Professor Young Recommends

A reading list

The Reader, Harold Knight, 1910

Dear Readers,

I keep a running list of book recommendations (mostly but not exclusively feminist lit) to share with my students and with people in the Burned Haystack community. The list is in no particular order, is comprised of books I’ve actually read, and is constantly evolving and expanding (if you’re into this, save this link because I update it regularly so that changes will be live, but it won’t generate a new email every time I edit it).

Happy Reading! ~Jennie ❤️📚

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God Spare the Girls, by Kelsey McKinney

Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

Station Eleven or LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE, by Emily St. John Mandel

The Rapture of Canaan, by Sheri Reynolds

The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner

The Push, by Ashley Audrain

Self Care, by Leigh Stein

Young Jane Young, by Gabrielle Zevin

Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid

The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings

Freshwater, or The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Candy Girl, by Diablo Cody

Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh

Luster, by Raven Leilani

The Pisces, by Melissa Broder

Milkfed, by Melissa Broder

We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart

The First Bad Man, by Miranda July

The Power, by Naomi Alderman

The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey

Normal People, by Sally Rooney

The Rabbit Hutch, by Tess Gunty

My Murder, by Katie Williams

Victorian Psycho, by Virginia Feito

The Hounding, by Xenobe Purvis

Shrill, by Lindy West