Informal survey: books!

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Hello - sorry if this isn't allowed, happy to remove if so
I'm doing a very informal survey with some friends about GC and non-GC reading habits outside of, as well as inside feminism - trying to make sense of general trends and favourite authors as well as getting recommendations to pass around! Will hopefully be back soon with an organised spreadsheet...

If interested, could you please specify whether you're GC or not (if not, general political alignment - left, right?) and leave your favourite book and favourite non-fiction book? (doesn't have to be related to feminism - just in general!)

GC, extremely leftwing.

I'm afraid I can't possibly manage to reduce it to one fiction book. In rough order.
Favourite fiction books: Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Paks books by Elizabeth Moon
Cold Magic books by Kate Elliott
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Favourite non-fiction:

Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

GC, left

Favourite fiction:
Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion, Jane Austen
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

Favourite non-fiction
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, Daina Taimina
Trans, Helen Joyce
Difficult Women, Helen Lewis

I also have a brilliant book on analytical mechanics, and I love the 3-volumes of the Feynman lectures on physics, but that's really getting a bit niche now.

Sorry I couldn't narrow it down to one. And there are probably lots more I've forgotten.

Name changed as this feels outing, although it probably isn't really!

GC. Very left wing

Favourite fiction:
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
Iris Murdoch - The Sea The Sea

Favourite non fiction :
We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Invisible women - Caroline Criado Perez
Cracked; why psychiatry is doing more harm than good - James Davies

FunnyTalks agreed this feels incredibly outing

2nd wave Feminist Leftish mix of socialism and capitalism Believe in societies responsibility for all, very much for social housing, improved welfare support, environment etc. also believe in recognition of personal achievement/skills

Very hard to list books as feels incomplete and mainly what I’ve read more recently

Favourite/recent non-fiction
Invisible women - Caroline Criado Perez
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou
The Address Book Deirdre Mask
Becoming Michelle Obama
We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Women & Power - Mary Beard
Cut - Hibo Wardere
Material Girls - Kathleen Stock
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
The second sex - Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction
The Raptures - Jan Carson
Milkman - Anna Burns
The Long Take - Robin Robertson
A teaspoon of Earth and Sky - Dina Nayeri
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K LeGuin
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K LeGuin
Never Let Me Go - Kazou Ishiguro
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
The Testament of Mary - Colm Toibin
Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The womens press science fiction list - loved so many of these
Enjoyed the Strike novels, also like Marian Keyes for relaxation but of these no particular novels stand out

Ah the Wasp Factory! That was my favourite novel as a teen.

Thanks all for very enlightening responses!

I've made an actual survey for easier and more diverse data collection on this little project: forms.gle/pSerywh2JZKDioUm8

Feel free to answer (it's anonymous so less outing) and share it around other radfem or even TRA circles if you're in them - I'm looking for a big sample size of both radfems and trans activists

What a great list Books I'm sad to have to narrow it down to 3 in each category for this project, you have excellent taste!

Don't have a google account

GC

Left not far left

Lord I of the rings Tolkien
Silent spring Carson

GC, very leftwing

Robertson Davies' trilogies
Balzac, The Black Sheep, but anything really
Pratchett of course