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Future Competitions

In light of recent requests and submissions, once this competition is over, we'll be starting back up again with a whole new set of books! If you'd like to submit a title, check my pinned post and the list below to make sure your submission is eligible. I can no longer add to this list. Any further titles are being kept privately by me, but there are there, I promise! I am now tagging asks with the titles submitted.

A to Z Mysteries

Abhorsen

A Dog's Life

Adventure (Blyton)

Adventures of the Bailey School Kids

Adventurers Wanted

Alcatraz VS the Evil Librarians

Alex Rider

All-of-a-Kind Family

The American Girl Books

Amulet

Anne of Green Gables

Animal Ark

Animorphs

Applewhites

The Babysitter's Club

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Beacon Street Girls

Beatrice Bailey

The Belgariad

Bella Sara

Betsy-Tacy

Black Beauty

The Black Stallion

The Blackwell Pages

Books of Bayern

The Borrowers

Bridge to Terabithia

The Boxcar Children

Captain Underpants

Casson Family

The Cat Club

Catwings

Charlotte's Web

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

The Chronicles of Dragon

The Chronicles of Prydain

The Circle of Magic

Clementine

The Clique

The Cloak Society

Cobble Street Cousins

The Cooper Kids Adventures

Coraline

Damar (McKinley)

The Dark Hills Divide

The Dark Is Rising

Dear America

Dear Canada

Deltora Quest

The Divide (Kay)

Dork Diaries

Dragonbreath

The Dragonfly Pool

Dragonhaven

Dragon Rider

Dragon Slayer's Academy

Earthsea Cycle

East (Pattou)

Echo (Ryan)

Edgar & Ellen

Emily (Montgomery)

Emily Windsnap

The Enchanted Castle

Encyclopedia Brown

Esperanza Rising

The Ever Afters

The Faerie Realm

Fablehaven

Fairyland (Valente)

The Faraway Tree

Ferngully

First Light (Stead)

Five Children and It

Flat Stanley

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Gallagher Girls

Geronimo Stilton

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

The Giver

Goddess Girls

Goosebumps

Graceling

The Great Brain

The Greenglass House

Gunnerkrigg Court

Half Upon a Time

The Hardy Boys

Hatchet

Heist Society

Help, I'm Trapped...

His Dark Materials

Holes

How to Train Your Dragon

The Hunger Games

Igraine the Brave

The Immortals Quartet

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place

Ingo (Dunmore)

The Inheritance Cycle

Inkheart

Iron Hearted Violet

Island of the Aunts

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Ivy & Bean

Journey to the River Sea

Julie of the Wolves

Junie B. Jones

The Kane Chronicles

The Kid Who Ran for President

Kiki Strike

Killer Unicorns

Kingdom Keepers

The Last Apprentice

The Letter for the King

La Quête d’Ewilan (in French)

Legend (Lu)

Les Chevaliers d’Émeraude (in French)

Leven Thumps

Liesl & Po

Little House on the Prairie

A Little Princess

Little Women

Lockwood & Co.

The Lost Conspiracy

Macdonald Hall

The Magic Thief

Magic Treehouse

The Magisterium

Magnus Chase

Malory Towers

Matt Cruse

Maximum Ride

Melissa (Gino)

Merlin (Barron)

Michael Vey

Miri and Molly

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Missing (Haddix)

Mister Max

The Mistmantle Chronicles

Misty (Henry)

Molly Moon

The Moorchild

Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

The Music of Dolphins

My Secret Unicorn

My Side of the Mountain

My Teacher Is an Alien

Nancy Drew

Nevermoor

The Neverending Story

Nimona

The Ogre Downstairs

Out of My Mind

The Penderwicks

Pendragon

Peter and the Starcatchers

The Phantom Stallion

The Phantom Tollbooth

Pillage (Skye)

Pippi Longstocking

Pixie Tricks

Poison (Zinn)

Pony Pals

Princess Academy

Protector of the Small

Rainbow Magic

Rain Reign

Ramona

Regarding the...

