Books for the Girls
Books by girls, books for girls, books written about girls
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Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Lone Rider
Elspeth Beard · 2017
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés Phd · 1995
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—<i>The Washington Post Book World</i><br><br>Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf<br></b><br> Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.<br><br> In <i>Women Who Run with the Wolves</i>, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.<br><br> Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
Don't Call Me Home
Alexandra Auder · 2023
The Woman in Me
Britney Spears · 2023
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy · 2022
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Price of Salt (Carol)
Patricia Highsmith · 2017
Down the Drain
Julia Fox · 2023
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2014
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · 2012
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
All Fours: A Novel
Miranda July · 2024
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/><br/>The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life<br/><br/>“A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect….the bravery of All Fours is nothing short of riveting.”—Vogue<br/><br/>“A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life…Deeply funny and achingly true.” —LA Times<br/><br/>“All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.” —The Cut<br/><br/>“July’s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I’ve ever read.” —New York Magazine<br/><br/>A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.<br/><br/>Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Barnes & Noble, Mary Wollstonecraft · 2004
Ex-Wife
Ursula Parrott · 2023
<b>An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age. </b><br><br>It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department store. When it comes to sex with other people, both believe in “the honesty policy.” Until they don‘t. Or, at least, until Peter doesn‘t—and a shell-shocked, lovesick Patricia finds herself starting out all over again, but this time around as a different kind of single woman: the ex-wife.<br> <br> An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, <i>Ex-Wife</i> captures the speakeasies, night clubs, and parties that defined Jazz Age New York—alongside the morning-after aspirin and calisthenics, the lunch-hour visits to the gym, the girl-talk, and the freedoms and anguish of solitude. It also casts a cool eye on the bedrooms and the doctor’s offices where, despite rising hemlines, the men still call the shots. The result is a unique view of what its author Ursula Parrott called “the era of the one-night stand”: an era very much like our own.
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2011
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
A Life of One's Own
Joanna Biggs · 2023
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion · 2005
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays" captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui.
