The Most Eagerly Anticipated Fiction by Women in 2022

Even in the year of our lord 2022—and I, too, cannot believe we’re fast approaching 2022—much of what we consider literary canon is dominated by men. Per the VIDA Count, a nonprofit organization that tracks diversity in the literary landscape, the overwhelming majority of literary publications mostly highlighted books by men in 2019 (the last year for which we have data). And per Nielson in collaboration with The Guardian, men are “disproportionately unlikely even to open a book by a woman.” Which brings me to this: We need to be talking about books by women, not just to close the… Read Full Article