The Roman Mysteries

Rose (Webb)

Rowan of Rin

The Royal Diaries

Running Out of Time

Sammy Keyes

Savvy

School of Fear

The Search for Wondla

The Secret Garden

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Secret Series

Septimus Heap

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Seventh Tower

Shadow Children (Haddix)

Silver Brumby

Silverwing

Skullduggery Pleasant

Song of the Lioness

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Stardust

Stargirl

The Strictest School in the World

Swallows and Amazons

Sweet Valley High

The Swiss Family Robinson

A Tale Dark & Grimm

The Tale of Despereaux

Tales of Alderley

Tales of Magic

Ten Kids, No Pets

The Thief Lord

Tiffany Aching

Tillerman Cycle

Time Hunters

The Trumpet of the Swan

Tuck Everlasting

Tuesday McGillycuddy

The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Uglies

Un Lun Dun

Undertow

Unicorn Chronicles

Upon a Marigold

Upside-Down Magic

The Vengekeep Prophecies

The View from Saturday

The War That Saved My Life

Wayside School

The Westing Game

When You Reach Me

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wildwood Chronicles

Windsingers

Wings & Co.

Winnie the Pooh

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Worst Witch

You Be the Jury

#best childhood book #second competition

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allbestnet · 7 years ago

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500 Best Feminist Fiction

The list was compiled based on votes from the Goodreads community

Fiction of which feminism* is a primary theme. Stories about people challenging and overcoming gender roles, sexism, discrimination, etc.

*Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

6. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

7. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

8. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

9. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

10. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

11. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

13. Beloved by Toni Morrison

14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

15. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

16. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

17. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

18. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

19. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

20. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

21. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

22. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

24. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce

25. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

26. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French

27. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

28. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

29. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

30. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

31. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

32. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

33. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

34. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

35. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

36. Sula by Toni Morrison

37. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

38. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins

39. The V Girl by Mya Robarts

40. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

41. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

42. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

43. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

44. Room by Emma Donoghue

45. Middlemarch by George Eliot

46. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

47. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

48. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins

49. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

50. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

51. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

52. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

53. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

54. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

55. The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, the Plains of Passage (Earth’s Children, #1–4) by Jean M. Auel

56. The Little House Collection (Little House, #1–9) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

57. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

58. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

59. Kerri’s War (The King Trilogy #3) by Stephen Douglass

60. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) by Barbara Kingsolver

61. Paradise by Toni Morrison

62. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

63. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

64. Carrie by Stephen King

65. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

66. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

67. Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) by Kristin Cashore

68. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

69. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

70. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

71. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

72. My Ántonia by Willa Cather

73. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

74. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

75. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

76. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

77. Free to Be…You and Me by Marlo Thomas

78. Lilith’s Brood (Xenogenesis, #1–3) by Octavia E. Butler

79. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

80. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

81. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

82. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

83. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

84. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

85. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

86. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1) by Ann Brashares

87. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

88. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

89. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

90. Dietland by Sarai Walker

91. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

92. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

93. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

94. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

95. Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) by Kristin Cashore

96. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

97. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi

98. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

99. Meridian by Alice Walker

100. The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8) by Ursula K. Le Guin

101. So Far from God by Ana Castillo

102. The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory

103. The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

104. Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth

105. Deerskin by Robin McKinley

106. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

107. Lady of Avalon (Avalon, #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

108. Storm and Silence (Storm and Silence, #1) by Robert Thier

109. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

110. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier

111. Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg

112. The Blue Sword (Damar, #1) by Robin McKinley

113. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

114. Trickster’s Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce

115. Chains (Seeds of America, #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson

116. The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1) by Philip Pullman

117. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

118. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

119. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

120. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan

121. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

122. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

123. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

124. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

125. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett

126. Wired by Martha R. Carr

127. Kushiel’s Dart (Phèdre’s Trilogy, #1) by Jacqueline Carey

128. Push by Sapphire

129. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

130. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3) by Tamora Pierce

131. Island of the Blue Dolphins (Island of the Blue Dolphins, #1) by Scott O’Dell

132. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

133. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

134. Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) by Joanne Harris

135. The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Song of the Lioness, #1–4) by Tamora Pierce

136. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

137. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

138. The №1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (№1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith

139. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

140. Wise Child (Doran, #1) by Monica Furlong

141. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) by Terry Pratchett

142. Howards End by E.M. Forster

143. The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton

144. Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1) by Lisa See

145. Contact by Carl Sagan

146. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

147. In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2) by Tamora Pierce

148. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

149. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates

150. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

151. First Test (Protector of the Small, #1) by Tamora Pierce

152. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

153. Copygirl by Anna Mitchael

154. Freyja’s Daughter (Wild Women, #1) by Rachel Pudelek

155. White Oleander by Janet Fitch

156. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

157. The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2) by Robin McKinley

158. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

159. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

160. Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

161. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

162. Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

163. The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

164. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer

165. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson

166. Wild Magic (Immortals, #1) by Tamora Pierce

167. The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart, #3) by Philip Pullman

168. Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

169. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

170. True Grit by Charles Portis

171. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

172. Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

173. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris

174. One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) by Janet Evanovich

175. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior #4) by Anaïs Nin

176. The Female Man by Joanna Russ

177. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

178. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

179. Odyssey In A Teacup by Paula Houseman

180. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

181. Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1) by Cherie Priest

182. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

183. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

184. Ice in My Veins by Kelli Sullivan

185. Baise-Moi by Virginie Despentes

186. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

187. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

188. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1) by Patricia C. Wrede

189. Uglies (Uglies, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

190. Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust

191. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

192. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

193. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

194. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin

195. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

196. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

197. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

198. Villette by Charlotte Brontë

199. Poems by Emily Dickinson

200. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

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tigriswolf · 8 years ago

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SO. First book review up and running.

Chronologically, Provost’s Dog starts the Tortall ‘verse, but I’ve never read that series; I just couldn’t get into the diary format. Song of the Lioness comes next but was the first written. The first I read was The Immortals.

Obviously, I say to start with The Immortals (Wild Magic, Wolf-Speaker, Emperor Mage, The Realm of the Gods). Then go to Song of the Lioness (Alanna: The FIrst Adventure, In the Hands of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Lioness Rampant) after you’ve already met the characters. Protector of the Small is my absolute fave (First Test, Page, Squire, Lady Knight) then there’s Daughter of the Lioness (Trickster’s Choice, Trickster’s Queen). Tortall and Other Lands completes it, with stories that take place outside of Tortall and with other povs.

Now that you know the order to read them in, I’ll tell you the basic plot and characters.

Alanna of Trebond wants to be a knight but girls aren’t allowed; so she trades places with her twin brother, who DOES NOT want to be a knight, and pretends to be a boy for 8 years. She manages through sheer badassery, though a few characters figure it out and others have to be told for plot reasons.

Daine Sarrasri is a 13-year-old orphan running from her past who wants to find somewhere no one knows her. She picks the land with the legendary Sir Alanna, at the same time mythical monsters are popping up all over the place.

Keladry of Mindelan is the first KNOWN girl page in a couple hundred years, and there are very many people who want her to fail.

Alianne of Pirate’s Swoop and Olau wants to work with her da in his spycraft and has no idea how to interact with her mother, the legendary Sir Alanna.

Kel is my absolute fave, but Daine is a close second. Both of those quartets are just as good as they were when I first read them years ago. Those four span about 30 years, so the characters keep showing up in various stages of their lives across the books.

I will admit that there are some problematic elements, but you can literally see Tamora Pierce grow as a writer. Each of the women is their own person, badass in different ways, with varying levels of femininity. The plots have twists and turns, and while the bad guys are fairly obvious, it’s a real battle, with realistic losses, to defeat them.

Also, when reading, keep in mind that Song of the Lioness came out in the 80s, The Immortals in the 90s, Protector of the Small and Daughter of the Lioness in the early 2000s. There’s another series for Tortall in the works, which is YAY.

Dude, also also, there is a REASON my tag for Tortall is ‘zombie dinosaurs no seriously’. It is AMAZING and one of the best scenes of ANYTHING EVER.

#review #books #zombie dinosaurs no seriously #tamora pierce #meta: tortall #my meta

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