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29 Best Feminist Books

We analyzed 5+ expert sources, curated book lists, and recommendations from successful people to find the 29 best feminist books according to the internet — not just one person's opinion. Each book on this list was mentioned by at least two independent sources, and the ranking is based on how frequently each title appears across all sources studied. This consensus-based approach ensures you get recommendations backed by multiple experts, not a single reviewer's bias.

Goal: Find the best Feminist books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best feminist books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

29 Best Feminist Books

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1

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale, Book 1

by Margaret Atwood

Also recommended by:

Emma Watson, Daniel Pink, Jenn Im

2

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

Also recommended by:

Oprah Winfrey, Diane Rehm

3

Bad Feminist

Essays

by Roxane Gay

Also recommended by:

Emma Watson

4

Men Explain Things to Me

by Rebecca Solnit

Also recommended by:

Chelsea Handler

5

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf
6

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft
7

The Golden Notebook

A Novel

by Doris Lessing
8

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9

This Bridge Called My Back

Writings by Radical Women of Color

by Cherríe Moraga
10

Circe

by Madeline Miller

Also recommended by:

Kathryn Minshew, Shauna Niequist

11

The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir

Also recommended by:

Laura R Walker, Brad Delong

12

Asking For It

by Louise O'Neill
13

Colonize This!

Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

by Daisy Hernández
14

Dialectic of the Flesh

by Roz Kaveney
15

Down Girl

The Logic of Misogyny

by Kate Manne
16

Fat Is A Feminist Issue

by Susie Orbach
17

Feminism Is for Everybody

Passionate Politics

by bell hooks
18

Furious Thing

by Jenny Downham
19

Gender Outlaw

On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

by Kate Bornstein
20

Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler
21

Headscarves and Hymens

Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

by Mona Eltahawy
22

On Intersectionality

Essential Writings

by Kimberlé Crenshaw
23

Sister Outsider

Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde
24

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin
25

The Madwoman in the Attic

The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

by Sandra M. Gilbert
26

The World's Wife

Poems

by Carol Ann Duffy
27

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

by Sally Nicholls
28

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
29

Women, Culture & Politics

by Angela Y. Davis

Sources

Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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