What we’re about
***Below this bio/intro is a list of all of the books we have read so far.***
Hello Ladies / Femme / Gender Non-binary! Have you always wanted a push to read a few of the classics? Do you think meeting new online friends for a discussion will help you better interpret canonical works? Have you had a couple of unread classics on your bookshelf for a long time that you would like to suggest for meetings? This virtual group (for anyone who identifies as a woman and anyone who is gender queer) meets every 3rd Monday of the month, from 7-8CST (we sometimes go until 8:15-30 if we are extra joyful overall about the book or extra angry about a patriarchal character lol). You may join whether you have a literature PhD or barely pick up a John Grisham novel, but I ask for no judgement of expertise on the material and for respect during the meetings. You may use whatever companions help you understand the book--You Tube videos, watching a movie adaptation, CliffsNotes, podcast book reviews, using an audiobook instead of print, etc.
Here is a list of what we have read so far:
"Dracula" Bram Stoker
"Fahrenheit 451" Ray Bradbury
"The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Awakening" Kate Chopin
"In Cold Blood" Truman Capote
"Beloved" Toni Morrison
"Emma" Jane Austen
Various short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Mrs. Dalloway" Virginia Woolf
"The Catcher in the Rye" JD Salinger
"The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret Atwood
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde
"Frankenstein" Mary Shelley
"Tender is the Night" F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Color Purple" Alice Walker
"Kindred" Octavia Butler
"Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov
"The Jungle" Upton Sinclair
"Rebecca" Daphne Du Maurier
"Northanger Abbey" Jane Austen
"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
"Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" Lewis Carroll
"The Haunting of Hill House" Shirley Jackson
"The Turn of the Screw" Henry James
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" DH Lawrence
"Winnesburg, Ohio" Sherwood Anderson
"Anne of Green Gables" L.M. Montgomery
"Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen
"The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" Tom Wolfe
"East of Eden" John Steinbeck
"The White Album" Joan Didion
Various Flannery O’Connor short stories
"A Confederacy of Dunces" John Kennedy Toole