69 Books Every Feminist Should Read, From Mary Wollstonecraft To

Roxane Gay
1. 'The Camera My Mother Gave Me' by Susanna Kaysen
2. 'Assata: An Autobiography' by Assata Shakur
3. 'The Joy Luck Club' by Amy Tan
4. 'Spinster' by Kate Bolick
5. 'Yes Please' by Amy Poehler
6. 'How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents' by Julia Alvarez
7. 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf
8. 'The Mists of Avalon' by Marion Zimmer Bradley
9. 'Nightwood' by Djuna Barnes
10.'Bodies That Matter' by Judith Butler
11.'The Feminine Mystique' by Betty Friedan
12.'The Adventures of Superhero Girl' by Faith Erin Hicks
13.'How to Be a Woman' by Caitlin Moran
14.'The Hidden Face of Eve' by Nawal El Saadawi
15.'Ella Enchanted' by Gail Carson Levine
16.'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant
17.'Bad Feminist' by Roxane Gay
18.'Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future' by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
19.'Kindred' by Octavia Butler
20.'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan' by Lisa See
21.'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft
22.'The Female Eunuch' by Germaine Greer
23.'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys
24.'Sister Outsider' by Audre Lorde
25.'The Beauty Myth' by Naomi Wolf

26.'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' by Fannie Flagg

27.'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
28.'Mom & Me & Mom' by Maya Angelou
29.'Men Explain Things to Me' by Rebecca Solnit
30.'In Search of Islamic Feminism' by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
31.'Anne of Green Gables' by L. M. Montgomery
32.'Cinderella Ate My Daughter' by Peggy Orenstein
33.'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath
34.'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter
35.'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by Zora Neal Hurston
36.'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
37.'The Lolita Effect' by Meenakshi Gigi Durham
38.'The House on Mango Street' by Sandra Cisneros
39.'Black Feminist Thought' by Patricia Hill Collins
40.'In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens' by Alice Walker
41.'The Dialectic of Sex' by Shulamith Firestone
42.'The Round House' by Louise Erdrich
43.'Bossypants' by Tina Fey
44.'Sexual Politics' by Kate Millett
45.'The Buddha in the Attic' by Julie Otsuka
46.'Feminism Is for Everybody' by bell hooks
47.'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood
48.'This Sex Which Is Not One' by Luce Irigaray
49.'Fear of Flying' by Erica Jong
50.'Fat Is a Feminist Issue' by Susie Orbach
51.'Redefining Realness' by Janet Mock
52.'Obasan' by Joy Kogawa

53.'When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost' by Joan Morgan

54.'Not That Kind of Girl' by Lena Dunham
55.'Lean In' by Sheryl Sandberg
56.'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin
57.'The Woman Warrior' by Maxine Hong Kingston
58.'Foxfire' by Joyce Carol Oates
59.'The Second Sex' by Simone de Beauvoir
60.'We Should All Be Feminists' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
61.'Full Frontal Feminism' by Jessica Valenti
62.'Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions' by Gloria Steinem
63.'Playing in the Dark' by Toni Morrison
64.'The Whole Woman' by Germaine Greer
65.'I Feel Bad About My Neck' by Nora Ephron
66.'Women, Race & Class' by Angela Davis
67.'Our Bodies, Ourselves' by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
68.'Dragon Ladies' by Sonia Shah
69.'Ain't I a Woman?' by bell hooks