1. So we can glow by Leesa Cross-Smith
From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories expose the glossy and matte hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fantasy, wildness and bad behaviour, brokenness and fearlessness, and more.
2. Lifting as we climb by Evette Dionne
A children’s book about Black women who fought for women’s right to vote, from the unfailingly brilliant Evette Dionne.
3. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. A very short novel, just with 144 pages, you are bound to finish it in one sitting.
4. Dust Under Her Feet by Sharbari Zohra Ahmed
Dust Under Her Feet is a great combination of historical and cultural spice, with a healthy dose of girl power, and just enough romance to keep you flipping the pages.
5. Clap when you land by Elizabeth Acevedo
In a novel-in-verse, that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about two girls who lose their father to a plane crash.
6. Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centred on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.
