Books like The Feminine Mystique
12 books with a reading profile close to The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
The Beauty Myth
by Naomi Wolf
Also deep · history, academic
Naomi Wolf argues that as women gained legal and economic parity, the social pressure to adhere to rigid physical standards increased to maintain patriarchal control.
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2
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Also deep · history, academic
In this collection of essays originally written for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates examines the intersection of the Obama presidency and the enduring structure of white supremacy in the United States.
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3
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Also deep · history, academic
Angela Davis argues for the total abolition of the prison system, asserting that incarceration serves as a tool for social control rather than a solution to crime.
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4
A Room of One’s Own
Also deep · academic, theoretical
Virginia Woolf bases this extended essay on the material conditions required for women to produce literature.
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5
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
by Reza Aslan
history, academic
Reza Aslan traces the development of Islam from its beginnings in seventh-century Arabia to its current internal tensions.
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6
The road to Middle-Earth
by Tom Shippey
Also deep · academic, theoretical
Tom Shippey argues that J.R.R.
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7
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax
history, academic
This collection preserves the oral traditions of the American West by documenting the lyrics and melodies of cattle drivers, outlaws, and pioneers.
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8
Arnold Schoenberg Letters
history, academic
This collection gathers the personal and professional correspondence of the Austrian composer, spanning his life from 1910 through his late years in the United States.
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9
The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Also deep · history, academic
Frantz Fanon analyzes the psychiatric and sociological effects of colonization on both the occupier and the occupied.
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10
The Fortunes Of Perkin Warbeck A Romance
by Mary Shelley
history, literary
Mary Shelley’s historical novel reimagines the life of the fifteenth-century pretender to the English throne.
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11
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
history, literary
In 1799, Jacob de Zoet, a young Dutch clerk, arrives at Dejima, the artificial island in Nagasaki harbor that is Japan's only trading link with the West.
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12
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
history, literary
Amitav Ghosh's novel starts with the British conquest of Mandalay in 1885, when the royal family of Burma is exiled to India.
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