A feminist world literature book club pushes back against two simultaneous biases — the tendency to read male authors, and the tendency to read Western authors. These ten books center women's voices from across the globe and resist easy categorization.
The Feminist World Lit Reading List
Han Kang — The Vegetarian (Korea, 2007): Female bodily autonomy as political act. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria, 2006): War, love, and survival. Olga Tokarczuk — Flights (Poland, 2017): Nobel Prize winner, fragmentary meditations on travel and body. Samanta Schweblin — Fever Dream (Argentina, 2014): Motherhood and environmental dread. Clarice Lispector — The Passion According to G.H. (Brazil, 1964): Radical interior monologue. Assia Djebar — Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Algeria, 1985): Colonialism, Arabic women, memory. Mieko Kawakami — Breasts and Eggs (Japan, 2019): Fertility, class, and female desire. Nawal El Saadawi — Woman at Point Zero (Egypt, 1975): A foundational feminist text from the Arab world.
Explore these authors on the Genesis of Literary world map.