Among our celebrity book lovers is the wonderful Emma Watson who has gained notoriety as much for her work for women’s rights and spreading the love of literature as she has in her role as Hermoine in the beloved Harry Potter movies. The 26 year old actress is truly a young woman worthy of admiration and to celebrate that, here is a list of all the books Emma has suggested, read, or mentioned in her book club, website, and day to day life.
1. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
2. My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
5. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
6. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
7. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
8. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
9. Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
10. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
11. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
12. The Circle by Dave Eggers
13. Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
14. We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love by Robert A. Johnson
15. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
16. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
17. Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed
18. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher
19. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
20. Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
21. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
22. Prime Time by Jane Fonda
23. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
24. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
25. Sex and World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson
26. 1984 by George Orwell
27. The Way of the Actor: A Path to Knowledge and Power by Brian Bates
28. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
29. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
30. In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler
31. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
32. The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
33. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
34. What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
35. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
36. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
37. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
38. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
39. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
40. Natural Beauty by James Houston
41. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
42. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
43. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
44. Torch by Cheryl Strayed
45. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
46. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
47. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
48. His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
49. Rookie Yearbook Four edited by Tavi Gevinson
50. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Because duh!
51. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
51. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
52. A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
53. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
54. Just Kids by Patti Smith
55. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
56. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
57. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
58. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams
59. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
60. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
61. The BFG by Roald Dahl
62. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
63. The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
64. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
65. The Magus by John Fowles
66. Strangeland by Tracey Emin
67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
68. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
69. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
70. Metamorphoses by Ovid
71. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
72. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
73. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
74. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
75. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
76. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
There you have it! Have you read any of the books on Emma’s list?
YouTube Channel: Totally Emma Watson
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