Virginia Woolf and the GLBT Reading Challenge 2010

 I adore Virginia Woolf, and am attempting to read a substantial number of her works in the next year. Thus, two perfect crossovers! I am also delighted to follow the Woolf in Winter discussions - I am tremendously excited by this! What a fantastic idea! So that's Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the (intimidating) The Waves.

Then, the GLBT reading challenge. Although I am fairly sure Woolf would have loathed this definition, she was one of the greatest GLBT writers to ever grace us with their words... Since I'll already have four of Woolf's books under my thumb, I am obliged to attempt the Rainbow Level - 12 books - and not all Woolf, I promise! The list below is particularly long because I have included 8 that I have already read, simply to tick them off my personal list, rather than for the challenge! There's far more than 12 books left to read...

I'm thinking:

• The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
• Ladies Almanack - Djuna Barnes
• Orlando: A Biography - Virginia Woolf
• Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• The Waves - Virginia Woolf
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
• Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
• Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
• The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
• Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
• Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
• The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
• Affinity - Sarah Waters
• Lesbian Body - Monique Wittig
• Lover - Bertha Harris
• Maurice - E.M.Forster
• Angels in America - Tony Kushner
• Regeneration - Pat Barker
• How Many Miles to Babylon - Jennifer Johnston
• Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
• The Hours - Michael Cunningham
• Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
• The Coming Storm - Paul Russell
• In a Shallow Grave - James Purdy
• The Book of Salt - Monique Truong
• Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
• Two Serious Ladies - Jane Auer Bowles
• Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
• More Women than Men - I. Compton-Burnett
• Howards End - E.M.Forster
• The Go-Between - L.P.Hartley
• Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
• A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood
• Women in Love - D.H.Lawrence
• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
• Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
• Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman - Angela Carter
• The Bell - Iris Murdoch
• The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers

Current total: 8/44