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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

27,126 members

482 reviews

4

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

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,698 members

1,113 reviews

4.1

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

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by Henrik Ibsen

5,233 members

84 reviews

½ 3.6

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

4

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,212 members

359 reviews

½ 3.4

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

5

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

18,975 members

333 reviews

4.1

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

6

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,924 members

256 reviews

3.9

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

7

by Gustave Flaubert

25,428 members

378 reviews

½ 3.7

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

8

by Octavia E. Butler

7,779 members

331 reviews

4.2

8 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, ravenom

9

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

7,422 members

217 reviews

4.1

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

10

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

3,830 members

30 reviews

3.9

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

11

by Charlotte Brontë

56,786 members

891 reviews

4.2

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

12

by Virginia Woolf

19,837 members

321 reviews

3.9

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

13

The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,057 members

138 reviews

4.1

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

14

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,678 members

186 reviews

4.1

5 Members: KimarieBee, soffitta1, ahef1963, ekelnor, ravenom

15

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,209 members

163 reviews

3.9

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

16

Wide Sargasso Sea

8,139 members

241 reviews

½ 3.5

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

17

8,929 members

177 reviews

½ 3.6

6 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

by Toni Morrison

22,009 members

399 reviews

3.9

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

19

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2,510 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

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

20

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3,731 members

165 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Cecrow, soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,252 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

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

22

The Stepford Wives

2,955 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

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

23

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

10,832 members

214 reviews

3.9

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

24

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,308 members

143 reviews

½ 4.3

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

25

The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley]

by Simone de Beauvoir

4,447 members

31 reviews

4

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

26

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

3,314 members

89 reviews

4.1

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

27

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

4,397 members

47 reviews

3.8

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

28

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

11,896 members

163 reviews

4.1

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

29

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,225 members

378 reviews

3.9

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

30

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,250 members

129 reviews

3.8

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

31

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

10,174 members

227 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: soffitta1, pincus2, daniellamarie29, steller0707

32

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,213 members

365 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

33

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

14,153 members

216 reviews

4

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

34

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

9,420 members

195 reviews

4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

35

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

by Kate Millett

1,108 members

14 reviews

3.8

3 Members: elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, kara.shamy

36

by Suzette Haden Elgin

1,075 members

28 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, Dilara86

37

36,512 members

494 reviews

4.1

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

38

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

2,428 members

26 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: Cecrow, soffitta1, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

39

The Gate to Women's Country

by Sheri S. Tepper

2,102 members

53 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, SonoranDreamer, ravenom

40

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

24,546 members

713 reviews

4.1

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

41

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

29,431 members

914 reviews

4.1

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

42

The Female Eunuch

by Germaine Greer

2,244 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Cecrow, SonoranDreamer, ravenom

43

Pride and Prejudice

77,461 members

1,335 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

44

2,678 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Edible Woman

by Margaret Atwood

3,944 members

80 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: soffitta1, SonoranDreamer, ahef1963, steller0707

46

by Naomi Alderman

4,371 members

231 reviews

3.8

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

47

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

16,005 members

291 reviews

4.1

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

48

by Octavia E. Butler

2,482 members

54 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ravenom

49

by Margaret Atwood

8,901 members

157 reviews

3.9

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

50

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

18,394 members

337 reviews

4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

51

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,060 members

20 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Cecrow, alex68, kara.shamy

52

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,622 members

218 reviews

4

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

53

by Margaret Atwood

5,645 members

208 reviews

4.1

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

54

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,064 members

166 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, ahef1963, steller0707

55

by Jamie Le Fay

4 members

5

2 Members: JamieLeFay, GabrielWarren,sturlington

56

The Little Foxes

by Lillian Hellman

309 members

8 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, dianejahoda

57

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

2,784 members

124 reviews

4.2

3 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee, steller0707

58

Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays

by Rebecca Solnit

575 members

20 reviews

4

3 Members: Cecrow, sturlington, elkiedee

59

by Margaret Atwood

11,557 members

253 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, steller0707

60

So Long a Letter

1,276 members

41 reviews

3.8

3 Members: soffitta1, Dilara86, ahef1963

61

Bad Feminist: Essays

3,138 members

135 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Cecrow, sturlington, steller0707

62

37,103 members

605 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

63

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,577 members

241 reviews

3.8

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

64

by E. M. Forster

8,524 members

129 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, roby72, sturlington

65

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

by Cordelia Fine

1,241 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: SonoranDreamer, kara.shamy

66

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,293 members

144 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, elkiedee

67

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,430 members

232 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

68

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

4,966 members

143 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee, ahef1963

69

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

by Malala Yousafzai

6,027 members

261 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

70

by George Eliot

17,102 members

324 reviews

4.2

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

71

by Madeline Miller

10,585 members

435 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: soffitta1, sturlington, steller0707

72

2,098 members

52 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, Dilara86

73

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

13,436 members

296 reviews

4

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

74

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,652 members

671 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

75

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,300 members

287 reviews

4.2

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

76

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

by Laurie R. King

5,732 members

282 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

77

In the Time of the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

4,305 members

102 reviews

4.1

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

78

King Kong Theory

by Virginie Despentes

552 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, dianejahoda

79

by Marguerite Duras

4,976 members

149 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

80

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

6,735 members

302 reviews

3.9

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

81

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,215 members

211 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: soffitta1, alex68, steller0707

82

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

by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

199 members

11 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, dianejahoda

83

by Nicola Griffith

1,306 members

50 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, dianejahoda

84

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

1,595 members

32 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, SonoranDreamer

85

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

by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

361 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

86

by Sara Paretsky

1,480 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, steller0707

87

Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology

by Ann VanderMeer

287 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, dianejahoda

88

Into the Forest

by Jean Hegland

1,498 members

47 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, SonoranDreamer

89

by Octavia E. Butler

2,807 members

140 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ravenom

90

Bloodchild and Other Stories

by Octavia E. Butler

497 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ravenom

91

1,032 members

35 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

92

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer

1,295 members

61 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee

93

by Katharine Burdekin

353 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86

94

Butterfly Politics

by Catharine A. MacKinnon

16 members

Member: kara.shamy

95

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez

2,005 members

68 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee

96

Tell Me a Riddle

by Tillie Olsen

626 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, steller0707

97

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,185 members

160 reviews

3.9

2 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee

98

The Pull of the Stars

by Emma Donoghue

1,413 members

87 reviews

4.1

2 Members: soffitta1, elkiedee

99

21,090 members

461 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: soffitta1, alex68

100

Hidden From History: Rediscovering Women in History From the 17th Century to the Present

by Sheila Rowbotham

177 members

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

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