" A feminist novel, however, is not only about who we are; it must also be about how we live. It is a novel where the concerns of women and womanhood are the alpha and the omega of the narrative but it also deals explicitly with stories, with the lives of women. It is unlikely that there could ever be a consensus on what makes a novel a feminist novel because, let’s be honest, there’s little consensus about what makes a novel a novel. But many books do come to mind, including Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying, Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, and Tayari Jones’s Silver Sparrow. " by Roxanne Gay