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When God Was a Woman
Merlin Stone
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin
Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II
Han Seong-Won
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Jules Gill-Peterson
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Barbara Ehrenreich
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
Brooke Kroeger
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Susan Ware
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
The Women
Kristin Hannah
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Lilith
Nikki Marmery
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Tia Levings
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Leymah Gbowee
Brida
Paulo Coelho
Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope
Artisan Press
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum
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