Novels
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Making of Mollie – Anna Carey
Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Beauty Queens – Libba Bray
The Lie Tree – Frances Hardinge
The Bermudez Triangle – Maureen Johnson
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Ash – Malinda Lo
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – e. Lockheart
Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy
Only Ever Yours – Louise O’Neill
Asking For It – Louise O’Neill
Alanna – Tamora Pierce
The Ruby in the Smoke – Philip Pullman
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas
Maresi – Maria Turtschaninoff
Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein
Black Dove, White Raven – Elizabeth Wein
Uglies –Scott Westerfeld
Blood Red Road – Moira Young
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
Graphic Novels
Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster, More – Kelly Sue Deconnick and David Lopez
Ghost World – Daniel Clowes
Hark! A Vagrant – Kate Beaton
Hilda – Luke Pearson
Lumberjanes – Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen and Noelle Stevenson
Ms. Marvel – G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
Paper Girls – Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Sally Heathcote Suffragette – Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot
Skim – Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
This One Summer – Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl – Ryan North and Erica Henderson
Non-Fiction
Crafting with Feminism – Bonnie Burton
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World – Kate Pankhurst
We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Wonder Women 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History – Sam Maggs
Compiling a list of books on a subject as emotive as Feminism is difficult and often prone to sparking arguments as books are left out or sometimes disagreed upon due to a variety of factors. If you would like to suggest books for inclusion please feel free to do so in the comments section below, disagreements are also welcome!
Thanks for this list – there are some great titles up there!
Here are a few non-fiction suggestions:
Bad Feminist – Roxanne Gay
Everyday Sexism – Laura Bates
How To Be A Woman – Caitlin Moran
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women – Mary Wollstencraft
A Fangirl’s Guide To The Galaxy – Sam Maggs
The Gender Games – Juno Dawson
A Book For Her – Bridget Christie
Animal – Sara Pascoe
Oh, also! Have you read The Power by Naomi Alderman (winner of this year’s Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction)? Margaret Atwood was her mentor while writing it. Last term, an English teacher rushed into the library to tell me that she’d just read it. “It’s SO feminist!” she enthused!
Definitely agree with ‘How To Be A Woman’
also ‘The Moranifesto’. Funny as heck. Not to everyone’s tastes though admittedly!
Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
Any of Angela Carter’s dark Fairy Tales.
Chimimanda Ngoze Adichie’s books.
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
I think there’s a new wave of feminist fiction about to wash over us all – hurrah!
I listened to The Power serialised on Radio 4 – but I thought the ending almost set the women against each other, which for me undermined the feminist angle.
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