40 New Feminist Classics You Should Read

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We Should All Be Feminists (2014) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (2010) by Kate Bornstein
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future (2015) by Alexandra Brodsky
King Kong Theory (2006) by Virginie Despentes
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why (2016) by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
The Flight Cage: Poems (2010) by Rebecca Dunham
Margaret the First (2016) by Danielle Dutton
My Brilliant Friend (2011) by Elena Ferrante
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (2010) by Cordelia Fine
Little Labors (2016) by Rivka Galchen
Bad Feminist: Essays (2014) by Roxane Gay
The Black Maria (American Poets Continuum Series) (2016) by Aracelis Girmay
Fates and Furies (2015) by Lauren Groff
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It (2015) by Kate Harding
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (2011) by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir (2014) by Daisy Hernandez
The Blazing World (2014) by Siri Hustvedt
The Empathy Exams: Essays (2014) by Leslie Jamison
The Vegetarian (2007) by Han Kang
Milk and Honey (2015) by Rupi Kaur
The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) by Jill Lepore
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014) by Patricia Lockwood
The Woman Upstairs (2013) by Claire Messud
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (2014) by Janet Mock
How to Be a Woman (2011) by Caitlin Moran
Eileen (2015) by Ottessa Moshfegh
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems (2015) by Eileen Myles
The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) by Claudia Rankine
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (2011) by Warsan Shire
How to Be Both (2014) by Ali Smith
The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary (2015) by Ann Snitow
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays (2014) by Rebecca Solnit
Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House (2011) by Rob Spillman
As I Descended (2016) by Robin Talley
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (2013) by Tristan Taormino
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016) by Rebecca Traister
Sex Object: A Memoir (2016) by Jessica Valenti
Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) by Jacqueline Woodson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (2013) by Malala Yousafzai

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