Emma's Book Club - Our shared shelf

Every Harry Potter fan or anyone who has children that are Harry Potter fans (I belong to the latter group) knows Emma Watson. But even if you have never heard of her, she is a young British actress who became famous by portraying one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter movies, Hermione Granger.

But she has gone a lot further than that. She has not only spoken up for women all around the world, especially promoted education for girls in the poorer countries but became a UN Woman Goodwill Ambassador.

As part of that work, she started to read books about equality and thought it was great to start a book club online to encourage other women to read them. She called it: Emma's Book Club - Our shared shelf. So far, 34 books have been discussed (of which I read 13) and then given the readers the possibility to vote for one. So, we are on book number seven right now.

Due to my migraines, I can't always be on the PC that long, so I have not participated in the online discussions but I enjoy reading all these books about women around the world and their conditions, even if I don't always like a particular one. The only reason I didn't read "The Argonauts" was because it wasn't available in our library. It is on my wishlist, though.

And these are the books we read so far:
Steinem, Gloria "My Life on the Road" - 2015
Walker, Alice "The Color Purple" - 1982
Hooks, Bell "All About Love: New Visions" - 1999
Moran, Caitlin "How to be a Woman" - 2011
Nelson, Maggie "The Argonauts" - 2015 (Goodreads)
Satrapi, Marjane "Persepolis. The Story of a Childhood" (French: Persepolis. Vol 1) - 2000
- "Persepolis. The Storay of a Return" (French: Persepolis. Vol 2) - 2000
Brownstein, Carrie "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" - 2015
Kristof, Nicholas D. & Wudunn, Sheryl "Half the Sky. How to Change the World" - 2009
Angelou, Maya "Mom & Me & Mom" - 2013  
Ensler, Eve "The Vagina Monologues" - 1996
Pinkola Estés, Clarissa "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" - 1992 
Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid’s Tale" - 1985 
Wolf, Naomi "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women" - 1990 
Gay, Roxane "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" - 2017
Alderman, Naomi "The Power" - 2016
Eddo-Lodge, Reni "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" - 2017
Mailhot, Terese Marie "Heart Berries" - 2018
Moore, Kate "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shinig Women" - 2016
Thomas, Angie "The Hate You Give" - 2017
Lorde, Audre Sister "Outsider"
Cooper, Brittney "Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower"
Traister, Rebecca "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger"
Mahfouz, Sabrina (ed.) "The Things I Would Tell You: British-Muslim Women Write"
Thom, Kai Cheng: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars"
Mayers, Stephen; Freedman, Jonathan (ed.) "Solito/Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America"
Mardini, Yusra "Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story"
Morrison, Toni "Beloved" - 1987
Solnit, Rebecca "Cinderella Liberator"
- "Whose Story is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters"
Machado, Carmen Maria "Her Body and Other Parties"
Kuang, R. F. "The Poppy War"
Cline, Elizabeth L. "Overdressed. The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion"
Hudson, Valerie M; Ballif-Spanvill, Bonni; Carpioli, Mary; Emmett, Chard F. "Sex and World Peace"

Doyle, Glennon "Untamed" - 2020

Steinem, Gloria "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" - 1995

Kay, Adam "This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" - 2017
Wall Kimmerer, Robin "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants " - 2013
Snorton, C. Riley "Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identity" - 2017 
Wong, Alice "Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century"

I will carry on reading more books with the group but also want to give everyone the opportunity to choose their own. Therefore, I put the list of all the books in the poll in alphabetical order. There are so many fantastic books included, I would love to read them all, well, most of them.

I have not read many more books from the list, mainly because I can't borrow them as easily as I used to. But I will carry on putting the books that are suggested and/or read on this list so I always have something interesting to look for.

There have been general polls and ones with a special topic. These are the subjects we have voted on:
Anti-Racism Teachers
Memoirs of Biographies outside of US, UK, and Canada
Eco-Feminism Member
SciFi/Fantasy
Books on BLM and anti-racism
Feminist Fiction (pre-1990's)
 
And these are all the books from the different polls in alphabetical order. You can find links to all these books here on the Goodreads bookshelf.

