When I first got back into reading, it started with a book list, 30 Books Every Woman Should Read, on MSN. It has since been removed, but I wanted to share with you some of the books.
Growing up, I devoured books. All the way through high school, reading was a passion. During the summer between high school and uni, I was reading Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare for fun. However, I had to put that down and read Bell Canto for my first college assignment. Desiring to be ultra prepared for school, I read it twice. Between work and school, I was short on time, and the assigned reading material wasn’t challenging. This led to a long period of no books.
Then, I came across this book list. I started off by reading just 6 books a year, one book every other month. The books vary in subject matter and length.
Now, I am at the #3 US book reviewer on GoodReads, but it all started with this list.
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
- Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship by Alice Munro
- Henry and Jane by Anais Nin
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
- Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
*Yes, I know that 18 does not equal 30. When I started to read the books from the list, I became concerned that the list might disappear before I could finish them all. So I saved all of the books that I had not yet read at that time. These are the books that I saved from the list.