Women's Prize for Fiction…
In May we launched a vote to curate a list of ten essential books for men, written by women. Our campaign aimed to encourage more men to read novels by women born out of statistical research in Mary Ann Sieghart's bestselling book The Authority Gap. Mary Ann's research demonstrated that whilst women read novels by men and women almost equally, fiction written by women is rarely read by men.
20,000 votes were cast over ten days, narrowing the sixty recommended books down to just ten. Margaret Atwood's iconic novel The Handmaid's Tale received the most votes and topped the list which included a stellar line-up of classic and contemporary novels, including works from Harper Lee, Bernardine Evaristo and Mary Shelley.
