'Are You There God, It's Me Margaret' By Judy Blume(01 of57)
Open Image ModalYearling | $6.99 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"It tackles religion, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the weird contraptions that women used to use when they first got their periods. (References to the \"belt\" definitely confused me as a kid.)\" -Kathleen Massara, Editor, Huffington Post Arts \r\n\r\n (credit:Amazon )
'The Handmaid's Tale' By Margaret Atwood(02 of57)
Open Image ModalAnchor | $10.20 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"In the near future, the United States is overthrown by a group called the Sons of Jacob. The bank accounts of women and other undesirables are frozen, and a group known as Handmaids become the hosts for the future children of the ruling class. This book will haunt you, and is a reminder of how easy it is for extremists to take over... Once they do, the target is often women. (No thanks, Santorum!)\" -Kathleen Massara, Editor, Huffington Post Arts (credit:Amazon )
'A Room Of One's Own' By Virginia Woolf (03 of57)
Open Image ModalMariner Books | $10.40 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'Diving Into The Wreck' By Adrienne Rich(04 of57)
Open Image ModalNorton | $10.55 | Amazon (credit:wwnorton.tumblr.com)
'The Wife Of Bath' By Geoffrey Chaucer(05 of57)
Open Image ModalBedford/St. Martin\'s | $12.32 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\r\n-Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'As You Like It' By William Shakespeare(06 of57)
Open Image ModalSimon & Schuster | $5.99 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"I feel like he always includes extremely strong female characters, especially for the time period.\" -Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'Madame Bovary' By Gustave Flaubert(07 of57)
Open Image ModalBantam Classics | $5.95 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n-Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'The Virgin Suicides' By Jeffrey Eugenides(08 of57)
Open Image ModalPicador | $10.99 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"A much better pick for women than Middlesex...for some reason, he is REALLY able to capture what it is like to be a teenage girl in that book.\" -Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'Deenie' By Judy Blume (09 of57)
Open Image ModalDelacorte Books for Young Readers | $8.99 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'Little Women' By Louisa May Alcott(10 of57)
Open Image ModalSignet Classics | $3.95 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n-Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'Seventh Heaven' By Alice Hoffman(11 of57)
Open Image ModalPutnam Adult | $11.28 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"A coming of age novel for those who came of age in the 1960s. Beautifully written story about a brassy divorcee (yes, that\'s what they were called) moving into a Long Island subdivision (think Levittown) in the 1950s that busts the myth of life behind the white picket fences.\"\r\n-Ann Brenoff, Senior Writer, Huffington Post L.A. (credit:Amazon )
'The Women's Room' By Marilyn French(12 of57)
Open Image ModalSummit | $12.00 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"The best novel of the women\'s liberation movement\" -Ann Brenoff, Senior Writer, Huffington Post L.A. (credit:Amazon )
'Fear Of Flying' By Erica Jong(13 of57)
Open Image ModalNAL Trade | $10.88 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"This one rocked my world! It was ground-breaking -- uninhibited story of Isadora Wing.\" -Ann Brenoff, Senior Writer, Huffington Post L.A. (credit:Amazon )
'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage' By Alice Munro(14 of57)
Open Image ModalVintage | $10.20 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"\r\n-Meredith Melnick, Editor, The Huffington Post Nutrition and Fitness (credit:Amazon )
'Housekeeping' By Marilynne Robinson(15 of57)
Open Image ModalPicador | $10.20 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n-Zoë Triska, Associate Editor, Huffington Post Books (credit:Amazon )
'Frida: A Biography Of Frida Kahlo' By Hayden Herrera(16 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper Perennial | $16.49 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Kimberly Brooks, Founding Editor, Huffington Post Arts and Editor, Huffington Post Science (credit:Amazon )
'The Twilight Series' By Stephenie Meyer(17 of57)
Open Image ModalLittle, Brown and Co. | $11.08 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"Just to know what 500 Million girls got so excited about!\" -Kimberly Brooks, Founding Editor, Huffington Post Arts and Editor, Huffington Post Science (credit:Amazon )
'The Awakening' By Kate Chopin(18 of57)
Open Image ModalAvon | $4.99 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n-Lori Leibovich, Executive Lifestyle Editor, Huffington Post (credit:Amazon )
'The Bell Jar' By Sylvia Plath(19 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper Perennial Modern Classics | $10.04 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Lori Leibovich, Executive Lifestyle Editor, Huffington Post (credit:Amazon )
'Bossypants' By Tina Fey(20 of57)
Open Image ModalReagan Arthur Books | $16.19 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Lori Leibovich, Executive Lifestyle Editor, Huffington Post (credit:Amazon )
'Franny And Zooey' By J.D. Salinger (21 of57)
Open Image ModalLittle, Brown and Company | $6.99 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Farah Miller, Managing Editor, Huffington Post Parents (credit:Amazon )
'The Lovely Bones' By Alice Sebold (22 of57)
Open Image ModalLittle Brown | $14.10 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n-Ann Brenoff, Senior Writer, Huffington Post L.A. (credit:Amazon )
'When Everything Changed' By Gail Collins (23 of57)
Open Image ModalLittle, Brown and Company | $18.47 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n-Meredith Melnick, Editor, The Huffington Post Nutrition and Fitness (credit:Amazon )
'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' By Jeanette Winterson(24 of57)
Open Image ModalGrove Press | $10.17 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"An insanely ambitious novel which is really a memoir and doesn\'t apologize for that.\" Margaret Wheeler Johnson, Editor, Huffington Post Women (credit:Amazon )
'The Girls Of Slender Means' By Muriel Spark (25 of57)
Open Image Modal New Directions | $9.44 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"A women\'s boarding house novel is almost as great as a girls boarding school novel, especially if a bomb and a Schiaparelli dress are involved.\" -Margaret Wheeler Johnson, Editor, Huffington Post Women (credit:Amazon )
'The Liars Club' By Mary Karr (26 of57)
Open Image ModalPenguin | $8.47 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"My mother drove me across the Sabine bridge ten or twenty times in my childhood, and I never knew our safe passage could be a testament to her sanity until I read Karr\'s account of being charioted across it by her own mother who was in the middle of a psychotic break. Also a really fine portrait of flawed fatherhood. Karr is the master of revealing her (real) characters\' dignity and crazy in equal turns.\" -Margaret Wheeler Johnson, Editor, Huffington Post Women (credit:Amazon )
'Get To Work: . . . And Get A Life, Before It's Too Late' By Linda R. Hirshman (27 of57)
Open Image ModalPenguin | $12.00 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"Her strategic plan for women: \"don\'t study art,\" \"never quit a job until you have another one\" -Emily Peck, Managing Editor, Huffington Post Business (credit:Amazon )
'Nickel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America' By Barbara Ehrenreich(28 of57)
Open Image Modal'The Beauty Myth: How Images Of Beauty Are Used Against Women' By Naomi Wolf (29 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper Perennial | $10.19 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Laura Schocker, Associate Editor, Huffinton Post Healthy Living (credit:Amazon )
'Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom' By Christiane Northrup(30 of57)
Open Image ModalBantam | $12.20 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"It\'s the body bible for every woman\" -Alana B. Elias Kornfeld, Senior Editor, International Huffington Post Media Group, (credit:Amazon )
'Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide' By Nicholas D. Kristof (31 of57)
Open Image ModalKnopf | $19.11 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n-Jessica Prois, Editor, Huffington Post Impact (credit:Amazon )
'The Woman At The Washington Zoo: Writings On Politics, Family, And Fate' By Marjorie Williams (32 of57)
Open Image ModalPublicAffairs | $ | Amazon.com \r\n\"Marjorie Williams has an incredible gift for profiles--the stories she writes about her subjects, from barbara bush to D.C. socialite, are so nuanced, so detailed and so intimate. The book also has a must-read collection of her columns about being a working woman and mother.\"\r\n-Bianca Bosker, Senior Editor, Huffington Post Tech (credit:Amazon )
'Last Night I Dreamed Of Peace: The Diary Of Dang Thuy Tram' By Dang Thuy Tram(33 of57)
