March is Women's History Month and to celebrate, we have created a display at the back of the Reference area dedicated to female writers which spans genres, styles, and time. Since our display area is limited in space, the books chosen are just the tiniest drop in an ocean of inspiring women's writing.

Photo of women writers display

 

To supplement our display, we have created a reading list below of additional favorite titles. Like our display, it is by no means exhaustive.

Stop by and check out a book from the display or stop by the Reference Desk for assistance locating any of the additional titles listed below.

Further Reading 

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
Call Number: 641.097 K554a 2007 - Circulating (3rd Floor)
 
Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

 

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Call Number: 821.914 S528f 2010 - Circulating (3rd Floor)
 
Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century.Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

 

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Call Number: A4735h - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)
 
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters-Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia-arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost-and what they find-is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premiere novelists of our time.

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: 828 A584i 1993 - Circulating (3rd Floor)
 
This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people, and the times, that touched her life.

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Call Number: B869j 1940 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)
 
Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves?
 
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Call Number: J948n 2007 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)
 
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection.
 
 
 
 
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: 822 H249r Copy 2 - Circulating (3rd Floor)
 
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.

 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Call Number: T195s 1992 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)
 
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

 

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Call Number: O985ta 2013 - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)
 
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Call Number: J14w - Fiction (3rd Floor between 822-823)
 
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.