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(authors where the entire body of work should be considered or who are essential to the feminist movement)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Books
Isabel Allende - Books
Maya Angelou - Books
Margaret Atwood - Books
Jane Austen - Books
Nellie Bly - Books
Octavia E. Butler - Books
George Carlin - Books
Rosario Castellanos - Books
Colette - Books
Angela Y. Davis - Books
Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen - Books
Emma Donoghue - Books
Slavenka Drakulić - Books
Nell Dunn
Andrea Dworkin - Books
Nancy Friday
Elizabeth Gaskell - Books
Emma Goldman - Books
Bell Hooks - Books
Zora Neale Hurston - Books
N.K. Jemisin - Books
Maureen Johnson - Books
Diana Wynne Jones - Books
Marcela Lagarde - Books
Ursula K. Le Guin - Books
Tanith Lee - Books
Clarice Lispector - Books
Audre Lorde - Books
Toni Maguire - Books
Fatema Mernissi - Books
Toni Morrison - Books
Jojo Moyes - Books
Anaïs Nin - Books
Tamora Pierce - Books
Elena Poniatowska - Books
Ayn Rand - Books
Amalie Skram - Books
Zadie Smith - Books
Amy Tan - Books
Alice Walker - Books
Jeanette Winterson - Books
Virginia Woolf - Books

Lila Abu-Lughod: Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Carol J. Adams: The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Kari Aguila:
Women's Work
RUN Ragged
Orked binti Ahmad: Yasmin How You Know?
Susan Wittig Albert: Loving Eleanor
Madeleine Albright: Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Louisa M. Alcott: Little Women
Sibilla Aleramo: A Woman
Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Svetlana Alexievich: War's Unwomanly Face
Nujood Ali: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Infidel
Paula Gunn Allen: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Destiny Allison: The Romance Diet: Body Image and the War We Wage on Ourselves
Dorothy Allison: Bastard Out of Carolina
Anita Amirrezvani: The Blood of Flowers
Sophia Amoruso: #GIRLBOSS
Megan Amram: Science ...For Her!
Swami Amritaswarupananda : Ammachi: A Biography of Mata Amritanandamayi
Anita Anand: Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Lindsay Anderson: Syrin
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
Nina Ansary: Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran
Aaron Apps: Intersex
Alicia Appleman-Jurman: Alicia
Ann L. Ardis: New Women, New Novels
Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
Tony Atwood, Temple Grandin: Asperger's and Girls: World-Renowned Experts Join Those with Asperger's Syndrome to Resolve Issues That Girls and Women Face Every Day!
Victoria Aveyard: Red Queen

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

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

Sarah Dalton: The Blemished
Mary Daly: Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
Meghan Daum: The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
Anthony David: An Improbable Friendship: The Story of Yasser Arafat's Mother-in-Law, the Wife of Israel's Top General and Their 40-Year Mission of Peace
Jeannie Davide-Rivera: Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
Andrew Davidson: The Gargoyle
Felicia Day: You're Never Weird on the Internet
Sarah Deer: The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
Samuel R. Delaney: Dhalgren
Michaela DePrince: Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Sonali Deraniyagala: Wave
Virginie Despentes: King Kong Theory
Anita Diamant: The Red Tent
Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Michael Dante DiMartino: Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender
Dorothy Dinnerstein: The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise
Waris Dirie: Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
Rita Dove: Sonata Mulattica
Roddy Doyle: The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Carol Ann Duffy: The World's Wife
Firoozeh Dumas: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Sarah Dunant: The Birth of Venus
Lena Dunham: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Tehmina Durrani: My Feudal Lord

