What to Read After The Second Sex
Readers who loved The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Second Sex is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Second Sex
The Female Eunuch
Gender Trouble
Backlash
The Feminine Mystique
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
Anti-Semite and Jew
A Room of One's Own
"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Other Stories
The Mandarins
The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
The Woman Destroyed
Masculine Domination
The Words
Discipline and Punish
The Social Contract
The Vagina Monologues
The Lover
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
The Golden Notebook
Ariel
Flowers of Evil
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
The Age of Reason