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!
- Membership to our exclusive online app community where we host our book clubs, live author events, and you can connect with fellow book lovers
Empowering women, powered by women
Treat your ‘shelf to an inspiring monthly reading experience, curated to include couldn’t-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 you’ll 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!
- Membership to our exclusive online app community where we host our book clubs, live author events, and you can connect with fellow book lovers

From just £15 a month

Championing female authors

Exclusive themed gifts

New box themes every month

Exclusive book club app
Our August Theme:
Read Women with Women’s prize for fiction
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Inside our app you’ll find:
- An exclusive place to connect with book lovers from all over the world
- Recommend, review and read with other subscribers
- Attend exclusive events with authors and live book club meetings
- Get exclusive discounts to your favourite brands

New! Book Only Subscriptions
Read women, discover new authors, enjoy our book club app – all for just £10 including postage! We know times are hard right now, and that you might be cutting back… That’s why, by popular demand, we’re introducing book only subscriptions! Beautifully packaged to still feel like a gift to yourself each month, inside letterbox package you’ll discover a brand new book, bookmark, postcards and access to our member’s only app! Subscribe now!
Shop gifts
one off boxes

Totes Bookish
£20.00

Strong female lead
£55.00

Loud and proud: Pride celebration box
£17.00

Hot book summer box
£17.00
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. It’s 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. We’re here to change the world, and introduce you to your favourite book, of course…
Browse our past boxes!
Get an idea of what you could receive in our subscription boxes by having a look through our previous boxes…
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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 they’re not represented in the books they’re reading, and the stories they’re engaging with? How far have we actually moved since women wrote under men’s 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 it’s time for things to be shaken up!
Books That Matter is a brand putting women’s 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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