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Well done. I'm halfway through this year's a-z, although I'm not very focused. My around the world is a good witness to that!

I have finally finished one of my challenges! This is my second A-Z and this time I focused on female authors. I took my time, but I was looking for 'the right book'. Only one disappointment (see Z...)

A - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun ****
B - Karen Blixen - Out of Africa ***
C - Willa Cather - A Lost Lady ****
D - Emma Donoghue - Room ****
E - Sue Eckstein - Interpreters ****
F - Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves ****
G - Amy Greene - Bloodroot ****
H - Georgina Harding - Painter of Silence ****
I - Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea ****
J - Tove Jansson - The Summer Book ***
K - Hannah Kent - Burial Rites ****
L - Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing ****
M - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
N - Irène Némirovsky - The Fires of Autumn ****
O - Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife ****
P - Michelle Paver - Dark Matter ****
Q - Sarah Quigley - The Conductor ***
R - Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea ****
S - Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood ***
T - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch ****
U - Jane Urquhart - The Stone Carvers ****
V - Catherynne M. Valente - Palimpsest ***
W - Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ****
X - Xinran - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet ***
Y - Hanya Yanagihara - The People in the Trees ****
Z - Jean Zimmerman - The Orphan Master **

Well done Liz.

Excellent :) I bet you have a real sense of achievement - well deserved. I am going to go through your list and cherry pick ;)

Well done! You have some lovely books there and some I too shall 'cherry pick'.

Sue wrote: "Well done! You have some lovely books there and some I too shall 'cherry pick'."

Thank you. Feel free, help yourself (Linda too) :)

Well done liz, some I've read, but i like the look of those I've not tried.

Excellent, well done Liz!