Best Feminist Books

1.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,799 ratings
2.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,582 ratings
3.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,643 ratings
4.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,406 ratings
5.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,860 ratings
6.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,671 ratings
7.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,134 ratings
8.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,195 ratings
9.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,708 ratings
10.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,903 ratings
11.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,213 ratings
12.
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,996 ratings
13.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,543 ratings
14.
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
15.
The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,961,898 ratings
16.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,905 ratings
17.
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 9,593,599 ratings
18.
Speak
Speak 4.05 avg rating — 622,659 ratings
19.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,013 ratings
20.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,755 ratings
21.
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,170 ratings
22.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,296 ratings
23.
The Red Tent
The Red Tent 4.20 avg rating — 623,941 ratings
24.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,973 ratings
25.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,432 ratings
26.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,540 ratings
27.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,237 ratings
28.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,006 ratings
29.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,450 ratings
30.
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,555 ratings
31.
Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
32.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,014 ratings
33.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,411 ratings
34.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,773 ratings
35.
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 211,201 ratings
36.
Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient
Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient 4.37 avg rating — 7,944 ratings
37.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,721 ratings
38.
How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
39.
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,594 ratings
40.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,530 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.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,392,880 ratings
43.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,163 ratings
44.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,359 ratings
45.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,466 ratings
46.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
47.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,393 ratings
48.
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 1,594,175 ratings
49.
A Vindication of the Rights of Men & A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
A Vindication of the Rights of Men & A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 803 ratings
50.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,232 ratings
51.
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,689 ratings
52.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,267 ratings
53.
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 135,447 ratings
54.
Matilda
Matilda 4.33 avg rating — 1,072,652 ratings
55.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,711 ratings
56.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) 4.26 avg rating — 968,858 ratings
57.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,442 ratings
58.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,289 ratings
59.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,682 ratings
60.
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch 3.68 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
61.
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
62.
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story 3.96 avg rating — 16,713 ratings
63.
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century 4.37 avg rating — 7,461 ratings
64.
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
65.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,371 ratings
66.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,463 ratings
67.
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
68.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,199 ratings
69.
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2) 3.48 avg rating — 24,911 ratings
70.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,457 ratings
71.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,261 ratings
72.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,901 ratings
73.
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives
by: Ira Levin
3.87 avg rating — 51,727 ratings
74.
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
75.
Ariel
Ariel 4.19 avg rating — 86,747 ratings
76.
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
77.
SCUM Manifesto
SCUM Manifesto 3.77 avg rating — 11,555 ratings
78.
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
79.
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
80.
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 4,011,213 ratings
81.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,059 ratings
82.
The Women's Room
The Women's Room 3.99 avg rating — 9,269 ratings
83.
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
84.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,527 ratings
85.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,082 ratings
86.
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate 3.95 avg rating — 387,440 ratings
87.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,789 ratings
88.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,962 ratings
89.
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
90.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating — 84,376 ratings
91.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,127 ratings
92.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
93.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,155 ratings
94.
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules 4.17 avg rating — 192,658 ratings
95.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,958,999 ratings
96.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,770 ratings
97.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,352 ratings
98.
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers 4.02 avg rating — 6,460 ratings
99.
Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying 3.47 avg rating — 22,979 ratings
100.
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women 3.88 avg rating — 3,686 ratings
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