Women have long been underrepresented in literature, and the school curriculum frequently leaves them out. To close this gap and comprehend women's experiences, everyone must read literature written by women. It is essential to read diverse literature written by men or women. Instead of viewing the story from the outside, people can see themselves in books with various views, characters, and heroes.
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888), which was released in two volumes between 1868 and 1869 at her publisher's request. The narrative traces the development of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—from childhood through adulthood.
The 1969 book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings chronicles the young and formative years of American author and poet Maya Angelou(1928-2014). This coming-of-age tale, the first of a seven-volume series, shows how courage of character and a passion for reading can help people overcome bigotry and tragedy.
American author Harper Lee(1926-2016) wrote the book To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird explores how good and evil may coexist inside a single community or individual while also telling the story of a young girl coming of age and a darker drama about the causes and effects of racism and prejudice.IT WAS RELEASED IN 1960 AND BECAME POPULAR RIGHT AWAY. AFTER WINNING THE PULITZER PRIZE, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD HAS BECOME A CLASSIC OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE.
The diary Anne Frank(1929-1945) kept while living in hiding with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands is collected in The Diary of a Young Girl, better known as The Diary of Anne Frank. It narrates the tale of her family, who reside in Frankfurt, Germany, and who are abruptly forced into hiding due to how the Nazi Party and Hitler treated Jews in Europe during the Second World War. They manage to flee to Amsterdam, where they hide out with other Jews. The diary abruptly ends on August 1st, 1944.
Angie Thomas(1988- ) published the young adult book The Hate U Give in 2017. It is Thomas's debut book, and it was adapted from a short tale she wrote in college in response to Oscar Grant's police shooting. The narrative follows 16-year-old Starr Carter as she transitions between two distinct worlds: her impoverished neighborhood of residence and the opulent prep school in a suburban setting. As Starr sees her childhood best friend Khalil being fatally shot by a police officer, the delicate balance between two worlds is upended.
American author Casey McQuiston's(1991- ) 2021 LGBT romance book, One Last Stop, was published. The protagonist of the book is August Landry, a cynical pseudo-detective who falls in love with Jane Su, a punk Lesbian from the 1970s who has been stuck on the subway because she has been transported back in time.
Margot Lee Shetterly(1969- ) published a nonfiction book titled Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Forgotten Story of the African Women Who Helped Win the Space Race in 2016. In 2010, Shetterly began drafting the novel. The bios of three African-American women who worked as computers at NASA to provide engineers and other personnel with solutions are examined in the film Hidden Figures. Women were kept in the background as human computers and the workplace was segregated during the early years of their employment.
The autobiographical book I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban was co-written by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb. The remarkable story of a family uprooted by international terrorism is told in I AM MALALA, along with the fight for girls' education, a father who championed and encouraged his daughter to write and go to school, and courageous parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a culture that values sons.
Betty Friedan wrote the book called The Feminine Mystique, which is widely regarded as having inspired second-wave feminism in the US. The Feminine Mystique was first released by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, and book quickly rose to fame after selling more than a million copies. The Feminine Mystique was sparked by their experiences of unhappiness as stay-at-home mothers and wives. The book's purpose was to encourage other educated women to pursue rewarding occupations outside the home rather than restrict their possibilities to being housewives and moms only.
Author Chelsea G. Summers' first book is titled A Certain Hunger. The book shadows, convicted serial killer Dorothy Daniels, who is a cuisine writer. From behind bars, Daniels recounts the story of her misdeeds, bouncing back and forth in time between that life and the one that brought her there. She focuses on the food she consumed, including eating men. A Certain Hunger, which was printed by Unnamed Press on December 1, 2020, received a lot of positive responses.