Reading Women Challenge Selections

I had a comment on my first Reading Women Challenge post asking about if I had picked out books in advance. I did pick all of my books in advance and I am going to share them now with you. I will note which ones I am currently reading and which ones I have finished. Which is an extremely sad amount but I still have time to finish the challenge right?

1) A book by an author from the Caribbean or India:
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

2) A book translated from an Asian language:
Love in No Man's Land by Duo Ji Zhua Ga, Hallie Treadway(translator)

3) A book about the environment:
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva

4) A picture book written/illustrated by a BIPOC author:
Through Georgia's Eyes by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez

5) A winner of the Stella Prize or the Women's Prize for Fiction: 
And American Marriage by Tayari Jones  ✔

6) A nonfiction title by a woman historian: 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold ✔

7) A book featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism: 
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin

8) An anthology by multiple authors: 
Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy by Denise Little

9) A book inspired by folklore: 
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty ✔

10) A book about a woman artist: 
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland ✔

11) Read and watch a book-to-movie adaptation: 
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

12) A book about a woman who inspires you: 
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight

13) A book by an Arab woman: 
The Women of Tantoura by Radwa Ashour

14) A book set in Japan or by a Japanese author: 
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee ✔

15) A biography: 
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

16) A book featuring a woman with disability: 
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller ✔

17) A book over 500 pages: 
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon -- currently reading

18) A book under 100 pages: 
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

19) A book that's frequently recommended to you: 
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ✔

20) A feel-good or happy book:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

21) A book about food:
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

22) A book by either a favorite or new-to-you publisher:
the Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

23) A book by an LGBTQ+ author: 
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ✔

24) A book from the 2019 Read Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions:
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esme Weijun Wang

BONUS
25) A book by Toni Morrison:
Sula

26) A book by Isabel Allende 
Daughter of Fortune