The Lady Library
Strand pairs up with The Wing for the ultimate library of female authors
The Wing and The Strand have collaborated to bring you the largest collection of female-identifying authors, curated by women, for women. The Wing, an all-female club and community space, which opened in 2016 to much fanfare, approached The Strand with a simple request for a library in their new location on Mercer Street: books, any books — written by or about female and female identifying artists.
The result is a library of over 2,000 books.
Three lady curators from Strand’s Books By The Foot team combed through The Strand’s extensive inventory to assembled a collection of thousands of books by female-identifying authors. The team cast a wide net, looking to create a diverse set of writers and subjects to represent a cross section of female thought and achievement across time. The result is a library of over 2,000 books — feminist theory to contemporary women’s fiction, biographies of artists and musicians to romance paperbacks.
These books, pulled from nearly every section in the store, will live at The Wing’s beautifully appointed library in Soho.
Explore featured authors below and at Strand, and visit the full library at The Wing.
No Man’s Land Issue 1 by The Wing
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Yvonne Davis
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorainne Hansberry
Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
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