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Women Books

Books selected for readers looking for women books.

35 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·1 crossover shelf·102% reader overlap with Women Authors Books

1. Eve Bites Back
Anna Beer
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
2. The Heroine's Bookshelf
Erin Blakemore
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
3. How to Suppress Women's Writing
Joanna Russ, Jessa Crispin
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
4. Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance
Jane Harrington
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
5. Shadow Work
Emily Hodgson Anderson
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
6. How to Be a Renaissance Woman
Jill Burke
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
7. Mother Tongue
Beth Hicks, Jenni Nuttall
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
8. Normal Women: Making History for 900 Years
Philippa Gregory
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Medieval History for Teens
9. The Book of Old Ladies
Ruth O. Saxton
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
10. Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
Arielle Zibrak
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
11. Bookishness
Jessica Pressman
Strong fit for this women list in the 21st century literature lane.
Shelf signal: 21st Century Literature
12. Aggregated Discontent
Harron Walker
Included for strong lgbt alignment with this women list.
Shelf signal: Transgender Studies
13. Loving With a Vengeance
Tania Modleski
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
14. The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-bred Women
Emily Reed
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Regency Romance
15. She
Robert A. Johnson
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Jung & Jungian Psychology
16. The Scarlet Sisters
Myra MacPherson
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Gilded-Age Romance
17. Gender/fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body
Florence Ashley
Included for strong queer alignment with this women list.
Shelf signal: Transgender Studies
18. The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy
Rachel Robison-Greene
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
19. Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life: Bookmarked
Pamela Erens
Strong fit for this women list in the women in literature lane.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
20. All the Single Ladies
Rebecca Traister
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Marriage & Family
21. Delta of Venus
Anais Nin, Anaïs Nin
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Romance Erotica
22. No Time to Spare
Ursula Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin
Included for strong short story alignment with this women list.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
23. From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World, Volume III
Marilyn French, Margaret Atwood
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
24. Charlotte Brontë Revisited
Sophie Franklin
Included for strong literary alignment with this women list.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism