Best Books For Women

A debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission.

Grownup Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentiethcentury rural…

Starts intimate and character-focused, tracking Ifemelu’s sharp, observational voice and Obinze’s quieter arc across two continents. The most useful parts are the scenes that dramatize how race, class, and longing reshape identity—especially Ifemelu’s American encounters and her blog-style interludes that name feeling with plain language. Limitations: the timeline jumps and long social digressions slow momentum, and readers looking for plot-driven pace or fewer sociopolitical reflections will find stretches that read more like argument than narrative.

Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pinkall shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and Im not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way.

From Facebook's COO and Wharton's toprated professor, the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks.After the sudden death of her…

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harper's Bazaar St.

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K.

Jen Sincero's 'You Are a Badass' reads like a bar conversation with a tipsy life coach who swears a lot and promises you can manifest a Lamborghini. Across 27 bite-sized chapters, she mixes stories of her own rock bottom with blunt directives like 'Love yourself like a crazy person' and 'Your brain is your bitch.' The immediate, no-nonsense motivation is the useful part: you'll finish sections ready to act, armed with mantras to hush self-doubt. But the book’s simplistic abundance logic sidesteps real-world constraints, and by chapter 15 you may find the Law of Attraction cheerleading more exhausting than empowering.

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a mustread for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928.

Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her…

A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller, Own It is a new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have.