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Polls for Our Shared Shelf. Showing 1-13 of 13
created Jan 10, 2022 02:26PM PST
poll #1
Featured
March - April 2022 Book Choice
Hood Feminism
We are Not Born Submissive
Women & Power
Against White Feminism
Beshraram
Our Work is Evrywhere
1193 total votes
created Feb 20, 2021 02:31PM PST
poll #2
Featured
Indigenous Writers- March / April 21'
Split Tooth
The Yield
Tales of Burning Love
In the Night of Memory
Crooked Hallelujah
Swallow The Air
Trail of Lightning
(write-in)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
(write-in)
"There There" by Tommy Orange.
(write-in)
The Break, Katherena Vermette
(write-in)
The Removed
664 total votes
created Jan 31, 2021 01:47PM PST
poll #3
Featured
Our Shared Shelf Book Themes for 2021 (Second Annual)
Women + Mental Health Issues
Indigenous women
(write-in)
Sex Workers
Her-story: Feminism pre 21st century
Climate change
(write-in)
South Asian Writers
Feminist Speculative Fiction
(write-in)
Women + Health Issues
Women in the Workplace
Motherhood
Feminist romance (straight and LGBTQIA+)
(write-in)
Critical Feminist Theory
Latinx writers, history, stories, memoirs
(write-in)
Women Fighters
Trans women
(write-in)
Incarcerated Women
Women in Anticolonial Struggles
(write-in)
Racial Justice
(write-in)
Women over 60; Single women; Women in non traditional employment
(write-in)
Feminist romance
(write-in)
south asia
Women as child molesters
(write-in)
Arab Women
(write-in)
Women in Fantasy
(write-in)
2481 total votes
created Jul 22, 2020 07:08PM PDT
poll #4
Featured
Feminist Literature pre 1990.
The House of the Spirits
Wide Sargasso Sea
Like Water for Chocolate
Kitchen
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Necter in a Sieve
1518 total votes
created Jun 03, 2020 04:33AM PDT
poll #5
Featured
Anti-Racism Teachers
So you Want to Talk about Race
Hood Feminism
Me and White Supremacy
I'm Still Here
When They Call you a Terrorist
The Light of Truth
We Want to Do More Than Survive
Invisible no More
1168 total votes
created Mar 24, 2020 11:59AM PDT
poll #6
Featured
Memoirs or Biographies outside of US, UK, and Canada
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Pink Sari Revolution
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Unbowed
This Child Will Be Great
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
(write-in)
Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
(write-in)
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future Book by Fawzia Koofi and Nadene Ghouri
(write-in)
Not Done With Life Yet
(write-in)
Madame Curie
(write-in)
The country under my skin by Gioconda Belli
(write-in)
Daughter of the East
(write-in)
Your Own Kind of Girl - Clare Bowditch
(write-in)
913 total votes
created Feb 01, 2020 03:54AM PST
poll #7
Featured
Eco-Feminism Member Selected Book for April/May 2020
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plant
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
In the Shadow of Man
Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fair Trade Battles
1814 total votes
created Feb 01, 2020 03:45AM PST
poll #8
Featured
SciFi/Fantasy Member Selected Book for Feb/March 2020
Her Body and Other Parties
The Poppy War
Lefthand of Darkness
Parable of the Sower
Binti
Trail of Lightning
No Man a Woman Born
The Best of all Possible Worlds
The Tiger Flu
For a Muse of Fire
1996 total votes
created Jan 26, 2020 07:47AM PST
poll #9
Featured
What topic should Our Shared Shelf explore next?
SciFi/Fantasy genre
LGBT+ Protagonist Fiction
Representation of women in fantasy
(write-in)
Eco-feminism
Sex Workers
Memoirs Outside of US/UK
Classic feminism/the basics of feminism
Psychopath/Narcissist/predictor violence/domestic violence
(write-in)
Eco-feminism!
(write-in)
Women and class
Succeeding at Work
Disability
Health & Healthcare
Intersectionality
(write-in)
Mental Health
(write-in)
Incarceration
science myths about gender differences debunked (book choice: Inferior by Angela Saini)
(write-in)
Eco feminism
WOC main characters
Memoirs outside of US/UK
(write-in)
Pleasure! Pleasure Activism would be a great choice!
(write-in)
Non-Western female authors (e.g. Eastern European)
(write-in)
Invisible Disabilities
(write-in)
Disability justice [not just white ppl pls]
Expats/travellers women
(write-in)
Sexual assault
(write-in)
Women in STEM (especially Computer Science)
(write-in)
Conducting feminist research
(write-in)
LGBT
Nordic model
(write-in)
The hate u give
(write-in)
Rise of New Masculine/ Sacred Masculine/ Eco Masculinity (Trading Armour for a Flower)
(write-in)
Keeper of the Lost Cities series OR The Unwanteds series
Female pleasure
(write-in)
Stay at home mothers
(write-in)
Inclusion of Issues related to Men in Feminism
(write-in)
Radical Feminism
to many choices and want to read about most of them
(write-in)
In the dream house, by Carmen Maria machado
(write-in)
expats/travellers women
(write-in)
Women and labour activism
(write-in)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
(write-in)
Experiences of women outside of US/UK/Australia
(write-in)
2487 total votes
created Jun 02, 2020 05:47AM PDT
poll #10
Books on BLM and anti-racism
The Light of Truth
Hood Feminism
We Want to Do More than Survive
Invisible No More
Me and White Supremacy
When they Call you a Terrorist
So you Want to Talk About Race?
