5 best-selling feminism books like The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important f…

If you liked the feminism plot in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret R. Higonnet

1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more

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  • fiction
"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"One thing he certainly was— sincere."

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • fiction
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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3. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • feminism
  • fiction
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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4. How to Be a Woman

By: Caitlin Moran

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't ex… read more

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  • feminism
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5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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  • fiction
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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6. The Witches of Eastwick (Eastwick #1)

By: John Updike

4.29

Format: None pages,

Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers ha… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

By: Alison Bechdel

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydn… read more

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  • feminism
  • fiction
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8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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  • fiction

9. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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10. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more

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11. The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more

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12. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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13. Girl, Interrupted

By: Susanna Kaysen

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more

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14. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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  • fiction
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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15. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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  • feminism
  • short stories
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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16. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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17. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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18. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

By: Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Format: 244 pages, ebook

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more

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"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Cover of Either/Or by Elif Batuman

19. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

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  • fiction
"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Cover of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor

20. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

By: Candacy A. Taylor

4.23

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide… read more

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21. The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important f… read more

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  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction

10 Top fiction books like The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Transform Your Habits

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

3.70

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17 Best fiction books like Either/Or by Elif Batuman

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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