How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran mixes memoir with polemic, moving from a chaotic Wolverhampton childhood through work, sex, children and abortion, and asking at each turn what it actually costs to be a woman. She is very funny and entirely unembarrassed, which is the point: her argument is that feminism should be ordinary rather than academic. Emma Watson picked it for Our Shared Shelf in April 2016.