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*Fictional Books

Books

We recommend a warm drink, blanket, and some background music to go with your book of choice. Really sets the atmosphere :)

On Feminism

  • Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given

  • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

  • My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

  • Women, Culture, & Politics by Angela Davis

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

  • Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

  • The Bridge Called My Back: Writings from Radical Women of Color

  • The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

  • Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby

  • Era of Ignition by Amber Tamblyn

  • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen

  • Can We All Be Feminists? By June Eric-Udorie

  • The Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, and Robin Boylorn

  • *The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

  • *Circe by Madeline Miller

  • *The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  • *The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

  • *The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  • *The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

  • *The Power by Naomi Alderman

  • *Those Who Knew by Idra Novey

  • *The Awakening by Kate Chopin

  • *A D0ll's House by Henrik Ibsen

  • *Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • *The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • *Wayward Girls & Wicked Women by Angela Carter

  • *The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • *The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  • *Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

  • *Furious Thing by Jenny Downham

  • *Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina Mclaughlin

On Toxic Masculinity

  • Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Michael Denzel Smith

  • The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

  • I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell

  • The Gender Knot by Allan Johnson

  • The Macho Paradox by Jackson Katz

  • Some Men by Messner, Greenberg, and Peretz

  • From Jim Crow to Jay Z by Miles White

  • Man Up by Jack Urwin

  • The End of Patriarchy by Robert Jenson

  • Voice Male by Rob A Okun

  • The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton

  • For the Love of Men: From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity by Elizabeth Prank

  • Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity by Clementine Ford

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