Reading List for Women's History Month

One way to celebrate Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8) is to read books written by women and/or feature women characters. See this non-exhaustive list below of some books available to check out at the Perkins Library.

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

2. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 

3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

4. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 

6. Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 

7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

8. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

9. Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

10. Becoming by Michelle Obama 

11. Hidden Figures by Margaret Lee Shetterly

12. The Outsiders by S E Hinton

13. Harry Potter by JK Rowling 

14. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

15. The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 

16. Heartburn by Nora Ephron

17. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

18. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 

19. Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou 

20. Essays of Women and Feminism by Katha Pollitt

21. Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Scott 

22. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood 

23. My Antonia by Willa Cather 

24. The Poems of Emily Dickinson

25. When Everything Changed by Gail Collins 

26. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

27. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir