Directions for Book Review
1. Summarize the narrative and indicate if your book is fiction or non-fiction.
2. What are three one-word themes that you see in the book (think concepts such
as “love”, “hate”, “courage”, “obedience”, “honor”, etc. These MUST be one
word each).
3. What is the author’s point of view on women, based on the book you chose to
review? Is this a positive or negative view?
4. What will you remember six months from now about this book. Why?
Modern Women
The Marrow Thieves
My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
The Angel of Darkness
My Antonia
Having Our Say; The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
Herland
Rocking the Boat: Union Women’s Voices
Zelda; a biography
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: the Icon and the Image
Sisterhood of Spies
Hidden Figures
The Dark at the End of the Street
A Time Remembered: American Women in Vietnam
The Feminine Mystique
Fascinating Womanhood
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
No Place for a Woman: a Life of Margaret Chase Smith
Unbought and Unbossed
Backlash
The Beauty Myth
Reviving Ophelia
Notes from the Cracked Ceiling
The Handmaid’s Tale