To celebrate Feminist Book Fortnight this year BOWW teamed up with The Feminist Bookshop to debate how to ‘put feminism, feminist writers, books and publishers squarely and firmly in the mainstream marketplace, onto the educational curriculum and on library shelves’.

The concept of the Selected Twenty was introduced as part of Feminist Book Fortnight (FBF) which first ran in 1984. Every year, twenty books were chosen by an independent panel of booksellers and librarians ‘which best represent the range and strength of feminist books’ published in a given year (Spare Rib 155: 43). Find out more about the history of the fortnight and the selected twenty here.

This year The Feminist Bookshop made their own list with some of the books they really wanted to champion. Selecting just twenty titles to highlight was an enormous challenge and their choices were necessarily subjective. You can read about their selection process in the full selected twenty catalogue available here.

Read on here to find out what made it onto The Feminist Bookshop list. https://thefeministbookshop.com/blogs/tfb-blog/tfbs-selected-twenty

Download the bookshop’s beautiful guide here!