POLL
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi "Americanah" - 2013
- "We Should All Be Feminists" - Speech 2013
Aguirre, Carmen "Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter"
Alderman, Naomi "The Power" - 2016
Aleramo, Sibilla "A Woman" (Italian: Una Donna) - 1906
Allende, Isabel "The House of the Spirits" (Spanish: La Casa de los Espíritus) - 1982
Al-Sharif, Manal "Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening"
Amoruso, Sophia "#Girlboss" - 2014
Angelou, Maya "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" - 1969
- "Letter to My Daughter" - 2009
- "Mom & Me & Mom" - 2013
Anzaldúa, Gloria E. "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" - 1987
Arnold-Liebster, Simone "Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe"
Atwood, Margaret "The Handmaid’s Tale" - 1985
Bates, Laura "Everyday Sexism" - 2014
Bates, Laura "Girl Up" - 2016
Bay, Mia (ed.); Gates Jr., Henry Louis (Ed.) Wells-Barnett, Ida B. "The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader" - 2014
Beauvoir, Simone de "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" (French: Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée)
-  The Second Sex" (French: Le deuxième sexe) 1949
Belli, Gioconda "The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War" (El País bajo mi piel: memorias de amor y guerra)
Bhutto, Benazir "Daughter of the East: An Autobiography" (US title: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography)
Blank, Hanne "Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank" - 2007
Blume, Judy "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" - 1970
Bowditch, Clare "Your Own Kind of Girl"
Brantenberg, Gerd "Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes" (Norwegian: Egalias døtre) - 1977
Brown, Austin Channing "I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness" - 2018
Brown, Rita Mae "Rubyfruit Jungle"
Brownstein, Carrie "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" - 2015
Bulawayo, NoViolet "We Need New Names" - 2013
Butler, Octavia E. "Parable of the Sower"
Carmon, Irin; Knizhnik, Shana "The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg" - 2015
Chopin, Kate "The Awakening" - 1899
Cline, Elizabeth L. "Overdressed. The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion" 
Cooper, Brittney "Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower"
Cosslett, Rhiannon Luce "The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media" - 2014
Curie, Ève "Madame Curie. A Biographie" (French: Madame Curie)
Darwish, Wafa "Not Done With Life Yet"
Dew, Sheri L. "Women and the Priesthood" - 2013
Diamant, Anita "The Red Tent" - 1997
Dirie, Waris "Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad" - 1998
Djebar, Assia "Women of Algiers in Their Apartment" (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement) - 1980

du Maurier, Daphne "Rebecca" - 1938
Dundy, Elaine "The Dud Avocado" - 1958
Eddo-Lodge, Reni "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" - 2017
Ensler, Eve "I Am An Emotional Creature" - 2010
Esquivel, Laura "Like Water for Chocolate" (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) - 1992
Featherstone, Liza "False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton" - 2016
Felscherinow, Christiane (Christiane F.) "We Children of Bahnhof Zoo" (German: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) - 1979
Feinberg, Leslie "Stone Butch Blues" - 1993
Ferrante, Elena "My Brilliant Friend" (Italian: L'amica geniale) - 2012
FitzHenry, Tiffany "The Oldest Soul" - 2015
Fontanella-Khan, Amana "Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India"
Frank, Anne "The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition" (Dutch: Het Achterhuis) - 1942-44
Friedan, Betty Friedan "The Feminine Mystique" - 1963
Frieze, Carol; Jeria Quesenberry, Jeria "Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University"
Gappah, Petina "The Book of Memory" - 2011
Garden, Nancy "Annie on my Mind" - 1982
Gay, Roxane "Bad Feminist" - 2014
Goodall, Jane "In the Shadow of Man"
Gordon, Kim "Girl in a Band" - 2015
Greer, Germaine "The Whole Woman" - 1999
Gyasi, Yaa "Homegoing" - 2016
Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe "A Woman of Independent Means" - 1978
Hall, Radclyffe "The Well of Loneliness" - 1928

