44 Of Your Favorite Feminist Books

44 Of Your Favorite Feminist Books This post is sponsored by Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill. Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise ONeills world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called eves) are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. freida and isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companionsâ€"wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternativesâ€"life as a concubine, or a chastity (teachers to endless generations of girls)â€"are too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beautyâ€"her only assetâ€"in peril. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. freida must fight for her futureâ€"even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever kno wn. ____________________ Books have the power to change minds, create empathy, and explore situations and circumstances in which wed never find ourselves otherwise. Its the nature of being born into a patriarchy that very few of us spring forth as fully-formed feminists from the forehead of Zeus, but books can help us along the path toward wanting equality for all genders. We wanted to know what your favorite feminist books were, and you answered. Heres a wonderfully wide list of 44  of your favorite feminist titles. Theres a mix of novels, short stories, poems, and more. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafo All The Rage  by Courtney Summers Americas Women by Gail Collins Ash  by Malinda Lo The Awakening by Kate Chopin Bad Feminist: Essays  by Roxane Gay Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Beloved  by Toni Morrison Bitch Planet  by Kelly Sue DeConnick The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Bone Gap  by Laura Ruby brown girl dreaming  by Jacqueline Woodson Code Name Verity  by Elizabeth Wein The Color Purple by Alice Walker Coraline by Neil Gaiman Dietland by Sarai Walker Dora: A Headcase  by Lidia Yuknavitch Dumplin by  Julie Murphy The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood Fear of Flying by Erica Jong Glory OBriens History of the Future  by AS King The Handmaids Tale  by Margaret Atwood History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings  by Maya Angelou Jane Eyre  by Charlotte Bronte Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Nevada by Imogen Binnie On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ Oreo by Fran Ross Out  by Natsuo Kirino Poisoned Apples  by Christine Heppermann The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo Speak  by Laurie Halse Anderson Squire by Tamora Pierce Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta Virgile, non/ engl. Across the Acheron by Monique Wittig The Walls Around Us  by Nova Ren Suma Wide Sargasso Sea by  Jean Rhys Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman