Recommendations- The Reading Women Challenge|Prompts #1-#10

Reading Challenges are the best way to read more books, and also serves as a means to explore diverse genres and authors, which are otherwise unheard of.

The Reading Women Podcast is one of my favorites because they bring out the best of literature with interactive discussions and author interviews. I decided to join the #ReadingWomenChallenge 2019 because I wanted to read more books by female authors and their prompts were quite simple and diverse.

How does it work?:

• There are about 25 reading prompts given by the amazing team of The Reading Women.
• We need to pick a book relevant to each prompt. Remember that, the book you choose must be written by a Female author.
• You have to read these book over a span of 1 year (throughout 2019).

What do I have in mind?:

Well, a lot you commented on my Instagram stories about recommending books that are easily available and suit each of these prompts perfectly. So I have decided to compile this list (keeping in mind the availability of the book in India).

Let’s get started.

#1 A mystery or thriller written by a woman of color:

• Tied Up In Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• A Murder on Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#2 A book about a woman with Mental Illness:

• Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes by Holly Bourne      |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman  |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Mrs. C. Remembers by Himanjali Sankar    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf      |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath      |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#3 A book by an author from Nigeria or New Zealand:

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Bone People by Keri Hulme    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#4 A book about or set in Appalachia:

• Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• True Places by Sonja Yeorg    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#5 A Children’s Book:

• Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Anne of the Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Magic of the Lost Temple by Sudha Murthy    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#6 A Multigenerational Family Saga

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi     |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee     |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri     |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#7 A Book Featuring a Woman in Science

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbot    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#8 A Play

• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Wit by Margaret Edson    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

Refer @bookriot for more books (not sure if they are available in India or not)

#9 A Novella

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The Penelopaid by Margaret Atwood    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Home by Toni Morrison    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

#10 A Book About a Woman Athlete

• Patina by Jason Reynolds    |Amazon In|Goodreads|
• Scoring Wilder by R. S. Grey    |Amazon Kindle|Goodreads|
• Women in Sports by Rachel Ignotofsky    |Amazon In|Goodreads|

I will be coming up with the recommendations for the rest of the prompts. Enjoy these books till then, and let me know if you have any other recommendation that you would like the world to know about.