By Isabella Brady
Publishing since 1650, women have had a profound impact on literature—pivotal to storytelling as we know it today. Unfortunately, women rarely receive the recognition deserved for their literary contributions and intricate worlds created word by word—fueling the imaginations of coming generations. Thus, in this women’s history month. take some time to recognize a few (of many) notable female authors and their works.
Women’s History Month Reading List:
Present Authors:
Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Cat’s Eye
- The Year of the Flood
Michelle Obama
- Becoming
Malala Yousazfai
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
- Malala’s Magic Pencil
- We Are Displaced
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Americanah
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- We Should All Be Feminists
Jandy Nelson
- I’ll Give You the Sun
- The Sky is Everywhere
Paula Hawkins
- The Girl on the Train
- Slow Fire Burning
- Into the Water
Margot Lee Shetterly
- Hidden Figures
Erika Sanchez
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Samira Ahmed
- Love, Hate and Other Filters
Sonia Sotomayor
- My Beloved World
Kate Moore
- Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- The Woman They Could Not Silence
Past Authors:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- My Own Words
Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice
- Emma
- Sense and Sensibility
Louisa May Alcott
- Little Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects