Each 16-year-old in Sweden is being given a copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. We asked more writers which other books should be distributed to teenagers – especially girls
Every 16-year-old girl needs to read King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes’s punk coming-of-age memoir, because lurking in every teenage girl’s breasts is the beating, bloody heart of a rebel, waiting to make her own choices. Despentes’s book shows how – and why – women must define their own rules for life, and, even more important, it shows that making mistakes is not the worst thing you can do; conforming is.
Janice Cable, writer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith because it’s about feminism and living your dream; and love and heartbreak; and combatting sexual harassment, and strong women and families, and it’s just so good, forever.
Jen Doll, author of Save the Date
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