Themis-Athena's Garden of Books

Awogfli announced in this post, a few days ago, a "female authors challenge", i.e., the intention to include more female writers in her literary intake as from 2018 on.  Others spontaneously signed on, and I promised to create a bingo card for those who want to track their reading progress that way.  So (drumroll) ... here it is!

The authors featured in the card, from top left to bottom right:

W   Mary Wollstonecraft
K    Margery Kempe
R    J.K. Rowling
N    Anaïs Nin
Q    Anna Quindlen
G    Ursula Le Guin
O    Edna O'Brien
E    George Eliot
B    The Brontë Sisters
V    Barbara Vine / Ruth Rendell
H    Hildegard of Bingen
P    Christine de Pizan
XY  Banana Yoshimoto
M   Toni Morrison
Z    Julie Zeh
IJ   Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
D   Emily Dickinson
L   Jhumpa Lahiri
T    Amy Tan
U   Sigrid Undset
C   Agatha Christie
A   Jane Austen
S   Sappho

I've tried to mix early women author pioneers with contemporary authors, Western / white authors with authors of other ethnicities, and authors of literary fiction with authors of other genres (mysteries, fantasy, romance), nonfiction and poetry.  The result is still a bit more Western-centric than I'd have liked, but it's the best compromise I've been able to come up with.

The idea, in any event, is not merely to read the writers whose images I've used to create the card -- it's to read more women writers, period.  Whomever you want; regardless of time period, genre, nationality, ethnicity ... just -- women writers, of all origins, genres, and styles.

Now I'll follow Awogfli's example and put together my tentative reading list ...

If anybody else is interested in joining, please do!  The more, the merrier.