Lily’s Book List

* my favorite books, written by a woman

Cannon:

• To Kill a Mockingbird *

• The Things They Carried *

• Hamlet

• As I Lay Dying

• Frankenstein *

• Into the Wild

• The Alchemist *

• Mrs. Dalloway -> then read The Hours

• Pride & Prejudice *

• Little Women

• Great Expectations

• Handmaid’s Tale

• The Book Thief

• Wuthering Heights

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

Non-fiction/Biography

• Unbroken *

• Educated

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings *

• Becoming

• Born a Crime

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• My Own Words

• Memoirs of a Geisha

Fiction

• All The Light We Cannot See *

• A Visit From The Goon Squad *

• Kite Runner & And The Mountains Echoed

• The Boys in the Boat

• The Help

• Things Fall Apart

• Brave New World

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Scifi/Fantasy

• The Belgariad *

• Ender’s Game

• Snow Crash

• Dune

• The Golden Compass

• A Wrinkle in Time

• Ready Player One

• The Name of The Wind

• Wool

Educational/Non-fiction

• Freakonomics

• Sapiens

• Astrophysics for People In a Hurry

• A Brief History of Time

• The People’s History of the United States

• Poor Economics (one of the authors is female) *

• The Grid

• The Tao of Poo

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma

• Godell, Escher, & Bach

• there is a distinct lack of female writers in this category, if you have a recommendation, pass them on….

Amusing/Beach Reads

• Where’d You Go Bernadette *

• Crazy Rich Asians

• Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy *

• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine