WI 16-17 20.9 Reading Resolutions

[Kate S]

20.9 Reading Resolutions Kate S's TaskRead any book written by a female author included on both the Boxall's 1001 books to read before you die and the Guardian's 1000 books to read. Here is the list of authors on both.

Please post any questions, comments or reading recommendations in this thread.

[Bea]

Kate, for some reason, the spreadsheet will not scroll for me. Could you post the list of names here? If not, I guess I can work from the first 28 on the list.

[Karen Michele]

I'm awake, so I'm posting the list. It's a great group of women -- thanks, Kate!

A.S. Byatt
Agatha Christie
Alice Munro
Alice Walker
Anais Nin
Angela Carter
Ann Radcliffe
Aphra Behn
Arundhati Roy
Barbara Pym
Carol Shields
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Christina Stead
Colette
Cora Sandel
Daphne du Maurier
Djuna Barnes
Donna Tartt
Doris Lessing
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Richardson
E. Annie Proulx
Edith Wharton
Elfriede Jelinek
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Taylor
Emily Brontë
Esther Freud
Fanny Burney
Françoise Sagan
George Eliot
Harper Lee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Irene Nemirovsky
Iris Murdoch
Jane Austen
Jean Rhys
Jeanette Winterson
Joan Didion
Kate Chopin
Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Drabble
Margaret Mitchell
Marguerite Duras
Maria Edgeworth
Marilynne Robinson
Mary Shelley
May Sinclair
Muriel Spark
Nadine Gordimer
Nancy Mitford
Nella Larsen
Pat Barker
Patricia Highsmith
Radclyffe Hall
Rebecca West
Rose Tremain
Sarah Waters
Stella Gibbons
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Toni Morrison
Ursula K. Le Guin
Virginia Woolf
Willa Cather
Zadie Smith
Zora Neale Hurston

[Bea]

Thanks, Karen Michele. I appreciate the help.

[Kate S]

Thanks for posting this list, Karen! Glad you like it.

[Karin]

I am so very torn. I have one book already I want to use by someone on the list, but it was for something else. I know there are style points, thankfully.

I am very grateful that we can read any book by one of these women, and not just the ones on those lists. I've read most of the books I'll ever want to read on the 1001 list as it stood a couple of years ago, and am not sure if I want to do a reread.