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Feminism
14 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Anne Brontë: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Brontë — how to approach The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her essential and most radical novel. A complete reading guide to the youngest Brontë sister.
Where to Start with Rebecca Solnit: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rebecca Solnit — whether to begin with Men Explain Things to Me or A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A complete reading guide to the essayist.
Where to Start with Roxane Gay: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Roxane Gay — whether to begin with Bad Feminist or Hunger. A complete reading guide to the cultural critic, essayist, and author.
Best Books About Gender and Feminism: Essential Reading
The best books about gender and feminism — from A Room of One's Own and The Handmaid's Tale to Bad Feminist and We Should All Be Feminists. Essential reading.
Best Books About Motherhood: Fiction and Memoir
The best books about motherhood — from We Need to Talk About Kevin and Beloved to Little Fires Everywhere and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Fiction and memoir.
Best Classic Novels About Women: The Essential Reading List
The best classic novels about women — from Middlemarch to Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, and The House of Mirth. Novels that defined female experience in literature.
Best Feminist Books: Essential Reading List
The best feminist books — from A Room of One's Own and The Second Sex to Bad Feminist and We Should All Be Feminists. Essential reading on gender, power, and equality.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's complete bibliography — from Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun to We Should All Be Feminists. Best starting points for new readers.
Where to Start with bell hooks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with bell hooks — whether to begin with All About Love, The Will to Change, or Ain't I a Woman. A complete reading guide to the feminist theorist.
Where to Start with Doris Lessing: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Doris Lessing — whether to begin with The Golden Notebook, The Grass Is Singing, or Martha Quest. A complete reading guide to the Nobel laureate.
Fatema Mernissi Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
All Fatema Mernissi books in order — from Dreams of Trespass to Scheherazade Goes West. Complete guide to the Moroccan feminist scholar's work, popular and scholarly.
Where to Start with Fatema Mernissi: The Best First Book
New to Fatema Mernissi? Dreams of Trespass is the right starting point — here's what to expect from the Moroccan feminist scholar and which book suits different readers.
Where to Start with Glennon Doyle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Glennon Doyle — how to approach Untamed, her memoir-as-manifesto about leaving her conditioned life behind, written around falling in love with soccer player Abby Wambach and learning to trust her own inner knowing. A complete reading guide.
Books Like Lessons in Chemistry: 11 Novels of Wit, Ambition, and Women Who Refuse to Be Underestimated
If Lessons in Chemistry made you laugh and rage in equal measure at the gap between what Elizabeth Zott deserves and what her world allows her, these novels will give you more of the same fierce, funny pleasure.
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