20 Most Influential Women Authors Of All Time. Reading LM Montgomery got me to thinking of who the most influential female authors really are.
Here is my list of the top 20 female authors of all time. Maya Angelou She is arguably the most famous African-American autobiographer and poet in history. Angelou broke the mold when she wrote her six autobiographical volumes in a nontraditional structure that completely changed the genre. Angelou opened up to readers and shared her controversial life stories without shame or censorship. Her candidness and unique literary style pushed the boundaries for all female writers and changed the face of autobiographies forever. JK Rowling This British author is one of the most widely read female authors in history. Alice Walker The author of “The Color Purple” holds the title of the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. SE Hinton American novelist S.E.
Agatha Christie British crime writer who produced popular novels, plays and short stories. Best Feminist Books. 15 classic children's books even adults love. "The Giving Tree," by Shel Silverstein.
Best Books For Women. Back in March, we asked HuffPost staffers to suggest books every woman should read.
Our slideshow, inspired by Frisky's '22 Books Every Woman Should Read,' spanned authors from Shakespeare to Tina Fey. We're bringing those books back as an all-in-one list, with a couple of new recommendations from our staff. Have something to add? Submit to the slideshow below, explaining why you want to recommend a particular book, or shoot us an email at women@huffingtonpost.com. 18 Books That Changed How We Felt About Ourselves As Women. As any book lover knows, reading provides an ability to escape.
Whether it’s for a few minutes before bed, on the hour-long bus ride to work or even a full day under the sun — books and the stories they hold are a driving force for creativity, growth and (almost always) relaxation. Novels allow us to visit places, time periods and states of mind we never thought possible. Often these stories and their characters change how we see ourselves and put us on a completely new path. It’s no surprise that women are big readers, contributing to 64 percent of book sales.
With these statistics in mind (and our own healthy addiction to reading), we asked the HuffPost editors and our Facebook audience which books shaped the way they thought about themselves as young women. In the name of written words that have left a permanent mark on us, here are 18 books that changed the way many young women felt about themselves: Lainey Gossip Entertainment Update. Not meant to be a classics list (there are more than enough of those), but a catalogue of (for the most part) modern reads that will be parked on my bookshelf forever.
And like the Freebie Five, it will be shifted, adjusted, and modified accordingly. Would love to know your list too – please do send and share recommendations. And please visit this section often for updates. Yours, The 100 Best Summer Holiday Reads. Mohammed Hanif’s comic novel aims to cut through the conspiracy theories, and reveal what actually caused the (real life) plane crash which killed General Zia, the president of Pakistan from 1977 to 1988.
However, things are not quite so clear cut. The novel’s narrator, Ali Shigri, is a Junior Officer in the Pakistani Air Force who seeks revenge for the death of his father, which he is convinced - although apparently a suicide - was orchestrated by General Zia himself. Teenage books that changed our lives. If ever there was a book designed to light the spark of passion and political thinking in a teenage girl, The House of the Spirits is it.
Charting three generations of the Trueba family, the book explores the intense but complex relationships between parents and children and the unbridled passion of first love. Featuring some of the most wonderful female characters in contemporary literature, Allende’s novel was the perfect companion to many a young woman finding her way, and her rich, sympathetic characters became friends you could turn to no matter how tough the real world was for a teenage girl. Top 50 free books for your e-reader. Best Feminist Books. 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women. 30 Books Every Woman Should Read by 30. BBC's Top 100 Must-Read Books Before You Die. The BBC has an esteemed list of books they think every person should read before they die.
A bucket list of literature, if you will. So get checking … how many of this list have you already tackled? Are any on your own personal “to-read list?” And are there any on the list you think shouldn’t even be on it? Keep in mind this list may be a little bit biased, being from the BBC and all. 1. 2. 3. 4. Chick Lit Vs. Lit Chicks - Great Books Written By Women. “My mother was an inveterate reader, a feminist, and a lover of modernism.
She put in my hands the works of Virginia Woolf, H.D., Katherine Mansfield, Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Ivy Compton- Burnett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Antonia White, Rebecca West—to name but a few. That’s where I started,” the novelist Claire Messud recently told us. Over this long, cold winter, Messud found herself unwillingly at the center of a debate (along with the novelist Jennifer Weiner, who seemed slightly more comfortable there) about women, chick lit, and what counts as literary fiction. The buzzy contretemps—Messud got tough with a question about an unlikable character in her latest, The Woman Upstairs; then Weiner chimed in, What’s wrong with writing likable characters? —inspired us to ask our favorite serious female novelists to recommend their favorite serious female novelists. Top 100 20th Century Books By Female Authors. 10 Books That Changed the Way I See the World. 30 Books You Should Read Before You're 30.
The best books aren't static stories, but living entities with meanings that change and grow along with you.
That's why we strongly recommend rereading the classics that were assigned to you in high school; you may find that they're nothing like they were before. Still, some books are best experienced at a certain age, like, say, "Catcher in the Rye. " 20 Books Every Woman Should Read in Her 20s. Recently, we stumbled upon this list of “fun” books that every woman should read in her 20s — needless to say, if you’re even a casual visitor to this space, the books (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Bitches on a Budget) aren’t exactly the ones we’d choose.
So, perhaps rather predictably, we decided to put together our own list instead. Now, don’t forget, these are books for women in their 20s — we assume you’ve already read as much Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott as you care to, we expect that you’ve already tackled To Kill a Mockingbird and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Jane Eyre. And though women should read all books about all kinds of things and by all kinds of authors, this list sort of necessarily skews towards both female writers and characters, given the topic of the day. 75 Books Every Woman Should Read: The Complete List. 50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014. I applaud anyone thinking of doing #readwomen2014, even as I’m not sure I’ll be doing it myself in any formal way. Making it a point to read books that emerge from a wide variety of human experiences will never be a bad thing. Everyone should do it. The end. How Many Of The Greatest Books By Women Have You Read.
Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recommended by TEDsters. A look at the famous TED Bookstore at TED2013. Photo: Michael Brands. Your mega summer reading list: 70+ picks from the TED community. Summer: the season for cracking open a good book under the shade of a tree. Below, we’ve compiled about 70 stellar book recommendations from members of the TED community. Warning: not all of these books can be classified as beach reads. And we think that is a good thing. Picks from Elizabeth Gilbert, author. The 10 Books Everyone Was Reading in 2013. A good book is a lot like a good friend — it teaches you something new, let’s you get a different perspective on things, and tells the best stories.
Even when you’ve moved on to a new book — the old ones are always there, waiting for you to revisit them.