The Absolute Must Read List
Discover the absolute must-read list featuring unforgettable fiction and feminist classics. Explore Wally Lamb's emotional novels I Know This Much Is True and She's Come Undone, plus Marilyn French's groundbreaking The Women's Room—essential books for every reading list.
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She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.
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I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Tells the story of a pair of twins, one plagued by schizophrenia and the other by a promise he made to his dying mother to look after his brother.
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The Women's Room
by Marilyn French
The classic feminist novel that awakened both women AND men speaks to everyone about the deepest feelings at the heart of love and relationships. A biting social commentary of an emotional world gone silently haywire. The Women's ROom is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. The Women's Room questions those accepted truths and poignantly examines the world of hopeful believers looking for new truths.