5 total votes
created May 31, 2020 09:00AM PDT
poll #11
Feminist Fiction (pre-1990's)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The House of Spirits
Rubyfruit Jungle
Wild Sargasso Sea
Their Eyes were Watching God
Nectar in a Sieve
Like Water for Chocolate
37 total votes
created Apr 16, 2018 11:34AM PDT
poll #12
What book would you like OSS to read for May/June 2018? (you can also upload your own suggestion).
HOW TO VOTE:
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The Hate U Give
(write-in)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Circe
The Secret Life of Bees
The Glass Castle
(write-in)
The Vegetarian
(write-in)
The Second Sex
(write-in)
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Sing, Unburied, Sing
(write-in)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
(write-in)
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
(write-in)
Educated: A Memoir
(write-in)
The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
(write-in)
I Capture the Castle
(write-in)
A Room of One's Own
(write-in)
The Female Persuasion
(write-in)
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
(write-in)
Her Body and Other Parties
(write-in)
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
The Hour of the Star
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
(write-in)
The Story of My Tits
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
(write-in)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
(write-in)
The Farming of Bones
A Thousand Splendid Suns
(write-in)
None of the Above
(write-in)
Bleak House
(write-in)
Fight Like A Girl
(write-in)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
(write-in)
King Kong Theory
(write-in)
Pachinko
(write-in)
The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women And Men Today
(write-in)
The Beauty Myth
(write-in)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
(write-in)
Desert Flower
(write-in)
Women & Power: A Manifesto
(write-in)
The Taxidermist's Daughter
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
(write-in)
Listening for Lions
(write-in)
Red Clocks
(write-in)
The Descent of Man
(write-in)
Women, Race, and Class
(write-in)
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
(write-in)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
(write-in)
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
(write-in)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
(write-in)
Frankenstein
(write-in)
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
(write-in)
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
The Nightingale
(write-in)
The Summer Without Men
(write-in)
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Death in Ten Minutes
(write-in)
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
(write-in)
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
(write-in)
War's Unwomanly Face
(write-in)
The Man in the High Castle
(write-in)
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
(write-in)
White Houses
Song of a Captive Bird
(write-in)
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
(write-in)
Nights at the Circus
Brown Girl Dreaming
(write-in)
Eat, Pray, Love
Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
(write-in)
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
(write-in)
I've Got My Period. So What?
(write-in)
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
(write-in)
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
(write-in)
Daddy's Curse
(write-in)
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
(write-in)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
(write-in)
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
(write-in)
Rise Sister Rise: A Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Summary & Study Guide
(write-in)
The Atomic Weight of Love
(write-in)
The Astonishing Color of After
(write-in)
Kindred
(write-in)
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
(write-in)
God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)
The Hummingbird's Daughter
(write-in)
The Gate to Women's Country
(write-in)
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
(write-in)
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
(write-in)
The Cows
(write-in)
Hunger
(write-in)
Suitors and Sabotage
(write-in)
The Break
Trumping the Rape Culture and Sexual Assault
(write-in)
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
(write-in)
Love Demystified: Strategies for a Successful Love Life
(write-in)
Humeirah
(write-in)
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
(write-in)
Capitalism and Freedom
Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars
(write-in)
Three King Mackerel and a Mahi Mahi
A Necessary Clearing
(write-in)
The Problem that Has No Name
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
(write-in)
Happening
When She Woke
(write-in)
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass
The Immundus
(write-in)
Trusting the Currents
(write-in)
Hidden
Turn On, Tune Out
(write-in)
Think and Grow Rich
(write-in)
Dina's Book
A Life
(write-in)
America Is Not the Heart
(write-in)
Long Walk to Freedom
(write-in)
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
The Feminine Mystique
(write-in)
The Brightest Sun
(write-in)
The Last Magician (The Last Magician, #1)
Rebecca
(write-in)
created Jun 07, 2016 08:58AM PDT
poll #13
[2016] Which book would you most like to read in July & August?
