These are (in alphabetical order) the books that are either already on my feminist bookshelf, or have a place reserved there. Not all of these books necessarily have my endorsement, but they all contributed to my feminist self-education in some way:
1. The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood
2.The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
3. Manifesta, by Jennifer Baumgardner
4. We Don’t Need Another Wave, by Melody Berger
5. Reconciliation, by Benazir Bhutto
6. Against Our Will, by Susan Brownmiller
7. Candy Girl, by Diablo Cody
8. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
9. Living History, by Hillary Clinton
10. The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
11. Unbearable Lightness, by Portia de Rossi
12. Sexual Fluidity, by Lisa Diamond
13. Enlightened Sexism, by Susan Douglas
14. I am an Emotional Creature, by Eve Ensler
15. The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenidies
16. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
17. The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler
18. Backlash, by Susan Fauldi
19. The Dialectic of Sex, by Shulamith Firestone
20. The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French
21. The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
22. Yes Means Yes, by Jaclyn Friedman
23. Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
24. Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
25. The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
26. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Ain’t I a Woman, by bell hooks
28. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center, by bell hooks
29. Feminism is for Everybody, by bell hooks
30. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
31. Society’s Child, by Janis Ian
32. Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
33. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
34. Female Chauvinist Pigs, by Ariel Levy
35. In the Name of Honor, by Mukhtar Mai
36. Click, by Courtney Martin
37. My Little Red Book, by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
38. The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
39. Odd Girl Out, by Rachel Simmons
40. Reading Women, by Stephanie Staal
41. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, by Gloria Steinem
42. Fight Like a Girl, by Megan Seely
43. Flow, by Elissa Stein
44. Full Frontal Feminism, by Jessica Valenti
45. The Purity Myth, by Jessica Valenti
46. Self-Made Man, by Norah Vincent
47. A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
48. The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
49. A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
50. The Good Women of China, by Xinran
Reblogging because I’m always looking for a new feminist read and I only own 5 of the books on this list.
I must read all these.
Lols, I just saw this and was like, wow, those look like great books! And then I saw that I wrote this in the first place.
#imadork
I have read the books in italics and own some of them.. I have a lot to of reading to do…
