Books we've read in my feminist book club in approximate descending order of how much I liked them:
- My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
- The Orchard: A Memoir by Adele Crockett Robertson
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today by Kate Bornstein
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
- Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
- The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
- Zazen by Vanessa Beselka
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Books that I would like to read by trans women, in no particular order*:
- A Safe Girl To Love by Casey Plett
- Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
- Nevada by Imogen Binnie**
- I've Got a Time Bomb by Sybil Lamb
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Hormones by Amber Neko Meador
- Run, Clarissa, Run by Rachel Eliason
*I am very open to expanding this list. Add suggestions in the comments.
**OK, I've already read this one, and it's awesome. So good.
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