Yesterday on Instagram, after a disappointing experience with a popular influencer’s memoir, I reached out for a little help. I asked readers and friends for their favorite memoirs and stories of badass women doin’ good. Here are the suggested titles, plus a few I found at my local library, if you’d like to see:

• Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, by Lindy West
• Carry on, Warrior, by Glennon Doyle (the actual suggestion read “Anything by Glennon Doyle”, and this was the one I could find on the shelf – her other books are Love Warrior and Untamed)
• Everyday Sexism, by Laura Bates
• Open Book, by Jessica Simpson
• Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, by Anne Helen Petersen
• The Moment of Lift, by Melinda Gates
• Yes, Please, by Amy Poehler
• Bossypants, by Tina Fey
• A Fighting Chance, by Elizabeth Warren
• Womanish, by Kim McLaren
• Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, by Ben Montgomery
• The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, by Mona Awad
• Sissy: A Coming of Age Gender Story, by Jacob Tobia
• Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, by Leah Penniman
• Hunger, by Roxane Gay
• A Woman is No Man, by Etaf Rum
• The Last Black Unicorn, by Tiffany Haddish
• The Rules Do Not Apply, by Ariel Levy
• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
• Subject suggested without specific titles: Anne Richards, Ruth Reichl, and Frances Perkins

I’m excited to dive in, but I also notice that this list is predominantly white, cisgender women. What are we missing? Do you have any titles or authors to add to the list?

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