I don’t usually do reading challenges. I mostly just try to keep up with my book clubs (I’m in three), with what’s new in children’s literature, and still have time to pick up recommended books every now and then. However, several years ago, I bought this mug of women writers at my favorite local bookstore, Bound to Happen Books, and every time I use it, I wonder about some of the works.

I’ve read many of the novels, short stories, and poetry on the mug, but not all. My goal is to have read them all by the end of the year. If you cannot properly see the names on the mug, they are listed below. The titles in regular font, I have already read. The titles in bold are what I’ll be reading this year:

1. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
2. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
3. The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
6. Vera by Elizabeth Von Arnim
7. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
8. Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
10. The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
11. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
12. The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton
13. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
14. Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
15. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
16. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
17. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
18. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (I might have read this??)
21. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
22. An Australian Heroine by Mrs. Campbell Praed
23. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (I might have read this??)
24. Middlemarch by George Eliot
25. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
26. The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
27. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
28. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
29. The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
30. Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson

How many of these have you read? Do you have a favorite?

Do you have a reading challenge for the year?