International Women's Day 2022

Happy International Women's Day!!!!

Today is a day to celebrate being a women, shouting about what women have achieved (big and small!) and to highlight the many issues still facing women today.

With this in mind, I've come up with some recommended reads about women and by women.

❤️ Classics ❤️

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) 

Emma (Jane Austen) 

Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) 

Beloved (Toni Morrison) 

Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) 

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford) 

⚔️ Badass heroines ⚔️

Celaena Sardothian (Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas)

Anna and Isabelle Lightwood (Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare)

Inej, Nina and Zoya (Grishaverse - Leigh Bardugo)

Ead (Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon)

Isabelle (Stepsister - Jennifer Donnelly)

Feyre and Nesta (A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Maas)

Eve, Elena and Savannah (Women of the Other World - Kelley Armstrong)

👑 Women in History 👑

Queen Victoria (Lucy Worsley)

Queens of the Crusades (Alison Weir)

The Five (Hallie Rubenhold)

Women in Mathematics (Lynn M Osen)

History of the World in 21 Women (Jenni Murray)

✊Problems facing women✊

On the front line with the women who fight back (Stacey Dooley) 

Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez) 

My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russell) 

The Color Purple (Alice Walker) 

Passing (Nella Larsen) 

The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)

🌍Women around the world 🌍

Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) 

Our Lady of the Nile (Scholastique Mukasonga) 

The Girl with the Louding Voice (Abi Dare)

Love After Love (Ingrid Persuad)

Kim JiYoung, Born 1982 (Cho-Nam Joo)

Aria (Nazanine Hozar)

🚨Dystopians🚨

Vox (Christina Dalcher)

The Power (Naomi Alderman)

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

Slated (Teri Terry)

The Girl in Red (Christina Henry)