Friday, November 20, 2009
Fifteen Awesome Books By Women written in 09
A little late, but better than never.
Women writers all over the web are responding to our lack of presence on mainstreams awards lists and "best of" lists with lists of our own--(note to world: I got there first re the PW list).
So in that positive spirit, here goes--awesome books I read that were written by women in 2009, both high and lowbrow. What's on yours?
NONFICTION:
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Michelle Goldberg
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
Jessica Valenti
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Kathryn Joyce
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Gail Collins
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
Lizzie Skurnick
**
FICTION
The Broken Teaglass: A Novel
Emily Arsenault
Day After Night: A Novel
Anita Diamant
Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel
Marie Mockett
Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Lisa See
Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9)
Charlaine Harris
Living Room: A Novel
Rachel Sherman
A Short History of Women: A Novel
Kate Walbert
Pictures at an Exhibition
Sara Houghteling
Hello Goodbye: A Novel
Emily Chenoweth
Labels:
Feminism,
Literary Larks
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