The Greatest Books of All Time on Gender

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7019 Corinne Madame de Staël 1807 French French
7080 The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt 2014 American English
7100 Les Guerilleres Monique Wittig 1969 French French
7216 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
7612 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
7750 The Screwfly Solution Raccoona Sheldon 1977 American English
7755 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7754 Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi 2011 British English
7940 The Fourth World Diamela Eltit 1988 Chilean Spanish
8025 Gender Outlaw Kate Bornstein 1994 American English
8103 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Maryse Condé 1986 Guadeloupean French
8107 The Amber Gods And Other Stories Harriet Prescott Spofford 1863 American English
8107 The Cavalry Maiden Nadezhda Durova 1836 Russian Russian
8107 Hermione Hilda Doolittle 1927 American English
8107 Mountain Charley Elsa Jane Guerin 1861 American English
8144 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8176 Saints And Strangers Angela Carter 1985 British English
8198 Fifth Chinese Daughter Jade Snow Wong 1945 American English
8234 Beyond The Mask, Race, Gender And Identity Amina Mama 1995 British English
8245 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8285 The Other Side Of Desire Daniel Bergner 2009 American English
8291 Feminism Is For Everybody bell hooks 2000 American English
8321 The Living Is Easy Dorothy West 1948 American English
8360 On Strike Against God Joanna Russ 1980 American English
8384 Outrageous Acts And Everyday Rebellions Gloria Steinem 1983 American English
8439 The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi 2020 Nigerian English
8535 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8546 Whipping Girl Julia Serano 2007 American English
8575 Deviations Gayle Rubin 2011 American English
8629 Custody Of The Eyes Diamela Eltit 1994 Chilean Spanish
8636 Donde Las Mujeres Álvaro Pombo 1996 Spanish Spanish
8733 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8752 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8869 African Stories Doris May Lessing 1964 British English
8897 Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis 2003 American English
8927 The End Of Men Hanna Rosin 2012 American English
8971 Myths Of Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling 1987 American English
8979 Riwan, Ou Le Chemin De Sable Ken Bugul 1999 French French
9058 In The Darkroom Susan Faludi 2016 American English
9074 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9192 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9192 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9242 Silences Tillie Olsen 1978 American English
9251 Sor Juana Or, The Traps Of Faith Octavio Paz 1982 Mexican Spanish
9259 Moving Beyond Words Gloria Steinem 1993 American English
9260 The Sexual Politics Of Meat Carol J. Adams 1990 American English
9286 Revolution From Within Gloria Steinem 1991 American English
9289 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9530 Feminists Theorize The Political Judith Butler, Joan Wallach Scott 1992 Multiple English
9533 City Of Veils Zoë Ferraris 2009 Saudi Arabian English
9565 Cunt Inga Muscio 1998 American English
9566 Reviving Ophelia Mary Pipher 1994 American English
9594 I Am An Emotional Creature Eve Ensler 2010 American English
9629 The Less Noble Sex Nancy Tuana 1993 Unknown English
9641 Unbearable Weight Susan Bordo 1993 American English
9642 Sisters Of The Yam bell hooks 1993 American English
9660 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9688 Leftover Women Leta Hong Fincher 2014 Unknown English
9702 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9754 Talking From 9 To 5 Deborah Tannen 1994 American English
9784 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9801 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9949 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
10003 Seeing Like A Feminist Nivedita Menon 2012 Indian English
10021 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10095 Manifesta Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards 2000 American English
10188 Tough Girls Sherrie A. Inness 1998 Unknown English
10443 Rain Of Scorpions And Other Stories Estela Portillo Trambley 1975 American English
10489 Until The Lions Karthika Nair 2015 French English
10538 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10622 Girls To The Front Sara Marcus 2010 American English
10774 Career And Family Claudia Goldin 2021 American English
10779 Female Chauvinist Pigs Ariel Levy 2005 American English
10795 Jane Sexes It Up Merri Lisa Johnson 2002 Unknown English
10818 Life In Code Ellen Ullman 2017 American English
10828 Touching Feeling Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2003 American English
10832 Six Of One Rita Mae Brown 1978 American English
10829 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10924 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
10925 Women Don’t Ask Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever 2003 American English
10974 Pornography Andrea Dworkin 1981 American English
10982 A Belfast Woman Mary Beckett 1980 Irish English
10982 Man Made Language Dale Spender 1980 Australian English
11036 This Sex Which Is Not One Luce Irigary 1977 French French
11046 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 2019 American English
11068 The Complete Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft 1989 British English
11113 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11135 The Widows Of Malabar Hill Sujata Massey 2018 American English
11139 Conquest Andrea Smith 2005 Unknown English
11223 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11256 Nobody Passes Matthew Bernstein Sycamore 2006 Unknown English
11257 Womenfolks Shirley Abbott 1983 American English
11302 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11310 James Tiptree, Jr. Julie Phillips 2006 Unknown English
11423 Feminism And Pop Culture Andi Zeisler 2008 American English
11445 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11492 When Everything Changed Gail Collins 2009 American English
11495 A Drama In Muslin George Moore 1886 Irish English
11500 The Thirty Names Of Night Zeyn Joukhadar 2020 Unknown English
11508 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead 1995 Canadian English
11517 If You Could Be Mine Sara Farizan 2013 Iranian English
11545 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11581 Paradise Toni Morrison 1997 American English
11582 Landscape For A Good Woman Carolyn Kay Steedman 1986 British English
11582 The Mixquiahuala Letters Ana Castillo 1986 American English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11663 Shakespeare In A Divided America James Shapiro 2020 American English
11663 The Ordeal Of Elizabeth Marsh Linda Colley 2007 British English
11663 Isak Dinesen Judith Thurman 1982 American English
11829 The Mother Of All Questions Rebecca Solnit 2017 American English
11841 Reality Bites Back Jennifer L. Pozner 2009 American English
11865 Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube Blair Braverman 2016 American English
11869 Bad Blood Lorna Sage 2000 British English
11901 Pride Of Family Carole Ione 1988 American English
11901 Sans Souci And Other Stories Dionne Brand 1988 Canadian English
11901 The Works Of Alice Dunbar Nelson Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988 American English
11901 Writing A Woman's Life Carolyn G. Heilbrun 1988 American English
11927 Sorcerer To The Crown Zen Cho 2015 Singaporean English
12013 Paying For The Party Laura Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Armstrong 2013 American English
12036 When The Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie McLemore 2016 American English