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message 1: by Avory (last edited Apr 21, 2009 09:33AM) (new)

Avory Faucette (avoryfaucette) I do a lot of challenges, and I'm trying to keep track of them here on GR on my "writing" section, but I want to challenge myself to read some different genres and especially some more "minority" authors. So I'll try to fit my reading for other challenge into this one.

The Challenge

Read 10 LGBT novels

Hollinghurst, The Spell
Cohn & Levithan, Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List
Waters, Tipping the Velvet
Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Read 10 novels by people of color

Read 10 novels by women

Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society
Frank, Sullivan's Island
Block, Echo
Block, Dangerous Angels
Roche, Wetlands
Waters, Tipping the Velvet
Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Read 10 novels by authors outside of the "Western World"

Read 10 YA novels

Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Block, Dangerous Angels
Block, Echo
Brashares, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Brashares, Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Cohn & Levithan, Naomi & Ely's No-Kiss List
Brennan, Faerie Wars
Tolkien, The Hobbit

Read 10 fantasy novels

Brennan, Fairie Wars
Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tolkien, The Hobbit

Read 10 classics

Read 10 popular contemporary fiction novels

McEwan, Amsterdam
Roche, Wetlands

Read 10 memoirs or essay collections

Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Burroughs, Running with Scissors
Savage, The Commitment

Read 10 feminist books

Muscio, Cunt
Friedman & Valenti, Yes Means Yes!
Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism
Fedt, The War on Choice
Wing, Critical Race Feminism: A Reader


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