Her-storyathon Readathon 2024 - hosted by charlottecoyne

Writing Women
Novelist, poet, journalist or even diarist or letter writer- if she made a name by her pen (or keyboard) then it counts!
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Illuminations by Mary Sharratt

Illuminations

Mary Sharratt

274 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction historical religion informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of an Outspoken Woman and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of an Outspoken Woman and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Kate Moore

560 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir

Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife

Six Tudor Queens #6

Alison Weir

480 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative medium-paced
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll, Sean Driscoll

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

Sean Driscoll, Sean Driscoll

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography
White Houses by Amy Bloom

White Houses

Amy Bloom

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ emotional reflective slow-paced
Bluestockings: The First Women's Movement by Susannah Gibson

Bluestockings: The First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise

Joy Harjo

116 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry race emotional reflective medium-paced
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

Charlotte Gordon

672 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism historical history challenging informative fast-paced
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Anne Edwards

Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell

Anne Edwards

369 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced