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For February, we're discussing black women authors in honor of black history month. Be sure to follow along over on Instagram and join the discussion in our Goodreads group!

• National Book Award Announces International Prize
• Jacqueline Woodson announced as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
• Helen Dunmore wins Costa book of the year for INSIDE THE WAVE, a poetry collection
• Listener Survey

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• The Hate U Give (Balzer and Bray) by Angie Thomas
• Kindred (Beacon Press) by Octavia E. Butler
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury Circus) by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Queen Sugar (Pamela Dorman Books) by Natalie Baszile
• Homegoing (Knopf) by Yaa Gyasi
• Behold the Dreamers (Random House) by Imbolo Mbue

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Today's episode is part of a podcast collaboration with Friendlier, a podcast for friends who love to talk. In our episode, we chat about the social aspects of reading and how social media has changed how we find books.

In their episode, Friendlier co-hosts Sarah and Abby put their own spin on the topic of the social aspects of reading. Be sure to head over to their website and/or podcast feedand listen to their episode!

• Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
• Celeste Ng
• Ethel Rohan
• Chloe Benjamin
• Roxane Gay
• Maureen Johnson

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• @weneeddiversebooks
• @what.i.read
• @sumaiyya.books

• Books and Lala
• squibblesreads
• Jen Campbell

Friendlier is like eavesdropping on a phone call between Sarah and Abby, long time friends—and now parents—who love to talk, read, and eat. Every episode we review books, share recipes, and explore a sometimes random/sometimes serious topic. Find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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We're back, bookish friends! With our first regular episode, we chat about some of our most anticipated releases of 2018.

• New theme song—thank you Isaac and Sarah Greene.
• The Reading Women Challenge has started!
• We redesigned the Reading Women Store.
• The 24in48 readathon is January 27-28! Check out the details over on their website.

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• Feel Free by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) Feb. 6th
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Counterpoint) Feb. 6th
• All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva (Spiegal and Grau) Feb. 20th
• What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson (FSG) Feb. 20th
• Awayland by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead) March 6th
• The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman (Counterpoint) March 20th
• Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley (MCD) April 3rd
• Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen (Chronicle Books) April 3rd

• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Little, Brown Book for Young Jan. 2nd
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (Putnam) Jan. 9th
• Winter by Ali Smith (Pantheon) Jan. 9th
• Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (Grove Press) Jan. 9th
• The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Press) (Jan. 9th) 
• Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner) Jan. 16th
• Brass by Xhenet Aliu (Random House) Jan. 23rd
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Algonquin) Feb. 6th
• I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf) Feb. 6th
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Flatiron) Feb. 6th
• Fresh Water by Akwaeke Emezi (Grove Press) Feb. 13th
• Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur Books) Feb. 3th
• Happiness by Aminatta Forna (Atlantic) March 6th
• Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao (Flantiron) March 6th
• Ask Me about My Uterus by Abby Norman (Nation Books) March 6th
• Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat (Henry Holt) March 13th
• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead) April 3rd
• Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown) April 10th
• West by Carys Davies (Scribner) by April 24th
• Tin Man by Sarah Winman (Putnam) May 15th
• Florida by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) June 5th
• Sick by Porochista Khakpour (Harper Perennial) June 5th

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Autumn and Kendra chat with Chloe Benjamin about her latest novel, The Immortalists. They discuss the inspiration for The Immortalists, living life vs. merely surviving, and the nature of fate.

Chloe Benjamin is the author of the novel The Anatomy of Dreams, which received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was longlisted for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A San Francisco native, Benjamin is a graduate of Vassar College and of the University of Wisconsin, where she received her MFA in fiction. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in The Millions, PANK, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin and is twenty-eight years old.

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We finally announce the winners of the 2017 Reading Women Awards! News Introducing the 2018 Reading Women Challenge You can buy Reading Women Award seals in our new store! Books Mentioned Nonfiction Shortlist Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke that Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo Fiction Shortlist The Weight of Him (St. Martin's) by Ethel Rohan Stay with Me (Knopf) by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing) by Min Jin Lee The Strays (Twelve Books) by Emily Bitto The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead) by Heather O'Neill Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner) by Jesmyn Ward Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and fur child photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies!   CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Autumn Twitter | Instagram | Website Kendra Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Website Music “Stickybee” by Josh Woodard

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Here's our first collab with another bookish podcast! We had a chat with Jenny Colvin from the Reading Envy podcast about some of our favorite books by or about women that we've read this year.

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)
• Black Wave by Michelle Tea (Feminist Press)
• Human Acts by Han Kang, Translated by Deborah Smith (Hogarth)
• Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (Grove Atlantic)
• Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee (Curbside Splendor)
• Himself by Jess Kidd (Atria)
• A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (FSG)
• Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum)
• This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)

Many thanks to Jenny for collaborating with us on this episode! Jenny Colvin is the creator and host of the Reading Envy podcast, which you can find wherever you get your podcasts. Jenny is a librarian in Greenville, SC. Visit the Reading Envy website and follow Jenny on Twitter and Goodreads.

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It's here! In this episode, we announce the 2017 Reading Women Award Nonfiction Shortlist! 

• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
• Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke that Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
• Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
• The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
• Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo

• Interview with Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Many thanks to Literary Emporium so sponsoring this episode. You can find more info about Literary Emporium's bookish clothing and accessories on their website. Be sure to use the code READINGWOMEN15 for 15% off your entire purchase. 

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Autumn and Kendra chat with Jen Campbell about her short story collection The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night (Two Roads), her love of fairy tales, and how fact can often be stranger than fiction.

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It's here! In this episode, we announce the 2017 Reading Women Award Fiction Shortlist! The nonfiction shortlist will be released on November 15th and the winners will be announced December 6th.

• The Weight of Him (St. Martin's) by Ethel Rohan
• Stay with Me (Knopf) by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
• Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing) by Min Jin Lee
• The Strays (Twelve Books) by Emily Bitto
• The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead) by Heather O'Neill
• Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner) by Jesmyn Ward

• Ethel Rohan
• Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
• Min Jin Lee
• Emily Bitto
• Heather O'Neill

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Autumn and Kendra interview Margaret Wilkerson Sexton about her debut novel A Kind of Freedom, which was longlisted for the National Book Award.

You can find Margaret on Twitter, Facebook, or on her website. 

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