Every year, I like to read books dedicated to a few of the heritage months. Last month, I did not read as much for Black History Month as I’d hoped, oh well. I use the heritage months as a way to educate myself.
The one month I don’t celebrate through my reading list is Women’s History Month. I don’t need to. Not that I’m the most educated person on the topic, most of the books I crack are written by and about women. I find them more interesting. Gender studies is one of my favorite topics to read about. I tend to have to go out of my way to read books by and about men in the fiction genre – history is another story altogether. I just don’t care as much about the protagonists when they’re men. Sorry, but not actually. I have always thought a woman’s story, no matter who she is/was, is far more engaging to me than those of men. Men are great, sure, but I’d rather spend my time reading about my people.
I completely and full-heartedly support Women’s History Month, but I don’t make a point of dedicating my reading list to it. My entire reading list, all year long is a devotion to women, our history, our issues, our future. If you want to read more books about and by women, here are eleven of the books and authors who opened my mind and enthralled me as a young reader, as a student, and as an adult!
- Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs
- The Awakening Kate Chopin
- Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas
- All The Single Ladies Rebecca Traister
- Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
- Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
- Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir
- To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
bisous und обьятий,
RaeAnna
