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message 1: by Astrid (last edited Jan 23, 2016 10:21AM) (new)

Astrid | 215 comments The book suggestions thread keep growing, and there are a lot of books being suggested multiple times as well as lots of chatter. To try to make things are bit more accessible, I'll create a list here with only the book titles.

Please note that some books aren't mentioned because the author has been listed as an essential author. So for instance The Handmaid's Tale isn't under A because Margaret Atwood is on the Authors list.

I've also created a Google document with the full list. You can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T...

If you're looking for a specific genre, you can browse these lists:

Fiction
Non-fiction
Anthologies
Biographies and Memoirs
Poetry
Non-fiction texts pre-1914

If you want me to add anything to the list, feel free to send me a private message or go here to suggest books.


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message 4: by Astrid (last edited Jan 28, 2016 11:16AM) (new)

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Mariama Ba
So Long a Letter
Scarlet Song
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl
Fredrik Backman: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Sejal Badani: Trail of Broken Wings
Raif Badawi: 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
Élisabeth Badinter: XY: On Masculine Identity
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
LaShonda Katrice Barnett: Jam on the Vine
Drew Barrymore: Wildflower
Laura Bates: Everyday Sexism
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
The Woman Destroyed
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Alison Bechdel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Deirdre Beddoe: Discovering Women's History: A Practical Guide to Researching the Lives of Women Since 1800
David Benatar: The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys
Leslie Bennetts: The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?
Lucia Berlin: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Kurt W. Beyer: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Benazir Bhutto: Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
Bridget Birdsall: Double Exposure
Sage Blackwood: Jinx
Judy Blume: Forever
Merlinda Bobis: Banana Heart Summer
Kate Bolick: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
M.A. Bonuso: Threads of the Departed Trilogy
Holly Bourne:
Am I Normal Yet?
How Hard Can Love Be?
Lila Bowen: Wake of Vultures
Anne Boyer: Garments Against Women
Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon
Karren Brady: Strong Woman: Ambition, Grit and a Great Pair of Heels
Gerd Brantenberg: Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes
Libba Bray: Beauty Queens
Elizabeth S. Brinton: My American Eden
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Karen Brodine: Woman Sitting At The Machine, Thinking: Poems
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Anne Brontë:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë:
Jane Eyre
Shirley
Villette
Cupcake Brown: A Piece of Cake
Helen Gurley Brown: Sex and The Single Girl
Brené Brown: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Carrie Brownstein: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Alyssa Brugman: Alex As Well
Carolyn Burdett: Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire
Jennifer Burge: The Devil Wears Clogs
Judith Butler:
Gender Trouble
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
A.S. Byatt: Possession
Sheena Byrom: The Roar Behind the Silence: Why Kindness, Compassion and Respect Matter in Maternity Care


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Chloe Caldwell: Women
Bonnie Jo Campbell: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters
Margot Canaday: The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
Irin Carmon: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
Angela Carter:
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Jimmy Carter: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Alison Case: Nelly Dean
Kristin Cashore: Graceling
Kiera Cass: The Selection series
Ana Castillo: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Willa Cather: O Pioneers!
Dulce Chacon: The Sleeping Voice
Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang: Bound Feet & Western Dress
Shay Chan Hodges: Lean On and Lead, Mothering and Work in the 21st Century Economy
Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme: My Life in France
Kate Chopin:
The Awakening
The Story of an Hour and Other Stories
Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Bridget Christie: A Book for Her
Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
Sandra Cisneros:
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
The House on Mango Street
Caramelo
Hélène Cixous: The Laugh of the Medusa
Eli Clare: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Lucille Clifton: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
Dorothy Sue Cobble et.al.: Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
Paulo Coelho: The Witch Of Portobello
Cheryl Cole: Cheryl: My Story
Lindsey Collen: The Rape of Sita
Patricia Hill Collins: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Maryse Condé: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Marquis de Condorcet: On The Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship
Anna J. Cooper: A Voice from the South (online)
Betsy Cornwell: Mechanica
Bryce Courtenay: Jessica
Annabel Crabb: The Wife Drought
Molly Crabapple: Drawing Blood
Kimberle Crenshaw: On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw


message 10: by Astrid (last edited Jan 26, 2016 02:15PM) (new)

