Top 10 Books Every Woman Should Read (2 of 6)

The Year of Magical Thinking

This book by Joan Didion is a memoir chronicling the year after her husband John Gregory Dunne passed away. The way she shares and makes herself vulnerable about grief is astounding. She talks about how she had a span of “magical thinking” that led her to believe that her husband would one day just walk back through the door and everything would go back to the way it was.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

This inspiring book is one that details the amazing yet tragic life of Henrietta Lacks, and the deception of the medical field during the 1950’s. Henrietta Lacks developed cancer, and without her knowledge, doctors extracted her cells from a cancerous tumor. The cells were the first to ever be cloned and were extraordinarily unique, as the building blocks of several vaccines and scientific breakthroughs. Her family never gave permission for Lacks’ cells to be used, and never received any compensation, recognition, or benefit from her part in such groundbreaking research.