Emma Watson

Actor, Celebrity, Director, Filmmaker, Producer

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress and activist. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films, as well as for her women's rights work, she has received a selection of accolades, including a Young Artist Award and three MTV Movie Awards.

Emma Watson's 97 Book Recommendations

• Man's Search For Meaning
• The Magus
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Queen of the Tearling
• Quiet
• My Life on the Road
• Siddhartha
• The Vagina Monologues
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
• Women who Run with the Wolves
• The Constant Princess
• The Remains of the Day
• The Complete Persepolis
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
• The Argonauts
• Half the Sky
• The Color Purple
• The Sleep Revolution
• All About Love
• Walden
• Way of the Actor
• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
• What I Know For Sure
• Tribe
• Small Is Beautiful
• Prime Time
• The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
• Self-Made Man
• The Bloody Chamber
• Pachinko
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• East of Eden
• Moranifesto
• Nights at the Circus
• Modern Romance
• Feminist Theory
• Feminism is for Everybody
• Beyond Words
• Annie John
• Brave Enough
• Catching the Big Fish
• Rookie Yearbook Four
• The Opposite of Loneliness
• The Fountainhead
• The Shadow of the Wind
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The BFG
• Love Letters to the Dead
• Wild
• Tiny Beautiful Things
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: “This is writing at its best.”
• Sex and World Peace: “For me, this book illuminates how we got where we are today, and along with it, a way forward.”
• How to be a Woman: “This month I am choosing a book which I confess I have already read. It is so brilliant though. It deserves to be read more than once.”
• Mom & Me & Mom: “This book is one I have read before and is one of my favourites - I can't wait to hear your thoughts!”
• The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women: “Dear Our Shared Shelf, A myth this month, by Naomi Wolf. Hope you enjoy, E xx”
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body: “What struck me the most about the book is Roxane's searing honesty.”
• The Power: “This is a really clever literary device which highlights how absurd rigid gender roles are.”
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: “I am not supposed to have favourites, however this was the most important book for me this year.”
• Milk and Honey: “I will be forever grateful that she took subjects, that as a woman, I still carry shame about, and made them art. It took me an extra step forward and gave me new language.”
• Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters: “I hope you enjoy these Our Shared Shelf picks for November/December: Whose Story Is This? and Cinderella Liberator.”
• The Handmaid's Tale: “Our next book – Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – is a gripping read, but it won't make you feel comfortable.”
• Cinderella Liberator: “I hope you enjoy these Our Shared Shelf picks for November/December: Whose Story Is This? and Cinderella Liberator.”
• Heart Berries: “I read this book in one sitting, but I know I will come back to lines in it to refer to again and again and again. I felt transformed by having read Mailhot's book”
• Men Explain Things to Me: “It was my own fear of creating tension that made me hesitant to recommend Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, even though it is one of my favourite books.”
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
• The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
• Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
• In The Body of the World: “I loved it. so beautifully performed, staged and written... Do read the book if you missed the show”
• Just Kids: “The book was so honest and brave. I loved the way she sees the world.”
• Untamed: “MY COMPLETELY UNMISSABLE ESSENTIALS from quarantine reading - thank you @glennondoyle, Robin Wall Kimmerer, @amateuradam and @c.rileysnorton”
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity: “MY COMPLETELY UNMISSABLE ESSENTIALS from quarantine reading - thank you @glennondoyle, Robin Wall Kimmerer, @amateuradam and @c.rileysnorton”
• Rebecca: “It's a gothic thriller with well-drawn female characters & some prophetic feminist themes… it's a creepy classic!”
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism: “I'll always return to Ain't I a Woman…”
• Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion: “she makes a strong case for nothing less than a revolution”
• Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart: “these newly translated poems… will make you swoon”
• His Dark Materials: “My pick would be His Dark Materials… it was the first time I really felt like a reading experience had been almost spiritual… I really, really loved it.”
• Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir: “I read Insecure At Last… which I just loved”
• The Mother of All Questions: “A brilliant follow up to Men explain things to me…”
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More: “she tells her riveting story with such clarity, wit and courage”
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: “MY COMPLETELY UNMISSABLE ESSENTIALS from quarantine reading - thank you @glennondoyle, Robin Wall Kimmerer, @amateuradam and @c.rileysnorton”
• This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor: “MY COMPLETELY UNMISSABLE ESSENTIALS from quarantine reading - thank you @glennondoyle, Robin Wall Kimmerer, @amateuradam and @c.rileysnorton”
• Conscious Business
• Homo Deus
• Girl, Woman, Other: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• Between the World and Me: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• Wonder: “I love seeing inspiring books turned into films”
• The Wretched of the Earth: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• Discourse on Colonialism: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”
• The Good Immigrant: “I hope you'll pick these up and read along with me”