The Amelia Bloomer Project has recommended 58 titles this year with the following being their top 10. Books are selected by the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. They must have significant feminist content, excellent writing, appealing format and be age appropriate for young readers. Here are the top 10 titles:

 

African American Women: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu by Kimberly Burge

 

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

 

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Rafael López

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

 

Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America’s Pioneering Woman in Space by Tam O’Shaughnessy

Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm by Karen Deans, illustrated by Joe Cepeda

 

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie