When Emma Watson isn’t championing women’s rights at the UN or blowing box office records into the great blue yonder as Belle in Beauty And The Beast, she’s petitioning for you to expand your bookshelf/Kindle library with the titles that matter. Creating her own book club in collaboration with Goodreads, Emma has managed to lure nearly 200,000 readers with her intimate selection of feminist texts.
“As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading as many books and essays about equality as I can get my hands on,” she writes. “There is so much amazing stuff out there. Funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering.. I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode.”
Emma’s selection of powerful authors includes the usual suspects like Eve Ensler, Maya Angelou and Gloria Steinem, along with younger additions to the cause, like Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis. We promise you’ll be a fiercer, more informed member of the female species by the weekend.
Emma Watson’s top 5 feminist books
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