Essential reads for feminists and women everywhere, including important texts to powerful novels.

Best Feminist Books

Antigone

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Jane Eyre

Little Women

Middlemarch

A Room Of One's Own

The Second Sex

The Golden Notebook

The Bell Jar

The Feminine Mystique

Wide Sargasso Sea

SCUM Manifesto

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Sexual Politics

The Dialectic of Sex

The Female Eunuch

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

My Mother My Self

Fear of Flying

Our Bodies Ourselves

The Sex Which Is Not One

Fat is a Feminist Issue

The Color Purple

Sister Outsider

The Cider House Rules

The Handmaid's Tale

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe

Intercourse

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

The Beauty Myth

Gender Trouble

The Red Tent

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

The Bust Guide To The New Girl Order

Women

C***: A Declaration of Independence

Feminism Is For Everybody

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future

A Life's Work

Riding In Cars With Boys

Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes

Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Full Frontal Feminism

Strangeland

Yes Means Yes

Bossypants

The Future of Feminism

How To Be A Woman

50 essential feminist books