Update - 2020 Reading Women Challenge

2020 Reading Women Challenge -UPDATE 01/04/21-

Update: Happy New Year!!!! I did not read all the books on my list for this challenge, I think I read a fair amount. Also, during 2020 I served as a judge for the 2nd annual BookTube Prize, so I got a lot of other reading done as well. I will see what this year's RW challenge will be and if I am going to participate. 

I am participating in the 2020 Reading Women Challenge created and hosted by the Reading Women Podcast. There are a lot of resources available in the GoodReads discussion posts (1st link). 

Below are my selections for the challenge.

[1] Book by an author from the Caribbean or India
STILL READING It Begins With Tears by Opal Palmer Arise (Jamaican)

[2] Book translated from an Asian language 
DONE ~ Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japanese) or
DONE Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (also satisfies #14) (Japanese) 

[3] Book about the environment

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (American)

DONE [4] Picture book written/illustrated by a BIPOC author Every Little Thing by Cedella Marley (Jamaican) and illustrated Vanessa Brantley Newton (American)

 

[5] Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction 
DONE   ~ Women's Prize - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (American) 
or ~ Stella Prize - The Erratics by Vicki Laveau Harvie (Canadian) 

[6] A nonfiction title by a woman historian

Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean by Alex von Tunzelmann (British)

[7] Book featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism

~ Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson (Jamaican) or

DONE YEAR-LONG   ~ The Inheritance Trilogy
 by Nora K. Jemisin (American)

[8] An anthology by multiple authors 
STILL READING Daughters of Africa - 1994 edited by Margaret Busby
 (women authors of Africa and African descent) YEAR-LONG 

[9] Book inspired by folklore

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes (Jamaican)

[10] Book about a woman artist

Born YA: The Life and Loves of a Jamaican [female] Painter by Judy Ann MacMillan (Jamaican)

[11] Read and watch a book-to-movie adaptation

DONE The Sun is Also a Star (based on the book by the same name) by Nicola Yoon (Jamaican)

[12] Book about a woman who inspires you

DONE If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
by Kelly Cutrone (American)

[13] Book by an Arab woman

Absent: A Novel by Betool Khedairi (Iraqi)

[14] Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese author

DONE Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (Japanese) or 
DONE Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 
(also satisfies #2) (Japanese)
 

[15] Biography

~ Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by 
Alexis De Veaux (American)

[16] Book featuring a woman with a disability

Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway (also satisfies #23). (American)

[17] Book over 500 pages long

DONE YEAR-LONG The Inheritance Trilogy by Nora K. Jemisin. (also satisfies #7) (American) 

DONE [18] Book under 100 pages long

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)

[19] Book that’s frequently recommended to you

~ Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Jamaican) or ~ 
 DONE My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan 
Braithwaite (Nigerian)

[20] Feel-good or happy book

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park (American)

[21] Book about food

DONE ~ Cheese from Fondue to Cheesecake edited by Fiona Beckett (American) or
DONE~ Barefoot in Paris by Ina Garten (American)

[22] Book by either a favorite or a new-to-you publisher

All Over Again by A-dziko Simba Gegele published 
by Blue Banyan Books (Jamaican) 

[23] Book by an LGBTQ+ author

Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway (American)

[24] Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions 

DONE~ Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (American) or

~ Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Zambian) or

DONE~ Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom (American)

BONUS

[25] Book by Toni Morrison

[26] Book by Isabel Allende