HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
To celebrate, I thought I’d make a list of feminist books. These are books that are explicitly feminist, subtly feminist, have good female representation, books I think all feminists should read, etc. Most of these I’ve talked at length about before, so I’ll link to relevant posts! If you have any questions, though, let me know!
Fiction
YA
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: deals with racial issues; has great representation
- Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder: the main character refuses to be a damsel in distress and sticks up for what she believes
- The Beka Cooper trilogy by Tamora Pierce: Beka is a police officer and is unapologetically good at what she does
- Nimona by Noelle Stevenson: Nimona is just great
- The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis: deals with rape culture in SUCH a good way
Adult or New Adult
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: not explicitly about feminism, but looks at female relationships and has great female relationships
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: very feminist for it’s time; I just think everyone should read it
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood: talks about rape culture and freedoms; very interesting; a classic in feminist lit
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki: a really interesting look at two very different women and their lives; not inherently feminist but has great women
Non-fiction
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi: a comic about her life growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution; I related so hard to Satrapi
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf: really interesting look at the beauty world
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: I mean, it’s in the title? Would be very good for people questioning feminism
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates: looks at race and racial issues, which is important for feminists (especially white women) to understand
- the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur: a poetry collection; I enjoyed this significantly more than milk and honey and think it’s way more impactful
Those are all my recommendations! Any feminist books you’d recommend?
Thanks for reading! xx
Great list! I adored the Sun and her Flowers and THUG! Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu is also a really good YA fiction book about feminism
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!! Moxie is on my TBR for this year, I’m super excited to read it!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aww I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person