Fall Reading Roundup

by MistyAugust 19, 2016August 19, 2016

It’s that time of year: the new semester is upon us. Here are some books to add to your syllabi, that stack on your nightstand, or recommend to friends.

Feminism, Culture, and How to Live in the World

Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why, by Sady Doyle

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein

How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices, by Therese Huston

A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High by Ken Corbett

Memoir and Creative Nonfiction

And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality by Mark Segal

Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, by Brian Blanchfield

Lost Wax: Essays, by Jericho Parms

My Life, My Body, Plus . . . by Marge Piercy

Searching for Sappho by Phillip Freeman

Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture by Catherine M. Roach

Biographies of Impressive Women

Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet, by Terese Svoboda

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, by Ruth Franklin

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion, by Tracy Daugherty

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One thought on “Fall Reading Roundup”

poet kate hutchinson says:

September 5, 2016 at 3:17 pm

Thanks for these great recs. I’d also add Stacy Schiff’s Pulitzer-winning bio of Cleopatra — talk about an amazing woman!

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