International Women's Day - in books and pictures -

If you’ve been anywhere near Twitter today, you’ll know it’s International Women’s Day. There is an International Men’s Day (November 19th) but oddly, people search for that more only on 8th March – curious! Many bookish people have been sharing their favourite female authors and characters today, so I thought I’d put together a stack of books by female writers I love.

This is by no means an exhaustive list – there are loads of other female writers who I love but these are some of the books that I’ve read and loved recently, or longer ago…

In my picture are…

Ali Smith – How To Be Both (Hamish Hamilton)
Lisa Williamson – The Art of Being Normal (David Fickling Books)
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Cordelia Fine – Delusions of Gender (Icon)
Non Pratt – Trouble (Walker)
Nicole Burstein – Othergirl (Andersen Press)
Malala Youzifai – I Am Malala (Phoenix)
Kerry Hudson – Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma (Vintage)
Maya Angelou – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Little, Brown)
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (Virago)
Laini Taylor – Daughter Of Smoke And Bone (Hodder)
Emily St John Mandel – Station Eleven (Picador)
Holly Baxter & Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett – The Vagenda (Vintage)
Holly Black – The Darkest Part Of The Forest (Indigo)
Sarah Perry – After Me Comes The Flood (Serpent’s Tail)
Kate Hamer – The Girl In The Red Coat (Faber)
Carrie Snyder – Girl Runner (Two Roads)
Hannah Kent – Burial Rites (Picador)
Helena Coggan – The Catalyst (Hodder)
Audrey Niffenegger – Raven Girl (Cape)
Ursula K Le Guin – The Left Hand Of Darkness (Virago)
Angela Carter – The Magic Toyshop (Virago)
Leigh Bardugo – Shadow And Bone (Indigo)
Louise O’Neill – Only Ever Yours (Quercus)