My 2022 Reading Plans: A Year of Reading Women

Below are some books I plan on reading in 2022. I can’t guarantee I’ll get to all of ‘em, but that’s the hope.

This list of 30 books is likely to be about 1/3 of my reading for the year, which of course leaves 2/3 to read all kinds of other books that grab my attention.

Here’s the explainer on why I’m reading women in ‘22, if ya missed it.

Leave a comment and let me know if there are any of these you especially loved, or any others you think absolutely need to be on my 2022 list.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869)

A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans (2012)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

The Witch Elm by Tana French (2018)

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (2003)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

Jade City by Fonda Lee (2017)

Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert (2020)

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (1993)

Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters (2020)

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006)

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (2020)

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (2020)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck (1931)

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (2005)

Things We Lost In the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (2017)

Fledgling by Octavia Butler (2007)

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier (1938)

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (1879)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1846)

How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson (2020)

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)