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Imagine Contemporary Literature Without Women
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For International Women’s Day we celebrate female authors that we couldn’t do without
Today is International Women’s Day, and in many places women are striking to highlight the lack of equality for women around the globe. What would literature look like without women? A pretty poor place! Here are some of great contemporary books that would disappear.
Add your own favorites in the comments!
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The White Album by Joan Didion
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