HOW TO VOTE:
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**Please do not submit duplicate write-ins.**
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
by Carrie Brownstein
Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(write-in)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
I Am Malala
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
by Julia Serano
The Handmaid's Tale
(write-in)
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
(write-in)
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(write-in)
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
(write-in)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
(write-in)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(write-in)
Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West
(write-in)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
(write-in)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Bell Jar
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
(write-in)
To Kill a Mockingbird
(write-in)
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
(write-in)
Anne Frank's diary
(write-in)
The Geek Feminist Revolution
(write-in)
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
(write-in)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(write-in)
Homegoing
Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
(write-in)
The Red Tent
(write-in)
Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe
(write-in)
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
(write-in)
I Call Myself A Feminist: t: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty
(write-in)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
(write-in)
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(write-in)
The Way We Weren't: A Memoir
The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irin Carmin and Shana knizhnik
(write-in)
'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin
The Woman That I Am: The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color
(write-in)
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
Girl in a Band
(write-in)
Girl Interrupted!
(write-in)
VAGINA by Naomi Wolfe
(write-in)
The Beauty Myth by Virginia Woolf
UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL VIOLENCE A STUDY OF CONVICTED RAPISTS BY DIANA SCULLY
(write-in)
Reading Lolita in Teheran
(write-in)
Little women
(write-in)
Like water for chocolate
(write-in)
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
(write-in)
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Women and the Priesthood by Sheri Dee
(write-in)
Scarlet Sisters
Asking For It by Louise O'Neil
(write-in)
Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
(write-in)
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
(write-in)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
(write-in)
Stone butch blue
(write-in)
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
(write-in)
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski Ph.D.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jennifer Lawson
(write-in)
milk and honey - rupi kaur
(write-in)
The Only Woman in the Room by Eileen Pollack
(write-in)
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
(write-in)
Girl Up by Laura Bates
(write-in)
Girl in the Woods: A Memoir by Aspen Matis
(write-in)
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
(write-in)
Asking For It by Louise O'Neill
(write-in)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
(write-in)
The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / by Nordberg, Jenny
(write-in)
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
I Am An Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
(write-in)
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton Edited by Liza Featherstone
(write-in)
Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
(write-in)
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
(write-in)
H is for Hawk
(write-in)
The summer without men
(write-in)
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
(write-in)
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
Frida by Hayden Herrera
(write-in)
I Love Dick
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe
(write-in)
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
(write-in)
The Adventures of Copper Wild
(write-in)
Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University
(write-in)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(write-in)
Ask The Passengers by A.S. King
(write-in)
Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
(write-in)
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War- Lynsey Addario
(write-in)
The Kite runner
(write-in)
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
(write-in)
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
(write-in)
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
(write-in)
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Creation of Patriarchy
(write-in)
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
(write-in)
Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women - Christina Hoff Sommers
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
(write-in)
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Christiane F
(write-in)
Spinster by Kate Bolick
(write-in)
Cunt, Inga Musico
(write-in)
All the single ladies by Rebecca Traister
(write-in)
Wild swans
The Awakening
(write-in)
The Vagena by Rhiannon Lucy Cossley and
The Book of Memory, by Petina Gappah
(write-in)
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, by Inga Muscio
(write-in)
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Sula by Toni Morrison
(write-in)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
(write-in)
I, Bificus
(write-in)
Widows - Ariel Dorfman
(write-in)
Letter To a Child Never Born - Oriana Fallaci
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
(write-in)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
(write-in)
Game-Faint Signals by Alice N. York
(write-in)
How to Suppress Women's Writing - Joanna Russ
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Oldest Soul - Animus by Tiffany FitzHenry
(write-in)
Princess Sultana's daughters by Jean Sasson
(write-in)
Mama's Girl by Veronica Chambers
(write-in)
The House of Hidden Mothers - Meera Syal
Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
(write-in)
Hats and Eyeglasses, by Martha Frankel
(write-in)
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
The Shaded Side by Janet M Brown
(write-in)
Vaddey Ratner - In The Shadow Of The Banyan
(write-in)
It's Okay to Laugh: (Crying Is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort
(write-in)
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The Whole Woman - Germaine Greer
A Woman of Independemt Means
(write-in)
Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg
(write-in)
Olympe de Gouges par Catel & Bocquet
(write-in)
The Untold Tale by J.M. Frey
In the Beginning, She Was by Luce Irigaray
(write-in)
Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani
(write-in)
fast forward by melanne verveer and kim k. azzarelli
(write-in)
The Sisters are Alright
(write-in)
Why does E=mc^2?
It'll Feel Better when it Quits Hurting
(write-in)
The Breadwinner by Doriah elis
(write-in)
Mighty be our powers by Leymah Gbowee
(write-in)
Paralian - Not Just Transgender
(write-in)
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life : A Novel
(write-in)
Double Teenage - Joni Murphy
(write-in)
How to be Both
(write-in)
strayed
(write-in)
Love Sick by Cory Martin
(write-in)
Dietland by Sarai Walker
(write-in)
Moral Infidelity
(write-in)
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
(write-in)
Lynda La Plante - Twisted
for one more day
Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality
(write-in)
Emel Akal - Kızıl Feministler
Stalin's Cows by Sofi Oksanen
La Question Du Hijab
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
(write-in)
The Stargazer's Sister by Carrie Brown
(write-in)
7907 total votes
