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

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2. My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

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3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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4. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

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5. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

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6. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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7. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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8. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

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9. Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

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10. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

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11. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

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12. The Circle by Dave Eggers

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13. Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent

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14. We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love by Robert A. Johnson

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15. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

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16. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

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17. Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

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18. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher

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19. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

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20. Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran

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21. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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22. Prime Time by Jane Fonda

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23. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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24. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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25. Sex and World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson

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26. 1984 by George Orwell

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27. The Way of the Actor: A Path to Knowledge and Power by Brian Bates

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28. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

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29. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

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30. In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler

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31. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch

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32. The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington

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33. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

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34. What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey

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35. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina

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36. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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37. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

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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

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40. Natural Beauty by James Houston

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41. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

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42. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

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43. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

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44. Torch by Cheryl Strayed

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45. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

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46. Wild by Cheryl Strayed

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47. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

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48. His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

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49. Rookie Yearbook Four edited by Tavi Gevinson

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50. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Because duh!

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51. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

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51. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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52. A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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53. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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54. Just Kids by Patti Smith

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55. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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56. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

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57. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

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58. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams

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59. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

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60. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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61. The BFG by Roald Dahl

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62. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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63. The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

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64. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

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65. The Magus by John Fowles

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66. Strangeland by Tracey Emin

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67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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68. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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69. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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70. Metamorphoses by Ovid

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71. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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72. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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73. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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74. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

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75. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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76. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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There you have it! Have you read any of the books on Emma’s list?
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