Book Club Reading

Even though life seems to be (somewhat) returning to normal, it’s still important to be cautious and try to limit contact with others as much as possible. During this time, one way that we have been keeping ourselves busy is by keeping up with our reading list. Women in Business is even doing a summer book club and we’ve compiled a list of books that we have been reading/would recommend reading. These books cover a variety of different topics and themes and will definitely keep you busy all summer!

Feminism 

1. Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay 

2. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls - Mona Eltahawy

3. The Moment of Lift - Melinda Gates

4. Becoming - Michelle Obama 

5. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

6. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny - Kate Mann

7. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado-Pérez

8. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Brené Brown 

9. Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death - Erin Gibson

10. How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job - Sally Helgesen, Marshall Goldsmith

11. Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks

12. The World According to Garp - John Irving

13. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg

14. The Subtweet: A Novel - Vivek Shraya

15. Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

Fiction 

1. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

2. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sàenz

3. The Inexplicable Logic of my Life - Benjamin Alire Sàenz

4. Everybody’s Son - Thirty Umrigar 

5. Beloved - Toni Morrison

6. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri 

7. The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill

8. There There - Tommy Orange

9. Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

10. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Other Non-Fiction 

1. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari 

2. Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

3. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari 

4. Educated - Tara Westover

5. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls 

6. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

7. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless and Finding My Way - Jesse Thistle

8. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

9. Whipping Girl - Julia Serano

10. The Inconvenient Indian - Thomas King 

11. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

12. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - Bob Joseph

13. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

14. So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

15. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

We hope you enjoy these reads and we’d love to hear your thoughts! Happy reading, and stay safe!