Add these Oxfam staff favorites to your bookshelf
March is Women’s History Month and National Reading Month and what better way to honor both of these occasions than to pick up a book exploring women’s experiences and accomplishments? Here’s a list of fiction, memoirs, and essays authored by women that encourage critical thinking about inequality, gender, and women’s empowerment recommended by the Women at Oxfam employee resource group.
Fiction
Assembly, by Natasha Brown
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo,
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
Mexican Gothic, by Sylvia Moreno Garcia
Olga Dies Dreaming, by Xochitl Gonzalez
Olive, by Emma Gannon
The Deep, by Rivers Solomon
The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennet
Yolk, by Mary H.K. Choi
Non-Fiction
90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality, by Allison Yarrow
Bad Feminist, by Roxanne Gay
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judy Heumann
Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
Good and Mad, by Rebecca Traister
Good Enough, by Leanne Brown
Madam Secretary, by Madeleine Albright
Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say), by Elaine Welteroth
My Life on the Road, by Gloria Stein
My Own Words, by Ruth Bader Ginsberg
On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing my Legs to Learning the Dance of Life, by Amy Purdy
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Mona Eltahawy
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent, by Nesrine Malik
Wordslut, Amanda Montell