Marc's 2022 Challenge(s)

[Marc]

In 2021, really my main goal was simply to read more women authors (bonus points if I buy books new from either small presses or independent bookstores run by women). I read ~47 books by women last year, which was more than half of my reading (a first for me, I think).

I don't have any 2022 specific goals beyond continuing to read lots of great fiction by women, but thought it would be fun to share those books here. I hope to list them by publication date as they're read along w/ my "star" rating.

1973: The Black Prince (Murdoch) ****
1987: The Door (Szabó) *****
2002: In the Time of the Blue Ball (Draeger) **** (actually, I don't think this counts as I believe Draeger is a pen name for a male author, but need to double check that)
2006: Native Guard (Trethewey) ***
2010: Parenthesis (Durand) *****
2010: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Jemisin) ***
2012: Our Lady of the Nile (Mukasonga) ****
2014: McGlue (Moshfegh) ***
2016: EEG (Drndić) ****
2016: Things We Lost in the Fire (Enríquez) ****
2018: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (DiAngelo) ***
2019: Me & Other Writing (Duras) *****
2020: Jack (Robinson) *****
2020: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hong) ****
2020: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Wilkerson) ****
2021: Milk Fed (Broder) ****
2021: Checkout 19 (Bennett) ****
2021: On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Nelson) ****
2021: Sterling Karat Gold (Waidner) ****

IN PROGRESS
1814: Mansfield Park (Austen)
2008: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery)
2010: The Broken Kingdoms (Jemisin)
2020: Nine Bar Blues (Thomas)