This Summer, we may have a little more free time on our hands. So, fill that time with some good reads by great female authors that can accompany you to the beach or on the couch during a rainy day! Keep scrolling for some of our top picks.
Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder – Reshma Saujani
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brave-not-perfect-reshma-saujani/1129030570?ean=9781524762339
A realistic self-help book that addresses what seems to occupy the biggest spot in our minds: perfection. Although it’s what many of us strive for, is it really what we think it is? Is it detrimental to chase perfection? How does being a woman align with this ideal? Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, breaks it all down in a personal way (sometimes a little too specific– did she read everyone’s mind?). Even better, this book gives you tips on how to confront fears of bravery and dare we say, not be perfect all the time, and is based on Saujani’s TED talk, which you can watch here.
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hood-feminism-mikki-kendall/1131993623?ean=9780525560548
Mikki Kendall brings her outspoken online voice to print in her collection of essays that addresses the gaps within modern feminism. Hood Feminism will make you rethink feminism’s definition, and what issues we can also consider to be feminist issues, including food insecurity and safe neighborhoods.
Topics of Conversation – Miranda Popkey
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/topics-of-conversation-miranda-popkey/1131493157?ean=9780525656289
A novel focused on the personal conversations of love, sex, and desire from other women over the years. As Popkey said herself on her Twitter, it’s, “everything I’ve been thinking about for the past two decades.” These women speak freely to the narrator and friends, which creates a dynamic sure to foster judgement-free stories, desires, and philosophies.
Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clap-when-you-land-elizabeth-acevedo/1131302260?ean=9780062882769
From the poet award-winning author for The Poet X comes another eye-opening story of two young women. Thousands of miles apart, two sisters feel the same tragedy–Camino Rios in the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios in New York City. Their father has died, but only after do the girls learn of each other. In this novel from two different points of view, these sisters experience the same emotions of grief and loss, while also realizing how to love a new family member they just gained.
We hope you enjoy these reads! Have any other favorite titles to add? Let us know on social media or in the comments below!
