At Oiselle HQ (fondly called "The Nest"), we have a Feminist Library where we share and suggest reads to each other. We’re happy to share our library with you, as well as the women's sports newsletters and podcasts on women's sports that keep us informed, energized, and pushing for positive change. If you have a strong suggestion for addition, feel free to write in to hello@oiselle.com. Happy reading, listening, and supporting!
Feminist Library 2021
BOOKS
Fiction:
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Circe by Madeline Miller
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenridge
Milk, Blood, Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
My Brilliant Friend Series by Elena Ferrante
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
Outlawed by Anna North
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennet
The Women of Chateau Laffayette by Stephanie Dray
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Memoir/Biography:
A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
All the Colors Came Out by Kate Fagan
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Don’t Ask My Name by Erika Hecht
Found in Transition by Paria Hassouri
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
House of Sticks by Ly Tran
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
My Own Devices by Dessa
Obviously: Stories from my Timeline by Akilah Hughes
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley Ford
The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Clinton
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
This is My Body by Cameron Dezen Hammon
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Non-Fiction:
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
In the Company of Women by Grace Bonney
Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement by Dorceta E. Taylor
The Witches are Coming by Lindy West
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Wolf Pack by Abby Wambach
Women & Power by Mary Beard
You are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke & Brené Brown
Poetry:
A Collection of Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Run Wild and Be by Sydney Zester
Anti-Racism:
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Black Faces White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Whiteness of Wealth by Dorothy Brown