Books For International Women's Day


It's the most wonderful time of the year, guys! It's Women's History Month! And today is International Women's Day! In celebration, I've compiled a bunch of great reads by, for, and about women. Whip out your TBR and get ready to add some titles to your list.


Feminist Non-Fiction

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It by Kate Harding
We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent

Awesome Memoirs by Women 

Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks
Born With Teeth by Kate Mulgrew

Girls' Stories in Fiction (YA)

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Women's Stories in Contemporary Fiction

The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
The Invisibles by Cecilia Galante
Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder

Women's Stories in Classic and Modern Classic Fiction

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Have you read any of these titles? What do you think? What books would you recommend?



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