Welcome to my summer of reading women authors and playwrights. This happened (mostly) by chance.
Novels/Novellas/Essays
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Robber Bridegroom, The Optimist's Daughter (Eudora Welty)
Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Fifty Shades of Grey (E. L. James)*
The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
Nonfiction
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Jenny Lawson)
Plays
The Verge (Susan Glaspell)
Demon Baby (Erin Courtney)
Stoning Mary (Debbie Tucker Green)
The Maids (Jean Genet)
Far Away (Caryl Churchill)
Execution of Justice (Emily Mann)
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (Osonye Tess Onwueme)
The Well of Horniness (Holly Hughes)
*This book was recommended by a friend, and upon further research I discovered that this book series began as Twilight fan fiction. Because of articles like these, and my own first hand experience with it, I am a public supporter of both the fan fiction universe and of all interactive reader experiences (like my BFF Pottermore). This book may mark just another step in legitimizing the controversial genre. We'll see how the series holds up; I am simultaneously tantalized and made anxious by the reviews and summaries available.
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