Shirin Ebadi: Iran Awakening
David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl
Barbara Ehrenreich: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Jonathan Eig: The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Riane Eisler: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Nawal El-Saadawi:
Woman at Point Zero
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
Rachel Eliason: The Case of Nikki Pagan
Elizabeth I: Collected Works
Samantha Ellis: How To Be a Heroine
Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Eve Ensler:
I am an Emotional Creature
The Vagina Monologues
Nora Ephron: Heartburn
Barbara Erskine: Kingdom of Shadows
Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Lillian Faderman: The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Sonia Falerio: Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Oriana Fallaci: The Useless Sex
Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Anne Fausto-Sterling: Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Deborah Feldman: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Elizabeth Warnack Fernea: Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Tina Fey: Bossypants
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
Leta Hong Fincher: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Lindsay Fischer: The House on Sunset
Janet Fitch: White Oleander
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Carly Fleischmann: Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism
Catherine Florang: A Million Pieces
Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl
Emma Forrest: Your Voice in My Head
Carol Fox: Memoirs of a Feminist Mother
Marie de France: The Lais of Marie de France
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career
Clara Fraser: Revolution, She Wrote
Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Marilyn French:
The Women's Room
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
J.M. Frey: The Untold Tale
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
Marilyn Frye: Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
Kate Furnivall: The Russian Concubine

Diana Gabaldon: Outlander series
Neil Gaiman:
Stardust
Anansi Boys
Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling
Antonella Gambotto-Burke: Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution
Elena Garro: Recollections of Things to Come
Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist
Leymah Gbowee: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Elizabeth Gilbert: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Julia Gillard: My Story
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
Herland
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore: Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
George Gissing:
The Odd Women
Thyrza
Nadine Gordimer: Burger's Daughter
Beate Sirota Gordon: The Only Woman in the Room
Charlotte Gordon: Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Hiromi Goto: Chorus Of Mushrooms
Marcia Grad: The Princess Who Believed in Fairy Tales
Sarah Grand:
The Beth Book
The Heavenly Twins
Reyna Grande: The Distance Between Us
Melissa Gira Grant: Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Lucy Grealy: Autobiography of a Face
John Green: Paper Towns
Amy Greene: Bloodroot
Germaine Greer: The Whole Woman
Lauren Groff: Fates and Furies
Elizabeth Grosz: Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism

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

Joshilyn Jackson: Backseat Saints
Rona Jaffe: The Best of Everything
Sherie James: The Land of the Living
Margo Jefferson: Negroland: A Memoir
Elfriede Jelinek: Women as Lovers
Lael Couper Jepson: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer
Erika Johansen: The Queen of the Tearling
Jane Johnson: The Salt Road
Lacy Johnson: The Other Side: A Memoir
Allan G. Johnson: The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
Erica Jong: Fear of Flying
Jennifer Jordan: Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
June Jordan: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
Ashley Judd: All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir
Miranda July: The First Bad Man

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

Eva Lacomte: Paula, the Waldensian
Jhumoa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies
Stephen Landrigan: Shakespeare in Kabul
Eve LaPlante: Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Julie LaVoie: The Glass Ceiling
Jenny Lawson: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Violette Leduc: La Bâtarde
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Hyeonseo Lee: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Rosamond Lehmann: The Weather in the Streets
Geena Leigh: Call Me Sasha
Holger Lendt, Lisa Fischbach: Treue ist auch keine Lösung: Ein Plädoyer für mehr Freiheit in der Liebe
Jill Lepore: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Ellen Lewin: Feminist Anthropology: A Reader
Sinclair Lewis: Main Street
Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
Emily Lindin: UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir
Sven Lindqvist: Exterminate All the Brutes: &, Desert Divers
E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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

Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Emily Nagoski: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Gloria Naylor: Mama Day
Marina Nemat: Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir
William Nicholson: The Wind on Fire trilogy
Jennifer Niven: All the Bright Places
Jenny Nordberg: The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Naomi Novik: Uprooted
Alida Nugent: You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
Martha C. Nussbaum: Sex and Social Justice

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

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

The Radical Women Manifesto
Cheryl Rainfield: Scars
Claudia Rankine: Citizen: An American Lyric
William H. Rehnquist: All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Laura Restrepo:
The Dark Bride
Leopard in the Sun
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Adrienne Rich: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Henry Handel Richardson: The Getting of Wisdom
Denise Rivera: Life, Recalculated
Marilynne Robinson: Home
Michael Robotham: Watching You
Gaby Rodriguez: The Pregnancy Project
Eleanor Roosevelt: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Will Roscoe:
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
The Zuni Man-Woman
Gillian Rose: Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
Alex Rosenberg: The Girl from Krakow
Hanna Rosin: The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
Veronica Roth: Divergent
Sheila Rowbotham:
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Joanna Russ:
The Female Man
How to Suppress Women's Writing
K. K. Ruthven: Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction

