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Favorite Books From Bold Women

In my monthly goals post earlier this week I talked about how many books I try to read each month. Reading eight books a month is a huge goal of mine. If I had my way, I would read more, but you know what life is busy! I had a lot of comments asking what books I was reading and for recommendations. Instead of doing one post with 50 book recs I decided to break them up into categories! Today I am sharing my favorite books from bold women authors. Each of these books were written by a woman. While they are all very different, I really admire these women for different reasons.

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These women are entrepreneurs, businesswomen, women that are making a huge difference in our world. These are women who don’t take crap, who start their own companies, who are BOLD. Right now LISTERINE is launching their Bring Out the Bold campaign. Obviously these women fit right in with that. They are paving their own paths in the world and being bold and brave in what they do.

Some of these are books I recently read that are new to me like Thrive, You are a Badass, Lean In, Wild and Yes Please. I saw the movie Wild a few years ago and knew I wanted to read the book.

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I read The Year of Yes around the holidays and LOVED it. But it’s Shonda Rhymes, so of course it’s fantastic.

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The Happiness Project and What I Know For Sure are books I read and re-read all the time.

If You Have to Cry Go Outside is something I highly suggest everyone read. It’s equal parts bold, funny, and sobering.

I find something about these bold women very comforting. They are inspiring, motivational, and funny women. All who run companies, have amazing careers and thriving families, and make life for the rest of us women a little bit better.

I highly suggest reading these books. Especially if you need some inspiration.

What are some books from bold women you love?

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  1. LisaLDN wrote:

    What a great post! I haven’t read either of these, but Summer is coming and I know I am going to have plenty of time to read! I’ve always wanted to read Yes Please 🙂

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  2. Lisa wrote:

    First off, let me tell you I love the name of your blog. Huge coffee fan here. The list of books is fantastic and I can’t wait to check for them online. Thanks so much!

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  3. Rachel wrote:

    Literally putting together a very similar post! But we only have one book shared (yes please, by amy poehler). Definitely need to check more of these out. I loved Wild!

    – Rachel | http://www.theconfusedmillennial.com

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  4. Ashley wrote:

    I LOVED Lean In!! I have a handful of these other items on my to-do list. I’m currently reading Mastering your Mean Girl which I’m loving so far, but I’ll have to add some of these others to my list that I haven’t heard of yet. Thanks for sharing!

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  5. What a great selection of books. I’ve read Lean In and the Happiness Project and LOVED them both. Always looking for new audio books to add to my Audible queue. Thanks!

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  6. I really need to read Lean In.

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  7. I loved Year of Yes and The Happiness Project. Yes Please was hilarious too! I’m totally adding the rest of these to my list!

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  8. Cait wrote:

    needing to read some of these great books girl! thanks for the rsuggestions!

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  9. Chelsea wrote:

    THRIVE!!! I bought it but haven’t read it yet! That’s what I’ll tackle this summer (:

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  10. I always set a reading goal in the summer, so a few of these will be on my list for sure. Thank you for posting this!

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  11. Love You are a badass!! Such a great book. I just started GirlBoss and would highly recommend as well!

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  12. nellwyn wrote:

    I hear The Happiness Project is great! Going to have to give it a read…
    I also really liked “I can’t believe it’s not better” by Monica Heisey

    Nellwyn | http://www.thecardinalpress.com

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  13. I’ve recently read You Are A Badass and Lean In and enjoyed both. I can’t wait to read Year of Yes!

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  14. Chrissy wrote:

    I haven’t read any of these but heard of a few of them. I am putting them on my to-read list for the summer. Thank you for this . I love getting book recommendations, it makes it so much easier to pick my next read.

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  15. I’ve read about half of these, and LOVE them! Have you read Bossypants by Tina Fey? Fantastic and hilarious. Also- anything by Elizabeth Gilbert (she is my spirit animal).

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  16. Rachel wrote:

    So many of these are on my list! I’ll have to check out some of the other new ones 🙂

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  17. I want to read so many of these! Year of Yes, What I Know For Sure, and You Are a Badass are my top three!

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  18. Great posts. I’m all about empowering women and lifting each other up and allowing our boldness to shine. I’m reading Amy Poehler’s Yes Please now but I have added a couple more to my must read list including Year of Yes and If You Must Cry, Go Outside! Thank you for these suggestions.

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  19. I really want to read Amy Poehler’s book. I love her!
    Someone lent me “The Happiness Project”, but I haven’t read it yet.

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  20. Wild’s on my list! And I’d love to read Amy Pohler’s book because Park’s and Rec is where my heart is. 🙂

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  21. Amy Poehler is everything.

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  22. Jessica wrote:

    Oh! I am going to add these to my reading list-they sound amazing!

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  23. Cori wrote:

    I’ve read The Happiness Project. It seemed, to me, towards the end of the year, she was just waiting things out and had lost interest in this project. Just my opinion though.

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  24. I love all the books you’ve mentioned! I’ve read Things I Know For Sure and The Happiness Project from your list. I recommend you checking out Rising Strong by Brene Brown and #GirlBoss by Sophia Amoruso.

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  25. I’ve been looking for a new book to read and these all look great! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  26. Love this! I have read several of these books and loved them so I will add the others to my list. Definitely add Rising Strong to your list – very good!

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  27. Shannon wrote:

    I have yet to read any of these (how embarrassing!). I would love to read the one by Shonda Rhimes…I’m sure that is amazing! I haven’t heard too much about Kelly Cutrone’s book, but your description sounds like it wold be worth it.

    Shannon
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  28. Scott wrote:

    I can’t think of any in particular. I guess I don’t pay much attention to authors – I pick ’em based upon subject matter.

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  29. I’ve read a handful of these, have a few on my shelf, and a ton on my wish list! Year of Yes is what I hope to get to next!

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  30. Kristina wrote:

    You are a badass sounds like a good read so I need to hop on Amazon to grab. I love reading romance novels but also other books as well. This seems to be an inspiring list of books to read! Will be a fun summer project!

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  31. Carrie wrote:

    What a great list! I have read Lean In and it was a fabulous book! I will have to look into the others.

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  32. Bernadette Callahan wrote:

    Year of Yes and the Happiness Project are on my to reads this summer. Cant wait to start.

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  33. Tara wrote:

    I will be doing a lot of traveling this year for work, and I was just making my “to read” list. Generally I enjoy novels late at night, but I put some of these on my list for long flights.

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  34. happiness project and yes please were both wonderful..im heading to the library in a bit, so i will keep an eye for other book you recommended.

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  35. Jenny wrote:

    I want to read Thrive, Year of Yes and Yes Please! They all seem great.

    xoxo, Jenny

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  36. These sound like great reads!! I think my wife would love to read some of these books!

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  37. Valerie Robinson wrote:

    Great suggestions! I saw a couple on your list that I currently own! Thanks for sharing!

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  38. I consider myself a bold woman so I would love to read some of these books. You have compiled a wonderful list that I will definitely be on the lookout for.

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  39. jamie wrote:

    I loved Wild, I’ll have to check out some of your other suggestions!

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  40. Year of yes sounds really good. I am going to grab a copy — shonda rimes too. 🙂

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  41. Mistle wrote:

    Most of these books I have on my list to read. I have yet to see Wild but I did watch a documentary on the making of it and it looked really good. I hope to be able to read some of these books soon!

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