Across the Ponds Women’s History Month Library

This Women’s History Month, we’re honoring the women who tell our stories.

While you can’t visit this imaginary library, we’ve made a list of our favourite books by women writers so you can build your own.

Happy reading :)

• A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf

• Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie

• Bliss Montage by Ling Ma 

• Blood Child and other Stories- Octavia E.Butler

• Borderlands/La Frontera - Gloria Anzaldúa

• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Dear Life- Alice Munroe

• Delirium by Laura Restrepo 

• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

• Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

• Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

• Mother of 1084- MAHASWETA DEVI

• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

• Pleasure Activism - The Politics of Feeling Good- Adrienne Maree Brown

• Queer Intentions by Amelia Abraham

• Swimming Home by Deborah Levy 

• The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui

• The Collected Schizophrenias - Esme Weijun Wang

• The God of Small Things- Arundhuti Roy

• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

• The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir

• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 

• To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

• To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 

• Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

• Whereabouts- Jhumpa Lahiri

• Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race, Reni Eddo-Lodge

• Woman who glows in the Dark - Elena Avila

• Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence given