March is Women’s History Month: Read some Popular Books by Women!

Hi all! Punk A** Book Jockey Alexa here to remind you that March is Women’s History Month! My favorite way to celebrate things, reading! Here are a few titles by some awesome women that I recommend checking out. Also, check out this guide on Women’s History: https://guides.library.tamucc.edu/womenshistory

Afia Atakora: Conjure Women. “Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women.” From Goodreads. I haven’t read this book, but I do love some good historical fiction.

Sarah Gailey: Upright Women Wanted“Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.” From the catalogue. I haven’t read this yet, but it’s on my TBR (to be read) list.

Roxane Gay: Difficult Women. “Difficult Women [is] a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail.” From Goodreads. I have read this book, and several other works by Gay, and I cannot recommend her work enough. Fiction and non-fiction. I love all of her work.

Raven Leilani: Luster. “Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else’s open marriage.” From the catalogue. I have not yet read this, but have seen it on many top sellers and best reads of lists. I’m looking forward to checking this one out, unless you check it out first.

Ivy Pochoda: These Women“From the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you’ve never seen before-a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change.” From the catalogue. I’m not into thrillers, but if I were, this one would be at the top of my list.

Lisa Taddeo: Three Women. “Based on years of immersive reporting and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy. “A work of deep observation, long conversations, and a kind of journalistic alchemy” (Kate Tuttle, NPR), Three Women introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.” From Goodreads.