Books about Women
Maria PolukhinaВсем привет! Меня зовут Мария, я веду телеграм-канал Мари про языки и уже почти год организую книжный клуб на английском, в котором мы читаем одно произведение в оригинале каждый месяц, работаем с лексикой и встречаемся каждую неделю, чтобы обсудить прочитанное.
Сегодня я приготовила для вас 6 крутых книжных рекомендаций, которые вы можете с удовольствием прочитать сами или поработать над ними со своими учениками.
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
Recommended level: В2-C1
Age: 14+
2. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled existence. Except, sometimes, everything...
Recommended level: C1-C2
Age: 18+
3. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone.
Recommended level: B1-B2
Age: 18+
4. How Do You Like Me Know? by Holly Bourne
The debut adult novel by bestselling author Holly Bourne is a blisteringly funny, honest and moving exploration of love, friendship and navigating the emotional rollercoaster of your thirties.
Recommended level: B2-C1
Age: 18+
5. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry (2022) is a bestselling novel by Bonnie Garmus about women's lives, careers, and struggle for empowerment in the late 50s and early 60s. It follows the story of Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist who is forced to become a television chef when she finds herself a young, single mother.
Recommended level: Level: С1-С2
Age: 16+
6. Educated by Tara Westover
Educated (2018) is a memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world.
Recommended level: B2-C1
Age: 16+
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