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

Sylvia Tamale: African Sexualities: A Reader
Tanishka: The Inner Goddess Makeover. Revised Edition
Abigail Tarttelin: Golden Boy
Danielle Tate: Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company
Michelle Tea: Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
Lygia Fagundes Telles: As Meninas
Corrie Ten Boom: The Hiding Place
Sheri S. Tepper:
Gibbon's Decline and Fall
The Family Tree
Six Moon Dance
William Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Susan Thistlethwaite: Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women
Judith Thurman: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Tiqqun: Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
Barbara Tomlinson: Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist
M. Tonnesen: The Cosmopolitan Islander
Melanie Toye: Destiny Lane
Rebecca Traitster: Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
Sojourner Truth: Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Hilda Twongyeirwe: I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter

Cathrynne M. Valente: Deathless
Jessica Valenti: Full Frontal Feminism
Virginia Valian: Why So Slow?: The Advancement of Women
Ethlie Ann Vare, Greg Ptacek: Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas
Gore Vidal: The City and the Pillar
Elisabeth Vonarburg: In the Mother's Land

Frans De Waal: The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Sarai Walker: Dietland
Barbara G. Walker: Feminist Fairy Tales
Jeannette Walls:
The Silver Star
The Glass Castle
Natasha Walter: Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
Jo Walton: My Real Children
Maathai Wangari: Unbowed
Jesmyn Ward: Men We Reaped
Lee Ann Ward: There in the Moon Mist
Ruth Wariner: The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Sylvia Townsend Warner : Summer Will Show
Rosie Waterland: The Anti-Cool Girl
Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests
Emily Diana Watts: The Fine Art of Jujutsu
Mary Weber: Storm Siren
Jean Webster:
Daddy-Long-Legs
Dear Enemy
Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity
Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
Zoe Whittal: Bottle Rocket Hearts
Richard Wilkinson: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Terry Tempest Williams: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
David Sloan Wilson: Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
Anne Wizorek: Weil ein #Aufschrei nicht reicht
Meg Wolitzer: The Ten-Year Nap
Stacy Wolf: Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
Naomi Wolf:
The Beauty Myth
Vagina: A New Biography
Mary Wollstonecraft:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
Merle Woo: Yellow Woman Speaks: Selected Poems
Charlotte Wood: The Natural Way of Things
Jacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Patricia Wrede: Dealing with Dragons

Tiphanie Yanique: Land of Love and Drowning
Anzia Yezierska: Bread Givers
Jane Yolen: Sword of the Rightful King
Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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

I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty
The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
New French Feminisms
Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Women Writing Culture
Feminism for the Real World
Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women
On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays
Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
The Challenge Of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements In Global Perspective
Women's Culture in a New Era: A Feminist Revolution?
Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
Fifty Shades of Feminism
Voice Male: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men's Movement

3 Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism
Patricia Hill Collins: Toward a New Vision
Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
Lisa L. Hannett: The Canary
Peggy Mcintosh: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Gloria Steinem: If Men Could Menstruate
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Criticism
Half The Sky: neocolonialism
A Feminist Criticism of Half the Sky
Half the Sky: how the other half suffer by Germaine Greer
Caitlin Moran: lack of intersectionality
Open Letter to Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran: white feminisn and unacknowledged privilege
Lena Dunham Racism: How Caitlin Moran Exemplifies the Problem of Feminist Privilege
A problem that stubbornly refuses to budge
Why I Didn't Run the Caitlin Moran Interview
Philomena: A Mother, her Son and a Fifty-Year Search
Review by Susan Kavanagh
Websites
Feminist Reading Group
Amelia Bloomer Project
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