nance said:
I read fictions ^_^ but if you suggest me a great non-fiction, I'll definitely read it!
Some good non-fiction... I never really liked non-fiction either, until my feminist lit class!
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. By Harriet A. Jacobs. Very amazing.
Totto- chan: Little Girl at the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi... it's adorable and made me cry. She's a famous person in Japan and it's about her adventures at her elementary school, which is a different type of school. She writes in third person, in the innocent way of a child. I wrote a 10+ page analysis on it.
Woman Warrier: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston. I've read exerpts out of this, but I really liked what I read!
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Again, I've only read exerpts, but that's only 'cause it's in my anthology and I can't get my hands on the whole thing. I need to order it online.
A Very Easy Death, by Simone de Beauvoir. It's very short, and about her mother's death. Kinda morbid, but very beautifully written. "All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation." "You do not die from being born, nor from having lived, nor from old age. You die from *something*." "When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou. I liked it, but I know people who didn't.
Coming of Age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody... about a white girl growing up in the south in the 1960s...
Diary of Anais Nin... has a lot of sexual references though. Actually, it's like one big sexual reference. But, it has lines like "I am writing calmly, lucidly while waiting for him to come home, as one waits for the chosen lover, the eternal one."