Reading Recommendations for a Young Feminist

1.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,827 ratings
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How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,916 ratings
4.
Cult Girls
Cult Girls 4.32 avg rating — 793 ratings
5.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,712 ratings
6.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,478 ratings
7.
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,996 ratings
8.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,543 ratings
9.
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 3.90 avg rating — 48,369 ratings
10.
Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
11.
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century 4.37 avg rating — 7,461 ratings
12.
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story 3.96 avg rating — 16,713 ratings
13.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,296 ratings
14.
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 78,067 ratings
15.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,709 ratings
16.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,773 ratings
17.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,214 ratings
18.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,791 ratings
19.
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
20.
The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 623,942 ratings
21.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,458 ratings
22.
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation 3.88 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
23.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,409 ratings
24.
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
25.
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace 3.67 avg rating — 3,821 ratings
26.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,457 ratings
27.
The Essential Feminist Reader
The Essential Feminist Reader 4.20 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
28.
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women 3.96 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
29.
Everything is Negotiable
Everything is Negotiable 3.80 avg rating — 345 ratings
30.
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present 4.06 avg rating — 5,588 ratings
31.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating — 509,668 ratings
32.
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines 4.16 avg rating — 4,836 ratings
33.
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference 4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings
34.
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism 3.84 avg rating — 2,667 ratings
34.
The Palace of Illusions
The Palace of Illusions 4.20 avg rating — 61,965 ratings
36.
Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,142 ratings
37.
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,594 ratings
37.
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women 4.08 avg rating — 8,546 ratings
39.
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media 3.92 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
40.
The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order 3.82 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
41.
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape 4.20 avg rating — 5,237 ratings
42.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating — 34,460 ratings
43.
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 8,795 ratings
44.
Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement 3.95 avg rating — 141 ratings
45.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,015 ratings
45.
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper 4.07 avg rating — 338,198 ratings
47.
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
48.
I am Enough: Journal Affirmations for Girls
I am Enough: Journal Affirmations for Girls 3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings
49.
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now 3.83 avg rating — 555 ratings
50.
Beginnings (Ahe'ey, #1)
Beginnings (Ahe'ey, #1) 3.50 avg rating — 98 ratings
51.
Women Will Save the World
Women Will Save the World 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
52.
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
by: Zoe Quinn
4.09 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
53.
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy 3.91 avg rating — 79,614 ratings
54.
True Grit
True Grit 4.17 avg rating — 68,469 ratings
54.
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know 3.89 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
56.
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It 4.37 avg rating — 4,205 ratings
57.
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor 4.31 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
58.
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 186,763 ratings
59.
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild 3.62 avg rating — 438 ratings
60.
Asking For It
Asking For It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,887 ratings
61.
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 3.81 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
62.
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Woman: An Intimate Geography 4.13 avg rating — 4,467 ratings
62.
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture 3.66 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
62.
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins 3.88 avg rating — 8,155 ratings
65.
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 4.20 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
66.
Skim
Skim 3.76 avg rating — 17,087 ratings
67.
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America 3.90 avg rating — 623 ratings
68.
The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 32)
The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 32) 4.21 avg rating — 390 ratings
69.
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage 3.98 avg rating — 3,625 ratings
70.
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,577 ratings
71.
Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit 3.96 avg rating — 19,984 ratings
71.
Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant, #1)
Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 212 ratings
71.
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood 4.37 avg rating — 238 ratings
74.
Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories
Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories
by: Zona Gale
3.51 avg rating — 179 ratings
75.
In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate
In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate 4.01 avg rating — 140 ratings
76.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories 3.76 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
77.
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
78.
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 3.92 avg rating — 90 ratings
79.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 3.73 avg rating — 89,515 ratings
80.
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 4.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
80.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,414 ratings
82.
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism 4.18 avg rating — 183 ratings
82.
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating — 631 ratings
84.
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel 4.05 avg rating — 999 ratings
84.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 786,994 ratings
86.
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women 4.05 avg rating — 14,926 ratings
86.
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,170 ratings
86.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,409 ratings
89.
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex 4.04 avg rating — 975 ratings
89.
Girl Power in the Age of the Millennials: Essays on Women, Youth and Global Social Change
Girl Power in the Age of the Millennials: Essays on Women, Youth and Global Social Change 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
91.
Girl Sex 101
Girl Sex 101 4.49 avg rating — 705 ratings
91.
Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3) 4.26 avg rating — 83,258 ratings
93.
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality 3.78 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
93.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,129 ratings
93.
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women 3.88 avg rating — 3,686 ratings
96.
Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success 3.21 avg rating — 85 ratings
97.
Trifles
Trifles 3.88 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
97.
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 4.09 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
99.
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 ratings
100.
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 4.18 avg rating — 157 ratings
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