Good Books to Read

1 “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri

2 “Stag’s Leap” by Sharon Olds

3 “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” by Megan Marshall

4 “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt

5 “Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People” by Elizabeth A. Fenn

6 “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

7 “MIDDLESEX” BY JEFFREY EUGENIDES

8 “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

9 “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10 “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie

11 “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE” by KURT VONNEGUT

12 “THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD” by ZORA NEALE HURSTON

13 “THE KITE RUNNER” by KHALED HOSSEINI

14 “TROPIC OF CANCER” by HENRY MILLER

15 “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD” by HARPER LEE

6 “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

17 “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” by J.D. SALINGER

18 “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT” by ERICH MARIA REMARQUE

19 “THE BLUEST EYE” by TONI MORRISON

20 “LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER” by D.H. LAWRENCE

22 “BRAVE NEW WORLD” by ALDOUS HUXLEY

23 “GONE WITH THE WIND” by MARGARET MITCHELL

24 “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante

25 “A Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly

26 “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith

27 “Jasmine” by Bharati Mukherjee

28 “Sex with Shakespeare” by Jillian Keenan

29 “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

30 “Matilda” by Roald Dahl

31 “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

32 “Obernewtyn” by Isobelle Carmody

33 “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

34 “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

35 “Bad Feminist” by Roxanne Gay

36 “Vanishing Girls” by Lauren Oliver

37 “Bossypants” by Tina Fey

38 “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed

39 “The Lowland” by Jhumpa Lahiri

40 “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler

41 “Beloved” by Toni Morrison

42 “The Handmaid s Tale” by Margaret Attwood

43 “The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana s Nin” by Ana s Nin

44 “Weetzie Bat” by Francesca Lia Block

45 “The Complete Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi

46 “I Feel Bad About My Neck” by Nora Ephron

47 “How to Be a Woman” by Caitlin Moran

48 “Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

49 “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

50 “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir

51 “Mistakes I Made at Work” edited by Jessica Bacal

52 “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler

53 “Bad Behavior” by Mary Gaitskill

54 “#Girlboss” by Sophia Amoruso