Book Recommendations: Feminist Books

Set in New York City in the '90s, Angela Shanté's poems center on pivotal moments of Black childhood, using footnotes that encourage you to listen to songs, watch movies, and even learn how to play Spades to further contextualize and celebrate Black culture in every aspect of life.

Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection.

When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her place in her community.

British teen Kat Evens, determined to be a good feminist, stumbles through high school with all its bullies, parties, embarrassing moments and crippling self-doubt with the help of her best friends, her parents and her diary as she figures out how to reach her goal.

Advises us to respect our bodies and disrupt the harmful societal pressures we experience every day.

A history of the more than 250 women who have played for the U.S. National Soccer Team and their battle for equal pay.

Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.

A re-imagining of The Three Musketeers, in which a chronically ill girl trains as a Musketeer, seeking justice for her father’s murder and uncovering more secrets along the way.

With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.

Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.

When Ari and really popular Luis have sex at a party--Ari didn't say no, but she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and rumors fly, Ari finds a mysterious note in her locker that eventually leads her to a group of students determined to expose Luis for the predator he is.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.

Follows 16-year-old Alicia, who feels isolated and alone after being sexually abused by a teacher, then cast as the slut who asked for it, until she receives mysterious letters hinting at another victim, forcing her to face her trauma and fight back.

When outspoken feminist rebel Ruby McAllister stands up for a girl being humiliated into covering up, they become the leaders of the school's dress code rebellion, which forces them to face their own insecurities, biases, privileges and the ups-and-downs of newfound friendship.

How do you fight the patriarchy when you've internalized some of its values? TJ can teach you, as she teaches herself...

A teen journalist uncovers the #METOO scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members.

When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.

Moon Fuentez feels trapped in the shadow of her thinner, lighter-skinned, and “more beautiful” influencer twin sister, Star, until a summer road trip shows Moon how to shine.

When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.

After her sister is killed in an air battle versus aliens, young Zetian avenges her death and becomes an Iron Widow, a much-feared kind of female pilot.

Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.

Following her family's move to the Catskills, seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help her new friend Abigail Rose, the granddaughter of former professional wrestler Mad Mabel, take her family's male-dominated indie wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.

This is a book about gender equality in the United States and how to engage in activism to get there.

Being a powerhouse is a choice, a lifestyle, a code of ethics. It takes work, a thick skin, and perseverance. Learn the basics of being a difficult bitch, from school to friends to body to life.

A new generation of outspoken women of color offer a much-needed fresh dimension to the shape of feminism of the future.

A field guide to the what's, why's, and how's of intersectional feminism. The authors blend histories, stats, social justice principles, and self-help advice to connect where the personal meets political in our bodies, brains, booty calls, bank accounts, and other confounding facets of modern woman-ing and nonbinary-ing.

Two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools, the American team included a roster of players who would go on to become some of the most legendary figures in the history of basketball. These women took on the world and proved everyone wrong.

As a child, Tarana Burke reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. In her debut memoir she shares her extensive work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls, and the devastating realization that to truly help these girls she needed to help that scared, ashamed child still in her soul and embrace her power.

Presents the memoir of a courageous young woman whose public accusation of rape against the deposed president of Gambia sparked an outpouring of support on social media from other survivors of sexual violence in West Africa.

Looks at the life of Chanel Miller who was raped after a party on the Stanford University campus on January 18, 2015. Beautifully written and ultimately uplifting.

A collection of personal essays inspired by the #MeToo movement.

Examines the patriarchal constructs that support rape culture and discusses such topics as manhood and sexuality, social and legal systems, and workplace environments.