Kiley Reid's debut novel, Such A Fun Age, is about race, privilege, and the lies we tell ourselves. Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, it is the instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and it is considered as one of the best books every woman should read in their 20s.

It tells the story of Alix Chamberlain, an affluent, white lifestyle blogger and mother to Briar, who is two years old. And Emira Tucker, a young black woman, who Alix hires as her nanny.

When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for allegedly 'kidnapping' the white child she is actually babysitting, an explosive chain of events begins. Alix, her employer, a feminist blogger with the best of intentions, vows to make things right. But Emira is aimless, broke, and suspicious of Alix's desire to help. When the two women form an unexpected bond, it sends them on a collision course that will upend everything they think they know – about themselves, each other, and the messy dynamics of privilege.

Author: Kiley Reid

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Such-Fun-Age-Kiley-Reid/dp/0525541918/ref=sr_1_1

Caitlin Moran, a writer and comedian, claims in her book How To Be A Woman that there has never been a better time to be a woman. However, she has a few questions that she needs answered, such as:

• Why are we supposed to get Brazilians?
• Should you get Botox?
• Do men secretly hate us?
• What should you call your vagina?
• Why does your bra hurt?
• And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby?

How To Be A Woman is a searingly honest account of being a woman in the modern world, part memoir, part rant. Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman answers these and other questions, following her from her terrible 13th birthday ('I am 13 stone, have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me') through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood, and beyond. It helped millions of women in their twenties and beyond, and its lessons are even more relevant today.

Author: Caitlin Moran

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Woman-Caitlin-Moran/dp/0062124293/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir Wild is responsible for millions of women throwing out the rule book and finding themselves in the most unexpected places. Wild is among the best books every woman should read in their 20s.

Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything when she was twenty-six. Her family disbanded and her marriage fell apart as a result of her mother's sudden death from cancer. With nothing to lose, she made the most rash decision of her life: she would walk the entire length of America's west coast, from the Mojave Desert to California, Oregon, and Washington state, alone. She had no prior experience with long-distance hiking, and the journey was only a line on a map. It did, however, hold a promise: the promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. Wild recounts her hike, the difficulties she encountered along the way, and how the journey ultimately healed her.

Author: Cheryl Strayed

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Trail/dp/0307476073/

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing follows Jena Jin's stories about growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin is a violinist. She was once a child prodigy who now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's having some difficulties. Her professional life consists of rehearsals, concerts, auditions, and endless practice; her personal life consists of juggling the demands of her strict family and creative friends, as well as hooking up. Then she meets Mark, a much older and wiser man who accepts her. But at what cost to her aspirations?

Jena believes her dream life is about to begin when she is offered an internship with the New York Philharmonic. But if Trump is elected, New York and Jena will change irreversibly. Is the fantasy over? Jena's life begins to resemble Frances Ha, her favorite film, and crucial truths begin to emerge.

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing delves into female desire and the consequences of wanting too much and not receiving it. It's about the awkwardness and pain of being human in an increasingly fractured world - and how, despite this, people try to become the person they want to be. This is a brilliant and unique debut from a young writer with a fierce, intelligent, and audacious voice.

Author: Jessie Tu

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Girl-Dangerous-Thing/dp/1760877190/ref=sr_1_1

Everything I Know About Love is a hilarious Sunday Times best-seller about growing up and dealing with various types of love along the way. Dolly Alderton's debut novel. Dolly Alderton is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, GQ, Marie Claire, Red, and Grazia. She was the Sunday Times Style's dating columnist from 2015 to 2017. She also writes and directs for television and is the co-host of the High Low, a weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast.

Dolly Alderton, a journalist, has seen and experienced all of the ups and downs of growing up. She vividly recounts falling in love, grappling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and discovering that your friends are always there at the end of every messy night out in her memoir.

This is a book about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty, glistening with wit and insight, heart and humour.

Author: Dolly Alderton

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Know-About-Love-Bestseller/dp/0241982103/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Nella Rogers, a 26-year-old editorial assistant, is sick of being Wagner Books' only Black employee. She's tired of the isolation and microaggressions, so when Hazel starts working in the cubicle next to hers, she's overjoyed. A series of unfortunate events turn Nella into Public Enemy Number One and Hazel, the Office Darling. Then the notes start appearing on Nella's desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW.

