Heroine’s Bookshelf Reading Challenge
Starts: Jan 1, 2011 Ends: Dec 31, 2011

The Challenge:
Choose books from the specific chapters of The Heroine’s Bookshelf and/or the literary sisters mentioned in the book. Re-reads don’t count towards this challenge.

The Heroines:
Elizabeth Bennet – Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
Janie Crawford – Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Shirley – Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maude Montgomery
Celie – The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Francie Nolan – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Claudine – Claudine at School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, & Claudine and Annie – Colette
Scarlett O’Hara – Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Scout Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Laura Ingalls – The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Jane Eyre – (duh) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jo March – Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Mary Lennox - The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Select Literary Sisters:
Emma – (duh) Emma – Jane Austen
Bridget Jones – Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
Edna Pontellier – The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Sethe – Beloved – Toni Morrison
Idgie Threadgood – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg
Esperanza Cordero – The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Daisy Fay Harper – Daisy Fay Harper and the Miracle Man – Fannie Flagg (One of my FAVORITE books!)
Cassandra Mortmain – I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Sara Crewe – A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett