December
Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The King Arthur Trilogy
Ajay Close’s The Daughter of Lady Macbeth
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Mary Beard’s Women & Power: A Manifesto
Margaret Atwood’s The Hag-Seed
November
Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin
Audre Lorde’s Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment
– -Reductress’ How to win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having it All
Ali Smith’s How to be both
Ali Smith’s Autumn
October
Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues From Pop to Theory
Heidi Safia Mirza (Ed.) Black British Feminism
Chihundu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos
Patricia Hill Collins’ From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Hanya Yanagihara’s The People in the Trees
Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua (Eds.) This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour (4th edition)
Barbara Smith’s Towards a Black Feminist Criticism
Audre Lorde’s A Burst of Light & other essays
Joy James (ed.) The Angela Y Davis Reader
Madeleine Thien’s Do not say we have nothing
September
Kit de Waal’s My name is Leon
Rebecca Solnit’s Men explain things to me, and other essays
Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Diaries
– Lisa Hilton’s Athenais
Kate Millett’s The Politics of Cruelty
Anabel Hernandez’ Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers
Robin Morgan’s Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism
Flo Kennedy’s Color me Flo
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
Brit Bennett’s The Mothers
Deborah Cameron’s The Myth of Mars & Venus
August
Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk
Alison Weir’s Isabella, she-wolf of France, Queen of England
Alison Weir’s Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
Mary S. Lovell’s Bess of Hardwick, First Lady of Chatsworth
Sarah Gristwood’s Arbella, England’s Lost Queen
Linda Grant’s The Dark Circle
Antonia Fraser’s The Warrior Queens
Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
Natalie Haynes’ The Children of Jocasta
Alison Weir’s The Lost Tudor Princess
Rachel Holmes’ Eleanor Marx
Helen Rappaport’s Four Sister’s: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
July
– Sophie Hardach’s The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages.
*Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s The Golden Son
June
Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child
Lindsey Collen’s Mutiny
-Lesley Thomson’s A Kind of Vanishing
J.D Robb’s Remember When: A Death Novella
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman: An Anthology
Roxane Gay’s Hunger
Mari Strachan’s The Earth Hums in B Flat
Naomi Munaweera’s Island of a thousand mirrors
Nadia Hashini’s When the moon is low
May
Nicola Barker’s Darkmans
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts
Sheila Jeffreys’ Unpacking Queer Politics
Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers
Kirsty Logan’s The Gracekeepers
Sheila Jeffreys’ Gender Hurts
Maggie O’Farrell’s Instructions for a Heateave
Maggie O’Farrell’s This must be the place
*Mary Paulson-Ellis’ The Other Mrs Walker
T.O. Walker’s Not my shame
Una’s Becoming Unbecoming
Lesley McDowell’s Unfashioned Creatures
Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Djinni
Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante’s Those who leave and those who stay
*Val McDermid’s Out of Bounds
April
Sarah Winman’s A Year of Marvellous Ways
Michele Roberts’ Daughters of the House
Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch
Cordelia Fine’s Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds.
Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent
Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink and Stars
Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
Naomi Alderman’s The Power
Sara Barnard’s Beautiful Broken Things
Gerda Lerner’s The Creation of Feminist Consciousness
Kat Banyard’s Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality
S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders
Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give
– Anne Tyler’s The Vinegar Girls
Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata
Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex
Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life
Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
March
Natsuo Kirono’s The Goddess Chronicles
Roxane Gay’s Ayiti
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
*Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Nasty Women – a collection of essays and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century
Ti-Grace Atkinson’s Amazon Odyssey: The first collection of writings by the political pioneer of the women’s movement.
Julie Bindel & Harriet Wistrich (eds.) The Map of my Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys
*Linda Hirshman’s Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world.
Germaine Greer’s Shakespeare’s Wife
Jenny Uglow’s The Pinecone: The story of Sarah Losh, Romantic heroine, architect and visionary
J.D Robb’s Apprentice in Death
Stacy Schiff’s The Witches, Salem 1692: A History
– Raine Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade
Joan Smith’s Misogynies
February
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Marilyn Frye’s The Politics of Reality
Lorraine Hansford’ To be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography of Lorraine Hansford
Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish
Sherie M. Randolph’s Florence ‘Flo’ Kennedy The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist
Grace Nichols’ I is a Long Memoried Woman
*Helen Oyeyemi’s What is not yours is not yours
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books
Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State
Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Nadiya Hussain’s The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters
Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland
*Zadie Smith’s Changing My Mind – occasional essays
Sabrina Mahfouz’ How You Might Know Me
*Yvette Edwards’ the mother
January
Carrie Fisher’s Delusions of Grandma (reread)
Carmina Masoliver’s Carmina’s Poetry Tease
*bell hooks’ belonging – a culture of place
Ntozake Shange’s For Coloured Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
George Eliot’s Silas Marner
*Barbara Kingsolvers The Bean Trees
Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods
–Edna O’Briens’ The Little Red Chairs
Kate Atkinson’s Behind the scenes at the museum
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We should all be feminists (reread)
Jessie Burton’s The Muse
Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory
Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree
Natasha Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Isabel Allende’s The Japanese Lover
Janet Evanovich’s Tricky Twenty-Two
Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (reread)
*Irenosen Okojie’s Speak Gigantular
Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price
Laurie Penny’s Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent
