Since March is the month we celebrate International Women’s Day, it seems appropriate to turn our eyes toward literature and the dozens of compelling female characters that grace its pages. Here is a list of books that contain amazing female protagonists and antagonists, who go on larger than life journeys to learn invaluable truths about themselves and the world around them.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Speak by Laurie House Anderson
The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen