[FBC24] Top 5 Feminist Books with Traci Thomas

“I think this is a lot of the work of feminism. Women are constantly leading the charge on bringing stories to the forefront that aren’t even their own.” – Traci Thomas

Traci Thomas is the host of The Stacks podcast, a podcast about books and the people who read them. Each week, Traci interviews a diverse group of readers from author to actors, from activists to TV writers and more about their reading tastes. Then Traci and her guest will dissect one book in detail the following for The Stacks Book Club. The show connects the literary with the social and political in a fun and no pressure atmosphere. Every other Monday Traci talks with authors about their writing process on mini episodes called The Short Stacks.

Connect with Traci on her Instagram or Twitter as @bitracial and find The Stacks on Instagram @TheStacksPod, Twitter @TheStacksPod_, and thestackspodcast.com.

Traci’s Top 5 Feminist Books:

• The Reckonings by Lacy Johnson
• Assata by Assata Shakur
• If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim
• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
• Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Renee’s Top 5 Feminist Books:

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism by Lauren McKeon
• The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero
• Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? by Sandra Harding
• This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

Other books, honorable mentions, authors, and resources mentioned:

• Toni Morrison
• The Other Side by Lacy Johnson
• The Apology by Eve Ensler
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Radicals on the Road by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
• Backlash by Susan Faludi
• Melissa Rivero on Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
• Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
• This Is Really War by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
• Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi on Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
• Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
• Soraya Chemaly on Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
• Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
• Where I Enter by Paula J. Giddings
• Ntozake Shange
• Rebecca Solnit
• Brene Brown
• “The Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde
• Octavia Butler
• bell hooks
• Amy Tan
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
• Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
• Jesus Land and A Thousand Lives by Julia Shears
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"