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J. Jack Halberstam:
Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Female Masculinity
Kristin Hannah: The Nightingale
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Will Harlan: Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Melissa Joan Hart: Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Eileen M. Hayes: Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music
Le Ly Hayslip: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Jaq Hazell: I Came to Find a Girl
Jean Hegland: Into the Forest
Ann Heilmann:
New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism
New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird
Sally Helgesen, Julie Johnson: The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work
Anne Henderson: Mary MacKillop's Sisters: A Life Unveiled
Judith Herman: Trauma and Recovery
Daisy Hernández: A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
Lawrence Hill: The Book of Negroes
Anita Hill: Speaking Truth to Power
Marta Hillers: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Thea Hillman: Intersex
Rachel Hills: The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality
Linda Hirshman: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Sarah Lucia Hoagland: Lesbian Ethics
Pede Hollist: So the Path Does Not Die
Rachel Holmes: Eleanor Marx: A Life
Colleen Hoover: Slammed
Christine Horansky: Girl Power in the Age of the Millennials: Essays on Women, Youth and Global Social Change
Jessica Mkakyera Horn: Speaking in Tongues
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana's Dream
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hugh Howey: Wool, Shift, Dust
Valerie Hudson et al: Sex and World Peace
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables


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message 13: by Astrid (last edited Jan 28, 2016 11:44AM) (new)

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Frida Kahlo: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Mitsuyo Kakuta: The Eighth Day
Mariatu Kamara: The Bite of Mango
Katrina Karkazis: Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
Rupi Kaur: milk and honey
M. M. Kaye: The Ordinary Princess
Susanna Kaysen: Girl, Interrupted
Marina Keegan: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Dorka Keehn: Eco Amazons: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World
Helena Kennedy: Eve Was Framed: Women And British Justice
Piper Kerman: Orange Is the New Black
Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Stephen Kerry: Are You a Boy or a Girl? Intersex and Genders
Mindy Khaling: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Shubnum Khan: Onion Tears: A Novel
Sue Monk Kidd:
The Secret Life of Bees
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
The Invention of Wings
Denise Kiernan: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John
Stephen King: Dolores Claiborne
Barbara Kingsolver:
Small Wonder
The Poisonwood Bible
Natsuo Kirino: Out
Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior
Julia Korbik: Stand Up: Feminismus für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene
Amy Koppelman: Hesitation Wounds: A Novel
Jerzy Kosinski: Steps
Ellen Koskoff: A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian
Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Chris Kraus: I Love Dick
Nicholas D. Kristoff: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide *Critique
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being


message 15: by Astrid (last edited Jan 28, 2016 11:39AM) (new)

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Sarah J. Maas: Throne of Glass
Wangari Maathai: Unbowed
Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace: To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started
Naguib Mahfouz: The Answer is No (PDF)
Rosie Malezer: Change Your Name and Disappear : A Terrifying True Tale of Survival
Amina Mama: Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990's
Henning Mankell: Daisy Sisters
Wilma Mankiller:
Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
Maria Manzano: Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Melina Marchetta:
Looking for Alibrandi
Saving Francesca
The Lumatere Chronicles
Sara Marcus: Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Beryl Markham: West with the Night
Joyce Marlow: Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes
Yann Martel: Self
Agnes Martin: Agnes Martin: Writings = Schriften
Aspen Mattis: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Adrienne Mayor: The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
Anne McCaffrey: Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragonflight
Mary McCarthy: The Group
Patricia McCormick: Sold
Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Cody Mcfadyen: Shadow Man
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries
Danielle McGuire: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Kendra McMahan: Binarius: Episode I
Margaret Mead: Male and Female
Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy
Lee Mehl: The Two Worlds of Lee Mehl
Nivedita Menon: Seeing Like a Feminist
Carolyn Merchant: Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World
Marianne Mertens: Des Weidmanns Weib (The Hunter's Wife)
Shannon Messenger: Keeper of the Lost Cities
John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women
Alice Miller: Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth
Kate Millett: Sexual Politics
Mike Milotte: Banished Babies: Secret History of Ireland's Baby Export Business
Yukio Mishima: Confessions of a Mask
Janet Mock: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Chandra Talpade Mohanty: Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Tara Mohr: Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message
L.M. Montgomery:
Anne of Green Gables
Emily of New Moon
Anne Moody: Coming of Age in Mississippi
Edward Kelsey Moore: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
Terry Moore: Strangers in Paradise, Pocket Book 1
Henrietta L. Moore: Feminism And Anthropology
Caitlin Moran: *Critique
How to Build a Girl
How to Be a Woman
Robin Morgan: From "Dark Matter"
Caroline Moorehead: A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
Joan Morgan: When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (please note, the validity of this story has been questioned)
Tara Moss: The Fictional Woman
Inga Muscio: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Kate Mulgrew: Born with Teeth
Brandon Mull: Fablehaven
Robert Munsch: The Paper Bag Princess
Walter Dean Myers: Monster


