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Class of 1997 Recommendations

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Class Recommendations

You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by Shana Corey

A great children's book about with lots of women's history! Written by a Smithie1996.

Recommended by Leona Wong

Tea with an Old Dragon:
A Story of Sophia Smith, Founder of Smith College
by Jane Yolen

A great children's book about Sophia Smith written and illustrated by Smithies.

Recommended by Kate Evans

 

Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden

Recommended by Leona Wong

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells

Declared a must-read by many of us. This is a hilarious and bittersweet novel that you won't be able to put down. It touches on the complex bonds between a mother and daughter and follows a group of close knit women throughout their lives. Written in a lively manner that transports you to Louisiana and Washington State. If you haven't read it already, do so right now!

 

Brightness Falls (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jay McInerney

Recommended by Sara Halpern

 

Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Bray Pipher

Recommended by Henley Fondren

 

A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole

"It's a Pulitzer Prize winning comedic novel and I loved it!" ---Allison Falk

 

Way of the Peaceful Warrior
by Dan Millman

Recommended by Anna Gilmore

 

A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving

Recommended by Elysa Greenblatt

 

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Smithies

The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan

The Fountain of Age
by Betty Friedan

 

 

The Way to Cook
by Julia Child

 

Baking with Julia
by Julia Child

 

The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath
by Frances McCullough (Editor), Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes (Editor)

 

Ariel: Poems
by Sylvia Plath

 

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self Esteem
by Gloria Steinam

 

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
by Gloria Steinam

Barbara Bush: A Memoir
by Barbara Bush

 

Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

 

Babe: The Funniest Pig in the World
by Shana Corey

Babe: What Pigs Love Best
by Shana Corey

 

Babe, the Sheep Pig: Oops, Pig
by Shana Corey

I Spy Blue, Lizzy Lou!
by Shana Corey

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Faculty

Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums
by Andrew Zimbalist

Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime
by Andrew Zimbalist

 

The Crisis of America's Cities
by Randy Bartlett

Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War and Modern Feminism (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
by Daniel Horowitz

 

The Environmental Crusaders : Confronting Disaster and Mobilizing Community
by Penina Migdal Glazer, Myron Peretz Glazer

Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women
by Jill Ker Conway

 

The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway

True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway

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