Aw may. My birthday month. I turn 32 this year. I was feeling a bit down about it, but then I realized I’m only getting better with age. I’m bragging a bit, but it’s more of a self acceptance. I’ve spent years trying to figure myself out and my place in the world and I think I finally have an idea on who I am. That being said I wanted to read about other women who rocked. I know I did the all female month recently, but is it really something one can over-do? If your answer is yes, I’m not your blogger.

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• The First Bad Man by Miranda July
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Honor by Elif Shafak
• The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
• Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick
• A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
• The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
• Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
• Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstration by Elissa Stein
• Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
• Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
• Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
• Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century by Betsy Israel
• God Help The Child by Toni Morrison

My digital shelf

• Euphoria by Lily King
• The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
• Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
• I Am Not a Slut by Leora Tanenbaum
• American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

This is just too good of a pile I’m hoping I can make a sizable dent in it. Which would you be reaching for first?