Every day SHE WRITES the book
November 13, 2009 | Books
Look! Books by women!
I went to Bookadee, my local bookstore, today. I was inspired by Gloria Feldt, who planned to buy 13 books on Friday the 13th for the She Writes Call to Action. Kamy Wicoff, founder and CEO of She Writes, put out a call to action to protest Publishers Weekly all-male Top 10 of its “Best Books of 2009 List.”
So I bought 11 books today and two others just recently, Zillah’s Gift by Lois West Duffy and Bellbina, Queen of Weed Park by Laura Juszczyk, which brings me to 13 on Friday the 13th.
- Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder
- Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
- Dewey, There’s a Cat in the Library! by Vicki Myron
- Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
- Goldilicious by Victoria Kann
- The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
- Rogue Angel Eternal Journey by Alex Archer
- Rogue Angel Footprints by Alex Archer
- 3 Willows by Ann Brashares
- While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty
- The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Thank you, Tora, for all your help!
Here are some books I read in 2009 and before.
- The Shriver Report by Maria Shriver
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
- Entwined Lives by Nancy L. Segal
- The Girls by Lori Lansens
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Growing Up Country by Carol Bodensteiner
- Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
- Indivisible by Two by Nancy L. Segal
- Involuntary Joy by Joy M. Newcom, an author from my new hometown in Iowa
- Iowa Curiosities by Dan Coffey and Eric Jones with Berit Thorkelson
- Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- Patriotic Grace by Peggy Noonan
- A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
- Rumors of our Progress have been Greatly Exaggerated by Carolyn B. Maloney
- The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
- Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
- You’re Amazing! by Claire Mysko
Posted by Becky @ 11:55 am
November 14th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
happy loving readers make it look so easy…
Okay, I didn’t buy any books – I was in and out of NYC for the day and sitting for 7 hours in a flipcam training workshop. I know I could have bought a book at the airport, but the selection was limited :(
But you and Gloria made up for me – thank you! I hope that some mainstream media outlet picks up on this story and shows that we have the will to show our strength.
November 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
A great idea. Thanks for supporting all of us women writers!
November 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I bought at least one book for you, Linda. ;)
November 30th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Read The Giver for the first time with my 7th grader. Loved it.
Also enjoyed Walls’ The Glass Castle. Did not, however, read this one with him.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I hear Walls has another book out now.
February 6th, 2010 at 6:05 am
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