jung Yun (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 6,606 ratings Reading Women Award for Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister 4.06 avg rating — 10,890 ratings Reading Women Award for Nonfiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 9,846 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 15,022 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter 3.53 avg rating — 778 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 3,220 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 11,143 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 25,679 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 1,198 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 2,193 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 7,332 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 683 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui 4.37 avg rating — 13,804 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini 4.05 avg rating — 3,514 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 11,709 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 724 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 3,685 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 800 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 78,760 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 26,531 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 9,488 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strays by Emily Bitto 3.82 avg rating — 4,422 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 40,359 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein 4.06 avg rating — 6,225 ratings Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars