Favourite Books
Fiction:
Precious Williams’ Precious
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
Rumer Godden’s The Doll’s House
Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones
Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Chibundu Onuzo’s The Spider King’s Daughter
Feminism:
Valerie Solanus’ Scum Manifesto
Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider
Lynne Harne & Elaine Miller’s All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism
Karen Boyle’s Everyday Pornography
History:
Bettany Hughes’ Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore (this is one of my all time favourite books and, as I have banged on about everywhere on social media, I would love to see this type of history applied to the Amazonian women)
Shirley Chisholm’s Unbought & Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
Helen Castor’s She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Rosalind Miles’ The Women’s History of the World
I also started reading J.D Robb’s futuristic Lt Eve Dallas series as well as M.C Beaton’s Agatha Raisin cotswolds mysteries. Both of these series were recommended by women on the Mumsnet Feminist Board.
