Dive into some fascinating stories and biographies about remarkable women for Women’s History Month! Try these or find more available through our collection.
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Hardcover by Mikki Kendall
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
The Doctor’s Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
– Post by Susie Rivera, Reference Specialist
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