#I have another set of bookblr cover posts coming up based on my 2023 reading challenge

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"You can only keep 20 books out of all the books you own" tag

I saw this originally on @theinquisitxor 's page. I thought I'd do my own version of their tag.

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

This was hard. I only picked from books I've read all the way through. This list also includes two honorable mentions (because I couldn't limit myself :/). I'll list the titles and authors at the end.

Frankenstein (1818 edition) by Mary Shelley

Mary's Monster by Lita Judge

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

Byron in Love by Edna O' Brien

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion

Persuasion by Jane Austen

My Plain Jane by Cythnia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Literary Theory by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

(Honorable mentions)

Abigail by Magda Szabo

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by bell hooks (not pictured here- but I do own a copy, I just couldn't find it in time for this post).

I tag: @paperbackpropensity, @thatwritererinoriordan, @godzilla-reads, and anyone else who wants to do this! :)

Because of how long my post already is, please make a new post for your own version of the tag. Feel free to tag me back, if you want, but also credit @theinquisitxor for making the original tag.

Thank you and have fun, everyone! :D

#I probably should have put them all in one picture but the stack kept falling over :/ #also you couldn't see the covers #are you surprised- probably not? #a lot of these were based on my grad work but some were not #I actually don't own a lot of my favorite books- I used to go to the library a lot #and I didn't add any tbrs because I don't know if I even like any of those yet-but thank goodness this is just hypothetical #very interesting tag game OP #books #bookblr #book covers #I have another set of bookblr cover posts coming up based on my 2023 reading challenge #book tags #20 books #my books #black beauty and wuthering heights were gifts from my grandma #I own three copies of wuthering heights but this one has the prettiest art #austen fans might kill me but I like Persuasion more than Pride and Prejudice #bronte fans might kill me because I like Anne more than Charlotte- and I didn't pick any of Charlotte's books!!! (Rochester sucks) #I kind of agree with Woolf's assessment of Charlotte and uh it's not flattering AND she is the reason Anne is less well known #but Charlotte is also the reason either of her sisters are published at all so I can't hate her- she was bold enough to encourage them #I did a paper on Gilman too #PLEASE read some of Gilman's other stories- they are just as good as yellow wallpaer! #the literary theory book has saved me more than I'd like to admit #many good articles to toss about and tear apart with your fellow grad students if ever you have any doubts about a text #yes I have used the female husbands book in some of my grad work too #I think woolf fans would be cool with me since A Room of One's Own is one of her best/most influential works #and some of these ARE going to be used in future papers too #I LOVE Kate Beaton's history and literature comics #historic fiction #lgbt literature