2017 Books for the Holidays: Feminist Reading List
A reading list of books by insightful and accomplished women, including Joan Didion, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among others.
Check out all our 2017 holiday lists here.
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Add to BookshelfWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
by Samantha Irby
With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms, she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past.
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South and West
by Joan Didion
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles–and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
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The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood.
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bone
by Yrsa Daley-Ward
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.
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Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
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A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.
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Coming to My Senses
by Alice Waters
The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America’s most influential restaurant.
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Courage Is Contagious
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A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, Michelle Obama, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham.
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Long Black Veil
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She’s Not There.
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Woman Enters Left
by Jessica Brockmole
In parallel tales, three women, Louise, Florrie, and Ethel, discover that not all journeys follow a map. As they rediscover their carefree selves on the road, they learn that sometimes the paths they follow are shaped more by their traveling companions than by their destinations.
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Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
Lab Girl is geobiologist Hope Jahren’s revelatory treatise on plant life as well as a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist.
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