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On the beach, Reading List
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‘On the beach’, is a feminist reading group, initiated in 2016, with a subscription audience who use it as a reading list, and a loosely organised book club, who meet for open and ongoing conversation about books, art and feminism. With a regular monthly meeting since 2014 we have now read over 50 texts. Please see below our list of previous texts.
READING LIST
TEXT #1 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaids Tale
TEXT #2 Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
TEXT #3 Ann Quin, Passages + Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (Chapter One)
TEXT #4 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
TEXT #5 Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
TEXT #6 Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever
TEXT #7 Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
TEXT #8 Elena Ferrente, The Days of Abandonment
TEXT #9 Kim Gordon, Girl in a band
TEXT #10 Elizabeth Harrower, In Certain Circles
TEXT #11 Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue
TEXT #12 Miranda July, The First Bad Man
TEXT #13 Elif Shafak, Honor
TEXT #14 Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
TEXT #15 Chris Kraus, Torpor
TEXT #16 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
TEXT #17 Kathy Acker, Great Expectations
TEXT #18 Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet’s novel)
TEXT #19 Ali Smith, How to be both
TEXT #20 Kate Zambreno, Heroines
TEXT #21 Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
TEXT #22 Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
TEXT #23 Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
TEXT #24 Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise
TEXT #25 Sarah Thornton, 33 artists in 3 acts
TEXT #26 Janet Frame, An angel at my table
TEXT #27 Eileen Myles, Inferno
TEXT #28 Octavia Butler, Kindred
TEXT #29 Lynne Tillman, What would Lynne Tillman do?
TEXT #30 Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
TEXT #31 Roxanne Gay, Difficult Women
TEXT #32 Maggie Nelson, Bluets
TEXT #33 Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury:The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
TEXT #34 Phoebe Gluckner, Diary of a Teenage Girl
TEXT #35 Alision Becshdel, Funhome
TEXT #36 Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions
TEXT #37 Chris Kraus, After Kathy Acker
TEXT #38 Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (Patternmaster #1)
TEXT #39 Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
TEXT #40 Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner
TEXT #41 Claire G. Coleman, Terra Nullius.
TEXT #42 Maria Tumarkin. Axiomatic.
TEXT #43 Deborah Levy. The Cost of Living.
TEXT #44 Ursula Le Guin. The Disposessed.
TEXT #45 Octavia E.Butler. Mind of My Mind. (Patternmaster 2)
TEXT #46 Clay’s Ark (Patternmaster 3)
TEXT #47 Sally Rooney. Normal People.
TEXT #48 Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women.
TEXT #49 Chloe Hooper. The Arsonist.
TEXT #50 Quinn Latimer. Like a Woman.
TEXT #51 Oyinkan Braithwaite. My Sister, the Serial Killer.
TEXT #52 Ashliegh Young. Can you Tolerate This?
TEXT #53 Ottessa Moshfegh. My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
TEXT #54 Melissa Lucashenko. Too Much Lip.
TEXT #55 Maggie Nelson. The Argonauts.
TEXT #56 Carrie Tiffany. Exploded View.
TEXT #57 Candice Carty-Williams. Queenie
TEXT #58 Jia Tolentino. Trick Mirror.
TEXT #59 Andrea Lawlor. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.
TEXT #60 Rachel Cusk. Outline.
TEXT #61 Jenny Offill. Weather.
TEXT #62 Bernadine Evaristo. Girl, Woman, Other.