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29 Best Feminist Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Feminist books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best feminist books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. MOST RECOMMENDED!
    1
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

  2. 2
    The Bluest Eye

    The Bluest Eye

    Toni Morrison

  3. 3
    Bad Feminist
  4. 4
    Men Explain Things to Me
  5. 5
    The Yellow Wallpaper

    The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  6. 6
    A Room of One's Own

    A Room of One's Own

    Virginia Woolf

  7. 7
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  8. 8
    The Golden Notebook
  9. 10
    Circe

    Circe

    Madeline Miller

  10. 11
    The Second Sex

    The Second Sex

    Simone de Beauvoir

  11. 12
    We Should All Be Feminists

    We Should All Be Feminists

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  12. 13
    The Awakening

    The Awakening

    Kate Chopin

  13. 15
    Asking For It

    Asking For It

    Louise O'Neill

  14. 16
    Down Girl
  15. 17
    The World's Wife

    The World's Wife

    Poems

    Carol Ann Duffy

  16. 21
    Fat Is A Feminist Issue
  17. 24
    Things a Bright Girl Can Do
  18. 25
    Women, Culture & Politics
  19. 26
    Furious Thing

    Furious Thing

    Jenny Downham

  20. 27
    Dialectic of the Flesh
  21. 28
    On Intersectionality

FAQ

  • How was this Feminist books list created?

    We searched for 'best Feminist books', found the top 5 articles, took every book mentioned in 2+ articles, and averaged their rankings.

  • How many Feminist books are in this list?

    There are 29 books in this list.

  • Why did you create this Feminist books list?

    We wanted to gather the most accurate list of Feminist books on the internet.

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