Open Image ModalBroadway | $11.07 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\n\"Not only is this book unique because it offers a Vietnamese perspective on the Vietnam War, but it also one of the few to offer a female point of view. Thuy Tram\'s diary offers an intimate look both into the war and into the life of a 20-something faced with becoming a woman in very challenging circumstances.\" -Michelle Persad, Intern, Huffington Post Women (credit:Amazon )
'The Feminine Mystique' By Betty Friedan(34 of57)
Open Image ModalNorton | 11.75 | Barnesandnoble.com (credit:Barnesandnoble.com)
'Backlash' By Susan Faludi(35 of57)
Open Image ModalCrown | $14.95 | Barnesandnoble.com\r\n\r\n (credit:Barnesandnoble.com)
'Collected Poems' By Edna St. Vincent Millay(36 of57)
Open Image ModalHarperCollins | $17.57 | Barnesandnoble.com (credit:Barnesandnoble.com)
'Big Girls Don't Cry' By Rebecca Traister(37 of57)
Open Image ModalFree Press | $26 | Barnesandnoble.com (credit:Barnesandnoble.com)
'Forever' By Judy Blume (38 of57)
Open Image ModalSimon Pulse | $8.99 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\n\"I read this book shortly before I became sexually active. This book, featuring Planned Parenthood, spared me from teenage pregnancy.\" Julia Jensen (credit:Amazon )
'The Help' By Kathryn Stockett (39 of57)
Open Image ModalAmy Einhorn Books/Putnam | $14.82 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society' By Mary Ann Shaffer (40 of57)
Open Image ModalThe Dial Press | $15.93 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'The Night Circus' By Erin Morgenstern(41 of57)
Open Image ModalDoubleday | $17.79 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'The Lantern' By Deborah Lawrenson(42 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper | $13.55 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'South Of Superior' By Ellen Airgood (43 of57)
Open Image ModalRiverhead Hardcover | $13.98 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'The Language Of Trees' By Ilie Ruby(44 of57)
Open Image ModalWilliam Morrow Paperbacks | $11.69 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale Of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, And A Very Interesting Boy' By Jeanne Birdsall(45 of57)
Open Image ModalKnopf Books | $10.85 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Sara Hadley (credit:Amazon )
'Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, And Dying' By Ram Dass (46 of57)
Open Image ModalRiverhead Books | $10.09 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Rae Carson (credit:Amazon )
'Female Chauvinist Pigs' By Ariel Levy(47 of57)
Open Image ModalFree Press | $9.74 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Lauren Hedinger (credit:Amazon )
'The Paper Garden' By Molly Peacock(48 of57)
Open Image ModalBloomsbury USA | $13.60 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Shaunee Power (credit:Amazon )
'In The Land Of The Grasshopper Song' By Mary Ellicott Arnold(49 of57)
Open Image ModalBison Books | $15.56 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Shaunee Power (credit:Amazon )
'Their Eyes Were Watching God' By Zora Neale Hurston(50 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper Perennial Modern Classics | $10.87 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by Journalist/Author Rebecca Traister (credit:Amazon )
'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' By Betty Smith (51 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper Perennial Modern Classics| $11.55 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by Journalist/Author Rebecca Traister (credit:Amazon )
'Song Of Solomon' By Toni Morrison(52 of57)
Open Image ModalVintage | $10.20 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by Journalist/Author Rebecca Traister (credit:Amazon)
'The Woman Warrior' By Maxine Hong Kingston(53 of57)
Open Image ModalVintage | $11.20 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by Journalist/Author Rebecca Traister (credit:Amazon )
'To Kill A Mockingbird' By Harper Lee (54 of57)
Open Image ModalGrand Central Publishing | $7.99 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by Journalist/Author Rebecca Traister (credit:Amazon )
'My Antonia' By Willa Cather (55 of57)
Open Image ModalMariner Books | $7.95 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by Journalist/Author Rebecca Traister (credit:Amazon )
'Pride And Prejudice' By Jane Austen(56 of57)
Open Image ModalBantam Classics | $4.95 | Amazon.com\r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Syretta Jefferson (credit:Amazon )
'We Need to Talk About Kevin' By Lionel Shriver (57 of57)
Open Image ModalHarper Perennial | $10.19 | Amazon.com \r\n\r\nSubmitted by HuffPost Women reader Belinda Cech (credit:Amazon )