Our Shared Shelf: Emma Watson's Book Club
Our Shared Shelf (Emma Watson)
It is only fitting that Emma Watson, who famously portrayed Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter movie adaptations, also leads a book club of some interest. Our Shared Shelf was created in the beginning of 2016 by Emma in relation to her role working with UN Women as a way to share her reading on equality. The group has an active following on Goodreads, and provides content on the platforms linked above as well. The selections were initially provided monthly, until the end of the summer of 2016 when the group switched to recommending one or more books every two months.
The book club is currently reading two books for November and December: Who’s Story is This, by Rebecca Solnit, and Cinderella Liberator, also by Rebecca Solnit
Selections:
January 2016 – My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem
February 2016 – The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
March 2016 – All About Love, by Bell Hooks
April 2016 – How to Be A Woman, by Caitlin Moran
May 2016 – The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson
June 2016 – Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
July/August 2016 – Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, by Carrie Brownstein
September/October 2016 - Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
November/December 2016 – Mom and Me and Mom, by Maya Angelou
January/February 2017 – The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler
March/April 2017 – Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
May/June 2017 – The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
July/August 2017 – The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
September/October 2017 – Hunger, by Roxanne Gay
November/December 2017 – The Power, by Naomi Alderman
January/February 2018 – Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge
March/April 2018 – Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot
May/June 2018 – The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas, and The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore
July/August 2018 – Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur
September/October 2018 – Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
November/December 2018 – Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper, and Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
January and February 2019 - The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz
March and April 2019 - Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir, by Kai Cheng Thom
May and June 2019 - Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
July and August 2019 - Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, by Yusra Mardini, and Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America, Edited by Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman.
September and October 2019 - Beloved, by Toni Morrison
November and December 2019 - Who’s Story is This, by Rebecca Solnit, and Cinderella Liberator, also by Rebecca Solnit