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The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Speculative Fiction that Passes the Bechdel Test
838 books — 825 voters
The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksHe's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Ever... by Jessica ValentiSister Outsider by Audre LordeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Third-Wave Feminism
168 books — 63 voters

The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinOutrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria SteinemWitches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich
Second Wave Feminism
141 books — 45 voters
Intercourse by Andrea DworkinThe Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone
Radical Feminist Texts
296 books — 100 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWhen She Woke by Hillary JordanGather the Daughters by Jennie MelamedRed Clocks by Leni ZumasThe Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Patriarchal Dystopias
124 books — 107 voters
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre LordeNotes on Nationalism by George OrwellLetter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.The Vigilante by John SteinbeckNotes on ‘Camp’ by Susan Sontag
Penguin Modern
50 books — 50 voters

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Nobel Laureates
659 books — 564 voters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Books Daria Read
70 books — 64 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonLooking for Alaska by John GreenThe Hours by Michael Cunningham
Women and Mental Illness (fiction and nonfiction)
1,141 books — 2,253 voters