It's difficult to believe Hazel is behind these threatening messages. But, as Nella spirals and obsesses over the sinister forces at work, she realizes that there is much more at stake than her career. The Other Black Girl is a razor-sharp horror novel and sly social commentary that will keep you reading until the very last page.

Zakiya Dalila Harris worked in editorial at Knopf/Doubleday for nearly three years before leaving to write her debut novel The Other Black Girl. Zakiya earned her MFA in creative writing from The New School prior to working in publishing. Guernica and The Rumpus have published her essays and book reviews. She currently resides in Brooklyn.

Author: Zakiya Dalila Harris

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Other-Black-Girl-Novel/dp/1982160136/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0

Connell and Marianne both grow up in the same small town in Ireland's west, but their similarities end there. Connell is well-liked and popular at school, whereas Marianne is an outcast. But something life-changing happens when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying. Normal People is a story about mutual awe, friendship, and love. It transports you from that first conversation to the years after, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but can't.

Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other at school. He's well-liked and well-adjusted, the star of the high school soccer team, whereas she's lonely, proud, and intensely private.

But when their paths cross, they fall deeply in love. They try to keep their relationship hidden, but a year later, when they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin, Marianne has found her footing in a new social world, while Connell remains on the sidelines, shy and uncertain. They circle each other for years, two damaged people exacerbating each other's damage. Normal People shines a light on the types of relationships that many people find themselves in during their twenties. Relationships that bind, break, and ultimately shape you.

Author: Sally Rooney

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Normal-People-Novel-Sally-Rooney/dp/1984822179/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0

Marian Keyes has been writing brutally honest and hilarious stories about women for nearly 30 years. Rachel's Holiday is most likely the story that has stayed with her readers the longest. It is also among the best books every woman should read in their 20s.

Rachel Walsh, 27 years old, is the protagonist of the novel. Her family has paid for her stay at Cloisters, Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic, because she has a penchant for recreational drugs. She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's heard rehab is full of jacuzzis, gymnasiums, and rock stars going tepid turkey - and it's about time she took a break.

What Rachel doesn't count on are the humiliations of family and group therapy, a lack of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll - and missing Luke, her ex. What kind of fresh start is this?

Rachel learns to confront her demons during her time at Cloister. It's a funny, intimate, and astute look at what it's like to believe you've screwed up your entire life and how to slowly piece it back together.

Author: Marian Keyes

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Rachels-Holiday-Walsh-Family-Book-ebook/dp/B000GCFX36/ref=sr_1_1

Insatiable is a story about women and desire - lust, longing, and the desire to be loved. It's a story about not knowing whether you're running towards your future or running away from your past. The end result is tender and sad, funny and hopeful.

Violet's life is nothing like she expected it to be: stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke, and estranged from her best friend. She desires more - better friends, better sex, a better job - and she desires it immediately.

So when Lottie, who resembles the woman Violet aspires to be, offers Violet the opportunity to join her exciting start-up, Violet jumps at the chance. But it quickly becomes clear that Lottie and her husband Simon are not only inviting Violet into their company, but also into their lives.

Violet is drawn to Lottie, Simon, and their friends by their townhouse, their expensive candles, and their Friday-night sex parties. Is this, however, the more Violet desires? Will it provide her with the fulfillment she so desperately seeks?

Author: Daisy Buchanan

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Insatiable-frank-account-21st-century-Independent/dp/0751580198/ref=sr_1_1

The Bell Jar follows a woman's descent into insanity. Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, incredibly talented, and successful, but she is slowly sinking - possibly for the last time.

Esther is on the verge of her future while interning at a national magazine in New York one hot summer. She is, however, on the verge of a darkness that makes her world both more unreal and more acutely felt.

Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest, and often heartbreaking look at mental illness. The Bell Jar blurred the lines between fiction and reality, cementing Sylvia Plath's legacy as a feminist icon. It has been praised for its darkly humorous, razor-sharp portrait of 1950s society, and it continues to resonate with readers today as a testament to the universal human struggle to assert one's rightful place in the world.

Sylvia Plath takes the reader deep into the human psyche in The Bell Jar, making it an instant American classic and a story among the best books every woman should read in their 20s.

Author: Sylvia Plath

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Jar-Sylvia-Plath-dp-0571226167/dp/0571226167/