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
Waking Brain Cells 