35 Books to READ
“I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
An important part of our work is creating social change, which means shifting attitude, behavior, and culture.
In celebration of our 35th anniversary, we kept the conversation going about disruptors who were changing the power dynamics with discussions of the 35 books below. Each remains just as relevant today, so we invite you to read all 35 of skim just one!
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LIST OF 35 BOOKS TO READ
Title | Secondary Title | Author or Editor |
An American Sunrise | A Collection of Poetry | Joy Harjo |
Broad Band | The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet | Claire L. Evans |
Burn It Down | Women Writing About Anger | Lilly Dancyger |
Fair Play | Eve Rodsky | |
Funding Feminism | Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1970-1967 | Joan Marie Johnson |
Girl, Woman, Other | A Novel | Bernardine Evaristo |
Good and Mad | The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger | Rebecca Traister |
Hood Feminism | Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot | Mikki Kendall |
I Am Malala | The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban | Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | |
In Search of Our Mother’s Garden | Alice Walker | |
Know My Name | Chanel Miller | |
Lakota Woman | Mary Crow Dog | |
Moving Beyond Words | Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender | Gloria Steinem |
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference | Greta Thunberg | |
Notorious RBG | The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik |
Playing Through the Fence | Stories from 19 Women Who Challenged Stereotypes, Prejudice and Other Barriers to Achieve Career Success | Mary J. Dowell |
Purposeful Hustle | Direct Your Life’s Work Towards Making a Positive Impact | Deanna Singh |
Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | |
Spiderwoman’s Web | Traditional Native American Tales About Women’s Power | Susan Hazen-Hammond |
All About Love | Bell Hooks | |
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | |
The Book Woman of Troublesome County | Kim Michele Richardson | |
The Education of an Idealist | A memoir | Samantha Power |
The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | |
The Latehomecomer | A Hmong Family Memoir | Kao Kalia Yang |
The Purpose of Power | How We Come Together When We Fall Apart | Alicia Garza |
The Undocumented America | Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | |
Unbought and Unbossed | Shirley Chisholm | |
Vanguard | How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All | Martha S. Jones |
We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche | |
What I Told My Daughter | Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women |
Nina Tassler with Cynthia Littleton |
When Everything Changed | The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present | Gail Collins |
Women of the Suffrage Movement | Women Who Dare |
Janice E. Ruth and Evelyn Sinclair |
Women, Culture, & Politics | Angela Davis |