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Tawni O'Dell: Fragile Beasts
Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death
Louise O'Neill:
Asking For It
Only Ever Yours
Susie Orbach: Fat Is a Feminist Issue
Wendy C. Ortiz: Excavation: A Memoir
Helen Oyeyemi: The Icarus Girl
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Dust


message 18: by Astrid (last edited Jan 28, 2016 11:13AM) (new)

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Z.Z. Packer: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Liz Palmer: Conversations With the Fat Girl
Pandora: THE BALANCE: PILGRIM
Emmeline Pankhurst: Sufragette: My Own Story (can be found on Project Gutenberg)
Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Keija Parssinen: The Unraveling of Mercy Louis: A Novel
Ann Patchett:
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Truth and Beauty
Edith Pattou: East
Lalline Paul: The Bees
Jayme Payne: A Feminist's Redemption
Annalisa Marí Pegrum: Beat Attitude: Antología de mujeres poetas de la generación beat
Laurie Penny: Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Melissa Harris Perry: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Candace B. Pert: Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
Jessica Mason Pieklo: Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard in Women's Health and How We Can Change That
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinna: Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Marge Piercy: Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York
Christine de Pizan: The Writings of Christine de Pizan
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
Val Plumwood: Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
Amy Poehler: Yes Please
Eileen Pollack: The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Lynn Povich: The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
Menna van Praag: The House at the End of Hope Street
Terry Pratchett:
Mort
Equal Rites
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials


message 19: by Astrid (last edited Jan 22, 2016 09:49AM) (new)

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Anna Quindlen: Black and Blue
Isabel Quintero: Gabi, a Girl in Pieces


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Shan Sa: Empress
Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Brandon Sanderson: Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set
Parinoush Saniee: The Book of Fate
Sark: Succulent Wild Woman
May Sarton: Journal of a Solitude
Jean Sasson: Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Marjane Satrapi:
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Embroideries
Anne Wilson Schaef: Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society
Christiane Schönfeld: Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity In The Weimar Republic
Joan Wallach Scott: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man
Melissa Scott: Shadow Man
Mary Seacole: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Lisa See: Shanghai Girls
Maria Semple: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Ritu Sharma: Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe
Tess Sharpe: Far From You
Lynn Sherr: Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space
Warsan Shire: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Elaine Showalter: A Literature Of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë To Lessing
Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Rudy Simone:
Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know
Jen Sincero: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
Martin Sixsmith: The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search (Critique)
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Anne-Marie Slaughter: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
Karin Slaughter: Pretty Girls
Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy
Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Patti Smith:
M Train
Just Kids
Tracy K. Smith: Ordinary Light
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Bonnie G. Smith: Global Feminisms Since 1945
Tom Rob Smith: Child 44
Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Lori Nelson Spielman: The Life List
Jerry Spinelli: Stargirl
Rae Spoon, Ivan Coyote: Gender Failure
Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
The Woman's Bible
History Of Woman Suffrage
Starhawk: City of Refuge
Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose
Edith Stein: Essays on Woman
Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Gertrude Stein: Three Lives
Gloria Steinem:
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Kathryn Stockett: The Help
James Stoddah: A Parallel Trust
Merlin Stone: When God Was a Woman
Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren: Cirkeln
Cheryl Strayed: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria Revelations series
Anne Summers: Ducks on the Pond
Courtney Summers: All the Rage
Melanie Sumner: How to Write a Novel
Aung San Suu Kyi: Letters from Burma
Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Magda Szabo: The Door


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Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
C. Zetkin: Lenin on the Women's Question
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief


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