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The Feminine Mystique

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Books like The Feminine Mystique

If you loved The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir, H.M. Parshley, Deirdre Bair

No. 2

The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

No. 3

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

No. 4

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Inga Muscio, Betty Dodson

No. 5

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

No. 6

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Mary Pipher

No. 7

The Vagina Monologues

Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem

No. 8

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

No. 9

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

No. 10

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

No. 11

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

No. 12

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

No. 13

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Kate Chopin, Cynthia Brantley Johnson, Alyssa Harad

No. 14

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

No. 15

The Waste Land and Other Poems

T.S. Eliot

No. 16

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

No. 17

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

No. 18

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

No. 19

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

No. 20

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

No. 21

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

No. 22

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine

No. 23

Prozac Nation

Elizabeth Wurtzel

No. 24

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau