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RAGE BECOMES HER: THE POWER OF WOMEN’S ANGER by Soraya Chemaly

Chemaly examines why and how women’s anger is overlooked, dismissed, and denied. She also argues that anger can be productive, and outlines a 10-point action plan that encourages women to embrace our anger—and shift America’s balance of power in our direction.

LOOKING FOR LORRAINE: A LIFE OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY by Imani Perry

Perry considers Hansberry her muse, and digs deep into her life for compelling stories that draw a clear comparison between Hansberry’s activism around race and policing and the current Black Lives Matter movement, highlighting the continued urgency and resonance of her work.

BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: THE FEMINIST AWAKENING IN CHINA by Leta Hong Fincher

In Betraying Big Brother, journalist Leta Hong Fincher examines the feminist movement that’s rising in mainland China, and explores how the Feminist Five continue to covertly educate other women to confront and resist the country’s sexist policies.

ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW by Nicole Chung

Chang addresses difficult topics, including the racism she faced in her small town, but she does so with extraordinary empathy for her birth parents, her adoptive parents, and—most important—herself.

GOOD AND MAD: THE REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF WOMEN’S ANGER by Rebecca Traister

The book probes the “nexus of women’s anger and American politics,” reminding readers that women’s anger has propelled every movement that permanently changed America—the labor movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the gay-rights movement—only to be erased in their histories. Good and Mad is an effort to correct the record, and give those women—and all of those rising up now—their just due.

HEAVY: AN AMERICAN MEMOIR by Kiese Laymon

In moving prose, Laymon lays bare his difficult childhood—taunted because of his size and the color of his skin, subjected to beatings when his grades didn’t meet his mother’s expectations, and exposed to the racism baked into every aspect of his life. Heavy is also a memoir about size, all the burdens that Laymon’s carried, and the impact they’ve had on his relationship with his body at different times in his life.

RECTIFY: THE POWER OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AFTER WRONGFUL CONVICTION by Lara Bazelon

In Rectify, Bazelon argues for restorative justice as a necessary resolution in these exonerations: not simply for a victim’s rights and well-being, but because such justice is the only way to ensure that prosecutors, juries, and other players will understand and be accountable for the depth of damage that results when an innocent person is sent to prison.

WELL-READ BLACK GIRL: FINDING OUR STORIES, DISCOVERING OURSELVES edited by Glory Edim

“[S]torytelling is an extension of [Black] sisterhood,” and throughout this delightful collection, an array of both emerging and established Black women authors explain how reading has strengthened that sisterhood. Tayari Jones, Jacqueline Woodson, Jesmyn Ward, Barbara Smith, and N.K. Jesimin are among the contributors, and each of their essays capture why books have been and continue to be so essential to their identities as Black women.

SHOUT YOUR ABORTION edited by Amelia Bonow

Bonow’s friend Lindy West created the Twitter hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion, and within days more than 150,000 tweets used the hashtag just as Bonow had hoped. Three years later, as the Trump administration sets its sights on repealing Roe v. Wade, talking about abortion without shame is more vital than ever, and Shout Your Abortion, a collection of 43 personal accounts curated by Bonow, feels timely and crucial.

FAKING IT: THE LIES WOMEN TELL ABOUT SEX—AND THE TRUTHS THEY REVEAL by Lux Alptraum

In Faking It, sex and pornography journalist Lux Alptraum explores the persistence of a cultural narrative whose wide-ranging repercussions harm all humans. The book holds social codes, pop-culture narratives, and media myths up to the light to help readers understand why women internalize sexual shame—but also to encourage us to stop doing so simply to make others comfortable.

HOW TO BE ALONE: IF YOU WANT TO, AND EVEN IF YOU DON’T by Lane Moore

How To Be Alone recounts Moore’s life through a lens of loneliness and attachment—from a childhood longing for connection with parents who were physically present but emotionally absent to adult relationships in which a desire for companionship led to grasping onto partners who weren’t worth the effort.

BECOMING by Michelle Obama

We know the basics of Obama’s life—raised on the South Side of Chicago, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and a legal career that landed her at the University of Chicago and law firm Sidley Austin. But Becoming tells the whole story—even the hard parts that her role as a hyper-scrutinized First Lady demanded she gloss over.

FED UP: EMOTIONAL LABOR, WOMEN, AND THE WAY FORWARD by Gemma Hartley

Hartley expands that scope to make the compelling argument that everyone, regardless of gender, need to become more invested in the domestic duties that often fall on women. If you really want to get the full scope of women’s rage, read Fed Up, Good and Mad, and Rage Becomes Her together.