Challenges Finished: Women Unbound

The Women Unbound Reading Challenge ends tomorrow  (how is that even possible?!) and I'm delighted to mark this one COMPLETED.

I really enjoyed this challenge, as I knew I would.  (I think it was my favorite challenge of the year.) My goal was the Suffragette level, which meant reading eight books (including three non-fiction books). Links take you to my reviews.  

1. The Curse of the Good Girl, by Rachel Simmons

2. Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, by Francine Prose

3. Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win, by Anne E. Kornblut

4. Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box, by Madeleine Albright.

5. Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, by Alison Piepmeier

6. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

7. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, by Charles Shields

8. Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Greg Mortenson.  (audiobook)

I also read three other books worth mentioning that also fit the challenge requirements:

Louisa May Alcott:  The Woman Behind Little Women, by Harriet Reisen

Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World, by Linda Tarr-Whelan

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (audiobook)

Thank you to the hosts of the Women Unbound challenge for a wonderful year of reading!


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