Hardy, Thomas "Tess of the d’Urbervilles" - 1891
Hegland, Jean "Into the Forest" - 1996
Heilig, Heidi "For a Muse of Fire"
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan "Infidel: My Life" (Dutch: Mijn Vrijheid) - 2006
Hong Fincher, Leta "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China"
Hudson, Valerie M; Ballif-Spanvill, Bonni; Carpioli, Mary; Emmett, Chard F. "Sex and World Peace"
Hurley, Kameron "The Geek Feminist Revolution" - 2016
Hurston, Zora Neale "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Hustvedt, Siri "The Blazing World" - 2014
Jong, Erica "Fear of Flying" - 1973
Kassabova, Kapka "Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe"
Kaur, Rupi "Milk and Honey" - 2014 (Poems)
Kaysen, Susanna "Girl, Interrupted" - 1993
Kendall, Mikki "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot" - 2020
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse; Bandele, Asha; Davis "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" - 2018
Kimmerer, Robin Wall "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants"
Kincaid, Jamaica "Annie John" - 1985
Koofi, Fawzia; Ghouri, Naden"The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future Book" (aka "Letters to my Daughter"
Kristof, Nicholas; WuDunn, Sheryl "A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity" - 2014
Kuang, R. F. "The Poppy War"
Lai, Larissa "The Tiger Flu"
Lamb, Harriet "Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles"
Lawson, Jenny "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" - 2012
Lee, Harper "To Kill a Mockingbird" - 1960
Lee, Min Jin "Pachinko"
Le Guin, Ursula K. "The Left Hand of Darkness" - 1969
Lord, Karen "The Best of All Possible Worlds"
Lorde, Audre Sister "Outsider"
Love, Bettina L. "We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom" - 2018
Maathai, Wangari "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World"
- "Unbowed"
Machado, Carmen Maria "Her Body and Other Parties"
MacPherson, Myra "The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age" - 2014
Madison, D. Soyini "The Woman That I Am: The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color" - 1994
Mahfouz, Sabrina (ed.) "The Things I Would Tell You: British-Muslim Women Write"
Mailhot, Terese Marie "Heart Berries" - 2018
Mardini, Yusra "Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story"
Mardoll, Ana "No Man of Woman Born"
Markandaya, Kamala "Nectar in a Sieve" - 1954
Matis, Aspen "Girl in the Woods: A Memoir" - 2015
Mayers, Stephen; Freedman, Jonathan (ed.) "Solito/Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America"
Moore, Kate "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shinig Women" - 2016
Morrison, Toni "Beloved" - 1987
- "Sula" - 1973
Muscio, Inga "Cunt: A Declaration of Independence" - 1998
Nafisi, Azar "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" - 2003
Nagoski, Emily, Ph.D. "Come As You Are" - 2015
Naked, Big "I, Bificus" - 2016
Niven, Jennifer "All the Bright Places" - 2015
Nordberg, Jenny "The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan" - 2014
Okorafor, Nnedi "Binti"
Oluo, Ijeoma "So you Want to Talk about Race" - 2018
O'Neil, Louise "Asking For It" - 2015
Oyeyemi, Helen "Boy, Snow, Bird" - 2014
Pepe, Victoria "I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty" - 2015
Plath, Sylvia "The Bell Jar" - 1963
Pollack, Eileen "The Only Woman in the Room. The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club" - 2015
Rhys, Jean "Wide Sargasso Sea" - 1966
Richie, Andrea J. "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" - 2017
Rickardsson, Christina "Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World" (Swedish: Sluta aldrig gå - Från gatan i Sao Paulo till Vindeln i Norrland)
Roanhorse, Rebecca "Trail of Lightning"
Robinson, Mary "Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future"
Russ, Joanna "How to Suppress Women's Writing" - 1983
Saad, Layla F. "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor" - 2020
Sasson, Jean "Princess Sultana's daughters" - 1994 (follow up to "Princess")
Scully, Diana "Understanding Sexual Violence A Study Of Convicted Rapists" - 1990
Serano, Julia "Whipping Girl A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity" - 2007
Shiva, Vandana "Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit"
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson "This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President"Smith, Betty "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - 1943
Solnit, Rebecca "Cinderella Liberator"
- "Men Explain Things to Me" - 2014
- "Whose Story is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters"

Strayed, Cheryl "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" - 1995
Talbot, Jill "The Way We Weren't: A Memoir" - 2015
Tingey, Allan "The Adventures of Copper Wild" - 2012
Thom, Kai Cheng: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars"
Thomas, Angie "The Hate You Give" - 2017
Tolstoy, Leo (Толстой, Лев Николаевич) "Anna Karenina" (Russian: Анна Каренина = Anna Karenina) - 1877
Traister, Rebecca "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger"
Ung, Loung "First they killed my father. A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers"
Valenti, Jessica "The Purity Myth" - 2009
- "Sex Object" - 2016
Vincent, Norah "Self-Made Man. One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again" - 2006
Walls, Jeannette "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" - 2005
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. "The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader"
West, Lindy "Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman" - 2016
Williams, Terry Tempest "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice" - 2012
Winterson, Jeanette "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" - 1985
Wolf, Naomi "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women" - 1990
- "Vagina. A New Biography" - 2012
Wollstonecraft, Mary "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" - 1792
Wood, Charlotte "The Natural Way of Things" - 2015
Woolf, Virginia "A Room of One's Own" - 1929
Yanagihara, Hanya "A Little Life" - 2015
York, Alice N. "Game-Faint Signals" - 2011
Yousafzai, Malala; Lamb, Christina "I am Malala. The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban" - 2013