Literature
What to Read: 13 Feminist Classics
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, 1963
- The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer, 1970
- Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin, 1974
- Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis, 1981
- Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde, 1984
- Gender Trouble, Judith Butler, 1990
- Feminism Is for Everybody, Bell Hooks, 2000
- Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg, 2013
- Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit, 2014
- Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay, 2014
- We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014
- The Happiness Fantasy by Carl Cederstrom
--Carl Cederstrom, October 2, 2018.
Important Books
Here are some of the important books I have read since I retired in 2010:
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- From Here to Eternity by James Jones
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Handmaid's Tale by Magaret Atwood
- The Iliad by Homer
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Story of O by Anne Desclos
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Note: I read all of Ernest Hemingway's books before I retired. He is, perhaps, the greatest writer who ever lived.
Ernest Hemingway.
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