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Best Feminist Literature

Description: Recommend good works of fiction and nonfiction with a feminist theme.

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by Sylvia Plath

32,563 members

558 reviews

4

15 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, elkiedee, alex68, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, pincus2, dianejahoda, Phairy_squid, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom, nogk41

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,165 members

1,232 reviews

4.1

13 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, elkiedee, Dilara86, alex68, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, dianejahoda, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom, nogk41

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by Henrik Ibsen

6,175 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

11 Members: aulsmith, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, daniellamarie29, dianejahoda, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,623 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

10 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, daniellamarie29, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,500 members

369 reviews

4.1

9 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, ekelnor, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom

6

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

20,307 members

312 reviews

3.9

9 Members: soffitta1, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, SonoranDreamer, dianejahoda, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

by Gustave Flaubert

29,688 members

426 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, daniellamarie29, steller0707

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by Octavia E. Butler

10,618 members

405 reviews

4.2

9 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom, nogk41

9

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

11,415 members

316 reviews

4.1

8 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee, Dilara86, SonoranDreamer, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom

10

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

4,670 members

36 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Cecrow, soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ahef1963, ravenom

11

by Charlotte Brontë

67,703 members

1,015 reviews

4.2

7 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

12

by Virginia Woolf

23,170 members

376 reviews

3.8

7 Members: soffitta1, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,420 members

272 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, nogk41

14

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

9,962 members

212 reviews

4.1

6 Members: KimarieBee, soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, ekelnor, ravenom

15

10,207 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, nogk41

16

The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,932 members

165 reviews

4.1

7 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, daniellamarie29, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom

17

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5,000 members

203 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: Cecrow, soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, nogk41

18

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

12,320 members

202 reviews

3.9

6 Members: soffitta1, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

by Toni Morrison

26,404 members

447 reviews

3.9

6 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

20

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,889 members

75 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: sturlington, SonoranDreamer, dianejahoda, ManWithAnAgenda, ravenom

21

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

6,009 members

99 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: soffitta1, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, steller0707

22

The Stepford Wives

3,524 members

105 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: roby72, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,542 members

247 reviews

3.9

6 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963

24

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,989 members

158 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Simone de Beauvoir

5,091 members

37 reviews

4

5 Members: Cecrow, sturlington, alex68, SonoranDreamer, ravenom

26

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

18,807 members

454 reviews

4.1

5 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, SonoranDreamer, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

4,826 members

125 reviews

4.1

5 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda, ravenom

28

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

5,136 members

55 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Cecrow, soffitta1, sturlington, SonoranDreamer, ravenom

29

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

14,061 members

203 reviews

4.1

5 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee, alex68, ravenom

30

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,744 members

392 reviews

3.9

5 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

31

The Gate to Women's Country

by Sheri S. Tepper

2,321 members

61 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, SonoranDreamer, ravenom, nogk41

32

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,940 members

139 reviews

3.8

5 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, steller0707

33

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

12,835 members

254 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: soffitta1, pincus2, daniellamarie29, steller0707

34

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

17,466 members

258 reviews

4

5 Members: soffitta1, alex68, SonoranDreamer, steller0707, ravenom

35

by Madeline Miller

18,284 members

577 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, steller0707, HAWAIIDRIVER

36

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

6,387 members

240 reviews

4

5 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

37

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,716 members

213 reviews

4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

38

Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society's Most Arbitrary Folly

by Kate Millett

1,242 members

17 reviews

3.8

3 Members: elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, kara.shamy

39

by Suzette Haden Elgin

1,252 members

32 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, Dilara86

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44,029 members

567 reviews

4.1

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

41

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

3,315 members

33 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: Cecrow, soffitta1, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

42

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

61,759 members

810 reviews

3.9

5 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

43

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

28,002 members

772 reviews

4.1

4 Members: KimarieBee, soffitta1, ahef1963, daniellamarie29,sturlington

44

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

33,596 members

973 reviews

4.1

4 Members: KimarieBee, soffitta1, ahef1963, daniellamarie29,sturlington

45

The Female Eunuch

by Germaine Greer

2,513 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Cecrow, SonoranDreamer, ravenom

46

Pride and Prejudice

93,423 members

1,505 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

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3,043 members

34 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Edible Woman

by Margaret Atwood

4,368 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: soffitta1, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, steller0707

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by Naomi Alderman

5,986 members

301 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

50

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

17,797 members

310 reviews

4.1

5 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, ravenom,ManWithAnAgenda

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by Octavia E. Butler

2,938 members

65 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ravenom

52

by Margaret Atwood

9,766 members

176 reviews

3.9

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

53

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

22,193 members

384 reviews

4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

54

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,796 members

27 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, alex68, kara.shamy

55

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer

1,668 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, HAWAIIDRIVER

56

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

21,545 members

265 reviews

3.8

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, steller0707

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by George Eliot

20,652 members

367 reviews

4.2

4 Members: soffitta1, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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by Margaret Atwood

8,917 members

276 reviews

4.1

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,853 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

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by Marguerite Duras

6,087 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: soffitta1, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,925 members

334 reviews

4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, steller0707

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by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

9,508 members

342 reviews

4.2

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, steller0707

63

by Jamie Le Fay

4 members

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2 Members: JamieLeFay, GabrielWarren,sturlington

64

The Little Foxes

by Lillian Hellman

358 members

9 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, dianejahoda

65

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

4,279 members

166 reviews

4.2

3 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee, steller0707

66

Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays

by Rebecca Solnit

800 members

26 reviews

4

3 Members: Cecrow, sturlington, elkiedee

67

by Margaret Atwood

13,327 members

273 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, steller0707

68

So Long a Letter

1,521 members

49 reviews

3.8

3 Members: soffitta1, Dilara86, ahef1963

69

Bad Feminist: Essays

4,164 members

155 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Cecrow, sturlington, steller0707

70

43,863 members

695 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

71

by E. M. Forster

9,670 members

144 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington

72

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

by Cordelia Fine

1,472 members

58 reviews

4.1

2 Members: SonoranDreamer, kara.shamy

73

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

6,397 members

162 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee

74

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

15,538 members

282 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

75

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

9,054 members

196 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

76

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

5,537 members

157 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee, ahef1963

77

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

7,955 members

291 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

78

by Michael Cunningham

13,612 members

243 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

79

2,499 members

64 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, Dilara86

80

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

12,767 members

174 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

by Laurie R. King

6,469 members

304 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

82

In the Time of the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

5,087 members

113 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

83

King Kong Theory

by Virginie Despentes

786 members

25 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, dianejahoda

84

26,072 members

521 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68

85

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

9,417 members

387 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

86

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

15,251 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

87

Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

by Jude Ellison S. Doyle

235 members

13 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, dianejahoda

88

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

9,578 members

203 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68

89

by Nicola Griffith

1,532 members

58 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, dianejahoda

90

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

2,019 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, SonoranDreamer

91

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

597 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

92

by Sara Paretsky

1,642 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, steller0707

93

Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology

by Ann VanderMeer

340 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, dianejahoda

94

Into the Forest

by Jean Hegland

1,647 members

57 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, SonoranDreamer

95

by Octavia E. Butler

3,523 members

164 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ravenom

96

Bloodchild and Other Stories

by Octavia E. Butler

579 members

19 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ravenom

97

6,490 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

98

1,125 members

37 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

99

Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

2,496 members

44 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

100

by Katharine Burdekin

445 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86

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