Hello! I’m back with more reading recommendations for my fellow bookworms :) Here are some of my recent reads that tell the story of a woman to be reckoned with.

All of these stories impacted me in a different and distinctly poignant way — I find even if my personal life story couldn’t be more different from another’s, there’s always something (a particular experience, a thought process, an emotional reaction) that still resonates as familiar. Beyond finding familiarity in one another though, I think one of the most powerful things we can do as women is to not only recognize shared experience and the things that bind us, but to acknowledge how our world structures differ as well, and to discuss the things that alienate and divide us. I think the most revolutionary thing that women can do together is to listen and learn from one another.

On our own, we are mighty. But as a united force we are unstoppable.

I hope you enjoy any or all of these stories, and as always, please send me picks of your own!

xxx, L

My Own Words

**Ruth Bader Ginsburg**
**A Great Read For:** Anyone with an interest in political history and feminist legislation. Also for anyone missing the irreplaceable RBG.

You’ll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again

**Julia Phillips**
**A Great Read For:** Film buffs! And lovers of unabashed, occasionally politically incorrect, badass women.

Finding My Voice

**Nadiya Hussain**
**A Great Read For:** Food lovers, Great British Bake-Off/Baking Show fans, and those who champion representation in all industries.

A Woman Of No Importance:
The Untold Story Of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

**Sonia Purnell**
**A Great Read For:** History nerds who are still agitated knowing the people we *should* have been studying in grade school…

Untamed

**Glennon Doyle**
**A Great Read For:** Anyone needing a pick-me-up from self-doubt. Also anyone needing the courage to start over. For the better.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

**Gertrude Stein**
Illustrated by **Maira Kalman**
**A Great Read For:** Art history/herstory lovers! Also anyone who wants a very sweet example of love at its purest.

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