Who Runs the World? WOMEN
It’s Women’s History Month and we just read that the gender wage gap in this county is exactly the same as it was 20 YEARS AGO! Despite this, women own 42% of businesses in the U.S. and we employ more than 9.4 million workers.
So, instead of just celebrating women we want to help women authors get paid. We at Broad Book Group have a running list of books on Bookshop that we call Bad A** Books by Bad A** Women. It’s a compilation of books that have captured our minds come highly recommended by us, our colleagues, and readers like you. That’s right, it wouldn’t be a book broad post if we didn’t somehow work in a book or two.
This is obviously not a complete list of the great work authored by women. The point of this list is not to be complete but to start a conversation about these works and their authors. We’d love to have you share this list to bring awareness to these works and hopefully get a couple more copies of their books sold.
Call Us What We carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
Untamed by Glennon
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth by Pamela Anderson
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde edited by Roxane Gay
Betting On You by Laurie Ruettimann
Disrupters by Dr. Patti Fletcher
The Shift by Kim Walsh Phillips
Elephants Before Unicorns by Caroline Stokes
Career Rehab by Kanika Tolver
The Age of Customer Equity by Allison Hartsoe
Risky Women by Megan Farrell Ragsdale
Get Good with Money by Tiffany Aliche
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Shrill by Lindy West
Right Within by Minda Harts
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Two Weeks Notice by Amy Porterfield
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
The Unspoken Truths for Career Success by Tessa White
You Sound Like a White Girl by Julissa Arce
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Pelosi by Molly Ball
Act Like a Lady by Keltie Knight, Jac Vanek, and Becca Tobin
The Feminine Revolution by Catherine Connors and Amy Stanton
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Ayiti by Roxane Gay
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz
The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Cannon by Dana Schwartz
Men to Avoid in Real Life by Nicole Tersigni
Don’t see your favorite book in this list? Share it with us and we’ll add it!