This Month I Am Reading Only Books Written by Women, Such as Virginia Woolf

I read a lot of books, but I feel I have not given women authors their due. So far, I have read Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere and am within a few pages of finishing Joyce Carol Oates’s The Man Without a Shadow. Ng is new to me, but I have always loved Oates, though I haven’t nearly enough of her prolific works.

Among the books I will be selecting from for the rest of March (in no particular order):

• Something by Svetlana Alexievich, most likely Secondhand Time [Russia]
• Rosario Santos’s The Fat Man from La Paz: Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia*
• Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s The Time: Night* [Russia]
• Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead* [USA]
• Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity [France]
• Patricia Highsmith’s The Black House [USA]
• Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place [USA]
• Selma Lagerlof’s The Saga of Gosta Berling* [Norway]
• Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse [England]
• Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star [Brazil]
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow* [Mexico/Canada]
• Marie NDiaye’s Three Strong Women [France]
• Dawn Powell’s The Locusts Have No King* [USA]
• Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive* [Mexico/USA]

Invariably, I will not read some of the above and likely add some other writers, such as Charlotte Brontë, Willa Cather, Madeleine Albright, or Helen Hunt Jackson. It all depends on how I like the books I have selected.

Books marked with an asterisk [*] are by authors I have not yet read.