Olduvai's Reading Challenges

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My pool:

Fiction

The Female Man  by Joanna Russ

Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong

Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman

Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

Evelina  by Frances Burney

The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min

Non-fiction

Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Katy Peiss

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body by Courtney E. Martin

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia by Sheila and Lisa Himmel

Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks (from Eva's list)

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip (from Eva's list)

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (Vasilly's list)

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelous (Eva's list)

Amended to add:
(4 Nov 2009)
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories by Betsy Lerner

(The Challenge Page)