Every Book On Emma Watson's Reading List Details

Like her beloved characters Hermione Granger and Belle, Emma Watson LOVES to read. She loves it so much she started a global, monthly Goodreads book club of feminist texts. She's recruited a team to hide books for people to find all over the world. She once took a year off from acting to read more (really!). She even allows everyone to keep tabs on her growing reading list. Here, we round up some of her favorites: Every Book On Emma Watson's Reading List Details

'The Vagina Monologues' by Eve Ensler

This was her January/February 2017 selection for her Goodreads book club, Our Shared Shelf.

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'Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Estes' ideas are both ancient and completely new. She points to storytelling, our ancient narratives, as a way for women to reconnect to the Wild Woman all women have within themselves but have lost, Emma shared when she selected this book for March/April 2017.

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'My Life on the Road' by Gloria Steinem

She read the book in January 2016 for Our Shared Shelf.

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'How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

"I read it on a plane from London to New York and I laughed out loud and cried so much I think the whole of my cabin, airline staff included, thought I was losing my mind," Emma wrote in March 2016.

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'The Argonauts' by Maggie Nelson

On reading this book, Emma wrote in April 2016, " It might require a bit of work but The Argonauts reward us with an expansive way of considering identity, caretaking, and freedom along with liberation from, what Maggie calls, 'the demand that anyone live a life that's all one thing.'" She said, "Maybe it will change the way we think and speak about others and ourselves?"

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'Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi

"As Iran enters another important period of change, with relations re-opening with much of the world, I think this is a particularly good time to pick up Persepolis," Emma wrote in June 2016, "Satrapi's deceptively simple, almost whimsical drawings belie the seriousness and rich complexity of her story–but it's also very funny too."

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'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Emma selected this book as her July/August 2016 Our Shared Shelf pick.

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'Half the Sky' by Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas Kristof

In August 2016 Emma suggested this book which, she writes, helps readers "learn that the key to enabling change and economic growth is in unleashing women's potential."

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'Mom & Me & Mom' by Maya Angelou

"This is perhaps the greatest window into what shaped Angelou as a writer and poet and a fitting end to a lifetime of amazing works," Emma wrote in her review when she selected this book as her November 2016 read.

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