Today is International Women’s Day, and we are celebrating with a list of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books featuring strong female voices and protagonists. These books traverse topics as diverse as motherhood, activism, coming-of-age, loving, losing, and confronting life’s enduring banalities, tragedies, and joys.
Without further ado:
Featuring:
Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau
tend by Kate Hargreaves
Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz
Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott
Learned by Carellin Brooks
Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated by Marina Allemano
Cyclettes by Tree Abraham
Junie by Chelene Knight
Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell
Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Motherhood and Creativity, edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee
Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell