Books on women authors and artists and characters, cultural criticisms & deep dives.
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last updated March, 2026
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
Devoney Looser
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Glory Edim
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Catherine M. Roach
Dangerous Books For Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained: Expanded Edition
Maya Rodale
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
Sarah Wendell
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Sophie Gilbert
Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
Eleanor Johnson
In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Books About Books)
Salamishah Tillet
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Rebecca Romney
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
Roseanne Montillo
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Anna Bogutskaya
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Courtney Thorsson
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