Female Author Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading Challenge

One of the things I've been really working on is being more efficient with my time.  There are so many adventures to plan, activities to get done and sometimes it doesn't seem like there's enough time in the day!  And then I find myself scrolling through social media... again.  To stay accountable to myself and be better about my organization I have started using Habitica and Wunderlist.  I find Habitica is perfect for my immediate things to do and Wunderlist for stuff that is a little further out.  (No, I'm not sponsored by either, I just find them useful!)

I'm in a reading group on Habitica and someone shared a link to:“100 Must-Read Sci-Fi / Fantasy Novels by Female Authors” article on Book Riot and loved reading through it.  There are so many books on that list I've been meaning to get around to or have never heard of before!  Since I'm a huge sci-fi / fantasy fan, this seemed like a fantastic candidate for a reading challenge.

The challenge will be to read as many of the books as you can and then to discuss!  This should be nice since it will vary on authors, types of books and popular / more obscure.  I love that there is a great diversity of authors! So without further ado…

RULES/NOTES:

  1. Read the article or see my list of all the books below.

  2. Sign up for the challenge by leaving a comment here Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter etc. Also include if you're going to keep track of your reading anywhere. You certainly don’t have to sign up, but I’d love to keep in touch!

  3. If you can’t remember the book, it doesn’t count!

  4. Check in on Twitter by using #R2DChallenge, I’ll be using that hashtag when I am reading one of the books. - and/or -

  5. Comment on the review for each book (linked on the list below as I read them) to keep in touch and see what other people are thinking.

THE BOOKS

  1. "Alanna: The First Adventure" by Tamora Pierce

  2. "The Alchemy of Stone" by Ekaterina Sedia

  3. "Among Others" by Jo Walton

  4. "Ancillary Justice" by Ann Leckie

  5. "Ancient, Ancient" by Kiini Ibura Salaam

  6. "The Antelope Wife" by Louise Erdrich

  7. "Arrows of the Queen" by Mercedes Lackey

  8. "Ash" by Malinda Lo

  9. "Assassin’s Apprentice" by Robin Hobb

  10. "The Pyramid Waltz" by Barbara Wright

  11. "Biting the Sun" by Tanith Lee

  12. "The Blazing World" by Margaret Cavendish

  13. "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter

  14. "Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest

  15. "Brown Girl in the Ring" by Nalo Hopkinson

  16. "Cast in Shadow" by Michelle Sagara

  17. "China Mountain Zhang" by Maureen F. McHugh

  18. "Chorus of Mushrooms" by Hiromi Goto

  19. "Cinder" by Marissa Meyer

  20. "The Crystal Cave" by Mary Stewart

  21. "The Darkangel" by Meredith Ann Pierce

  22. "Daughter of Smoke & Bone" by Laini Taylor

  23. "Daughter of the Blood" by Anne Bishop

  24. "Daughter of the Forest" by Juliet Marillier

  25. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris

  26. "Deathless" by Catherynne M. Valente

  27. "The Devil’s Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

  28. "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin

  29. "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis

  30. "Dragon Sword and Wind Child" by Noriko Ogiwara

  31. "Dragonflight" by Anne McCaffrey

  32. "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

  33. "The Etched City" by K.J. Bishop

  34. "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ

  35. "Flesh and Spirit" by Carol Berg

  36. "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld" by Patricia A. McKillip

  37. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

  38. "The Ghost Bride" by Yangsze Choo

  39. "Graceling" by Kristin Cashore

  40. "The Handmaid’s Tale" by Margaret Atwood

  41. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling

  42. "The Hearing Trumpet" by Leonora Carrington

  43. "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" by James Tiptree Jr.

  44. "Hild" by Nicola Griffith

  45. "His Majesty’s Dragon" by Naomi Novik

  46. "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende

  47. "The House on the Lagoon" by Rosario Ferré

  48. "Howl’s Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones

  49. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

  50. "Ink" by Sabrina Vourvoulias

  51. "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

  52. "The Island of Eternal Love" by Daína Chaviano

  53. "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke

  54. "Karen Memory" by Elizabeth Bear

  55. "The Killing Moon" by N.K. Jemisin

  56. "Kushiel’s Dart" by Jacqueline Carey

  57. "Luck in the Shadows" by Lynn Flewelling

  58. "Magic for Beginners" by Kelly Link

  59. "The Mirror Empire" by Kameron Hurley

  60. "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  61. "Moving the Mountain" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  62. "Mr. Fox" by Helen Oyeyemi

  63. "My Christina & Other Stories" by Mercè Rodoreda

  64. "My Soul to Keep" by Tananarive Due

  65. "Native Tongue" by Suzette Haden Elgin

  66. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

  67. "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler

  68. "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" by Aimee Bender

  69. "The Queen of the Tearling" by Erika Johansen

  70. "The Raven Boys" by Maggie Stiefvater

  71. "The Red" by Linda Nagata

  72. "Redemption in Indigo" by Karen Lord

  73. "Rosemary and Rue" by Seanan McGuire

  74. "Salt Fish Girl" by Larissa Lai

  75. "The Second Mango" by Shira Glassman

  76. "Shards of Honor" by Lois McMaster Bujold

  77. "Shikasta" by Doris Lessing

  78. "The Snow Queen" by Joan D. Vinge

  79. "Slave to Sensation" by Nalini Singh

  80. "So Far from God" by Ana Castillo

  81. "Sorcerer to the Crown" by Zen Cho

  82. "Soulless" by Gail Carriger

  83. "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell

  84. "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon

  85. "Spirits of the Ordinary" by Kathleen Alcala

  86. "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel

  87. "A Stranger in Olondria" by Sofia Samatar

  88. "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley

  89. "Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell

  90. "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner

  91. "The Thief" by Megan Whalen Turner

  92. "Valor’s Choice" by Tanya Huff

  93. "War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull

  94. "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson

  95. "Who Fears Death" by Nnedi Okorafor

  96. "Wicked As They Come" by Delilah S. Dawson

  97. "Woman on the Edge of Time" by Marge Piercy

  98. "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories" by Vandana Singh

  99. "The Wrath and the Dawn" by Renée Ahdieh

  100. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L’Engle