Books Emma Watson recommends everyone to read

Actor and UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson is not just a feminist but an avid reader too. Blending this combination well, Emma started her own book club Our Shared Shelf in collaboration with Goodreads in January, 2016 where she shares her favourite feminist texts. The purpose: to help fellow readers expand their library with titles that matter. In a little more than a year, Emma's book club has roughly 200,000 members and 144k followers worldwide on Instagram. Here are the "funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering" books which Emma recommends everyone to read to be a better feminist.
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Emma recommends the book Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes for March-April 2017. In 'Women Who Run With the Wolves' the author unfolds myths, fairy and folk tales from her traditions and culture to help women reconnect with their fierce, strong and healthy self-- the Wild Woman.
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The Vagina Monologues is a play by Eve Ensler which began at the Off-Broadway Westside Theatre in 1996. It is made up of various monologues of different women and each monologue deals with an aspect of the feminine experience-- thus highlighting many issues like sex, love, rape, menstruation, female genital mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm. The vagina acts as a tool of female empowerment in the play.
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American poet, feminist, civil rights activist Maya Angelou is known for her honest series of autobiographies. Her book 'Mom & Me & Mom' is Angelou's moving memoir where she shares her deepest personal story of her relationship with her mother. The book explores how love and healing evolved between the two women over a period of time, which nurtured Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to difficult heights in her life.
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Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis' is her memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It covers her childhood in Tehran, the end of Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastations of the war with Iraq. Funny yet heartbreaking the book shows the consequences of the war through a child's point of view and teaches us how we carry on in life even in the face of absurdity.
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'The Argonauts' is Maggies Nelson's unabashed memoir. It talks about desire, identity, the limitations and possibilities of love and language. In the book Nelson insists on individual freedom.
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Caitlyn Moran's 'How to be a Woman' is a provocative observation on women's lives with hilarious incidences from own life. The book is part memoir and part rant, wherein the author tends to questions of every modern woman.
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Writer-activist Gloria Steinem's book 'My Life on the Roads' is a candid account of how her early life shaped her present on-the-road kind of life. 'My Life on the Road' is the story of how some of Gloria's encounters on the road shaped her and the revolutionary movement for equality.
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Carrie Brownstein's memoir 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' reveals her escape from a turbulent family. She shares about her escape to a world where music lead to self-invention, community and rescue. In the book she also chronicles the excitement and contradictions during the fiercely independent music subculture.
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'All About Love' shows new ways to think about love as it deals with love's interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In the book, Hooks tells us how our everyday notions of love often fails us, due to certain notions which are built in our early childhood days. She tells the readers to love themselves, which will bring peace and compassion to our lives at both the personal and professional level.
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Alice Walker's novel 'The Color Purple' is the story of Celie, a poor black woman. Beginning at the age of 14, Celie's letters tell 20 years of her life. Being abused and raped by her own father as a child she tries to protect her sister from having same fate; during this time she is married off to "Mister" who terrorizes her. When Celie later learns about her abusive husband hiding her sister's letters from her, she is filled with rage. Inspired by her friend Shug for love and independence, she finally moves toward self-love and creative awakening.
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