No idea how long it's been out there, but I just discovered this list of 100 Young Adult Books for Feminist Readers. And now I am going to talk about it.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez has been on my to-read list for a while, and is on my literal bookshelf at home right now. It's one of the next few I'm going to read, after I finish Dramarama and either Living History or Breakfast of Champions (whichever comes first). The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and For the Win by Cory Doctorow have also been on the list for a long time, but I haven't gotten there yet.
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviBooks that immediately became some of my favorites:
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
I would like to eventually read most of these, but The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman, Dreamland by Sarah Dessen, The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden, The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor are the ones I'll probably be picking up soonest.
What do you think of the list? Which ones have you read?
I've listened to "True confessions of Charlotte Doyle" and read "The midwife's apprentice". They were both excellent. It's fun to ready books about women and girls who learn to be strong and courageous but without losing the fact that they are women. Have you read the Vesper Holly series by Lloyd Alexander? They are junior books but I quite enjoyed them as an adult. Fun too are the spy books by Ally Carter about super smart girls learning to be spies at the Gallagher Academy.
ReplyDeleteThe Book Thief is amazing! The Midwife's Apprentice was good and is really short. And of course, you already know I love Frankie Landau-Banks. I thought it was a fun list too, and am definitely going to try to read more from it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm reading a book right now that I think belongs on this list- it's called Kiki Strikes and it's by Kirsetn Miller.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read those, Nathalie, but I think I should! I LOVED the Prydain chronicles, which I read countless times when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone read Dramarama, also by E. Lockhart? I just finished it and I think it could go on this list. I think I liked Frankie better, but this was a lot of fun to read too.
I haven't read Dramarama, but I'll have to check it out. I did read the first book in her Ruby Oliver series, and that was fun.
ReplyDeleteThis list got TORN apart for taking three rape-related books off their list. My word, the comments were insane. . .
ReplyDeleteReally? How interesting. What were the books? Can you still see the comments anywhere?
ReplyDeleteOh, and Megan, I love the Ruby Oliver series. It's like the Georgia Nicolson books, only slightly less funny because it isn't British. (Have you read Georgia? You MUST, if you haven't. They are hysterically-laughing-out-loud funny.)
ReplyDeleteOf course I'm biased, since I own two copies of it, but I LOVE the Blue Sword. It is my favorite fantasy book. You just gotta hang in there past the orange juice. Seriously, read it and you'll know what I mean. Make it through the orange juice and you will be rewarded.
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