Empowering women, powered by women
- A life changing book by an inspiring female author
- Gifts from female owned brands to create an incredible reading experience
- Something for your mind, something for your body, something to enjoy and something to unwind
- Expect skincare, vegan treats, stationery, socks, tote bags and much more!
Empowering women, powered by women
Treat your โshelf to an inspiring monthly reading experience, curated to include couldnโt-put-it-down books by female authors, and indulgent gifts. Our book subscription boxes are themed to empower you to be the main character in your life, and introduce you to great books by great women. Inside each box youโll find:
- A life changing book by an inspiring female author
- Gifts from female owned brands to create an incredible reading experience
- Something for your mind, something for your body, something to enjoy and something to unwind
- Expect skincare, vegan treats, stationery, socks, tote bags and much more!

From just ยฃ15 a month

Championing female authors

Exclusive themed gifts

New box themes every month

Diversifying your bookshelf
Our June Theme:
Hot girls
Read
Need a holiday? We’ve got you! Our June book box is the ultimate Hot Girl reading retreat in a box! Get Hot Girl Summer ready with this holiday read starter pack; so whether you’re hitting the sand or hitting the sofa, this box will TRANSPORT and empower you! Including Nikita Lalwaniโs lively novel โYou Peopleโ at the heart of this box, weโre exploring the thrills, and sometimes darker realities, of being a woman exploring the world. Navigating โtough questions around goodness in an unfair societyโ, this warming novel looks at questions of passport privilege while following the story of a โfemale lead who isnโt defined by a romantic arcโ – the perfect hot girl summer read!
Get summer ready with gifts curated for discovery and adventure, so youโre equipped for travel, whether itโs across the globe, or across the road! Inside this box you’ll find beach-y accessories, practical travel cosmetics, picnic-perfect treats and so much more. Plus, as part of our monthly Belletrist Collection, an essay from solo-travel extraordinaire, Monisha Rajesh, author of the iconic โ80 Trains Around The World’, the woman turning male-centered, colonialist travel writing on its head.
Hot Girls, are you feeling summer ready? Thereโs no better place to start than our โHot Girls Readโ box.
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Totes Bookish
ยฃ20.00

Strong female lead
ยฃ55.00

Loud and proud: Pride celebration box
ยฃ17.00

Hot book summer box
ยฃ17.00
Why exclusively female authors?
Books change us, enlighten us, and connect us to the world. Female writers receive less recognition, less literary prize nominations, less marketing budget, and space on high street bookshelves. But their stories matter. Itโs time we read widely, diversely, and intentionally choose to champion underrepresented writers. Books That Matter makes diversifying your bookshelves easy and enjoyable, disrupting a publishing industry that has for too long been built by men for men.
We curate unique reading experiences, from monthly book subscriptions to bespoke gift boxes, at affordable prices to showcase that literature by women really does matter. Weโre here to change the world, and introduce you to your favourite book, of courseโฆ
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Our story…
Did you know that out of 16 available texts on the GSCE curriculum, only 1 is by a woman? How can we expect women and girls to be empowered if theyโre not represented in the books theyโre reading, and the stories theyโre engaging with? How far have we actually moved since women wrote under menโs names to be taken seriously? The publishing and bookselling world has for too long been centred on narratives written by and about men, and we know itโs time for things to be shaken up!
Books That Matter is a brand putting womenโs writing at the forefront through unique reading experiences, and we exist because these statistics do. Our mission is to put the classics of tomorrow in your hands today, and this involves hand picking female led fiction for our themed subscription boxes, holding events interviewing feminist authors and activists, our podcasts, and much more.
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