Feminist Book Club books of the month

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

By: Dawnie Walton
Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, André De Shields, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steve West, Gabra Zackman & full cast
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

“If you read the first twenty pages of this book and think, like I did "this seems exactly the same as Daisy Jones and the Six KEEP GOING. The way the stories are setup is similar, but Opal and Nev have a unique story that demands to be heard. Walton combines oral music history, intense relationship dynamics, and strong character development to... Read more

The Secret History of Home Economics

How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

By: Danielle Dreilinger
Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and... Read more

Love in Color

Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola
Narrated by: Ajjaz Awad, Nneka Okoye, Bolu Babalola & Olukemi Babalola
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

“Love in Color is delicious. I wanted to both savor every word and devour the next story. Each story unlike the last, each with a different voice and style. Babalola's retellings and reimaginings draw you in to each unique trial of love. A decadent read perfect for a beach, cabin, orrr anywhere else. ;) Read more

The Three Mothers

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

By: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Narrated by: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

This program is read by the author.

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.

In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates... Read more

When Women Were Dragons

A Novel

By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Mark Bramhall
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

“In the heart of every woman, there burns a secret fire, a wild yearning to take up space, to fly. Here, Barnhill speculates about a world in which women could literally do just that: transform, expand, devour–and escape. But what would become of the world they left behind - the world they had outgrown? Set in the patriarchal stranglehold... Read more

What My Bones Know

A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo
Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

“A vulnerable insight to complex trauma and the journey to hope and healing. Read more

America the Beautiful?

One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Travelled

By: Blythe Roberson
Narrated by: Kendra Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year —NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N""America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot tolerate trees or weather, wish I could've tagged along in the back seat."" — Samantha Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You. and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.The... Read more

Goodbye Earl

A Revenge Novel

By: Leesa Cross-Smith
Narrated by: Mela Lee, Kamali Minter, Sarah Beth Goer, Erin Bennett, Traci Odom & Julian Thomas
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose. 

Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
 
In 2004, Rosemarie,... Read more

South to America

A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

“The spirit and essence of “America” are things quintessentially, essentially elusive. In South to America, Imani Perry—native Black Southerner, award-winning author, Princeton professor—submits a gorgeously written, eminently worthy entry in the search. Crafting a compelling balance between recorded history, current events, and personal... Read more

The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

“I can't wait to read everything from Louise Erdrich after thoroughly enjoying this book! Read more

Well-Read Black Girl

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By: Glory Edim
Narrated by: Glory Edim
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of... Read more

Siren Queen

By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

“I will read anything Nghi Vo writes, and I will listen to anything Natalie Naudus narrates, so imagine my joy whenever these two cross paths. Siren Queen is a gorgeous novel set in an alternate-universe old Hollywood full of strange magic that alternates between dreamlike and nightmarish. An immersive listen (or read) you won’t forget. Read more

Unlikeable Female Characters

The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice.



Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are... Read more

Witch of Wild Things

Wild Magic: Book #1

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Narrated by: Krysta Gonzales
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
One of Amazon's Best Romances of September!
A People Magazine Romantasy Pick!

Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic.
 
Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their “gifts”—ever since her... Read more

In Defense of Witches

The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet
Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

“A spellbinding look into the legacy of misogyny and how its roots spread into the worldwide witch trials. Insightful, rage-inducing, and deeply provocative, Chollet examines the dark, violent time in our history and asks whether culture has really shifted in the independent woman's favor. Read more

Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club

A Novel

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Lucy Liu & Celeste Ng
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“I really enjoyed this dystopian look at our possible future with a special focus on Asian hate. There's this thing about art; spoken, written, drawn. Humanity needs art. And brave souls, if we're going to keep being human. I listened to this on Libro.Fm and it was so well read by Lucy Liu! Brava! I also enjoyed the author's note at the end. Read more

Becoming Kin

An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec
Narrated by: Patty Krawec
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home."



Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and... Read more

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

By: Deesha Philyaw
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

“The warmth and compassion of these stories can't be overstated - they made me hungry in every way possible. Deesha Philyaw sets up snapshots that feel deeply intimate without voyeurism, universal without vagueness, and Janina Edwards brings it home. Read more

90s Bitch

Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

By: Allison Yarrow
Narrated by: Allison Yarrow
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refinery 29, Book Riot, Bitch Media, and more. ""Yarrow’s biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced — or “bitchified” — women at... Read more