SheWrites Day of Action

Today is the SheWrites Day of Action to protest the complete exclusion of women on Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Best Books of 2009 list. One of the suggested ways to make the day is the create your own list of “Top Ten Best Books of 2009″.

I went through a long period of not reading for about a year and finally started reading again this summer so I don’t have a list of ten books actually published in 2009. (I have read more than ten books this year but they weren’t all published in 2009.) As a result, I only have seven books to recommend. However, I’m also going to recommend three books from 2009 that I still hope to read yet this year.

Without any further ado, here we go:

1. Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
2. A Short History of Women: A Novel by KateWalbert
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence by Rachel Simmons
5. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
6. Feminista by Erica Kennedy
7. Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism by Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis-Aronowitz

3 Books I Plan on Buying Soon

1. Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win by Anne E. Kornblut
2. Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box by Madeleine Albright
3. Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

All images courtesy of IndieBound.org except Notes from the Cracked Ceiling, which is from Powells.com