Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset is one of the best books ever written. It is about the life of one medieval woman. Well researched and historically accurate (for the most part).
Nobody understands psychology better than Undset.
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (memoir)
Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson (play about the unheralded 19th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt)
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The Women by Kristin Hannah
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Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Some classics called out already so I’ll just add a personal favourite in the Farseer books by Robin Hobb.
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Evil Eye and A Woman is No Man both by Etaf Rum
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“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
“Animal” by Lisa Taddeo
“The Poet” by Louisa Reid
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Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
The Bell Jar
A Room of One’s Own
Akiko Yosano’s poetry collection
Educated
The Power
Beloved
The Invisible Woman
And anything by Margaret Atwood.
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Try *The Women* by Sommer Schafer. Her first novel is out next week, I believe (I know nothing about it, though).
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All for the game trilogy by Nora Sakavic
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I enjoyed The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan.
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Middlemarch
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Hamnet
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Dorthy Allison Toni Morrison Maya Angelou
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Non-fiction; Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
I was getting so mad when I was reading it that my teachers made history so boring, ” Why didn’t they teach history like this?”
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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The Year of magical Thinking–Joan Didion
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For fiction, *Outline* by Rachel Cusk. Maybe the smartest thing I have ever read. It’s first of three books in a trilogy but it stands alone just fine. The others are great, too.
For non-fiction, *Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men* by Caroline Criado Perez.
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Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley ☺️
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Some classics;
A room of one’s own by Virginia Wolf
The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Anything by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
More recent;
Men explain things to me by Rebecca Solnit
Educated by Tara Westover
Non fiction;
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
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*Resilience is Futile* by Julie S. Lalonde. It’s a memoir that covers an abusive relationship, which she fled at age 20, and was then stalked by him for a decade. It is an excellent read, and she’s a very engaging storyteller. Her public life as a VAW activist and public educator is starkly contrasted with the turmoil of her private life.
I’d also recommend *Brain on Fire* by Susannah Cahalan. It chronicles her descent into madness due to an extremely rare medical condition.
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_The Secret History_ by Donna Tartt is brilliant and addictive.
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The blind assassin
The handmaids tale
Basically anything by Margaret Atwood
Or Sarah waters
Or barbara kingsolver
The Handmaids Tale
Parable Of The Sower
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Bell Jar
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Rebecca
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset is one of the best books ever written. It is about the life of one medieval woman. Well researched and historically accurate (for the most part).
Nobody understands psychology better than Undset.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (memoir)
Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson (play about the unheralded 19th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt)
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Some classics called out already so I’ll just add a personal favourite in the Farseer books by Robin Hobb.
Evil Eye and A Woman is No Man both by Etaf Rum
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
“Animal” by Lisa Taddeo
“The Poet” by Louisa Reid
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
The Bell Jar
A Room of One’s Own
Akiko Yosano’s poetry collection
Educated
The Power
Beloved
The Invisible Woman
And anything by Margaret Atwood.
Try *The Women* by Sommer Schafer. Her first novel is out next week, I believe (I know nothing about it, though).
All for the game trilogy by Nora Sakavic
I enjoyed The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan.
Middlemarch
Hamnet
Dorthy Allison Toni Morrison Maya Angelou
Non-fiction; Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
I was getting so mad when I was reading it that my teachers made history so boring, ” Why didn’t they teach history like this?”
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Year of magical Thinking–Joan Didion
For fiction, *Outline* by Rachel Cusk. Maybe the smartest thing I have ever read. It’s first of three books in a trilogy but it stands alone just fine. The others are great, too.
For non-fiction, *Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men* by Caroline Criado Perez.
Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley ☺️
Some classics;
A room of one’s own by Virginia Wolf
The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Anything by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
More recent;
Men explain things to me by Rebecca Solnit
Educated by Tara Westover
Non fiction;
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
*Resilience is Futile* by Julie S. Lalonde. It’s a memoir that covers an abusive relationship, which she fled at age 20, and was then stalked by him for a decade. It is an excellent read, and she’s a very engaging storyteller. Her public life as a VAW activist and public educator is starkly contrasted with the turmoil of her private life.
I’d also recommend *Brain on Fire* by Susannah Cahalan. It chronicles her descent into madness due to an extremely rare medical condition.
_The Secret History_ by Donna Tartt is brilliant and addictive.