Anyone who knows me well, knows how much I love to read. Earlier this year my then office mate and I decided to embark on a book challenge adapted from one I had seen on bustle.com. Besides adapting some of the categories we also decided all the authors needed to be female. What an incredible experience it has proven to be. I don't think we truly realize how much we stick to one genre of reading and if not one genre then then overlapping similar ones and styles. I have had my imagination and mind stretched and learnt so much. So here are my results for the book challenge 2016:
| CATEGORY: | FEMALE AUTHOR | RATE |
| AUTHOR U25 | White Teeth, Zadie Smith | 4 |
| NON-WESTERN HISTORY | The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang | 5 |
| BOOK OF ESSAYS | I Feel Bad about my Neck,Nora Ephron | 4 |
| BOOK ABOUT AN INDIGENOUS CULTURE | Celia's Song, Lee Maracle | 5 |
| READ A BOOK BEFORE YOU SEE THE MOVIE | The Taliban Shuffle, Kim Barker | 5 |
| YOUNG ADULT BY AUTHOR OF COLOUR | Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticut | 5 |
| SET IN THE MIDDLE EAST | Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi | 5 |
| WOMEN IN WAR | A woman soldiers own story, Xie Bingying | 4 |
| GRAPHIC NOVEL | Through the Woods, Emily Carroll | 3 |
| ABOUT AN IMMIGRANT/REFUGEE TO THE USA | The Bonesetter's Daughter. Amy Tan | 4 |
| LIFE LESSONS OR "SELF HELP" | Wonder, RJ Palacio | 5 |
| (AUTO) BIOGRAPHY | Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 4 |
| MEMOIR BY LGBTQIA | Why be happy when you can be normal, Jeanette Winterson | 4 |
| POST-APOCALYPTIC | Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafori | 5 |
| SCI-FI FEMINIST | The Handmaids Tale, Magaret Atwood | 4.5 |
| FIRST BOOK IN A SERIES | The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler | 5 |
| SET IN AFRICA BY AN AFRICAN | The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi | 4 |
| A TRANSLATED BOOK | The Japanese Lover, Isabelle Allende | 5 |
| CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION OF POEMS | Colossus and Other Poems, Sylvia Plath | 3 |
| BY A MODERNIST | Nightwood, Djuana Barnes | 3 |
| SHORT STORIES | Something I've been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Sories, Alice Munro | 3.5 |
| RECOMMENDED | Asunder, Chloe Aridjis | 4 |
| EXTRA NOVELS (JUST BECAUSE) | The Cursed Child, JK Rowlings | 4 |
| Leaving Time, Jodi Picoult | 5 | |
This has truly been an awesome experience and now for the same categories but with male authors.... |
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn |
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