The Feminist Orchestra Potential Reading List

1.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,905 ratings
2.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,714 ratings
3.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,413 ratings
4.
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 — 612,692 ratings
5.
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,556 ratings
6.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,689 ratings
7.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,148 ratings
8.
Asking For It
Asking For It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,887 ratings
9.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,712 ratings
10.
Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,142 ratings
11.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,914 ratings
12.
The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,860 ratings
13.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,463 ratings
14.
Everyday Sexism
Everyday Sexism 4.26 avg rating — 12,320 ratings
15.
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story 3.96 avg rating — 16,713 ratings
16.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,283 ratings
17.
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
18.
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,209 ratings
19.
How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
20.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 63,236 ratings
21.
Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently
Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently 4.20 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
22.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4.03 avg rating — 126,447 ratings
23.
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
24.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,017 ratings
25.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,274 ratings
26.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
27.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,420 ratings
28.
Only Ever Yours
Only Ever Yours 3.76 avg rating — 17,980 ratings
29.
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins 3.88 avg rating — 8,155 ratings
30.
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 — 568,912 ratings
30.
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom 4.49 avg rating — 99,402 ratings
32.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,266 ratings
33.
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,172 ratings
34.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,429 ratings
35.
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating — 137,105 ratings
36.
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine (Bitch Planet Collected Editions, #1)
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine (Bitch Planet Collected Editions, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 24,827 ratings
37.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,296 ratings
38.
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
39.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,773 ratings
40.
Cult Girls
Cult Girls 4.32 avg rating — 793 ratings
41.
Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,943 ratings
42.
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son 3.39 avg rating — 487 ratings
43.
Take It as a Compliment
Take It as a Compliment 4.23 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
44.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,214 ratings
45.
Sold
Sold 4.23 avg rating — 63,070 ratings
46.
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
47.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating — 103,529 ratings
48.
Yes Please
Yes Please 3.85 avg rating — 548,519 ratings
49.
Embroideries
Embroideries 3.94 avg rating — 29,936 ratings
50.
Milk and honey
Milk and honey
by: Rupi Kaur
3.96 avg rating — 776,783 ratings
51.
My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,280 ratings
52.
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,997 ratings
53.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,129 ratings
54.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating — 63,001 ratings
55.
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own 3.46 avg rating — 9,417 ratings
56.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion 3.89 avg rating — 108,298 ratings
57.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,381 ratings
58.
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2) 3.48 avg rating — 24,913 ratings
59.
The Trouble With Women
The Trouble With Women 4.27 avg rating — 4,397 ratings
60.
I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty
I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty 3.90 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
61.
Lavinia
Lavinia 3.86 avg rating — 16,452 ratings
62.
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism 4.33 avg rating — 691 ratings
63.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,014 ratings
64.
Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,924 ratings
65.
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings 3.64 avg rating — 7,016 ratings
66.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
67.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,837 ratings
68.
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
69.
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World 3.94 avg rating — 388 ratings
70.
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating — 86,812 ratings
71.
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
by: Xinran
4.31 avg rating — 12,972 ratings
72.
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
73.
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters 4.08 avg rating — 16,037 ratings
74.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,534 ratings
75.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,721 ratings
76.
Feminine Gospels: Poems
Feminine Gospels: Poems 3.74 avg rating — 2,889 ratings
77.
The Birth of the Pill
The Birth of the Pill 3.98 avg rating — 3,555 ratings
78.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,640 ratings
79.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
by: Han Kang
3.64 avg rating — 320,236 ratings
80.
Sally Heathcote
Sally Heathcote 3.72 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
81.
Almost Famous Women: Stories
Almost Famous Women: Stories 3.46 avg rating — 3,246 ratings
82.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,066 ratings
83.
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
84.
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3)
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 194,522 ratings
85.
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 37,832 ratings
86.
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution 4.02 avg rating — 2,994 ratings
87.
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
88.
What We Buried
What We Buried 3.92 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
89.
The Blazing World
The Blazing World 3.71 avg rating — 8,677 ratings
90.
Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus 3.61 avg rating — 24,712 ratings
91.
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity 4.24 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
92.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
92.
Transforming a Rape Culture
Transforming a Rape Culture 4.36 avg rating — 749 ratings
94.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post 4.06 avg rating — 58,956 ratings
95.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,763 ratings
96.
The Days of Abandonment
The Days of Abandonment 3.87 avg rating — 54,891 ratings
97.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,570 ratings
98.
Women in Prehistory
Women in Prehistory 4.12 avg rating — 48 ratings
99.
Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World
Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World 4.18 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
100.
The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt 4.02 avg rating — 80,956 ratings
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