Reading Women 2018 Reading Challenge Check-In

This is a new-to-me reading challenge I've recently heard of and I've decided to start doing it. I really love reading challenges and how they diversify my reading or introduce me to books I wouldn't otherwise think to read. I'm doing several reading challenges already, but I enjoy them so, why not do another? The page for this reading challenge is linked here.

The prompt for this challenge is to read books by or about women, and under this prompt, there are 24 challenges (with a bonus 2) to help you find different kinds of books by women to read. Below is my anticipated TBR for each challenge. Completed challenges will be in bold.

Challenges:

1. A book by a woman in translation (bonus if also translated by a woman) - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

2. A fantasy novel written by a woman of color - The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh.

3. A book set in the American South - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. 

4. A short story collection - Almost Famous Women: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman

5. A graphic novel or memoir - Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

6. A book published by an independent press - Grace by Natashia Deon

7. A book set in Russia or by a Russian author - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich 

8. A book with a viewpoint character who is an immigrant or a refugee - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

9. A book by an Australian or a Canadian author - The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

10. An essay collection - Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay

11. A book about someone with a chronic illness - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

12. A true crime book - Lizzie Borden by Arnold Brown (This is obviously written by a man, but the subject of the book is a woman)

13. A book by an African American Woman about Civil Rights - Black Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson

14. A classic novel written by a woman (bonus points if not Austen or a Bronte) - The Awakening by Kate Chopin

15. A poetry collection - Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho

16. A book where the characters are traveling somewhere - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

17. A book with a food item in the title - The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith 

18. A book written by a female Nobel Prize winner - Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowbee

19. A book from the Reading Women Award 2017 shortlists - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 

20. A memoir by someone who lives in a country different from yours - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

21. A book inspired by a fairytale - Ash by Malinda Lo

22. A book by a local author or recommended by your local bookstore - Beloved by Toni Morrison

23. The book that has been on your TBR the longest - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 

24. A book in a genre you have never read - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Bonus:

25. A book by Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

26. A book by Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories