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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
294 books — 146 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperHerland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dystopias with gender- or religion-specific phobics
201 books — 96 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëJude the Obscure by Thomas HardySilas Marner by George EliotThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
186 books — 96 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiMy Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliBecoming by Michelle ObamaMy Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Feminist Memoirs
277 books — 75 voters

The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherCode Girls by Liza Mundy
Fierce and noteworthy women
184 books — 36 voters
The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney MilanLord of Scoundrels by Loretta ChaseMy Dearest Enemy by Connie BrockwayBringing Down the Duke by Evie DunmoreThe Last Hellion by Loretta Chase
Suffrage in Romance Novels
84 books — 25 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca SolnitKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-JooGood and Mad by Rebecca TraisterMedea by Euripides
ANGRY LADIES' BOOK CLUB
53 books — 21 voters
Untenrum frei by Margarete StokowskiDer kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen by Alice SchwarzerSprache und Sein by Kübra GümüşayUnsichtbare Frauen by Caroline Criado PérezDie Wand by Marlen Haushofer
Feminismus auf Deutsch
81 books — 17 voters

Lewd Women and Wicked Witches by Marianne HesterWitches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara EhrenreichWitches and Pagans by Max DashuWitch Craze by Lyndal RoperWoman Hating by Andrea Dworkin
Feminist analysis of witches and the witch hunts
28 books — 17 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Subtle Feminism Throughout History
104 books — 14 voters

"Believing Women" in Islam by Asma BarlasA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiWomen and Gender in Islam by Leila AhmedA Quiet Revolution by Leila AhmedDo Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
Feminism & Islam
51 books — 12 voters
Sex Equality by Catharine A. MacKinnonToward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnonDefending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. SheehyFeminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnonWomen's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Feminism and the law
53 books — 8 voters

The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda LovelaceNotorious RBG by Irin CarmonHunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie BrownsteinWhy Not Me? by Mindy KalingYes Please by Amy Poehler
Nasty Women Book List
46 books — 6 voters
Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal MalhotraThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiAnu by Shabnam VasishtHindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces by Tapan Basu
Best non-fiction books by South Asian women
49 books — 6 voters

Carrie by Stephen KingI am Sasha by Valerie HollingsworthWhat a Nightmare by Rebekah FaubionWho Okayed This?! The Riveting Life of Grant Davis by Philip E. BarringtonOnly If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
...But The Girl Gone Cray
28 books — 6 voters
The Straight Mind by Monique WittigThis Sex Which is Not One by Luce IrigarayClose to Home by Christine DelphyUn féminisme décolonial by Françoise VergèsL'écrivaine morte by Núria Añó
French feminism
32 books — 5 voters

Mad, Bad, and Sad by Lisa AppignanesiThe Female Malady by Elaine ShowalterChanging Our Minds by Celia KitzingerThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorWomen and Madness by Phyllis Chesler
Feminist critiques of psychology and psychiatry
8 books — 5 voters
"Believing Women" in Islam by Asma BarlasInside The Gender Jihad by Amina WadudVoices of Resistance by Sarah HusainHijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.Islamic Feminism by Lana Sirri
Islamic Feminism
48 books — 2 voters

Girl Warriors by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Leaders by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Artists by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Spies by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Scientists by Virginia Loh-Hagan
History's Yearbook series
8 books — 1 voter
Women Explorers Hidden in History by Ellen RodgerWomen Rulers Hidden in History by Sarah EasonWomen Writers Hidden in History by Petrice CustanceWomen Inventors Hidden in History by Petrice CustanceWomen Warriors Hidden in History by Sarah Eason
Hidden in History series
6 books — 1 voter

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